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Alderac Entertainment Group had a media space at The Westin to demo several of its impending releases while teasing future titles well into 2023, with them being a mix of straight-to-retail games and crowdfunding projects, such as Dead Reckoning: Letters of Marque, a new saga expansion for John D. Clair's Dead Reckoning that is on Kickstarter until August 19, 2022.
On that date, Peter McPherson's Wormholes debuts. In this game for 1-5 players, you're trying to pick up and deliver passengers at locations across the galaxy, creating wormholes to shorten your trip and ideally pick up points from others who find your shortcut worth the cost.
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Some eager players removed their tokens before I could take this shot at round's end
Ready Set Bet from John D. Clair debuts on September 30, 2022, and in this game 2-9 players bet in real-time as a moderator (or an app) rolls random numbers and advances horses across a track. Payouts are based on the odds of a horse finishing in first, second, or third place when a horse hits the finish line, but the odds are skewed somewhat as any horse other than 7 gets bonus movement if its number is rolled twice in a row. Additional bets are available for horse color, horse-vs.-horse direct comparison, and other special bets. Bonus cards give you additional betting tokens or special payout circumstances.
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Smash Up: 10th Anniversary, due out October 28, 2022 from Paul Peterson, includes an art book, a goblin coin, new factions such as mermaids and skeletons, and unannounced surprises.
At some point in October 2022, AEG will crowdfund Shake That City from designers Mads Fløe and Kåre Torndahl Kjær, a city-building game in which the active player on a turn shakes the cube-handling device, then ejects nine cubes in a 3x3 grid.
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The active player chooses one color of cubes, then adds tiles to their board in the pattern of those cubes, while everyone else must choose a color other than what the active player chose. In the final three turns, everyone can pick any of the revealed colors as you race to complete scoring bonuses and maximize points for creating an ideal town.
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Flatout Games also plans to release Point City in 2023, with this design from Johnson, Melvin, and Stankewich mirroring the gameplay of 2019's Point Salad, but adding an engine-building element as you draft resources and building plan cards.
Let's Go! To Japan is a Q1 2023 crowdfunding project from designer Josh Wood, who was thwarted in his real-life effort to go to Japan due to Covid, after which he channeled his travel research into this design. Over thirteen rounds, you draw activity cards and add them to your weeklong agenda, with the final part of the game being your trip, in which you activate all of your cards and "live" the journey.
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Mock-up components for Let's Go! To Japan
John D. Clair's Rolling Heights, which was crowdfunded in February 2022, will hit retail in the first half of 2023.
A crowdfunding project for Thunderstone Quest will take place in Q3 2023, keeping to the once-a-year model announced in May 2022, with titles being created solely for backers and not for retail.
Finally, sometime in 2023, you will see Waffle Time, a drafting game by Maxime Demeyere that's all about building your perfect waffle.
Probably nor the final packaging
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