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New Titles Coming from Cranio Creations

Posted by Andrea Ligabue

Game Announcements

15 Feb 2011

Andrea Ligabue

(liga)

Italy
Modena
Italy

Italian publisher Cranio Creations, which debuted in 2009 with Horse Fever, has revealed details of three new games coming from the company. Here's an overview of the trio of titles:

Dungeon Fighter

Explore spooky dungeons, find glorious treasure, buy powerful magic items, and challenge the most horrible creatures. Will your party be able to defeat the final boss?

Dungeon Fighter will be the first game where your physical skill determines the ability of your character. Can you kill the Medusa without looking into her eyes, defeat the Minotaur in its labyrinth, or resist the Dragons' breath? Will you be able to hit the target by throwing the dice from under your leg, with your eyes closed?

You will truly feel part of a centuries-old battle between good and evil ... with a touch of foolish stupidity. Due out in October 2011 for Spiel. (1-9 players, ages 7+, 45-90 minutes)

A preliminary cover image for Dungeon Fighter

Pimp My Park

Build and manage your amusment park by attracting the right audience, building different attractions, and investing to increase your finances. In Pimp My Park, the fastest players will be able to build the best buildings and create the best advertising – but be careful not to spend too much as bankruptcy is right around the corner.

The construction of the buildings in 3D gives the game a very interesting and attractive visual component. (2-6 players, ages 13+)

Catastrophy

Humanity is on the brink of the abyss! Four different evil forces are leading the destruction, and cooperation among all the players is needed to save the world – or (as a back-up plan) to attempt to colonize other planets. By working together (or not), you will protect buildings, launch rockets, and control the threat of catastrophies, all to survive until the final attack is ready, with you hoping to save more people than any other player.

In Catastrophy all players will try to prevail upon each other, and cooperate to prevent the end of the world. (2-6 players, ages 13+)

Cranio Creations

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Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:59 pm

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Mark Gerrits

(Runkst)

Belgium
Leuven

Dungeon Fighter seems to mine the same vein as Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk or (to a lesser degree) Catacombs: Dungeon Crawl meets Party Game.

I'm all for it, I think this is a rich vein

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:13 pm
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Nate Downs

(casperthegoth)

United States
Granville
Ohio

Man, pimp my park sounds fun. But what an inappropriate game name. I can't remember when pimping became a cool thing, I think it was my generation's fault. But the fact is that I knew a girl who had a pimp when I was in high school, she was abused, essentially raped, and taken advantage of until she took her life.

I really can't bring myself to buy a game with that title. I hate seeing it all over the place now, but I really can't pay for something with it...

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:25 pm
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tom moughan

(lengthtoavoid)

United States
Rochester
New York

ahh....I love the smell of a stack of sketchily placed animals in the morning!

casperthegoth wrote:

oooof. I'm sure it was chosen for obviously cliche marketing reasons.

The 3-D element for this title does seem nice, indeed. Otherwise, this game, in summation, has been done before.

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:36 pm
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Thomas Chipman

(nunyabisnas)

United States
Nashville
Tennessee

i wonder how long it will take the Viacom legal team to send a cease and desist over the words "pimp my" ... it took them quite a while to go after the cats over at pimpmysnack.com

apparently Viacom somehow managed to claim ownership to "pimp my"

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:38 pm
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Aureliano Buonfino

(TheSeer)

Italy

Guys "Pimp my Park" is the name of the project not the game's name(also the cover is a prototype).

bests

Edited Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:28 pm
Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:28 pm
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(sweetgotham)

United States
New York
New York

casperthegoth wrote:

The work 'pimp' or 'to pimp' existed before it's connection with prostitution. While obvious the connection is strong now, to only connect it with that connotations is limiting.
Wiki on the word's etymology:

The word pimp first appeared in English in 1607 in a Thomas Middleton play entitled Your Five Gallants. It is believed to have stemmed from the French infinitive pimper meaning to dress up elegantly and from the present participle pimpant meaning alluring in dress seductive. Pimp used as a verb, meaning to act as a pimp, first appeared in 1636 in Massinger's book, The Bashful Lover.[2] In the 18th and 19th centuries, the term was commonly used to refer to informers.[3] A pimp can also mean "a despicable person".[4] The term can also be applied to a person who is considered a ladies' man.[2]

