Greetings All,

The Game of the Month for October 2006 is Cetacean Ascension Moonbase
8 (CAM 8) - http://www.invisible-city.com/play/434 Cetacean Ascension
Moonbase 8 is a sub-surface tunnel claiming, giant hamster management
game for three, four, or six hyperintelligent psychic whales.

That's right. You're playing a hyperintelligent psychic whale in a
lake below the surface of the northern pole of the moon. You're in
charge of a hutch of genetically engineered giant hamsters. The
hamsters are there to dig and flood tunnels for you so you can grow
lots of krill. As you eat krill you grow larger and larger until you
have a good shot at successfully harnessing the psychic energy that's
accumulated at the lunar pole to bootstrap your ascension to become a
being of pure thought. You have to be careful, though. If you don't
feed your hamsters, they'll revolt and go feral. As the band of giant
feral mutant hamsters grows larger and larger, it just makes problems
for everyone.

...What?

Oh, you think that this month's game is a little... weird? Well,
that'd be because this was a "gamestormed" game. I ran a little game
brainstorming session at ProtoCon 8 ( http://www.protocon.com/ ) on
September 15, 2006. This is what game out of it. (If you want to
know more about that, read the Origin & Credits section of the CAM 8
rules.)

Cetacean Ascension Moonbase 8 uses a bunch of custom components
(board, initiative cards, etc.) that you can download from us. You'll
need to provide tokens, pawns, dice, paper, and pencils. A
four-player game hypothetically takes 60 minutes to play. Cetacean
Ascension Moonbase 8 is appropriate for ages 12 and older.

Enjoy,
Jonathan Leistiko
Games Advocate
Invisible City Productions
http://www.invisible-city.com/play/