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New Game Round-up: Steal Buttons, Assemble Cats, Compile Pages, and Color Pyramids

New Game Round-up: Steal Buttons, Assemble Cats, Compile Pages, and Color Pyramids
Board Game: Fairy Tile
• In addition to the Viking-themed game Raids, which I covered in mid-November 2017, designers Brett J. Gilbert and Matthew Dunstan have a second title coming in 2018 from IELLO: the tile-laying game Fairy Tile, which id due out in February 2018. Focusing on the tile-placement is somewhat secondary to your goal, though, as this description makes clear:

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Welcome to Fairy Tile, a kingdom of magical lands where a daring Princess, a devoted Knight, and a dreadful Dragon roam looking for adventure. They need your help to discover the kingdom! Help them move further and further to fulfill their destiny and tell their story, page after page.

Develop the kingdom of Fairy Tile by putting new land tiles in play and moving the Princess, Knight, and Dragon across different places such as mountains, forests, and plains. Help them have extraordinary adventures by accomplishing objectives written on the pages of your book. As soon as you complete an objective, develop your story and read the page of your book aloud.

Be the first to read all the pages of your book to win the game.
From gallery of Photodump
• Two other titles coming from IELLO in 2018 are Sentai Cats, a 15-minute game for 3-6 players from Antoine Bauza, Corentin Lebrat, Ludovic Maublanc, Nicolas Oury, and Théo Rivière due out March 2018 in which you need to transform your kittens into a team of Sentai Cats to defeat Meka Dog and save the world. Silliness in a small box from the "Tokyo Boys", as they are dubbed on the box.

• The other IELLO title is 8-Bit Box, a 2-6 player game that bears this meager description:

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8-Bit Box is a board game that will remind you the golden age of video games as each player has a gamepad to program their actions, using three wheels: direction, symbol, and value.

The base game contains three different games influenced by classic old-school video games.
Something to look forward to seeing more of at the Spielwarenmesse fair in Nürnberg, Germany in February 2018...

Board Game: War of the Buttons
• War of the Buttons, due out from ADC Blackfire Entertainment in March 2018, is the first published design from Andreas Steding since The Staufer Dynasty in 2014. The game was inspired by the 1912 novel La Guerre des Boutons by Louis Pergaud, in which gangs from rival villages compete with one another to collect as many buttons as possible from the clothing of the opposing gang members. Strip them of their buttons and laces, then send them home to face punishment from their parents!

The game has only a short description for now: "In War of the Buttons, 2-4 players lead a 'gang' of kids who try to build their own hut. To do this, they use both their own dice and "neutral" dice, while hoping for help from their 'big brother' and for no one to tattle on them at school."

• I know that CAPcolor: Les Pyramides d'Émeraude (The Emerald Pyramids) from Charles Chevallier, Laurent Escoffier, and ilinx éditions is a combination coloring book+game of some sort, but beyond that, I know nothing. Perhaps you score points by doing your best Vincent Dutrait impersonation on the interior pages...


Board Game: CAPcolor: Les Pyramides d'Émeraude

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