Metatopia was a huge success! Now on to PAX Unplugged!
I ran three playtests of Kitten Round Up at Metatopia with fantastic results. It was fully playable and everyone enjoyed themselves. I got great feedback and am feverishly implementing changes ahead of PAX Unplugged next week. Everyone was so enthusiastic I decided I will try to pitch it to publishers at PAX on the strength of its theme, its amazing art as well as the asymmetric and fun play style.
I had one player (who did not have a great experience as the Mom because of deficiencies in the game) thought about the game the next day and gave me additional feedback which was very insightful. In fact, that feedback got me to make a structural change to the way the cards are played that allowed the game to let players focus more on the real objective: catching kittens! In fact, almost all the feedback allowed me to help individualize the four distinct player types and define them much better, so I think the next time it gets played it will be even more of a unique experience for each player.