Pass the Party Food
2-4 players | Ages 7+ | 30 minutes
Publisher: Joey Games, 2023
Art: Meredith Walker-Harding
Throwback to 1989 and dig in to your all-time favourite party food! There’s fairy bread, lamingtons, green snakes and more. Working together, the players need to collect their favourite treats and share them with their friends at the right time. But watch out, Ziggy the mischievous puppy is trying to grab food off the table! If you can outscore him as a team you will all win the game together.
For many years I had been trying to make a game about sharing with your neighbours at the table. The idea was that each turn you would draw 3 cards, keep for yourself, and give 1 to each of your neighbours. I tried to fit this concept into a few different designs, but nothing every fully clicked. As we were launching Joey Games, we knew we wanted one of our launch titles to be a co-operative game. And that’s when it hit me - why not put the sharing mechanism into a game where you actually need to share with the other players to win! So the game became about sharing food with your friends at a birthday party to score points together. It was lots of fun to take a nostalgic look at Australian party food in the game’s theming, and also to work with Meredith’s bright and cheery illustrations!
Links
➚ Pass the Party Food at Joey Games