Bone Wars - The Party

Last night we hosted the launch party for the game Bone Wars from Zygote games. I'm kicking myself now for not having my camera. Having a bunch of people playing games, eating ice cream and wearing pith helmets was just a bit surreal - and a lot of fun.

Bone Wars: The Game Of Ruthless Paleontology is a game that is based on the more "competetive" elements of the science in the 19th century. Each player takes the role of a paleontologist trying to win prestige by building and naming new dinosaur skeletons and discovering new fossils. Most of the event cards are based on things that actually happened - which is just amazingly funny. Here's a quote about it from the creator's website:

Edward Drinker Cope really did mount a mosasaur's head on the wrong end of the skeleton, and then tried to buy up and destroy all the copies of the journal describing it. O. C. Marsh really did use his personal fortune to hire away all the best fossil collectors from rivals. And the indestructible Charles Sternberg had to outrun flash floods in western canyons. For a time the personal feud between Cope and Marsh involved everyone from the U.S. Geological Survey to the editors of the New York Herald.

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