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Gen Con 2015 XVII: Level 99 Games — BattleCON: War of Indines, Pixel Tactics 5, RESISTOR_, Dragon Punch, and the Exceed Fighting System

Gen Con 2015 XVII: Level 99 Games — BattleCON: War of Indines, Pixel Tactics 5, RESISTOR_, Dragon Punch, and the Exceed Fighting System
Board Game: BattleCON: War of Indines
• Designer D. Brad Talton, Jr. of Level 99 Games loves head-to-head fighting games, especially if they feature individualized characters that each put a spin on how the battle plays out. He's designed and published other types of games as well, but when you look at the title with which he launched his company — BattleCON: War of Indines, now out in a new "remastered" edition for 2015 — you'll get a good taste of his design style.





Board Game: Pixel Tactics 5
• Pixel Tactics is a series of head-to-head tactical combat games from Level 99 Games' Brad Talton. Each set is a standalone game of two 25-card decks, with each player choosing a leader from one of the 25 characters included in their deck, then using the other cards as attackers or supporters or orders — with each card being able to fulfill all of these roles in different ways.

At Gen Con 2015, Talton presented an overview of the Pixel Tactics system, while also showing off the forthcoming Pixel Tactics 5.





Board Game: Resistor_
• RESISTOR_ was not initially a Level 99 Games. Designers Anthony Amato and Nicole Kline from Cardboard Fortress Games ran a Kickstarter project for the game, then subsequently partnered with Level 99 to make RESISTOR_ part of that publisher's "Duelist" series of two-player games, thereby allowing the more experienced Level 99 to get involved with fulfillment and distribution.





Board Game: Dragon Punch
• This video covers two forthcoming releases from Level 99 Games: Dragon Punch and Exceed. The story with Dragon Punch is similar to that of RESISTOR_; designer Koen Hendrix started a Kickstarter project to fund Dragon Punch, then decided to partner with Level 99 Games in the middle of funding, which increased interest in this two-player fighting-based microgame, but also delayed production since more backers came in and the game went from being a hand-assembled job by Hendrix to an actual published game.

Exceed is a new two-player fighting system from Talton, and if you like the short description of it at the end of this video, you can download the rules and cards from the Level 99 Games website to try it for yourself right now.

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