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Crowdfunding Round-up: Attacking Two-Player Abstracts, Rolling A Characteristic Victory, and Delivering Us Cave Evil

Crowdfunding Round-up: Attacking Two-Player Abstracts, Rolling A Characteristic Victory, and Delivering Us Cave Evil
Board Game: Yōkaï no Mori
Board Game: Siam
Board Game: Senseï
I normally post crowdfunding round-ups on Sundays, but I'm hitting the road soon for another trip and since in the past I've seen c.f. campaigns cancelled between the time I scheduled a post and it was published, I'm running this post now in order to avoid such issues. I didn't need to explain this, of course, but I'm doing so anyway. Oversharing — ask your doctor for ways to treat this annoying and not-at-all fatal disease.

• French publisher Ferti is running a Kickstarter campaign in association with Eagle-Gryphon Games for a trio of two-player abstract strategy games, starting with a new edition of Yōkaï no Mori from Madoka Kitao that now includes English rules in addition to French and German. This game is a simplified version of Shōgi for those who want to introduce the game to youngsters or simply play something similar in less time.

Didier Dhorbait's Siam is a new version of the "pushing" game that Ferti first released in 2005, now with charming illustrations from Biboun, while Senseï is an updated version of 2004's Diaballik from Philippe Lefrancois, with a monkey and a wiseman each trying to trick the other in order to move to the opposite side of the board first. (KS link)

• Eagle-Gryphon Games also has a second KS underway, this one for Attack! Deluxe, which replaces the 2009 Attack! Deluxe Expansion, which itself replaced the 2003 Attack! Expansion, which (of course) is an expansion for Glenn Drover's Attack! Man, I've used up one-third of my word count simply listing all of that. (KS link)

Board Game: Lunarchitects
• Dan Cunningham's Lunarchitects from Iron Kitten Games, LLC wins the portmanteau award for this post, with the gameplay being reminiscent of Glen More as players try to assemble a moonbase. (KS link)

• Wits & Wagers: Epic Geek Edition from Dominic Crapuchettes and North Star Games takes the original Wits & Wagers game and plugs in new questions on geeky subjects such as Star Wars, Batman, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings and in-game powers for each player. (KS link)

• Game Salute is expanding its line of games based on The Princess Bride with Jim Harmon's I Hate to Kill You, which I'll note is (1) a dice-and-card game to recreate the sword duels in TPB and (2) the only title returned in a BGG game search for the words "hate" and "kill". (KS link)

• Hasbro has announced the five finalists in the crowdfunding-based party game challenge that it announced in August 2015. More than five hundred submissions were presented to the publisher, and you can view the Indiegogo campaigns for the five finalists through the Hasbro Gaming Lab.

Board Game: Roll Player
Board Game: Side Quest
• I don't know what the gameplay is like, but the title and premise of Roll Player from Keith Matejka and Thunderworks Games is brilliant. In this dice game, players assemble the best fantasy adventurer possible by filling the attribute rows on their character sheets. (KS link)

• Steve Venezia's Side Quest: Pocket Adventures from Tap To Win takes you the next step of the way in your fantasy adventure with a co-op dungeon-crawl single-deck card game that requires only a few dice and includes multiple scenarios. (KS link, Spieleschmiede link)

• Can you fund a board game café through Kickstarter? Keith Meyers (from IELLO) and Adam Alleman are trying to do so with Board Game Republic, which they plan to locate in Denver, Colorado. (KS link)

• Capsicum Games let me know that its KS campaign for Fleet Commander will launch "on January the 11th, at 11:11 am PST" in 2016. Now they just have to work in some "We're #1" phrases and they'll be all set.

• Cave Evil and The Mushroom Eaters designer Nate Hayden is taking preorders for Cave Evil: Warcults, a standalone game from Emperors of Eternal Evil co-designed with Mat Brinkman and Jochen Hartmann that can also serve as an expansion for Cave Evil. (preorder link) Cave Evil: Warcults is also labeled as "Corroded Corridor #1, and here's how Hayden describes this game system, lightly edited:

Quote:
The Corroded Corridor is a folder-based, expanding game material experience. It is a spectrum of possibilities. It could become a very note-taking and character-driven type campaign game similar to RPGs, but also immense tactical games like ASL or sprawling epics like Third Reich FOR SOME. FOR OTHERS, the corridor offers a simple action-packed one-night short battle royal. It accommodates many types of gameplay. It's about the types of gameplay you desire on any given night. There is no definitive player. The easiest term we found to describe this is "Corroded Corridor", the Corridor being a tunnel that goes deeper and deeeper and deeeeper into the Cave Evil world. You choose how deep to go!
From gallery of W Eric Martin

Editor's note: Please don't post links to other Kickstarter projects in the comments section. Write to me via the email address in the header, and I'll consider them for inclusion in a future crowdfunding round-up. Thanks! —WEM

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