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BGG.CON 2015: Previews of Burgle Bros., The King's Abbey, and Kodama: The Tree Spirits

BGG.CON 2015: Previews of Burgle Bros., The King's Abbey, and Kodama: The Tree Spirits
Board Game: Burgle Bros.
• Designer Tim Fowers is known for the self-published titles Wok Star and Paperback, and his third self-published title — the cooperative heist game Burgle Bros. — was available for playing at BGG.CON 2015. Beth Heile visited the designer to get more details on this three-story creation.





Board Game: The King's Abbey
• Randy Rathert's The King's Abbey from Breaking Games takes players back a thousand years in history to a time when monks were dice, and they determined what to do each day by rolling themselves, then being placed on different game boards in order to bring their higher being resources like wood, grain and stone; clergy in need of training; and peasants to do whatever it was that peasants did back then.





Board Game: Kodama: The Tree Spirits
• I consider designer Daniel Solis a friend as he's been to my house a few times to play games, we've talked about design and publication, and our tastes seem to align, so I was bummed to miss out on his first appearance at BGG.CON, both to see him show off Kodama: The Tree Spirits (coming from Action Phase Games in Q2 2016) and to actually play more games with him. Ah, well, maybe another time...

For those who don't know, Kodama: The Tree Spirits is a reimplementation of Solis' Kigi, a Zen-spirited game about tree growing that he released through DriveThruCards, and the game has evolved to include new branches for players to explore.

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