Sales Saboteur are booming

The sales figures of the game Saboteur have arrived and I'm very glad to announce that the cape of 200 000 copies have been rounded. The game is on the market since 2004.

Last year, the sales have increased by 60 % compared to the sales of 2007. More than 60 000 copies have been sold during one year, which means an average of 170 copies per day or 7 copies per hour. Not bad for such a small game, isn't it.

Of course, the sales have boomed thanks to the worldwide distribution of it. The latest new market is South-Africa.

The bulk of the sales (60 %) have been achieved in Germany and France. The first thanks to the excellent distribution of the editor Amigo Spiele and the latter thanks to the nice presentation in a metal box of Gigamic.

Back from Nuernberg

Nuernberg is the biggest Toy Fair of the world where all professionals gather together to make business in the game industry.
This time, I was very proud to attend the fair as two new games were presented : one being published by Zoch Spiele with an excellent reputation for quality games and the other being published by IQ Ideas a smart publisher of New Zealand starting to conquer the world from an unexpected direction (from a European point of view).
The feedback on both games appeared to be very positive, which confirmed the enthusiastic response of the people who got the opportunity to play-test the games.
So, you will soon hear more about it.

The Toy Fair is also an opportunity to present new game ideas and to check how far existing projects are progressing. Despite the crisis and the difficult economic situation, which is also affecting the game business, I got very encouraging feedback and I can inform you now that new games are coming to the market in the near future. Unfortunately, it is not my task to communicate about it and you will have to be a little patient until the concerning publishers start promoting their future releases.

The Game box

Here you see the game box. Note that the German title is different from the French one.

The game will be released next month simultaneously in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France.

Three little goats?

Seems like a childern's game...

Second hint

Any idea ?

Where is this about?

This picture shows a part of a new game-box illustration. As the game is still in preparation, you can start guessing where the game is about.

What can you do in your turn?

In your turn, you can perform 2 actions out of the following choice :

• Climb upon a crate : you must pay the right food tokens.


• Get a food token : draw one from the sack.


• Exchange a food token in order to get the right type.


• Place a new crate : roll crate as a die and add it to the tower.


• Chase a monkey away in order to get rid of one opponent.