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Cooks & Crooks - Experience the satisfaction of ruining food

Created by Aether Tower

A family game where the most crooked chef wins! Place trash in your opponents' ovens, steal their ingredients or swap what's on their pantries. After 6 rounds the players who cooked the best dishes (or the least worse ones) wins!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

The Dodos riding Dinos race begins!
almost 4 years ago – Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:40:38 AM

Hi Cooks! We’re very excited! After 3 years of hard work, our next game is ready to hit your table: A meteorite fell on Dodino island, so it’s time to run to become the new ruler of Dodino Island! 

Dodos riding Dinos is a racing dexterity game inspired by Mario Kart. The art and characters are stunning!

Dodos riding Dinos is live on Kickstarter!

FREE GIFT FOR COOKS & CROOKS RETURNING BACKERS

Detestable Games wouldn’t have been successful in the past without your help, so returning backers in Dodos riding Dinos will receive the Kux & Babbey miniature as a free gift. Also Day-1 backers get the Print-and-Play + STL files free with your pledge.

Kux & Babbey as a gift for you!

We're counting on you for this new dream to expand the game content as much as possible with stretch goals. You already know that our commitment with you is huge. During the Cooks and Crooks campaign we did everything possible to fulfill our promises. Take a look to the Dodos riding Dinos Kickstarter Campaign

If you liked the miniatures, you will love the cards!

Finally, you must know that Dodos riding Dinos is part of the Creature Kingdoms universe. So you will be able to merge components with other games for a future Conquest game experience. We are also working on a family RPG where you will be able to use your miniatures in a future.

War for Chicken Island, Dodino Island... Can you guess which will be the third island?

Help us spread the Raawwr!!!

A note for the 9 backers in Canada who did not receive their Rat Miniatures: As said in previous updates please contact [email protected] who was in charge of production and fulfillment for that item with your PayPal account to process a refund. Alternatively, if you prefer we can allocate that complimentary credit in your Backerkit survey for Dodos Riding Dinos to use in add-ons or shipping plus getting the STL file for the Rat Miniature so you can at least print at home.

Profile name change: Caravana Gamelab becomes Detestable Games / Cambio en nuestro nombre de perfil
about 4 years ago – Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:07:59 PM

Dear backers,

It has taken a long time since our last update. As we already told you, your contribution in our community has been fundamental for our Board Game project. Due to our next campaign will be another board game: Dodos riding Dinos, we decided asking Kickstarter for a change in the profile name: Detestable Games instead Caravana Gamelab. Our "The Test Table Games" brand published our other games. We think this change will improve our communication.

Caravana Gamelab will be Detestable Games

Our next game: Dodos riding Dinos

Your dreams come true: Lead a Dodo Dino couple to the finish line

Dodos riding Dinos (designed by Rub HS) is a hand management and dexterity game inspired by Mario Kart. The fastest Dodo Dino couple will be saved from the meteorite that will crush the island. DrD was voted as the best game in Roll a Game Expo 2019, the most important board game convention in Mexico. The game is a collaboration between Detestable Games and Draco Studios. The art is provided by Gnomosapiens and the amazing 3D sculptures by Marchen Atellier.

Kickstarter coming soon...

We’re planning launch the DrD campaign in April 2020. Meanwhile, you can help us voting for Dodos Riding Dinos as one of the most expected games in the Family and Short categories in this BGG geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/269401/20-most-anticipated-board-games-2020-final-voting

Dodos riding Dinos. Running from extinction!

Thanks,

The Test Table Team: Pepe, Ruben, Ady, Alina, Gio & William.

ESPAÑOL

Estimados backers,

Ha pasado un tiempo desde la última actualización de este proyecto. Como ya les hemos dicho, su participación en nuestra comunidad ha sido clave para nuestro proyecto de juegos de mesa. Debido a nuestra próxima campaña será el juego de mesa Dodos riding Dinos, decidimos solicitar a Kickstarter un cambio de nombre en nuestro perfil a Detestable Games, que es la marca que hemos utilizado para publicar los juegos anteriores. Consideramos que con este cambio nuestra comunicación será más clara y transparente con ustedes.

Caravana Gamelab cambia a Detestable Games (The Test Table)

Dodos riding Dinos: Nuestro próximo juego.

Lo que siempre soñaste: una carrera de Dodos montando Dinosaurios.

¿De qué va Dodos riding Dinos? Es un juego de cartas y destreza creado por Rubén Hernández inspirado por Mario Kart. El juego es una carrera en la que la pareja Dodo-Dino más veloz podrá salvarse del meteorito que destruirá su isla. Este juego es una colaboración entre Detestable Games y Draco Studios, con arte de Gnomosapiens y miniaturas 3D creadas por Marchen Atellier. Además Dodos riding Dinos fue ganador de la Quetzalera 2019, al ser elegido por el público como el mejor juego de Roll a Game 2019, la convención de creación y diseño de juegos más importante de México.

¡Muy pronto la campaña estará disponible!

