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Gen Con 2015 XII: The Village Crone, Dragon Tides, Bears! Trail Mix'd, Castle Panic: The Dark Titan & Evolution Base Game, Flight and Climate

Gen Con 2015 XII: The Village Crone, Dragon Tides, Bears! Trail Mix'd, Castle Panic: The Dark Titan & Evolution Base Game, Flight and Climate
Board Game: The Village Crone
• The big release from Fireside Games at Gen Con 2015 was The Village Crone from designer/publisher co-owner Anne-Marie De Witt, with copies of the game being available in advance of its September 2015 release date.





Board Game: Castle Panic: The Dark Titan
• The other half of Fireside Games — Justin De Witt — talked about Castle Panic: The Dark Titan, which adds a new big baddie to the castle defense game, along with support tokens for both the titanic Agranok and the beleaguered defenders who would probably prefer to be having lunch or reading a book instead of fighting off monsters. Makes sense to me.





Board Game: Bears!: Trail Mix'd
• The final new item from Fireside Games was Bears! Trail Mix'd, an expansion for the dice game Bears! that consists of a single die that shakes up the players' goal for the round, thereby affecting everything that they might do as that round plays out.





Board Game: Dragon Tides
• At Gen Con 2015, designer Kevin G. Nunn was incredibly excited to talk about Dragon Tides, co-designed with Luther Bell Hendricks V and published by Artistic Justice Games. You get to play as Bruce Lee during the game — well, one of you does — so who wouldn't be excited about that?





Board Game: Evolution
• Dominic Crapuchettes from North Star Games overhauled the Russian game Evolution for release in 2014, and now the company has released a second edition of the game that includes modified artwork and changes to a few of the games. NSG's Nick Bentley talked about the game in our booth during Gen Con 2015:





Board Game: Evolution: Flight
• Bentley then stuck around to present an overview of Evolution: Flight, an expansion for Evolution that allows players to take to the air with their creatures, evading certain predators while upping the amount of food they need to eat, thanks to how tough it is to keep that body airborne.





 
• I later chased down Bentley in the North Star Games booth to find out a few details about Evolution: Climate, which NSG plans to release in September 2016. The prototype is rough stuff right now, but this video presents the gist of what you'll find in the expansion more than a year from now. (My mouth seems to be undergoing some kind of strange evolution in the screenshot below.)

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