{"id":20143,"date":"2016-07-30T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T12:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/HP\/?p=20143"},"modified":"2016-07-30T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T12:20:12","slug":"codenames-pictures-official-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/?p=20143","title":{"rendered":"Codenames: Pictures \u2013 official announcement!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are pleased to officially announce our first game for 2016 \u2013 Codenames: Pictures.<\/strong><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/HP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pictures.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<em>&#8222;This is a follow up to Codenames \u2013 our best-selling, Golden Geek Award and Spiel des Jahres winning 2015 title. <\/p>\n<p>Codenames: Pictures uses similar mechanics to the original game, but with a few differences:<br \/>\n\u2022 There are nicely drawn pictures instead of words.<br \/>\n\u2022 The grid is 5 \u00d7 4, instead of the original 5 \u00d7 5.<br \/>\n\u2022 The rules for valid clues are simpler.<br \/>\n\u2022 Each agent now has its own individual image underlining the spy theme.<\/p>\n<p>The 280 black-gray-white pictures have been carefully picked and designed for interesting game play. The pictures usually contain two or more elements that create witty combinations, tell interesting stories, leave some space for imagination, while still being relatively simple for good playability.<br \/>\nThey are the work of great artists like Tom\u00e1\u0161 Ku\u010derovsk\u00fd (Codenames, Galaxy Trucker), David Cochard (Alchemists, Dungeon Petz), and others.<\/p>\n<p>What are these strange symbols on the map? They are coded locations where spies must contact secret agents!<br \/>\nTwo rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling their field operatives where to go for clandestine meetings. Operatives must be clever. A decoding mistake could lead to an unpleasant encounter with an enemy agent \u2013 or worse, with the assassin!<br \/>\nBoth teams race to contact all their agents, but only one team can win.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be pre-released at Gen Con (CGE room 121, 4th\u20137th August). If someone wants to be sure you get a copy and becomes one of the very first owners of the game, our pre-order form could be used.<br \/>\nAs a bonus for this event, you will get five additional agent and bystander tiles, enabling you to play with the original Codenames grids.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors could pick their games and visit us and Vlaada Chv\u00e1til himself in CGE Room 121.<\/p>\n<p>The general release date is September 2016.<br \/>\nIt will also be available directly from CGE at Spiel in Essen in October.&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to officially announce our first game for 2016 \u2013 Codenames: Pictures. &#8222;This is a follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20146,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143\/revisions\/20146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}