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Indie's second KS campaign consists of two expansions for Don Eskridge's The Resistance: Hostile Intent and Hidden Agenda, with each consisting of three expansion modules for the base game and the special KS edition adding two modules on top of that. (KS link)
• Battle of the Electric Vikings is a Scrabble-ish party game in which players lay out word cards to create ridiculous band names such as "Electric Blood Steel of Agony". (KS link)
• Tom Stasiak's Assault on Doomrock is "a cooperative adventure game set in a comedic fantasy world", and the cover lives up to that short description. (Indiegogo link) Now for a slightly longer description:
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Players start the adventure by generating random heroes from two cards; combinations like sadistic cleric, cowardly warrior, frustrated mage or paranoid rogue are only few possibilities. The unique party of heroes will venture forth into a randomly assembled world map. While searching for gold and powerful items, the party must face three increasingly difficult encounters. These battles play out in a separate, highly tactical battle system that uses character positioning, dice, and ability cards.
The publisher name — Beautiful Disaster Games — sounds like something from McSweeney's or something else that should have been on McSweeney's.:strip_icc()/pic1808352.jpg)
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• Let's follow AquaSphere with the similarly named ChronoSphere from Isaac Shalev and Kind Fortress, a bluffing and historical trivia card game. (KS link)
• Purple Games' sophomore effort is 27th Passenger: A Hunt On Rails in which you and your fellow passengers are assassins on a New York train who are all trying to be the last one alive for the end of the journey. (KS link)
• Daft Games has a fancy wooden version of Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, an updating of the lame original game in which you play nine tic-tac-toe games at once, with each of those games nested within one square of a still larger tic-tac-toe board. Wherever you place your piece with a particular grid determines where the opponent must play on the larger tic-tac-toe grid. (KS link)
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• Unpub, which organizes gaming events around the U.S. for game designs that have yet to be published, is trying to raise funds to hold bigger and more frequent events at a variety of conventions. (KS link)
• The "Quiver Gaming Mat" is Kevin Kerkhof's attempt to provide a nice huge playing surface that is more attractive than whatever thing you're playing on now. (KS link)
• In Vence Chong's The Peides Curse: Earth, players travel to the future to search for secret codes "that will stop Evil from wielding its power and destroying Earth". I've not heard much about the game and neither has anyone else apparently as the game is hiding on a little-used crowdfunding site. (Crowdtivate link)
• Tyler Tinsley's Island Surf is a dexterity game in which you use finger surfboards to ride waves of marbles around islands. (KS link)
• ZERO Hour: Cyberspace is "the first game ever to use 24-sided dice as the playing pieces". Not sure why that bit is highlighted as a selling point of the game, but it is. (KS link)
• Michael Scott's Street Dice: Racing for Pinks is a racing game that includes five dozen dice. Beyond that I'm lost as the BGG game page slaps me in the face with a giant wall of unreadable text. (KS link)
• Mayday Games reached its $15k funding goal for Dead Man's Draw is just over one day. Guess that's what adapting a well-received app will getcha, especially when the game itself comes across like a super-powered Circus Flohcati, that game being excellent in its own right. (KS link) Here's an overview of the game that I shot at a convention in April 2014:
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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