Crowdfunding Round-up: BattleBots, Cowboys and Aliens, Guzunganators, 21st Century Idolatry & Today's Obligatory Zombies

Speculation is a game by Dirk Henn for 3 to 6 players. Players try to enlarge their fortune in an ever fluctuating market by trading shares at the opportune time to get the biggest possible profit. The player who was skilled and lucky enough to have the most money at the end of the game wins.

Weather Wars: Battle for the Guzunganator is an original card game for 2-4 people, ages 8 and up, and takes about 20 minutes to play. It's designed to be family-friendly, but with enough strategy for adults to enjoy repeated plays. Each player is trying to recruit 100 power worth of animals to their side to take control of the Guzunganator, a machine that can control the weather. Each turn, players play an animal card to recruit one wacky animal to their side. Stronger animals are better, but finding the right combination is key to capturing the Guzunganator. But watch out! If a player plays a Season Change, all your careful planning could be undone in an instant.

It's the 1800s and aliens have landed in the Wild West, interrupting settlers on their way to Oregon. The aliens want genuine human artifacts and willingly trade dangerous technology for common household goods. A curious tribe of Native Americans have camped near the town and joined in the trading as aliens and humans begin tinkering with each other's gadgets, creating amusing contraptions and spectacular failures.

Area 1851 is an exciting new tabletop game in which players roll dice, tinker with your gadget cards, and deal with random events while trying to prove that they are the best tinkerer in town.

Protect or Infect is a turn-based strategy board game set in the early stages of a zombie outbreak. This game takes place several weeks into the infection at a point when the zombies seem to have the upper hand – not only in numbers but also in mutated ability. Four humans surviving together have taken refuge in a countryside manor. On the run, down to just knives and pistols, and being stalked by countless zombies that are leading a monster directly to them, the survivors hold themselves up and wait for rescue within the halls of the zombie manor.

The game pits a team of four survivors against a team of zombies; each team consists of at least one player per side with up to four players on each team. The game takes place on a grid-based game board detailing the basement, first floor, second floor, and grounds of an abandoned manor.

In a world where computers have never been invented and coal is the most precious resource, a group of brave pilots board their armored steambots, take their place in the pilot seats of these thirty-feet-tall, steam-powered fighting machines, and drive them into fierce arena battles.

This is C.O.A.L.: Combat-Oriented Armored League, a two- to four-player card game with a steampunk setting. C.O.A.L. uses an original game mechanism that combines resource management, bluffing, and memory to simulate the heat of a real battle. The game includes four steambot models – each with its own features, attacks, and defensive maneuvers – and eight different pilots, which have special piloting abilities of their own.

C.O.A.L.: Combat-Oriented Armored League includes customized rules for two-player games, for battles with three or four players, and for two-vs-two partnership games. Deck-building rules are included for advanced players who want to combine parts to build different steambot models. Duels are quick, typically ending in about ten minutes.

Existing audience and people that trust me. An attractive game with a $15 price point. Awesome backers.