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• A more traditional "build spaceships and launch them" design on KS right now is Farlight from Nick Sibicky and Game Salute. (KS link)
• You can also build in Castle Dukes from Dominic Michael H. and Medieval Lords as you buy room cards, pillars, tables, and so on, then use those to assemble a three-dimensional castle which will ideally (1) attract guests that start showing up during the game and (2) withstand assaults from a dragon who will also pop up to say hello. If you knock things over while building or otherwise suffer structural damage, you take crumble tokens that reduce your score at game's end. (KS link)
• If you'd prefer to build low instead, Julien Charbonnier's DIG from Mangrove Games is a press-your-luck card game in which you want to dig tunnels in a hill to collect ten gems before anyone else. (KS link)
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• From the title of 878: Vikings – Invasions of England, you might be inspired to take on the role of said invading vikings, seeing as they get top billing, but in this design from Beau Beckett, Dave Kimmel, Jeph Stahl, and Academy Games — which uses mechanisms similar to those in Academy's "Birth of America" game series — you can also try your hand as the English nobles to, as the press copy goes, "defend your Kingdom and Christendom from the pagan hordes". Top billing doesn't always equal respect, mind you. Despite the focus on the English, versions of the game are available in English, French, German, and Spanish. (KS link)
• Nations co-designer Rustan Håkansson is taking you back a bit further in time with Tribes: Early Civilization from Tea Time Productions, with 2-4 players reliving the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze ages for the safety of their dining room table. Even at the dawn of time, though, man knew all about the 4Xs of gameplay, which you'll find in this game. (KS link)
• We can then slingshot back to the present for Richard Gurley's self-published Urban Tribes, with players representing hipsters, soccer moms, and another modern faction that wants to win City Council seats so that it can build the city as it deems best for itself. (KS link)
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• Sebastian Koziner's Mutant Crops, first released in Argentina as Cultivos Mutantes by El Dragón Azul and OK Ediciones, is a worker-placement, resource-management design from Atheris Games in which all the foodstuff has bizarre powers that you'll try to use to make as much money as possible. (KS link)
• The cooperative deck-building game Aeon's End was a big hit for Indie Boards & Cards and Action Phase Games in 2016, and now those publishers and designer Kevin Riley are back on Kickstarter with Aeon's End: War Eternal, a standalone game that also serves as an expansion for the original release. (KS link)
• Grimslingers from Stephen Gibson and Greenbrier Games has the more traditional "just an expansion" expansion in Grimslingers: The Northern Territory, which somewhat nebulously "refines and redefines all aspects of the game, while adding more of what players love", according to the BGG description. (KS link)
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• In Greg Scratchley and Luke Wilkinson's card game 5ive: King's Court from GameStax, you need to play a card that has a certain action on it in order to take that action and you want all five actions in your court in order to win, but other players' actions might keep that from happening. (KS link)
• Thomas Eliot's Murder Most Foul from Sixpence Games is described as an "infinitely replayable murder mystery dinner party game", which is a switch since those are usually one-and-done. (KS link)
• Somme: Life in the Saps is a two-player, quick-playing card game of World War I trench warfare from Aditya Gaggar and reCreatives. (Indiegogo link)
• Mission Selfie London from Jacky Declerck and JP Declerck is an odd duck of a game, with its goal being to help young players learn and use English better while playing a game about traveling around London and seeing things during the journey. (Ulule link)
• Omen Quest from newcomer Relephor is a trick-taking game of some sort, the description of which isn't entirely clear to me. I get something about managing coins and needing to burn havens to draw more cards or manipulate your hand, but it's a fuzzy cloud of rules that I'm unwilling to wade through. (KS link)
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TMG plans to use the proceeds from this raise for marketing to build up the brand of TMG, manufacturing, and new hires. TMG has a number of different games in its pipeline. There are three games currently in development, including the title Trading on the Tigris. There are 15 games currently in artwork production including Downfall, Exodus Fleet, Samara, Orléans: 5th Player, Okey Dokey, Eminent Domain: Oblivion, Harvest, Crusaders, Pioneer Days, and Homesteaders: New Beginnings, among others.
Okay, sure, but what's in it for me as an investor? TMG owner Michael Mindes is answering questions on the project page, but I'm ignorant of most things related to shares and company ownership, so I'll decline to summarize anything here other than to say I don't get it. (MicroVentures 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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