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German designer/publisher Steffen Mühlhäuser of Steffen-Spiele is attempting to fund a game collection titled FIVE! that will be distributed to people in refugee camps, meeting centers, and other accommodations in cooperation with the BDP Rheinland Pfalz (with the BDP being the German equivalent of Boy Scouts). As he explains in the project description:
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In recent months, thousands of people have fled their home countries and sought protection in Germany. Of course, securing the basic needs comes first, but people in emergency situations need not only basic care; social and cultural activities are as much a part of humanity as food and a roof over your head. The response to game donations that we have carried out in refugee centers has shown us how great the need is for moments of diversion and pleasure. One of the most acute problems with their accommodations is being idle as people spend most of the day there waiting — and hardly anything can shorten waiting times better than a game!
As is suggested by the title, FIVE! contains five games that can be played with the two sets of included tokens, and rules will be included in Arabic, Dari, and Urdu. Mühlhäuser says that games rules will be published later on the Steffen-Spiele website, and proceeds from sales of the collection will be used to fund refugee projects and future distribution of FIVE! I'm in for €50; anyone want to join me? (BetterPlace.org link):strip_icc()/pic2787949.jpg)
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• Shem Phillips of Garphill Games is releasing second editions of two earlier releases: Cibola from 2013 in which two players race to find the seven golden cities, and the animal combat card game Woodlands from 2014. (KS link)
• Luca Macelloni's Il Gioco del Ponte recreates the annual "battle of the bridge" in Pisa between Tramontana and Mezzogiorno. The game was funded in a super snazzy edition on Spieleschmiede in early 2015, and now Italian site Giochistarter plans to run a similar campaign should enough people express interest in the game.
• Wordwright from Defined Mind gives players roots, prefixes, and suffixes, then throws a handful of games at them that uses these bits. (KS link)
• Jon Manker demonstrated his two-player abstract strategy game HIRÞ — which is designed to look, feel and play like a game from the time of Vikings — at Spiel 2015, and he's now funding an "ancient" edition of the game. (KS link) An overview of gameplay:
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In HIRÞ you take the role of a Viking king, or Lofðungr. The back story is that two Lofðungr (Viking leaders) fight for control in an archipelago. The Lofðungr are on the battlefield themselves (of course) along with their closest warriors, called Hirþ, and their boats, called Karve. The land is represented by a board with 11 squares. Each turn you make 5 moves with your pieces. Available moves are: entering the board, entering or exiting a Karve (the boat) and moving between squares on the board. You are the winner of the game if you, at the end of your turn: control the 5 middle squares of the board OR if you have forced the opposing player's Lofðungr off the board.
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