The verb "pimping" came up in the early 17th century.[2] In the first years of the 21st century, a new meaning of the word has emerged in the form of a transitive verb pimp, which means "to decorate" or "to gussy up" (compare primp, especially in Scottish usage). This new definition was made popular by Pimp My Ride, an MTV television show.[2] Although this new definition paid homage to hip-hop culture and its connection to street culture, it has now entered common, even mainstream commercial, use.[5] In medical contexts, the verb also means "to ask (a student) a question for the purpose of testing his knowledge".[6] In the US military, the verb can be used to express a superior reminding a subordinate of a task that the subordinate forgot to accomplish.[citation needed]

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:56 pm
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Addy

(sunspoter)

United States
Minneapolis
Minnesota

Etymology is interesting and you're right, sweetgotham, to only connect a word with its currently understood meaning is limiting, but it's also the accepted use of the word--it's being limited by the state of our language, isn't it?

Hopefully this doesn't sound too much like an approach to Godwin's Law, but: this appeal to etymology reminds me of a teacher during high school responding to my being called "fag" by telling me the word had an earlier meaning and not to worry about it. =) It's a similar sort of non-argument, methinks.

Best!

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:17 pm
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Sandcastle

(Santiago_vamp)

Italy
Torino

In Italy, the verb "pimp" is translated almost exclusively with "enhace" (more or less), and it became known by people with this meaning when MTV began airing the popular "Pimp my ride" show.
Nowadays, "to pimp" here in Italy just means to take something (usually, a vehicle) and make a lot of exaggerated changes on it to make it someway cooler.

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:27 pm
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P.D. Magnus

(pmagnus)

United States
Albany
New York

sunspoter wrote:

Of course, this cuts both ways. Many people do use it now to mean enhance, so the meaning-is-use inference would suggest that it really means that.

Etymology shows that the word did not connote prostitution-related meaning; present use shows that it does not always do so now. We can agree that prostitution as managed by pimps (in that sense of 'pimp') is a bad thing, but it doesn't settle whether the word 'pimp' is necessarily a problem.

To be frank: I was bother more by 'Catastrophy', which just isn't a word. Why not 'Catastrophe'?

Non sequitur: 'Pimp my catastrophe' would be a strange game.

Edited Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:24 pm
Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:22 pm
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Robert C Branch

(LordCrom)

United States
Granada Hills
California

WOW! I like the sound of all three of these games

Each theme is unique and different and appeals to something I'm interested in, AWESOME!

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:32 pm
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Rick Baptist

(SlikkRikk)

United States
Redlands
California

I don't know whether Dungeon Fighter's description gets me excited or apprehensive. Either way I'm certainly intrigued!

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:50 pm
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Nathan Bailey

(PavingMantis)

United States
Springfield
Illinois

I love these guys. You can have my copy of Horse Fever when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

Posted Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:47 pm
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Jonathan Er

(Jion)

Singapore
Singapore

PavingMantis wrote:

I love these guys. You can have my copy of Horse Fever when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

make that 2 of us.

Posted Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:18 am
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Silva Lorenzo

(Mercante)

Italy
Milano
Italy

okok, Pimp my Park will not be the final name of the game.

Sorry for my ignorance, I didn't know that the word "pimp" is such a problem.

Like Sandcastle says, in Italy we use the word "Pimp" with the meaning of "enhance in a cool way".

So please read the provisional title "Pimp my Park" in this way: "enhance in a cool way my park"

At the moment we are not sure who will be the publisher of the game...we are waiting for some answers... but Cranio Creations will be probably part of the project.

About Dungeon Fighter the news are that will be published by Cranio Creations and Heidelberger! Cool!

Posted Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:13 am
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Nate Downs

(casperthegoth)

United States
Granville
Ohio

Silva - The impression that I get is that some may say that I am the one who is wrong because the 16th century, French language, definition is way more relevant than its general current English use, that was also noted as being its definition in the first recorded English use.

I hope you know I never asked you to change the name of your project. I just said I couldn't muster to buy it. Art like this tends to be the creator's baby, in a way. I sympathize, and am generally reluctant to change things myself.

However, I can promise you a sale if you do change the name. Not just because you listened to an interested party with you heart, but also because it sounds like a cool game.

Posted Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:28 pm
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Silva Lorenzo

(Mercante)

Italy
Milano
Italy

I will probably change the name of the game...so I will be sure to sell at least 1 copy!

Posted Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:20 pm
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