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Gen Con 2015 VIII: Stronghold Games — Space Cadets: Away Missions, Dark Moon & La Granja

Gen Con 2015 VIII: Stronghold Games — Space Cadets: Away Missions, Dark Moon & La Granja
Board Game: Space Cadets: Away Missions
• Stronghold Games had its usual stronghold of games at Gen Con 2015, with walls of thick boxes surrounding its playing space and gamers eroding those walls bit by bit as the weekend progresed. The big debut from Stronghold was Space Cadets: Away Missions, a giant minis-filled game that functions as a prequel of sorts for Space Cadets.





Board Game: Dark Moon
• Stronghold Games brought a small quantity of Evan Derrick's Dark Moon to the 2015 Origins Game Fair, but the game's official debut was Gen Con 2015 — or was it July 8, 2015, which was the U.S. street date? In any case, here's an overview of the game:





Board Game: La Granja
• La Granja was a second Origins sneak peek by Stronghold, with the new edition of this Michael Keller and Andreas Odendahl design (which was first published by Spielworxx) also appearing in Spanish, Dutch, French, and German (again). It's neat to see a niche release proliferate in that way. Sometimes a Spielworxx title does one thousand copies and is done — and sometimes it spreads and spreads again.





Board Game Publisher: Stronghold Games
• Stronghold's Stephen Buonocore also spoke with BGG's Brad Cummings about a couple of digital releases in the works: a digital version of Core Worlds and an Android version of Survive: Escape from Atlantis!

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