Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko

My Happy Farm

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BLOG: They Deserve Better!

I am a huge fan of children‘s games. I have a big collection of board games for kids and even though my own kids got older and they won’t play with me anymore, I still keep these kids games in my collection. I won’t get rid of them. I will play with my grandchildren, right?! There are some real gems among games for children. Ramses II.Labyrinth. Gulo gulo – to mention only a few classics. And yet, even though these days game stores offer so many great innovative children‘s games, there is still a ton of mere unimaginativevariants of memory games. Yes, sure, kids like memory games. They have a great memory, they beat their parents easily and they enjoy it. Once. Twice. Thrice. But then at some point… *** I was a teacher for a few ...

ARTICLE: Spotlight on – My Happy Farm

At the start of a game of My Happy Farm, your animals are sad. They are hungry! You need to plant crops, harvest them, and then feed your livestock. This makes your animals happy, and happy animals will win you the game! My Happy Farm is a game of planning. Each turn, you will be able to plant crops, harvest them, feed your animals, or buy new crops. The tricky part, however, is that you can only do two things each turn… also, if you don’t harvest your crops before winter, they are lost. My Happy Farm is a perfect game for young children to learn planning in a fun, family setting. As gamers, this is the game we’ve ...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Portal Games Announces My Happy Farm

Portal Games announces My Happy Farm A new English language edition of the award winning game from Mysterium designers Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko. Gliwice, Poland – November 23rd, 2015. Today, Portal Games announced My Happy Farm, the award winning game from the same design team that brought you Mysterium.  Portal Games has been the publisher of the Polish edition since the first quarter of 2015. When the English rights became available, CEO Ignacy Trzewiczek happily jumped at the opportunity to secure worldwide English rights. In My Happy Farm, the players must purchase, plant, and harvest crops in order to feed their animals and make them happy. Each turn, the players may only take 2 actions, and some plants take multiple turns to fully grow. The players must time ...

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