Heksene kagler og stirrer ondt på heksen til højre. I Whirling Witchcraft er spillerne hekse der forsøger at sende så mange eller så besværlige ingredienser som muligt videre til deres modspiller mod højre. Hver runde lægger spillerne en ny opskrift ned der omformer deres egne ingredienser inden de sender dem videre til næste spiller indtil nogen på det tidspunkt løber tør for plads på deres lager og dermed taber spillet.

Whirling Witchcraft nomineres for solidt spildesign, der resulterer i et spil der er både nemt og intuitivt at gå til. Spillets måde at sende ressourcer samt opskrifter videre til modspillerne, gør det både udfordrende og sjovt at sørge for at den rigtige heks taber og man derved selv vinder. Det er en fornøjelse at spille igen og igen.
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The witches are cackling and staring evily at the witch to their right side. In Whirling Witchcraft the players are witches trying to send as many and as difficult materials on to their right neighbour.
Every round the players adds new recipes to their collection to transform their own ingredients before sending them on to the next players untill someone runs out of storage space and loses the game.

Whirling Witchcraft is nominated for a solid game-design, which results in a game that is both easy and intuitive to play. The way you send both resources and recipes to your opponents, makes it both challenging and fun when trying to make sure the right witch loses and you thereby win yourself. It is a pleasure to play again and again.

Collectors er et worker-placement spil, hvor man i kapløb med andre spillere samler klassiske fandom-genstande, manipulerer værdien af dem, og stadig forsøger at købe dem billigst muligt. Spillet benytter sig af informative og multifunktionelle kort, der sammen med en veldesignet spilleplade intuitivt guider spillet.
Collectors nomineres for at være et helstøbt, velpoleret og underholdende spil, der lykkes med at give oplevelsen af en nervepirrende konkurrence med modstanderne på imponerende kort tid.

Collectors is a worker placement game where you race the other players to collect classic items from different fandoms, manipulate their value and still try to buy them as cheaply as possible. The game uses informative and multi functional cards, along with a well-designed board guides the game intuitively.
Collectors is nominated for being a solid, well polished entertaining game that succeeds in giving the players the feel of nerve wrecking competition in impressingly short time.

Craters is nominated for the especially strong sub-element of the kalaha-styled worker placement mechanic. The combination of these two well-known elements gives a truly fresh and engaging experience for the players.
The mechanic is as central to the game as the three prominent families are to the Lunar Nexus itself, and forces the players to make choices not only based on their own preferences, but also on what will benefit the co-playes the least.
The use of black and white meeples to grant actions to both the Active and Inactive players is both elegant and exciting, and makes each turn interesting to all players.

Er nomineret for to forskellige mekanikker – både den konstant forstyrrende Corruption, som introducerer nye mærkelige motivationer og spildefinerende kræfter, samt den primære handlingsmekanisme – kodeblokke.
Når du omprogrammerer dig selv for at optimere og bedre tilpasse dig dit udviklende habitat, bryder du dine egne begrænsninger og skaber kraftfulde kombinationer. Det er ekstremt engagerende og udgør – ved siden af mere klassisk tile-laying og ressourcehåndtering – en innovativ måde at bygge en engine på.
De to fremhævede mekanikker overlapper også på meget tilfredsstillende måder. Når du tilføjer korrupte kodeblokke, kan du bryde grænser, du ikke vidste, du havde, og åbne nye veje ved at bevæge dig mellem dine fastkodede linjer.

Is nominated for two different mechanics - both the endlessly disruptive Corruption, paying off new strange motivations and adding game-defining powers, as well as the primary action-taking mechanism - the code blocks.
As you reprogram yourself to optimize and to fit your developing habitat’s needs better, breaking your own limits and setting up powerful combinations is extremely engaging and - next to the more regular tile-laying and resource management - an innovative angle to build an engine on.
The two highlighted mechanics also overlap in very satisfying ways. As you add in corrupted code blocks, you can break limits you didn’t even know you had, and open up new paths by hopping between your hard-coded lines.

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DystopAI udmærker sig ved at formidle oplevelsen af at være en AI i en dystopisk fremtid, hvor mennesker bruges som ressourcer på linje med vand og energi.
Spillet har en høj kompleksitet, som afhjælpes af gode spillerhjælpemidler og en let anvendelig regelbog.
Temaet er indkodet i reglerne uden at forstyrre forståelsen. Med handlinger skrevet som kodeblokke og korruptionskuber, der fylder mere og mere, transporteres spilleren ind i en AI’s bevidsthed, der langsomt bryder sammen.
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DystopAI excels in conveying the experience of being an AI in a dystopian future, utilizing humans as resources on the same level as water and power.
The game has a high level of complexity which is mitigated by the use of player aides and a rule book which is easy to reference.
The theme is hard coded in the rule book without corrupting the data being conveyed. With actions written in code blocks and corruption-cubes taking up more and more of your space, DystopAI immersively transposes your consciousness into that of an AI slowly falling apart.
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