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• The movie Pacific Rim Uprising opens in theaters March 23, 2018, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to find Pacific Rim: Extinction – The Miniatures Game, a design from Alessio Cavatore and River Horse, on Kickstarter right now. Ride that crest of excitement! Imagine getting together with someone else to recreate those Jaeger vs. Kaiju battles you'll see on screen. You might be able to do so come November 2018... (KS link)
• Giant beasts of a different sort await in Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid, an expansion for Pandasaurus Games' Dinosaur Island that increases the player count to five and adds new dinosaurs to the game along with different optional modules. A reprint of the base game, which is currently out of stock, is being funded in this same project, along with the two-player game Duelosaur Island from Ian Moss, the dice of which can be used in Dinosaur Island and vice versa. (KS link)
• French publisher Funforge is attempting to fund Monumental, a decent-sized civilization game from Matthew Dunstan that pulls together civilizations from various eras (Greek, Chinese, Danish, etc.) and pits them all against one another to see who comes out on top. (KS link) Dunstan visited the BGG booth while we were at the FIJ game fair in Cannes, France in late February 2018 to present an overview of the game:
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• The semi-cooperative game Robin Hood and the Merry Men has stolen more than $400,000 from the rich to give to poor Final Frontier Games for release of this game in November 2018. The game also includes both full co-op and solitaire rules, and it promises to hold true "to everything we remember about the legendary outlaw and his band of Merry Men". I remember only that Robin Hood is a fox, so ideally the campaign will hit that stretch goal in its final hours the day this post goes live, which is the end of its campaign. (KS link)
• Designer Glenn Drover visited the BGG booth at the 2018 GAMA Trade Show to present an overview of Railroad Rivals, the first title from Forbidden Games. We're still working on the videos from Cannes at the moment, so for now I'll say only that it's an abstracted track-laying and goods-delivery game with the United States being represented by a network of tiles that you construct during play. (KS link)
• Designer Yuo first self-published Birdie Fight! through the Japanese design circle Kocchiya in 2016, and now U.S. publisher Daily Magic Games is bringing the game to market under the name Songbirds, which was first used by Taiwanese publisher Homosapiens Lab. This little game has flown far in a short time! (KS link)
For an overview of this simple bluffing and majority game, you can check out my overview of Birdie Fight! from May 2017 or watch this video:
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• Following a successful campaign for War Along the Chesapeake, Worthington Publishing is now looking for backers for volume II in its "War of 1812" game series: War Along the Gulf Coast from Grant and Mike Wylie. As with that earlier title, this game will be a limited edition release of 250 copies. (KS link)
• Earworm is a party game for 4-16 players from Aaron J. Amendola, Sam Begich, and Laura Marsh in which you try to get your teammates to identify hit songs from the 1980s to the present day without being able to sing any of the actual lyrics. (KS link)
• Should you want another party game option, the folks behind the improv comedy show Super Art Fight are releasing a card game that allows you to recreate what they do, namely duel with art on stage. You might not have thought of that from seeing only the name of the game — Cute Animals On Fire — but that's what you do. (KS link)
• Another game overview we shot at FIJ 2018 in Cannes, France was of Emmanuel Beltrando's Immortal 8, a drafting game from Sorry We Are French with typically gorgeous French art that needs no apologies. The game looks beautiful and clever, but the KS project wasn't trending well, so SWAF has cancelled the project, while noting in an update that the French edition of the game should still see publication by the end of Q3 2018, with English and Korean editions possibly appearing as well in 2018. Thus, I will share this video overview anyway since the game is still coming!
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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