A game created by a designer from Stone will be on sale at hundreds of Toys R Us stores across America this Christmas.
Stone’s Librium Games – headed by lead designer and managing director Steve Howe – recently licensed its games to The Canadian Group (TCG), which has reached an agreement to supply the 863 US stores owned by Toys R Us.
The games are being branded as ‘Verti-Go’ and are essentially a rework of the popular LIBRIUM Lite+MT games (Tin ‘O’ Librium). Verti-Go’s bright colour scheme is aimed at a younger portion of the market from eight years’ old and includes 32 distinctive new cards that are placed within the game.
Librium has been described as a “thinking man’s Buckaroo”! It involves placing cards on to a pivotable base that is either mounted on a tripod or hung from a ‘hanger wire’. The object of the game is to add the cards to each other in turn without collapsing the structure.
Here’s the game being played in its first home – The Royal Exchange in Stone – back in 2012:
Verti-Go captures the spirit of the original Librium, but is squarely focused on the children and family market.
[box type=”shadow” align=”aligncenter” ]Steve Howe said: “We are really pleased with final product and ‘stand-out’ packaging of Verti-Go. The playability is slightly different, but not too far removed from the original games to retain the essence of the game concept. Good first impressions are everything and Verti-Go certainly achieves this in many ways.”[/box]
Verti-Go should be hitting US stores this Christmas with a worldwide roll out and line additions planned to launch in a couple of years time.
Steve created Librium in 2012 and it has proved a huge success, growing from a game that was played in the pubs of Stone to the UK Games Expo earlier this year and now on to a worldwide platform.
