Essen, Oust

[Mark Steere]

Oust is a two year old game of mine that turns out to have
*phenomenal* gameplay. It mushroomed on three live play sites in the
past two weeks after a long period of dormancy. I was as surprised as
anyone. I stumbled onto it at Igfip after member Christina
recommended it for implementation.

http://www.marksteeregames.com/Oust_Go_rules.pdf

Oust is number one out of 100 games on igGameCenter if you look at the
stats for the past week. And it's only been there for four days!

http://www.iggamecenter.com/stats/topplayed7.html

Part of that is the novelty and me participating in about half of the
games. But even at that it's truly a phenomenon. I've been doing
this for 17 years and I've never had a response anything like this.

Essen is the world's biggest game fair in the world's greatest game
playing country - Germany!!

http://www.internationalespieltage.de/e000.php4

I'm going to Essen from October 22 to 25 mainly to visit with friends
- proprietors of the big European sites that carry my games and fellow
world famous designers. Everyone will be there. It was too late to
get a table for this year but I'll be easy to spot. I'll be wearing a
T-shirt with a big MSG logo, front and back, and carrying a Go board
under my arm. I want to play Oust and only Oust. See you there!

-Mark
http://marksteeregames.com