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• Travis Hancock's card game Salem has no relation to Joshua Gerald Balvin's crowdfunded-in-2012-but-still-not-released card game Salem — other than the setting, of course, and the nature of witches being hidden among the players in the game — but man, you probably want to avoid such coincidences when you're running a c.f. campaign. (KS link)
• Earth Encounters from Taylor Walker and Lawrence Walker bills itself as an anti-trivia game because the questions you need to answer are about meaningful topics, not trivial ones — but you're still answering questions to advance, so...trivia? (KS link)
• Despite what you think when you first hear the name, Matthew O'Malley's Knot Dice are indeed dice, with these homophonically-challenged Celtic-inspired dice can be used in multiple games. (KS link)
• Andrew Rouse's Dexikon from Eagle-Gryphon Games is a deck-building word-spelling game that's accompanied by a detailed four-part designer diary blog on BGG that includes an overview of how Dexikon is not like Paperback. (KS link)
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• After building a kingdom, perhaps you'd like to take one down in TJ Dunbar's Castle Assault, a tower defense card game with a cover that perpetuates the notion that the finest fighting gear for ladies keeps the midriff exposed to ensure that nothing inhibits their ability to swing a sword. (KS link)
• Arcasam: Beat the Dragon from Lukas Litvaj is the first KS project I've seen from Slovakia, which probably means just as much to you as that one from Denmark that I mentioned last time, but there it is. Slovakia representin'! In the game, you're trying to collect stuff and beat the dragon, as advertised. (KS link)
• You'll find friendlier critters to play with in Push a Monster from Wolfgang Dirscherl, Manfred Reindl and Queen Games, a game in which players try to ease monsters onto a platform without knocking anything off while making it likely that others will push off something on their turn. Michael Schacht's memory game Chef Alfredo is part of the same KS campaign. (KS link) (Disclosure: Queen Games hired me to edit the rules for these two games. —WEM)
• Paws: Devious Dogs versus Crafty Cats from Steven Fields and 2GeeksGaming is an old school card-shedding game. (KS link)
• Yet another animal-based game thing on KS is Pixel Glory: Pets, a Kickstarter-only expansion for Frank Alberts and Russell Ng's dungeon-crawling card game Pixel Glory. (KS link)
• A more souped-up animal battle can be found in Wizards of the Wild from Dan Schnake, Adam West and CrossCut Games, with players as animal wizards who use custom dice to acquire and cast spells. (KS link)
• Kory Jordan's Touchy Feely from Eleventy Games is a party game that you play in the dark — but it's not that type of party game so getcher mind outta the gutter. People receive cards with tasks on them, the lights go out, they try to do the tasks, then lights on for scoring. (KS link)
• Neon Sanctum from Grenade Punch Games is a card-based RPG that a user described to me as "a cross-over between role-playing and card game because almost all the player actions are in some way tied to the cards they have in their deck". Continues this user: "I think the mechanism is really creative and novel and the game deserves more attention than it's currently getting, in particular from board gamers who would not play pure pen-and-paper RPGs, but who enjoy story-driven thematic games." The game is listed on RPG Geek, but it does seem appropriate enough to include here. (KS link)
• Deadzone: Infestation is the latest iteration? expansion? spin-off? of the Deadzone miniatures title from Mantic Games, but looking over the project I'm not even sure what Deadzone: Infestation is. Just a mission pack? What are all these figures? Are they separate expansions? Pick and choose add-on items? I'll confess that the BGG database is sorely challenged by such games and could use a bit of RPG Geekness in terms of how it handles such game systems. (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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