Live the Life of the Mother of Frankenstein, and Relive the Siege of Vienna in Fire & Stone

Let's continue rolling out game pics and announcements from GAMA Expo 2022. Sure, the show might have ended weeks ago, but I've learned to spend my time at shows sleeping so that I feel like a decent human being the next day and that impedes the publication process. Thankfully I have notes to reference due to the power of WRITING, one of humanity's greatest inventions.

• U.S. publisher Arcane Wonders had a handful of upcoming releases to talk about, with Emerson Matsuuchi's city-building game Foundations of Rome demonstrating what one cubic foot of game looks like. The game started shipping to backers of the Kickstarter at the end of March 2022.

Jon Perry's Air, Land, and Sea: Spies, Lies & Supplies is a standalone game that can also be integrated with 2019's Air, Land, and Sea, and Arcane Wonders expects to debut the new title at Origins Game Fair in June 2022.

Ivan Lashin's Mobile Markets: A Smartphone Inc. Game debuted in late 2021 for the European market, and it should hit U.S. retailers in Q3 2022.

In Dice Manor from Garrett Herdter, which should debut at SPIEL '22 in October, you use dice placement and bidding to build homes.

In October 2020, designers Terry Pettigrew-Rolapp and Tommy Wallach of Hatch Escapes ran a Kickstarter campaign for Mother of Frankenstein, an escape room-style game built around letters from Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. Here's how the publisher describes it:

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Mother of Frankenstein challenges you to solve a series of puzzles in order to learn the truth behind Shelley's infamous monster. While challenging enough for serious puzzlers, it also features a rich, emotional narrative composed by New York Times bestselling YA novelist Tommy Wallach, which will have you and your loved ones feeling all the feelings.

The game is divided up into three acts, each of which is presented in a separate "volume" (i.e., a hollowed-out book). Each volume contains a trove of documents and objects, all of them beautifully crafted and cunningly designed (ostensibly by Mary Shelley herself) in order to reveal a great secret she left to her only surviving child. Included in every box is also a full copy of the 1818 edition of Frankenstein (both for puzzle necessity and general enjoyment).

You'll build a three-dimensional castle, manipulate locks and secret compartments, and even harness the power of electricity!

Arcane Wonders has signed on as the retail partner for the release of this game, which should be available in Q2 2023. ~~Owner~~ Director of Sales/Marketing Robert Geistlinger says that the three volumes should be tackled in order as they are not independent, and each volume will take about 10-15 hours to do whatever it is you need to do.

• Justin Jacobson from Restoration Games says that Unmatched: Redemption Row and Unmatched: Hell's Kitchen will be available at U.S. retail outlets starting on April 20, 2022.

• Clay Ross at Capstone Games had a tableful of stuff that is already on the market or due for release in the near future such as Ark Nova and Clinic: Deluxe Edition, but he also had teasers for two items:

— The next "Iron Rail" title will be set in South Africa.
—Capstone plans to launch a wargame line similar to the "Iron Rail" line in titles are fairly streamlined. The first release in this line will be Fire & Stone: Siege of Vienna from designer Robert DeLeskie, who shared this in February 2022:

A glimpse of things to come...Fire & Stone: Siege of Vienna featuring artwork by the supremely talented @CiotogC. Release planned for later this year! pic.twitter.com/Etzlb1DwnR
— Robert DeLeskie (@rdeleskie) February 16, 2022