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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Playing Time Skill or Luck Age Suitability PublisherspareChange productions 2 Game Category Game Category Game Category Game CategoryMovies / TV / Radio theme 2 Game Category Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
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1. Grave Robbers from Outer Space (Wikipedia)
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Year: 2001
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Players: 2 to 6
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is an open source collectible card game originally designed by Stephen Tassie
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13+
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Some (order of cards drawn, varying card abilities)
View the Source2. Grave Robbers from Outer Space (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 40
- Designer: Stephen Tassie
- Publisher: NekoCorp
- Publisher: spareChange productions
- Publisher: Truant Spiele
- Publisher: Z-Man Games
- Game Category: Card Game
- Game Category: Horror
- Game Category: Humor
- Game Category: Movies / TV / Radio theme
- Game Category: Science Fiction
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 6
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