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Pingo Pingo

Want to live an incredible adventure on an island full of cannibal pingouins ?


Number of players
From 2 to 5 players
Age
From 7 years
Duration
Less than 30 minutes
Author(s)
Roberto Fraga
Illustrator
Andréa Femerstrand, Alexey Yakovlev and Igor Polouchine
Editor
Iello

Description

Your pirate ship just arrived to the terrible island of PINGO PINGO. Legend says it’s full of treasures, and among them, the famous Golden Ananas. But the treasure is guarded by the fierce Cannibal Pingouins riding giant white bears ! You are now boarding the island, to push your luck !

At first, you only hear the crashing of waves and the song of the wind, but very soon, the war drums will be heard in the jungle and the hunter will become the prey !

PINGO PINGO is an hectic action games following the events on a soundtrack. You must act fast, run, shoot with a plastic dart gun, be sharp, brave, fast, focus… Well, you probably won’t make it !

Game videos

How did I create the game?

PINGO PINGO is a superb new edition of SQUAD SEVEN, with new theme, soundtrack and illustrations, by Iello.

The creation of SQUAD SEVEN was a long and thrilling adventure.

I always wanted to create games that provided an intense and original experience. The first idea was to use a sound track to give the tempo of the game.

I am a huge fan of brasilian music and in 1992 I created CARNIVAL, a game with a sound track. The idea of the game was to gather musicians, dancers, drummers to open a school of samba. It was a board game and it was the first step towards SQUAD SEVEN.

As years went by, I tried many themes (Mission Impossible, Barcelone olympic games, Disco-Funk…) to eventually create Explorers, a huge boardgame, full of accessories.

Then one day, I made up my mind : I decided to make a card game in the Indiana Jones spirit. I called it INFRAGA JONES and the prototype had a huge success. Thanks to Phlippe des Pallières, I signed a contract with Foxmind and the game came out as SQUAD SEVEN. The game won the Game of the Year award 2004 in France.

It was my second game awarded in France (The first one was DRAGON DELTA in 2001).

A free version of SQUAD SEVEN 2 is available in the downloads section of the site. It’s a more hectic version of the game, and takes place in a temple lost in the sands of north Soudan

SQUAD SEVEN eventually got a new life with IELLO in 2015 under the name PINGO PINGO.