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Grave Robbers from Outer Space

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Grave Robbers From Outer Space is a collectible card game originally designed by Stephen Tassie in 2001, later released as an open-source design and currently published by Steve Caruso under the stewardship of The Academy of Resurrected Games and Holdings. Two to six players take on the roles of competing low-budget filmmakers, assembling movies from Character, Prop, Location and Special Effects cards while fending off rampaging Creature cards, with the highest-rated finished picture winning the game. The design parodies B-movie conventions throughout, earned an Origins Award nomination, and was published for a period by Z-Man Games as a dedicated-deck card game before returning to its collectible format under ARGH stewardship.

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Game Type (category)
Card Game 1
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Player Count
Small Group (3-6 Players) 1
Origin Year
2001 1
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1. Grave Robbers from Outer Space (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, Year field
    Year: 2001
  • Infobox, Players field
    Players: 2 to 6
  • Lead section, first sentence
    is an open source collectible card game originally designed by Stephen Tassie
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