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Crowdfunding Round-up: Falling Angels Meet Rising Hopes

Crowdfunding Round-up: Falling Angels Meet Rising Hopes
Board Game: Fallen Angel
• Sometimes I choose the game to be listed first in these c.f. round-ups by what I think will most interest readers; at other times, I'm simply searching for a game with a flat cover image that will look decent in this space. Whatever the reason, here's Fallen Angel from Terry Cheung and Asteria Games, a worker placement game of sorts in which you place dice in areas to do stuff — possibly modifying them via cards beforehand — with multiple dice being allowed into an area as long as you follow the placement rule and an end of round bonus going to those who have the largest sums in particular regions. Hmm, not much of a story going on when presented that way, but there we are. (KS link)

• Many people are trying to push out games on Kickstarter based on the current Clinton v. Trump U.S. presidential election, but most of them are painful to behold, so we'll instead turn the clock back a century to look at Patrick Steven's Bull Moose from his Numbskull Games, a 3-5 player game that revisits the fractured U.S. election of 1912. (KS link)

• Simone Cerruti Sola's Kepler-3042 from Post Scriptum flings you into a future in which you're exploring planets in the Milky Way via a finite store of energy, matter and antimatter. Don't use it all in one place! (KS link)

• Speaking of matter, Stéphane Vachon's Planetarium from Game Salute allows you to smash matter into your planet (or your planet into matter), then you can use that matter to play cards that evolve your planet to exert dominance over the solar system. (KS link)

From gallery of MorningPlayers
• In its second go on KS, HOPE from Olivier Grégoire and Morning Players jumps us ahead two thousand more years into the future, a time when we members of Human Organization to Preserve Existence (HOPE) need to terraform planets via tile-laying to preserve our very existence — which is why we put that phrase into our organization's name in the first place. (KS link)

• Hero Realms, a fantasy-based take on Darwin Kastle and Rob Dougherty's Star Realms from White Wizard Games, has blown up to $175k in support in less than a day — which shouldn't be surprising given (1) the love that Star Realms gets from fans and (2) the more expansive (and expensive) support options that feature character packs, boss packs, and more. (KS link)

• With Clash d'Ardèche, Dutch designer Jan Willem van Dijk of Gaudete Games brings English-speaking players a fight for the best camping grounds in the French countryside. (KS link)

• Honeycombs from 4 Sisters Games gives players multiple games that are played with the same set of 55 hexagonal tiles, with each tile having a different arrangement of the same six symbols. (KS link)

• The Robots Are Coming Today?, a project from first-timer Sarah Rogers, posits a future in which you need to find new sources of income to replace your current earnings since the robots are eager to take charge of your position. (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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