NZ game artists and designers Nectarine have just sent the Happy Sheep game, their collaboration with IQideas, off to the printers.

Happy Sheep’s a fast, fun game of memory, deduction and bluffing. You can find out more about it here and grab a sneak peak at the graphics and rules.

Wellycon is on next weekend, and Ian Anderson has kindly put together a fantastic guide with everything you need to know about gaming at this brilliant convention:

New Zealand designer Shem Phillips’ game Saqqara (previously called Nomarchs and Pharaohs) has been picked up by White Goblin Games.

They plan to publish Saqqara in February 2011, and it sounds they’ve got a quite famous illustrator working on it (hush hush at the moment thought!).

UPDATE: From Shem’s site:

It’s official – White Goblin have now starting working towards the release of Saqqara. So far we have decided to market the game for 3-5 players (although it can be played with 2, it works better with at least 3). They have chosen Matthias Catrein (Dominion, Phoenicia) to illustrate the game. More details to come soon.

This is fabulous news- it’s great to see another NZ game designer having success on a world stage!