1/17/2024 0 Comments Roadblock by smartgames![]() ![]() This time around you need to block in 2 cars. ![]() Last year (2010) we introduced a booster pack for this game with an extra puzzle tile and 60 new challenges. And of course it’s a completely different concept, because it’s a tiling puzzle and not a sliding puzzle. So although there is also a red car in this game like there is in Rush Hour from ThinkFun (invented by Nob Yoshigahara), the object is the opposite. Sometimes there are more than 60 ways to place all the pieces on the game board, but only one will make sure that the gangster in the red car can't escape. The object is two-fold: to place all the puzzle pieces with police cars on the game board AND to place them in such a way that all escape routes for the red car are blocked off. In RoadBlock, you start a challenge by placing the buildings and the red car according to the positions shown in the booklet. For me, the biggest reward is not a formal award but the fact that people buy a second or third game because they are so pleased with the first one they bought. Although I had been a designer for many years and I had won quite a few game awards prior to this, what I was doing never became real to them until they read about it in their own newspapers. What made this special was that it changed the way my family looked at my work. This was a special experience because the news also made headlines in the Belgian media, probably because one newspaper wrote: ‘Belgian designer wins game award in the Netherlands.’ During the following few days I was interviewed by several radio stations, newspapers and a regional TV station. In 2008 “RoadBlock” won the “Game of the Year” award in the Netherlands. In this case I was lucky, although I needed a second version to figure out the right shape of all the puzzle tiles, to make enough interesting challenges. Sometimes you can work for years before you get a concept to work, but sometimes you get lucky and your first version works. ![]() The game concept followed almost automatically. You could see shadows in the rooms beyond, because for some reason people in the Netherlands never close their curtains, like we do here in Belgium. The lights were on in some houses, illuminating the windows. I got the inspiration for the SmartGame “RoadBlock” during a bicycle ride on a dark evening on an island (called Terschelling) off the Netherlands a few years ago. To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading "How can I control cookies?"Īdvertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you.Most of the games I design, start with a theme first, not with a game concept. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings however, as described below under the heading " How can I control cookies?"Īnalytics and customisation cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our Websites for you. ( Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Websites to you, you cannot refuse them. The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described below:Įssential website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.Ĭookies set by the website owner are called "first party cookies". It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control them.Ĭookies are small data files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. This Cookie Notice explains how Firestorm Games Limited uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our websites at and other micro-sites operated by us from time to time ("Websites"). Black Seas The Age of Sail Battle Game 1770-1830. ![]()
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