Boardgames

Nectarine is a firm believer in supporting the Wairarapa community, and we have a history of strong involvement in chess and boardgaming. Director Minty Hunter has run the draw for the past few years at the Wairarapa regional junior and intermediate qualifier tournament and taken winning teams away to compete in the Chess Interschool Nationals. More recently, he helped organise [...]

I've been slowly working away on some illustrations for a board game for Toby Falconer. He has come up with an awesome game in which you have to trap fairies in a Victorian garden to gain victory points. Heaps of fun to play. Toby wanted a bit of an Art Nouveau look to the fairies, although he also loves many [...]

Being in a somewhat niche market like boardgames can lead to interesting phonecalls! A recent one was from the Reserve Bank who had an existing boardgame called "Skint To Mint". It's aimed at raising financial literacy and teaching people about the difference between types of investments, including Savings, Stocks and Property. Working closely with the Young Enterprise Trust, the Reserve [...]

GAME DRIVE: Race your fellow conservationists from Camp to each of the wildlife reserves. In those reserves, complete Game Drives with Animal Photo and Tracker cards, and use Rangers to protect the Big Five. Along the way, look out for flash floods and elephant charges, and be warned - there are Poachers out there! It’s just like being there - [...]

David and Margaret Allis of Edugames came to us with a box re-design job for their award-winning game Time Zone. The original box was starting to look a bit dated: The initial direction was for an illustrative approach, but after some work, they decided it wasn't quite the look they were after. Timezone - Illustration version Bek kept the steampunk [...]

Speaker cards and envelopes from Webstock 2009 Way back in the last decade, in February of 2009, the fabulous Kai Koenig and I ran a trading card game at the brilliant and enthralling Webstock conference. It was a cracking success, with a google doc of the rules being uploaded by some intrepid punter on the first day, massive trading and [...]

Happy Sheep's a fast, fun game of memory, deduction and bluffing. It's a fabulous family game, but it's also got enough calculation and deception to make it a great light filler for serious gamers. The lovely thing about it is that is seems very simple: lay out the lovely wooden tiles in a grid, start peeking at them and moving [...]

Snacks and Bladders is a wonderful exploration of the human body and the food we eat to fuel it. Correctly identify body parts and make wise food choices to stay ahead of your opponents as you travel through the digestive system. An entertaining way to learn about this fascinating subject. This one has all the stuff in it that kids [...]

Grow four in a row but don't topple on your go! What do you get when you cross Connect-4 with Jenga? A game that everyone wants to play again immediately after they've finished their first game! A delightfully tactile, action-packed game that builds to a nail-biting conclusion as players take turns adding to an ever growing tree - that becomes [...]

It’s a race to post the most and discover New Zealand along the way! Frogmail keeps hands and minds on the hop... *     Choose a native frog stamp *     Find towns and landmarks on a NZ map *     Affix stamps to postcards and post them in the box *     Look through a magic eyeglass and decipher number codes *     Challenge [...]