JUDGE COMMENTS:

$Zinfandel
 What a cool  way to do a dark board! The
respawning aliens would be a bit much if
you didn't have infinite health and 
respawns, but you do, and you get
relatively easily accessible sources of
torches and ammo, and openable shortcuts
that all together make this board work.
The post-disaster atmosphere is great, and
just... This is absolutely a neat board.
Play it.

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$PogeSoft
 A tidy but very meaty action/not-quite-
survival-horror board set on an abandoned
space station.  The player has to control
a drone to investigate said station and 
recover data logs for the company they 
represent. Doing so isn't easy and 
involves fending off aliens and managing 
resources, as well as Metroidlike 
exploration to access them all. The 
opposition can be overwhelming towards the 
end of the game but this doesn't detract 
from the experience or the fun! If he 
keeps at it, LBC will be a ZZTer to watch.

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$Dr. Dos

At first I was hoping for ZZT "Return of 
the Obra Dinn" when I learned I'd be 
playing as a representative for an 
insurance company. Instead I got a very 
concise sci-fi themed dungeon crawler that 
brings to mind the heyday of Anthony 
Testa. A very clever use of repeatable 
encounters powered by slime keeps the 
board populated with enemies which 
combined with the re-enter when zapped 
mechanic makes for tense navigation. 
This could absolutely be fleshed out and 
turned into a full release.

 The intricies of the game get a bit 
rougher. The re-enter when zapped mechanic
begins to fail once board edges are 
crossed and I think using the engine that 
covers these cases at all times would have 
been worthwhile as it could have provided 
the opportunity to give the player more 
than one hit before being warped back to 
the start, but overall this was a very 
impressive board.

 Receives the coveted award of: Best 
use of slimes that isn't using them
to represent the Soviet Union spreading
communism across the globe

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$kkairos

Lots of shooting, sort of a 
mini-dungeon-crawl. Pretty well done.

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