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The original version of Yomi was released as a complete boxed set as well as paired character decks, while this new version is showing up as two boxed sets — Yomi: Round 1 and Yomi: Round 2, each containing four character decks and the components needed for play and each already available — and twelve individual character decks, with the decks being released two at a time between March 15 (at PAX East) and July 31 (Gen Con 2015).
• Rules for Brett Gilbert and Matthew Dunstan's Elysium from Space Cowboys are now available in both English (PDF) and French (PDF).
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Our aspiration to omnipotence has led to the enhancement of our capacities so far beyond our species' limits that we created our genetic successors. Inevitably, the evolved reached their first realization as a unified entity: the extinction of humanity as we know it.
Posthuman pits you as one of the last human survivors in a world where nature is reclaiming the planet and our evolved offspring are working to eradicate us. Will you resist mutation and survive, or give in to the inevitable and join the evolved?
In the game, players are humans on a solitary journey to a promised safe house. This journey takes them through ten zones, with the zones being tile-based and randomly generated. As they travel, they encounter each other, other humans, and posthuman mutants. Encounters with mutants may inflict scars, and the more scars players have, the less human they are and the more posthuman they become. Will they strive to cling to their humanity and make a run for the safe house, winning the game? Or will they give in to the ever more tempting mutation, join the posthuman, and deny the win from the rest of the humans?
Posthuman pits you as one of the last human survivors in a world where nature is reclaiming the planet and our evolved offspring are working to eradicate us. Will you resist mutation and survive, or give in to the inevitable and join the evolved?
In the game, players are humans on a solitary journey to a promised safe house. This journey takes them through ten zones, with the zones being tile-based and randomly generated. As they travel, they encounter each other, other humans, and posthuman mutants. Encounters with mutants may inflict scars, and the more scars players have, the less human they are and the more posthuman they become. Will they strive to cling to their humanity and make a run for the safe house, winning the game? Or will they give in to the ever more tempting mutation, join the posthuman, and deny the win from the rest of the humans?
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In addition to that 2015 release, Mr. B Games plans to release an as-yet-unannounced title from Richard Launius (who co-designed Mr. B's 2014 release Alien Uprising) and another as-yet-unannounced title from Brown and Realm of Heroes' Scott DeMers.
Future titles from Mr. B Games include two "big box" titles released in partnership with L4 Studios, one of those being a Glenn Drover solo design titled Warquest and the other being a Drover/Don Beyer design titled Extraordinary Voyages. Finally, Mr. B Games has a partnership agreement with Phoenix Rising Games for Rolling for Amusement, for which they'll launch a Kickstarter project in January 2015.
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The other card game from ABACUSSPIELE is Detlef Wendt's Jumbo & Co, a new version of the SdJ recommended Mausen from 2004. Players try to chase away valuable animals through rounds of RPS-style simultaneous play in which dogs chase cats, which chase mice, which chase elephants, which chase dogs. Players start with the same cards in hand, so you need to be a step ahead of everyone else in determining what to play when.
• I posted an overview of Phil Walker-Harding's Cacao in early January 2015, but now ABACUSSPIELE has posted rules for the game in both English and German if you want to read how to play in detail. As for what the game looks like, the cover is shown at right and a shot of the tiles during gameplay below:
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