New Games at GAMA Trade Show 2016: Wasteland Express Delivery Service, Guilds of London, Crazy Karts, Tentacles of Time, Imperial Settlers: 3 Is a Magic Number

New Games at GAMA Trade Show 2016: Wasteland Express Delivery Service, Guilds of London, Crazy Karts, Tentacles of Time, Imperial Settlers: 3 Is a Magic Number
Board Game: Crazy Karts
• BoardGameGeek is at the 2016 GAMA Trade Show and ready to broadcast (at least) seven hours of game demonstrations on Wednesday, March 16, starting at 10:00 PDT (GMT-7). I say "at least" because we couldn't fit every publisher into our two-day broadcast schedule, so we're going to try to squeeze more publishers onto the air once we finish our planned schedule at 5:00 p.m. (You can see the current schedule here; the livestream is featured in a module on the BGG front page.)

Wednesday is scheduled to lead off with a game announcement from Portal Games, but Portal has already spilled word on Charles-Amir Perret's Crazy Karts in advance, offering this description:

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Crazy Karts is a team-based, fast-paced racing game for 3-8 players, who compete in teams of two in which each player controls specific actions of their kart, but they cannot communicate with their teammate!

In more detail, one player controls the brakes and turns, while the other player speeds up and fires the cannon. Teams must outmaneuver their opponents, dodge obstacles, grab power-ups, and avoid smashing into the walls, all planning their actions in secret without talking! Need to turn left? Better hope your partner didn't accelerate! Race to the finish line in this wacky game of mayhem and shenanigans. Do you have what it takes to be a champion kart racer?

As with many other titles from Portal Games, Crazy Karts includes four unique factions for the teams, each with their unique power. If you are play with an odd number of players, a Lone Wolf faction allows a single player to compete with a unique set of skills and disadvantages.
Crazy Karts is scheduled to debut at the 2016 Origins Game Fair in June, with the title reaching U.S. shelves on June 15, 2016.

Board Game Publisher: Portal Games
• Portal Games also notes that it has expansions in the works for Neuroshima Hex!, Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot, and Imperial Settlers, with this latter title being revealed as Imperial Settlers: 3 Is a Magic Number. A short description:

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Imperial Settlers: 3 Is a Magic Number, the second Empire Pack for Imperial Settlers, introduces a new rule: SET. This new ability allows players to score and trigger new effects each time they build three cards in a particular color. With this rule, the drafting phase and the choice of the "right" card to draft becomes even more interesting.

This expansion includes new cards for the common deck as well as new cards for each of the five factions and two cards for use in the solitaire game.
• Finally (for now) from Portal Games comes Tentacles of Time, a two-player card game co-designed by Michał Walczak that's a sequel to Kristian Čurla's Tides of Time. A summary of what's new: "Tentacles of Time adds a new twist to Tides of Time: Madness. Some cards, while powerful, will harm your psyche, so you must keep an eye on your Madness or risk losing the game early as your mind is lost to the power of the ancients."


Board Game: Wasteland Express Delivery Service


IDW Games and Pandasaurus Games has announced a giant release from Jonathan Gilmour, Ben Pinchback, and Matt Riddle titled Wasteland Express Delivery Service, which merges a Fury Road aesthetic with a long interactive story. Here's the overview:

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In Wasteland Express Delivery Service, you take on the role of drivers inhabiting a post-apocalyptic wasteland riddled with outrageous, unhinged, and otherworldly characters set on unleashing mayhem at every turn.

To survive in this deranged universe, drivers must deliver food, water and guns between the handful of settlements pockmarked through the Wasteland. You must battle through insane raiders who occupy the void between cities, taking on missions from the three factions that have divided up the last of civilization to gain favor with them: the fascist New Republic Army which is hellbent on bringing the world to heel for its own good; the heretical Oracles of Ceres who have turned their attention to the worship of the land; and the technologically obsessed Archivists who cling to the old ways and the hope of restoring our lost civilization.

But what do you care? You're here to get paid and live another day free. Outfit your truck, hire some insane riders to help fend off raiders, add some storage, and just keep truckin'.

Wasteland Express Delivery Service includes an emergent narrative story that takes place interactively over the course of ten games. Each scenario begins with a beautifully illustrated comic book introduction that sets up the storyline and the constantly escalating stakes and challenges in front of players. Alternatively, players can dive in with a randomly generated scenario that will play out over the course of a single story-driven game session for infinite replay possibilities.
Comic artist Riccardo Burchielli has created more than one hundred illustrations for the game, with no two cards sharing artwork, according to Nathan McNair of Pandasaurus. Josh Cappel is responsible for the graphic design of the game, while Justin Blintz is creating the miniatures of each character’s delivery vehicle of choice.


Board Game: Wasteland Express Delivery Service
Some of the player characters

Board Game: Wasteland Express Delivery Service
Bandits you might meet

Board Game: Wasteland Express Delivery Service
Sketch of Zero's vehicle and...

Board Game: Wasteland Express Delivery Service
...models of that sketch


 
Board Game Publisher: Tasty Minstrel Games
• A co-publisher pull-out at the last minute scuttled plans by Tony Boydell and Surprised Stare Games to release Guilds of London at Spiel 2015, but now the game is scheduled to debut at UK Games Expo in June 2016, and Tasty Minstrel Games will be the new SSG partner for the game's release. I don't know more than that, but TMG will be on camera in the BGG booth on Wednesday (along with many other publishers), so perhaps we'll find out more then.

From gallery of W Eric Martin
Prototype copy at GTS 2016

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