• Designer Steven Aramini has started his own publishing company with Write Stuff Games, and his first title — the 1-4 player game Fliptown — is looking for funding on Kickstarter through May 20, 2022.
Here's an overview of the gameplay:
Each turn, flip over three cards, assigning one card to represent your suit, one card to represent your value, and one card to represent your poker card. The suit dictates which of four regions you activate, the value dictates which site within that region you get to circle, and the poker card goes toward a five-card poker hand that is resolved at the end of each round. Each of the four regions — Trail, Badlands, Mine, and Town — offers a different puzzle to master, while each site within a region provides a unique reward such as cash, gold, helpful items like guns, horses and tools, or bonus actions to create powerful combinations.
For solo play, you can play to achieve a high score or compete against one of four "cowbot" robot opponents, each with its own motivation.
For multiplayer play, players use "community cards" in the center of play, with players resolving each turn simultaneously. Additionally, bounty cards add competitive goals that players are racing to achieve.
In addition to the standard game, you can play as one of 14 wild west characters. Each character has a unique set of starting resources and a unique special ability.
Each round, players pledge to commit time to the task, and the player who commits more time has their choice of which park areas to capture butterflies from, and it usually means you can capture more — but the amount of time you spend one day may limit your time on another, so you must carefully choose when to spend the most time.
• UAE publisher Cation Arts has licensed the use of Andre the Giant, Macho Man Randy Savage, and other professional wrestlers for the 1-4 player card-and-dice game All Time Wrestling from Mohamed Al Qadi and Jad Yammine, which is being funded on Kickstarter through May 26, 2022. Here's an overview of the setting:
Now, his beast, the world's only time machine, brings forward the very best — champions of past, present and future generations. legends who seek to cement their legacy as the best of all time. This is where legends collide. This is where your destiny awaits.
In All Time Wrestling, you choose your champion from the legends of past, present and future, each with their own deck of attacks, abilities, signature moves, and finishers! Play your cards to unleash devastating combos, powerbombs and piledrivers, aerial stunts and deadly submissions...but will the dice be in your favor?
Gameplay is straightforward in Broken and Beautiful. Each round, lay out a number of cards face up equal to twice the number of players, plus one. (The top card of the deck is also face up, and that matters at the end of the round.) In clockwise order from the active player, everyone drafts a card, either keeping it or selling it for the gold shown on the card, then in counterclockwise order everyone drafts a second card, again keeping or selling it.
One card remains on the table, and all unbroken pottery of the type shown on both this card and the card on top of the deck breaks. Players can use gold to repair broken pottery, and you are rewarded for the unique beauty of repaired pieces as they are more valuable than "regular" unbroken pottery that's just like every other piece of the same type. (Broken pottery is worthless, so either you don't want it to break in the first place, or you want to have enough money to fix what does break.
• Finally, we come to Dreamers, a two-player game from Ÿøssef Fårhi of Alone Editions. (Kickstarter link)
In each of the games five rounds, each player receives a secret identity card, and if they both happen to be dreamers, then they want to open three gates to exit the dream world and win the round. If one of them happens to be the Master of Nightmares, that player must prevent the other player from leaving the dream world while not being exposed in the process; if the dreamer either leaves or exposes the M. of N., then they win.