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• Isaac Childres and Cephalofair Games have put together an RPG-in-a-box game with Gloomhaven. As you might expect, the game has a fantasy setting, but the world Childres has built — featuring races like the Inox, Quatryl, Orchid, and Valrath — is anything but typical. Fans of persistence mechanisms will be interested to hear that the game comes with Daviau-style sealed envelopes that players interact with via an ongoing campaign system. Time will tell how this compares to the genre's seminal offerings. (KS link)
• If you want a different flavor of gloom, there is Tristan Hall's Gloom of Kilforth, another epic fantasy adventure game, this one sporting the tried-and-true "[common noun] of [place name]" naming trope. The game has been in development for eight years, and Hall — whose first design 1066, Tears to Many Mothers was nominated for an Origins Award earlier this year — is now ready to bring it before the masses. Kilforth is a veritable gameplay buffet, boasting competitive, cooperative, and solo play modes. (KS link)
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• Eduardo Baraf is a video game developer in his day job, and that influence is evident in his newest game, GemPacked Cards. Not only do the titular gems look like cute emojis, but the game also borrows mechanically from the iOS single-player puzzle game GemPacked. Baraf is setting a blistering pace, with this being his third KS project since August 2014. If he keeps it up, we can expect to see a lot more games for kids and adults alike from Pencil First Games. (KS link)
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• The title of Factory Funner is a bit hard to parse, until you realize that it's from Corné Van Moorsel and publisher Cwali, the team behind 2006's Factory Fun. Like its predecessor, this is a puzzle game of machines, pipes, and reservoirs on a gridded board. The game is also getting a digital port (computers and tablets only) for solo play. Do we dare expect a Factory Funnest sometime down the road? (KS link)
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• The year 2012 saw Break From Reality Games bringing to KS Alex Barbieri's Damage Report, a real-time co-op about managing a starship crew (which, indeed, seems to be a genre all its own these days). After considerable delays, the game was eventually released in mid-2014, and now the team is back with the game's first expansion, Damage Report: On Fire. The expansion includes three new scenarios and allows the game to support up to seven players. Quickly, to the bridge! (KS link)
• September is the month that brings us international Talk Like a Pirate Day, so what better time to run a KS campaign for Privateers! The Golden Decade, a game set in the golden age of piracy? This self-published design by Enrico Manlio Ottolini — with its missions, ship-to-ship combat, and big modular board representing an island archipelago (and what self-respecting pirate game doesn't have a big board?) — is ambitious and sandbox-y in its scope. (KS link)
• Publisher Mayday Games is most well known for their dexterity games, many of which feature unique toy-like components. Their newest addition to that product line is Shane Willis' Garbage Day, which comes packaged in a small plastic garbage can. In the game, players have to balance cards on the rim of the can in an ever-widening pile, hoping not to bring the whole stack tumbling down. The only thing missing, really, is a licensed Sesame Street expansion with everyone's favorite garbage can denizen. (KS link)
Editor's note: Please don't post links to other Kickstarter projects in the comments section. Write to me via the email address in the header, and I'll consider them for inclusion in a future crowdfunding round-up. Thanks! —WEM
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