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Here's an overview of the setting and game challenges:
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It's spring 1927, and while Americans dance the Charleston and drink bootlegged liquor, the Mississippi Delta faces a flood of epic proportions. If battered river levees collapse, everything important to you will be washed away.
Rising Waters is a co-operative board game built around area control, set collection, and variable player power mechanisms in which players are members of the African American community who are confronting two powerful and arbitrary forces: nature and the racism of white landowners. Resist by drawing on hidden strengths like your family, church, music, plots of land, and education. Can you manage the rising waters to stay alive?
During the flood, work together to keep your family and neighbors alive by minimizing losses during the flood. Players must also negotiate the arbitrary demands of white landowners. If players keep below the maximum level of losses for a certain number of rounds, they've survived the worst of the flood and win the game!
• Rising Waters will be the second title from this pairing of publishers, with the first being Monumental Consequence, a game for 9-38(!) players from Mary Beth Looney that is currently available as a print-and-play game, with a published version due out in August/September 2022. Here's an overview of the game:Rising Waters is a co-operative board game built around area control, set collection, and variable player power mechanisms in which players are members of the African American community who are confronting two powerful and arbitrary forces: nature and the racism of white landowners. Resist by drawing on hidden strengths like your family, church, music, plots of land, and education. Can you manage the rising waters to stay alive?
During the flood, work together to keep your family and neighbors alive by minimizing losses during the flood. Players must also negotiate the arbitrary demands of white landowners. If players keep below the maximum level of losses for a certain number of rounds, they've survived the worst of the flood and win the game!
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In the role-play-based negotiation game Monumental Consequence, players take the roles of townsfolk of La Ville, whose church has been taken over by an invading army. Do you risk your lives to attack the church to save the art — or bomb it?
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Similar to social deduction games, each player has a designated role, with victory conditions associated with it. Players negotiate and vote to settle on a decision. If the vote is inconclusive, a dice-rolling mechanism is used to complicate the scenario and start a new round. Play continues until one side has enough votes, then a final die roll determines the winner and the consequences of that choice.
• What else will be looking for funds soon on Kickstarter? How about the "slim pin counter" from Japanese producer CoLabo, which will launch on July 20?Similar to social deduction games, each player has a designated role, with victory conditions associated with it. Players negotiate and vote to settle on a decision. If the vote is inconclusive, a dice-rolling mechanism is used to complicate the scenario and start a new round. Play continues until one side has enough votes, then a final die roll determines the winner and the consequences of that choice.
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The idea behind the counter is straightforward: Instead of messing around with lots of game bits, you can instead place one bit in a tray, then track the units as you gain and spend them over the course of play.
• U.S. publisher Catalyst Game Labs is re-launching Leviathans, a game of giant airship combat that debuted in 2012 from designers Randall N. Bills and John Haward, as Leviathans: The Great War.
In the publisher's words, "Leviathans is a tabletop miniatures game that uses an innovative system of color-coded dice and easy-to-read physical record-keeping cards that allow for quick and easy play while retaining the depth of strategy that will encourage repeat play." Leviathans was set in 1910, and for Leviathans: The Great War the timeline has advanced to World War I, with the game including multiple factions and pre-assembled, pre-painted miniatures being available.
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