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Next up on my #kickstarter watch series is ‘Spot the Bigfoot’ - an accessible family friendly hide and seek style game that’s coming to crowdfunding next month.

We are very impressed after our initial plays of this title in which one player takes on the role of Bigfoot aiming to collect berries and return home without being trapped or photographed and the others play as the explorers who are seeking to collect evidence of Bigfoots existence and get back to camp safely!

The set up and teach for the game is simple and you will be up and running in no time. Bigfoot will always begin and roll a D6 to determine movement. Skunks do appear on that dice that could mean you lose a turn! When you do move you must not move through the same space twice on the same turn meaning you have to keep going! There are some other small@movement tiles but essentially who want to go and find those berries and get back to the middle!

The explorers are seeking to move to in order to try and get a clear line of sight to Bigfoot for a photograph or place traps that may lure him in. If an explorer gets evidence of Bigfoot’s existence they must race back to the camp as soon as possible as Bigfoot will begin chasing them. If Bigfoot gets to the space with an evidence carrying explorer then they are “bonked” and lose a heart and are out for three turns!

Overall we had a blast with this and although there is a two player mode you really need three or four to see it shine. The hide and seek and chase element keeps the game interesting and the accessibility level is high as the dice rolls can really make the difference meaning younger games always have a chance to win.

Its quick, it’s easy and it provides plenty of dramatic moments and if you’re looking for a fun family game to back on #kickstarter this could be the one.

𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬

Bigfoot has been notoriously hard to find. Turns out, you just have to know an 11-year-old from Burleson.

Eleven-year-old Joshua Terence Tianwen Moore took an idea from his imagination and began turning it into something real with cardboard, pencils, markers, tape, clay and a little help from his dad, Stephen. Joshua came up with the original board layout, game mechanics and characters for 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑔𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡, and the father-son duo worked together to turn his idea into a full-fledged tabletop game.

Along the way, the project became a family affair and a local one. Joshua and his family brought 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑔𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡 out into the Burleson community, promoting it at the Burleson Farmers Market and inviting local players to put the game to the test at GeekOut. Their story even landed on the cover of 𝐵𝑢𝑟𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑁𝑂𝑊 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 as Joshua and Stephen continued developing the game and preparing for their next big step.

In September, they launched 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑔𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡 on Kickstarter with an initial goal of $7,500.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁.

With time still remaining in the campaign, 129 people have backed Joshua's idea. And while plenty of that support has come from close to home, it's also reached people in Singapore, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Thailand and the United Kingdom.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗻 𝟭𝟭-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗻.

Congratulations to Joshua, Stephen and the Moore family. Bigfoot may still be elusive, but Joshua's imagination is proving pretty hard to miss.