Pyramid Review
Management Material: General Office Edition
Published by Zipwhaa, Inc.
Illustrated by Roy Schneider
$14.95
One of the few surprises for me in this year's nominations for the Origins Awards appeared in the Best Traditional Card Game category, as Management Material had yet to find its way onto the shelves of my local gaming store; this in comparison with all of the other nominees that I had seen or played over the course of the year. Described as the "The card game of CUBICLE DENIZENS," Management Material joins a number of games, such as the Hip Pocket title, Cube Farm, published by Cheapass Games and Cool Studio's Burn Rate: the dot-com card game. In Cube Farm, it is all about getting an office cubicle as close to the good stuff -- photocopier, water cooler or coffee machine -- whereas in Management Material, it is all about staying in the cube for as long as possible and getting out of doing those kind of jobs that mark you out of being Management Material.
Designed for two to five players, ages 12 and over, Management Material comes as a deck of 110 cards. Despite this recommended age minimum, the themes of this card game really lend themselves to an older, more adult audience with some of the cubicle life under their proverbial belts. The cards are all very nicely done in full color by the artist Roy Schneider, in a style reminiscent of newspaper cartoons or strips. The same cast of characters are used throughout, which gives the cards a uniform look and to make you . . .
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Article publication date: May 2, 2003
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