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Thus, it's time to rectify his faults and take a broader look at the numerous games extending the hat on Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites, starting with Shem Phillips' Shipwrights of the North Sea, the latest title from his own Garphill Games. I wasn't aware that KS now allowed projects from those in New Zealand, but apparently it does as Phillips wants you to help fund this Viking-themed ship-construction game. (KS link)
• Steve Finn of Dr. Finn's Games has gone live with Let Them Eat Shrimp!, in which the fishy players want to spawn and avoid sharks in addition to eating the aforementioned shrimp. (KS link)
• Eagle/Gryphon Games is offering a trio of "games of art", to use its phrase, the trio consisting of the "Rucksack" edition of Alf Seegert's Fantastiqa (smaller box, no game boards); Sean MacDonald's Petite Pastiche (smaller box, no game board, and approximately two-thirds the hex tiles, palette cards and commission cards); and Sid Sackson's Games of Art, a new edition of Beyond Tic Tac Toe. For this latter item, unlike the original book, Games of Art includes laminated pages and erasable markers so that you can play the seven games included multiple times without having to rip out pages as you use them. (KS link)
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• In Diane Sauer's card-melding game Legends and Lies, players are cryptozoologists who mount expeditions that attempt to prove the existence of mythical creatures such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and extraterrestrials. (KS link)
• In the martial-arts themed Lineage from Justin Waggle and Gray Wolf Games, each player needs to collect the five animal cards from the masters located around the game board, then return both his master and student to the middle of the board — unless he's controlling the Emperor, in which case he needs to use his General to conquer the towns at the corners of the board. Unique come-on for this project: "Lineage is the first board game to be officially recognized by the Martial Arts History Museum and will feature the museum’s logo on its box." (KS link)
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• Following its recent KS project for Fresco Big Box, German publisher Queen Games now has Kingdom Builder Big Box on offer, with the package including the 2012 Spiel des Jahres-winning Kingdom Builder, the Nomads and Crossroads expansions, and the Capitol and Caves promo items. The Kickstarter version of this item includes new wooden settlements in five shapes and an Island expansion with new game boards; both of these items will be available for purchase later. (KS link)
• Eric Stover's Grand Tactics: Rise of Novice is about, umm, something tactical, possibly with novices in there somewhere. I'm not sure as the KS page features lots of images and a huge block of ALL CAPS TEXT THAT'S ILLEGIBLE and a list of components and a video and a picture of said components and then details of these components and, oh, way down there is a bit on game objectives: "Kill all enemies". So now you know. (KS link)
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• Excalibre Games wants to fund a "designer's edition" of Roger Heyworth's
Sherlock Holmes: The Card Game, a game in which 3-8 players try to capture a villain, with one of them secretly playing the villain and trying to discard all of his cards, then his villain card, in order to escape. (KS link)
• Matt Schwartz's Westerly from Analog Evolution Games is on its second go-round on KS, doubling its support from the first time but still with a long way to go to make this co-operative tale of westward expansion come to life. (KS link)
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• The card game Pairs by James Ernest and Paul Peterson and Cheapass Games hits Kickstarter, um, February 17, 2014, which is tomorrow if you're reading this when the post first goes live, so admittedly this isn't much advance notice, but still I can now check this project off my list. Done! Pairs is a pub-style card game in which you don't want to make matches or else you'll be one step closer to getting bumped from the game. More details about the game, including a print-and-play option, are on the Cheapass Games website. (A new edition of Ernest's Falling will be part of the stretch goals for this project.)
• Bedtime Heroes by designers Dave Campbell and Steve Venezia is a Toy Story meets Monsters Inc. amalgam card-and-dice game in which players use animated toys to protect sleeping children from monsters.
• The Orcfather from Carlos Michán Amado and Lost Games takes a fantasy-themed mafia for its setting, with 4-10 players being divided into two teams that can't consult with their teammates while deciding what to do each round.
• The small Eurogame Harbour from Scott Almes and Tasty Minstrel Games that "consists mainly of cards and a handful of wooden pieces" and will be launched on KS no earlier than May 2014.
• Designer Jamey Stegmaier plans to launch a campaign for Tuscany: Expand the World of Viticulture from his Stonemaier Games on March 12, 2014. This expansion includes eight modules that can be added to the game in any order that players want.
• Ragnar Brothers has a crowdfunding project starting soon for Steam Donkey, a game about which I know nothing but I wouldn't be surprised to find a box filled with steamy punk. Ragnar's Gary Dicken promises a "six-minute video that will warp your mind". (I'm disappointed — cheated even — to discover that "steam donkey" has nothing to do with steaming donkeys.)
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