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
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 Unpublished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.
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
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)
- 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
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
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.
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