Awards

Awards and Nominations for Cheapass Games:

2003

2002

  • Diceland: Deep White Sea Origins Vanguard Award winner
  • Button Men Online (With Dana Huyler and Loren Peace): Origins Award Winner: Best Play-by-Mail Game of 2002
  • TOM (The Origins Metagame): Published by Flying Buffalo. Origins Award Nominee: Best Trading Card Game.
  • Agora, 2002 Games 100
  • Cube Farm, 2002 Games 100
  • Nexus, 2002 Games 100

2001

  • BRAWL: Catfight Origins Award Nominee: Best Card Game Expansion
  • Devil Bunny Hates the Earth Origins Award Nominee: Best Abstract Board Game of 2001
  • Girl Genius: The Works Origins Award Nominee: Best Abstract Card Game; Origins Award Nominee: Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game; 2001 GAMES 100
  • Unexploded Cow (with Paul Peterson) 2001 GAMES 100
  • US Patent #1 Origins Award Nominee: Best Science Fiction / Fantasy board game
  • Witch Trial Origins Award Nominee: Best Abstract Board Game; 2001 GAMES 100

2000

  • BRAWL: Club Foglio Origins Award Winner: Best Card Game Expansion or Supplement; Origins Award Winner: Best Graphic Design of a Card Game
  • The Great Brain Robbery Origins Award Winner: Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Board Game; Origins Award Nominee: Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game
  • Chief Herman's Holiday Fun Pack Origins Award Nominee: Best Abstract Board Game
  • The Big Idea (Out of Print) Origins Award Nominee: Best Traditional Card Game

1999

  • Deadwood Origins Award Nominee: Best Abstract Board Game; 1999 GAMES 100
  • The Big Cheese (with Jon Wilkie) 1999 GAMES 100
  • Button Men Origins Award Winner: Best Abstract Board Game; Origins Award Winner: Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game
  • Fight City Origins Award Nominee: Best Traditional Card Game
  • BRAWL (Out of Print) Origins Award Nominee: Best Traditional Card Game; Origins Award Nominee: Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game

1998

  • Lord of the Fries (Now available in Color) Origins Award Nominee: Best Traditional Card Game
  • FALLING (Out of Print) Origins Award Nominee: Best Traditional Card Game; 1998 GAMES 100
  • Parts Unknown (Out of Print) Origins Award Nominee: Best Sci Fi/Fantasy Board Game

1997


The Games of James Ernest

James Ernest, the head honcho of Cheapass Games, has written or contributed to dozens of games. Those which have been published, or which are slated for publication in the next few months, are listed below. Unpublished games are of course too numerous to list.

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1999

  • Change!
  • Escape from Elba (Out of Print)
  • Button Men: BROM (with Nick Sauer)
  • Lord of the Fries De-Lux (Out of Print - Now available in a Special Color Edition)
  • BRAWL (Out of Print)
    • Origins Award Nominee: Best Traditional Card Game of 1999
    • Origins Award Nominee: Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game 1999
    • 2000 GAMES 100
  • Button Men: Vampyres
  • Fight City
    • Origins Award Nominee: Best Traditional Card Game of 1999
  • Button Men: Soldiers
    • Origins Award Winner: Best Abstract Board Game of 1999
    • Origins Award Winner: Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game of 1999
  • The Big Cheese (with Jon Wilkie)
    • 1999 GAMES 100
  • Deadwood
    • 1999 GAMES 100
    • Origins Award Nominee: Best Abstract Board Game of 1999

1998

  • Renfield (Out of Print)
  • Devil Bunny Needs a Ham
  • Starbase Jeff (with Jim Geldmacher) (Out of Print)
  • Parts Unknown (Out of Print)
    • Origins Award Nominee: Best SciFi / Fantasy Board Game of 1998
  • Safari Jack (Now available in a Hip Pocket Edition)
  • FALLING (Out of Print)
    • Origins Award Nominee: Best Traditional Card Game of 1998
    • 1998 GAMES 100
  • Lord of the Fries (Out of Print - Now available in a Special Color Edition)
    • Origins Award Nominee: Best Traditional Card Game of 1998

1997

  • Tishai (with John Bollinger)
  • Give Me The Brain (Out of Print - Now avaiable in a Special Color Edition)
    • Origins Award Winner: Best Traditional Card Game of 1997
  • Bitin' Off Hedz
  • The Very Clever Pipe Game (Hip Pocket version available)
  • Huzzah! (Out of Print)
  • Get Out
  • Spree!
  • Bleeding Sherwood (Out of Print)
  • Ben Hvrt (Out of Print)
  • Before I Kill You, Mister Bond (Out of Print)
  • Kill Doctor Lucky (with Rick Fish)
    • Origins Award Winner: Best Abstract Board Game of 1997
    • 1997 GAMES 100

Other Publishers:

Alliance Distribution Game Trade Monthly

  • Following Suit (2000)
  • Hey, Bartender! (2000)

Atlas Games

  • Lunch Money Button Men (1999)

Digital Addiction

  • Sanctum Button Men (1999)

Dragon Magazine

  • Colossus (May, 2000)
  • Abandon Ship (July, 2000)
  • Dead and Breakfast (October, 2000)

GAMES Magazine

  • Yours or Mine (1997)
  • Land Rush (1997)
  • Gunfight at the Pretty Good Corral (with Paul Peterson, 1998)
  • Lamarckian Poker* (with Dave Howell, 1999)

Games Unplugged Magazine

  • Graveyard Shift (2000)

Green Knight Publishing

  • ButtonLords: Arthurian Button Men (2000)
    • Origins Award nominee:Best Abstract Board Game of 2000

Guardians of Order

  • Sailor Moon Button Men (2000)

JohnCon

  • The Con Game (2000)

Shetland Productions / Dork Tower

  • Escape from Dork Tower (in Dork Tower Issue #4, 1999)

ShoreCon

  • Road Trip (1999)
  • Candy (2000)

Slag-Blah Entertainment / Studio Foglio

  • The XXXenophile Trading Card Game (1996)
  • Assorted Foglio Button Men (2000)

Wizards of the Coast

  • Pocket Players Guide: Magic Variants (compiled and some designed by James Ernest, 1995)
  • Dalmuti's: Crash & El Paso (1998)
  • Origins: Mana Burn (out of print) (with Paul Peterson, 1998)
  • Gen Con: Landyland (1998)
  • Legend of the Five Rungs Button Men (1999)
  • Origins: Dogfight, Spots, Strange Words, Jump**, Bogart***, Candy, El Paso****, Triangulous (2000)
  • The Looney Tunes Trading Card Game (October 2000)

* Lamarckian Poker was originally published as a free game in the Cheapass catalog.

** Jump is the same as Big Dumb Five, originally published free on the Cheapass website.

*** Bogart was originally published as a free game on the Cheapass website.

**** El Paso was originally published as a free game in Dalmuti's Restaurant.