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• I might be showing my ignorance, but Maha Yodha by designers Chandan Mohanty and Sagar Shankar and new publisher Leprechaun Games is the first game I've seen that's based on Hindu mythology. (KS link) Here's an overview of the setting and gameplay:
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Maha Yodha is a two-player strategy card game set in the ancient and mystical world of Indian mythology. The game consists of two decks, each of which represents a faction; each faction consists of a unique army of warriors, weapons and scrolls. You will go head-to-head with your opponent, spending valor to dispatch warriors to the front-line to not only deal damage but also defend your life. As in the ancient myths, each warrior has a chosen weapon, which when paired together award bonus powers. Divine scrolls, inspired by interesting characters and stories from the Hindu myths, award you with powerful bonus skills, extra valor, and deadly force to help you take down your opponent.
Maha Yodha features exquisite traditional Indian artwork, or Pattachitra, as well as specially commissioned illustrations of celebrated warriors and weapons in a visceral modern style.
I haven't checked out the rulebook, but six weeks remains to do that or listed for feedback from others who do. Still, at least the game has a hook, something to grab the attention from the sea of games on Kickstarter.Maha Yodha features exquisite traditional Indian artwork, or Pattachitra, as well as specially commissioned illustrations of celebrated warriors and weapons in a visceral modern style.
• For a different mythological take on a card game there's Angels: Michael's War from first-timers Aaron and Stephanie Richardson, with the game seeming somewhat Ascension-ish as players use divine cards from their hand to defeat demon cards or claim victory cards from a shared center row. (KS link)
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• Another common hook for games on KS is super heroes — excuse me, super-powered individuals or heroes who are super or some combination of "super" and "heroes" within actually using the words in sequential order. Trademark violation, dontchaknow? In any case, superheroes are a standard trope for crowdfunded games, and #UrbanHeroes (KS link) is only the latest such— wait, it's a role-playing game. Nevermind then — how about Capes and Villains instead? (KS link)
• Mirrors looks incredibly cool and freaky — aaaaaand then it turns out to be psychedelic RPS. Ah well... (KS link)
• Designer/publisher Saar Shai is back on KS with an updated version of The Agents, revised versions of the original four expansions, and three new expansions — not to mention an artbook, graphic prints, and "the sturdiest, most robust game Box ever imagined or produced". Man, it's so robust that it embiggened its own "B". That must be some box! Next thing you know, it'll be driving itself to college and starting a web-based business selling life insurance. (KS link)
• Pocket Odyssey by Anthony Sato is a "micro dungeon-crawling game inspired by traditional tabletop RPG games" with one player taking the role of storyteller and creating a quest for the other adventurers to tackle. (KS link) Honestly, the name sounds like something overheard in a high school hallway: "Hey, beautiful, want to step into the bathroom and go on a pocket odyssey?"
• Andrew Tullsen and Shaun Austin from Print & Play Productions are trying to fund the combat dexterity game Flick Wars. (KS link) Flick to move, flick to attack, flick to use powers, flick to back.
• German publisher franjos is trying to fund a new edition of Torsten Marold's Husarengolf, which won a special award from the Spiel des Jahres jury in 1997 for being a stellar dexterity game. (Startnext link) Husarengolf seems a game better experienced than explained, but since I haven't had the fortune to try it, I'll post this video instead:
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• Ares Games and Gremlin Project have announced that it will try to fund two big box expansions for Galaxy Defenders starting on May 28, 2014: Operation Strikeback and Extinction Protocol, with genetically modified agents attacking an alien base on the far side of the Moon in the former and agents heading to the invaders' home planet in the latter to "save the galaxy from extinction". Mighty kind of them to do that for us.
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