Complete a Wolfwalkers Story, and Group Animals in a Savannah Park

Complete a Wolfwalkers Story, and Group Animals in a Savannah Park
Wolfwalkers is a 2020 film from directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart that comprises the final film in Moore's "Irish Folklore Trilogy" following The Secret of Kells in 2009 and Song of the Sea in 2014. Here's an overview of the film, which was nominated for an Academy Award, from Wikipedia:
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Wolfwalkers follows the story of Robyn Goodfellowe, a young apprentice hunter who arrives in Ireland with her father during a time of superstition and magic to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to have the ability to turn into wolves by night. As they search for Mebh's missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the Wolfwalkers and risks turning into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.
In November 2020, Slovenian publisher Value Add Games released WolfWalkers: The Board Game, a co-operative game for 2-4 players, ages 6+, in which you're trying to collect three parts of the wolf soul in a single color, then return it to the lair before soldiers who start on the opposite side of the board reach that same location.

Board Game: WolfWalkers: The Board Game

In June 2021, Value Add Games will release a second title based on this film, a two-player card game by designer Maja Milavec called WolfWalkers: My Story. Here's an overview of how to play:
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In the game, two players compete to craft a story by using cards from a shared deck, with those cards bearing illustrations from the Wolfwalkers movie.

Board Game: WolfWalkers: My Story

Each turn, you take one of the six available double-sided cards and place it in your grid, taking either one of the two "objective" cards that indicate how you can score points or one of the four "story" cards that will help you fulfill these objectives. Objectives come in three types: shapes that reward a specific arrangement of cards, arrows that reward the placement of certain icons in the same row or column as the objective, and balances that reward the same number of certain icons anywhere in your 5x5 grid. Each card you place after the first must be adjacent to another card. After both players have completed their grid, the game ends and the player with the most points wins.

The game includes an expansion that provides more options for players and more interaction, with "permanent" cards that change gameplay in general and "opportunity" cards that allow you a special once-per-game ability. For a small change in gameplay, add one permanent card of your choice; for more advanced play, add one permanent and three opportunity cards at random. With 15 permanent cards and 25 opportunities cards, no two games will be alike.

Board Game: WolfWalkers: My Story

With a second copy of WolfWalkers: My Story, you can play the game with up to four players.
Board Game: Savannah Park
• German publisher Deep Print Games has announced its next release, with Savannah Park due out in August 2021 from Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling, designers of Deep Print's debut title Renature in 2020.

Here's an overview of how to play this tile-moving game:
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In Savannah Park, you each run your own wildlife park, and your goal is to group animals with their own kind — but everyone takes turns deciding what to move, so you might not be able to shuffle animals into the right spaces.

Each player starts the game with the same set of 33 unique animal tiles, with those tiles laid out at random in your personal wildlife park. Three bush-fire spaces and one rock space will remain unoccupied in your park for the entire game, and six tree spaces and four grass spaces are unoccupied at the start of play.

Board Game: Savannah Park

On a turn, you name a specific face-up tile that all players must pick up, flip face down, then move to a different empty space within their own park. Tiles that have been flipped cannot move again, and once all tiles have moved, the game ends with a scoring round. First, tiles adjacent to bush fires are removed if they depict as many animals as the number of fires (1, 2, or 3) on the bush-fire space. Score for each grass and tree uncovered on your board. Finally, score for each of the six animal species; the bigger the main herd of each of species and the more water holes it contains, the more points you score, e.g. a herd of five rhinos and three watering holes is worth (5x3) 15 points. The player with the most points wins.

Savannah Park includes a solo mode, a set-up variant that allows you to place the bush fires and trees where you wish, and a scoring variant that rewards you for bumping a lion out of the animals' way.
U.S. publisher Capstone Games will release Savannah Park in September 2021, with the game debuting in the U.S. at Gen Con 2021. UK publisher Bright Eye Games will release the game in English in that country.

Board Game: Riftforce
• Capstone Games has also announced that it will release Carlo Bortolini's Riftforce — which debuted in April 2021 from Austrian publisher 1 More Time Games and which landed on the 2021 Kennerspiel des Jahres recommended list — in October 2021.

Riftforce is a two-player dueling game in which players take turns drafting four of the ten asymmetrical guilds, after which they will compete to gain riftforce, attacking one another, sacrificing elementals to create combos, and prepping for the future.

Originating publisher 1 More Time Games plans to release an expansion for the game — Riftforce Beyond — in late 2021, with this item containing rules for games with one, three, and four players, along with cards for eight new guilds.

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