Joey Games will release three games designed by Phil Walker-Harding (Sushi Go) in March. Joey Games was founded by Phil and Meredith Wallker-Harding to celebrate the peoples, plants, and animals of Australia. Their games are sealed with stickers instead of shrinkwrap.
Busy Beaks, designed by Walker-Harding with art by Sarah Allen, is a card game featuring birds from Australia. Players collect bird cards and gather them into flocks, with the most valuable flock determining the winner. Birds also have special abilities that can help you build your flock.The game is for 2-4 players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. The box includes 182 bird cards in 14 types, 1 tree board, 23 egg tokens, 14 card storage envelopes, and 1 rules booklet.
Pass the Party Food, with art by Meredith Walker-Harding, is a co-op game about classic Australian party food. Players work together to collect their favorite treats, including airy break lamingtons, and green snakes, and share them with their friends at the right time, while trying to keep the puppy from grabbing food off the table. The team wins if it outscores the puppy.The game box includes 4 player boards, 80 food tiles, 1 score board, 1 Ziggy board, 8 swap tokens, 4 take tokens, 1 drawstring bag, 4 wood player pawns, 1 wood Ziggy pawn, and 1 rules of play booklet.
Scribbly Gum is a drawing game tied to Australia’s scribbly gum trees, with illustrations by Meredith Walker-Harding. Mimicking the life cycle of the scribbly gum trees, each player gets a tree diagram and gets to draw a line that leads to food for the moth that creates scribbles by burrowing through the bark.The game box includes 1 pad of double-sided tree diagrams, 8 movement tiles, 8 achievement tiles, 3 letter tiles, and 1 rules of play booklet.