Pronto tendrán más detalles de esta campaña que planeamos lanzar en abril 2020. Por el momento les pedimos su ayuda para votar por Dodos riding Dinos en las categorías Family y Short Game en los juegos más esperados del 2020 en Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/269401/20-most-anticipated-board-games-2020-final-voting

Dodos riding Dinos. Running from extinction!

¡Muchas gracias de parte del equipo Detestable! Pepe, Rubén, Ady, Alina, Gio & William.

Rat minis 90% fulfilled!
over 4 years ago – Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:58:25 AM

Hello everyone!

Finally, after many months of struggling with the inconveniences, we are wrapping up fulfillment for the remaining items.

By now all replacements / missing components should have arrived. If you have any issue with your pledge or items, please send an e-mail to [email protected] who is managing fulfillment for this campaign.

Rat Miniatures in the US, Europe and Asia have been sent. We are just missing 10 orders for Canadian backers and a couple for Mexican backers. Unfortunately, some painted minis for Canada arrived in bad shape so we will have to send unpainted version instead (sorry about this!)

We have been refraining from launching a new project in order to fulfill this one first. Some important lessons we learnt for our future projects:

  • Add-ons should be all manufactured by the same provider than the manufacturer for the base game. (Rat minis and translated rulebooks caused a lot of issues and extra costs for fulfillment)
  • Use different fulfillment hubs around the world as the demand on each region allows. 
  • Account for any extra expenses / currency exchange that may arise in the months between funding and fulfillment.

At this point we have no 2nd printing for Cooks & Crooks on sight so you have in your collection a super limited game. You can help us rating the game in Board Game Geek and leaving a short review.

What's next?

We have been designing, editing and developing many titles. We will see some of them published in partnership of other publishers, after all, Detestable Games is a Game Design workshop. These are the titles we have signed to publish with our partners:

  • Geisha is a resource-managemant and worker-placement eurogame with minigames which exalts the cultural education Geishas undertake. In the game, players aim to increase the stats and attributes of their Geishas and will spend them to place Tea houses (Ochaya) in different territories of Japan to earn victory points entering into a tactical area-control dynamic. This game was co-designed between Detestable Games and Ana Coronado. The name of the publisher is not final since this will be their first published game but we will let you know when this project launches on Kickstarter. 
  • Dodos riding Dinosaurs has been signed and it will be developed by the same team as War for Chicken Island. Published by Draco Studios, illustrated by Gnomosapiens and designed between Detestable Games and Rubén Hernández. It is a party dexterity racing game where player use power-ups (dexterity) to advance or back other players. Here's the teaser art (featuring chickens instead of Dodos, since it was the official announcement in War for Chicken Island). This game will be launched on Kickstarter once War for Chicken Island is fulfilled.

By the way, our friends from Draco Studios will be launching a new campaign this Tuesday; if you are into Role Playing Games or 3D printing you might be interested to check the preview page for Eldritch Century and click "Notify me on Launch".

Thanks everyone for your support, we look forward to read your thoughts about our upcoming projects.

Replacements and missing parcels finally going out next Friday!
almost 5 years ago – Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 07:22:55 PM

Hello everyone!

Thanks a lot for your patience and understanding. After several months of struggling with the project's finances and the complications on logistics they carried, our shipping order for replacements (7 backers), missing items (3 backers), missing parcels (14 backers) will finally go out next Friday along with the few new orders placed on backerkit (3 late pledgers). You will most likely get a tracking number from VFI.

For the missing parcels, we need confirmation of your mailing address and those backers most likely have already received an e-mail from Aether Tower to confirm it. (Our fulfillment partner require us to verify the info, since many months have passed and also to avoid sending to an incorrect address if that was the case the first time).

Rat Miniatures

The status is as follows:

USA: All unpainted Rat Minis should have already arrived. Painted rat miniatures will be sent in August after Gen Con is over (we will possibly have some friends to offer local pickup; more news about this later). 

Canada: Painted and unpainted minis have arrived to Canada. Orders will be placed next week and most likely will go out in 2 weeks.

Mexico: Debido a una falla logística las miniaturas de ratas de México demorarán hasta Agosto para ser enviadas al igual que las de Estados Unidos.

All other regions: Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and Central and South Americawill be the next ones to get the rat minis. After UK Games Expo, the Rat minis stayed with Board Game Guru for fulfillment. 

Thanks again for your patience. We are still working to fulfill all the pending rewards.

Rats for Europe at UKGE
almost 5 years ago – Wed, May 29, 2019 at 02:58:36 AM

Hello everyone,

This is a super quick update to let you know that William will be at UK Games Expo sharing stand 2-T1 (look for the demo table with the Cooks & Crooks box). Rat miniatures will be available for local pickup. After this, he will be able to send the rat minis for European backers along with the translated rulebooks and other pending parcels in the first 2 weeks of June.

Thanks a lot for your patience on this. We are still not over until all backers get their rewards. We have been holding back from launching another campaign because of that but it is the honest thing to do.