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Videos from Spiel 2014 IX: Onward to Venus, 7 Kingdoms, Food Chain, DoReMi & Magic Cat

Videos from Spiel 2014 IX: Onward to Venus, 7 Kingdoms, Food Chain, DoReMi & Magic Cat
Board Game: Onward to Venus
• Time for another handful of game demonstration videos from Spiel 2014, starting with one of the big guns of the indie scene: Martin Wallace and his Onward to Venus from his own Treefrog Games. Few designers have enough support from fans to sell subscriptions to their next titles with next-to-no information released about those designs, and for those who are curious to see what one of those mystery titles might be like, here's a look:





Board Game: 7 Kingdoms
• Korean designer Gary Kim had several new games on hand at Spiel 2014, including Chosŏn, Abraca... what? (for which we recorded a video outside the BGG booth), Souk (which Bombyx had only in French and which wasn't exactly new), and 7 Kingdoms from Deinko Games. I liked the sound of this one from the description, but alas by the time I reached the Deinko booth in the latter days of the fair, they'd sold everything but their demo copies. Maybe next year...





Board Game: Food Chain
• Food Chain? Wasn't a title with the same name released a couple of years ago? Yes, one was, but the food chain is a huge concept that can be tackled in any number of ways, and I'm somewhat surprised that we haven't seen more such games highlight the interaction and relationships between predator and prey. The topic seems like a natural, and such a design could be "accidentally" educational in how it presents material to players. In any case, here's an overview of Dong-Hwa Kim's design released by Deinko Games:





Board Game: DoReMi
• Every time I see the cover of DoReMi from Deinko Games, I think, "Really? A music-themed game by Evan Song? What are the odds?!" Perhaps "Evan Song" is merely a pseudonym, though, a name chosen for this one game and something to be replaced in 2015 when he releases the sophomore design It's the Pits from Evan Peaches.





Board Game: Magic Cat
• I still have a hard time picturing how Nutgoo.Lee's Magic Cat from Deinko Games is even supposed to work, but a comment on the BGG News post from August 2014 in which I announced this game described it as a variation on a popular drinking game, and that explanation makes much more sense and kind of puts everything in context.

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