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Designers and Publishers Speak at BGG.CON 2012 II – Guildhall, City Hall, Perilous Pyramids, Dash, Colonial & Kanzume Goddess

Designers and Publishers Speak at BGG.CON 2012 II – Guildhall, City Hall, Perilous Pyramids, Dash, Colonial & Kanzume Goddess
Board Game: City Hall
Time for more video coverage of new and forthcoming games from BGG.CON 2012, which took place in mid-November in Dallas, Texas. We'll start this time with Michael R. Keller's City Hall from his own Visible Hand Games. City Hall, which Keller is attempting to fund on Kickstarter through the end of November 2012, is an involved old-school Euro game along the lines of Goa.


Board Game: Colonial: Europe's Empires Overseas
Eric Reasoner from Coffee Haus Games explains Christophe Pont's Colonial: Europe's Empires Overseas, the second edition of which should be hitting the markets before the end of 2012.


Board Game: Dash! A whimsical race through Singapore
Designer Jinshaun Ang shows off Dash! A whimsical race through Singapore, published by Singaporean publisher Cardboard Island Games and distributed by Coffee Haus Games in North America.


Board Game: Kanzume Goddess
Coffee Haus' sister company Japanime Games will release Zhu Rong's Kanzume Goddess in the near future, and demoer Megan Price estimates that the game will be released "before the end of next month", i.e. by the end of 2012.


Board Game: Guildhall
Alderac Entertainment Group brought Hope S. Hwang's Guildhall to Spiel 2012 as a surprise game about which it revealed nothing ahead of time, and while I filmed AEG's Todd Rowland talking about the game in Essen, at BGG.CON 2012 AEG's Ed Bolme sat down with the cards in front of us and ran us through the game in more detail.


Board Game: Perilous Pyramids
Devin Lewis, co-designer of Perilous Pyramids from Broke In Games with James Vicari, runs us through a two-player game. I'm hoping to see Pyramid of Delights as a follow-up...

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