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I guess that I should keep looking at these projects then, so let's start with Pencil First Games' Herbaceous, a set-collection card game from Eduardo Baraf and Steve Finn, with solitaire rules from Keith Matejka. By chance my family and I visited the North Carolina Botanical Garden at UNC at Chapel Hill this weekend, and we spent a fair amount of time checking out the herbs on display. The delectable art by Beth Sobel captures these herbs beautifully in print; all that's missing are the bottle trees that demonstrate the various ways in which leaves meet on a stem. Perhaps as a stretch goal... (KS link)
• Another game from the garden is Malte Kühle's Carrotia from MAGE Company, with the players hopping through a maze to collect carrots while avoiding predators. (KS link)
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• Even tinier fields of green await in Scott Almes' Island Hopper from Eagle-Gryphon Games, with players either taking bribes in the Captain role that flies the plane or giving bribes to influence where the plane goes in the hope of making deliveries to a dozen islands. (KS link)
• If that's not too many islands to consider, you can find many more in Tiki Island from Matt Hyzer, Christian Miedel, and Great Wight Games. The main island's volcano is exploding (of course), and you need to skedaddle to safety by hopping from one island to another across the ocean. You just need to find those islands first... (KS link)
• Natural disasters of another sort are at play in Sharknado: The Board Game!, a cooperative scenario-based game Eric Cesare, Anthony Rando, and Devious Devices in which players must face the (unnaturally) combined forces of sharks and tornadoes. The Kickstarter is only half funded as it nears completion, but if we've learned anything about sharknadoes over the past few years, we know that they always return — sometimes more than once. (KS link)
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• By contrast, Jeff Beck's Word Domination has you use the power of letters and spelling to construct artifacts, claim areas, and not clash in any type of combat whatsoever. (KS link)
• "Nectar" is a normal word that you might spell in Word Domination, but the word's been upsized for Xīn Mào's NECTAR due to the importance of that substance in the world as a resurrection potion. Maybe you're simply screaming "NECTAR!" so loudly at the person that they arise from the dead? Anyway, in the game you attempt to put together various sets of ingredients so that you can yell a lot on your way to victory. (KS link)
• If you need to nosh on something more substantial than nectar, Li, Liu, Mao and Sizigi Studios want you to consider cake, specifically Cake Duel, a two-player bluffing-based card game in which you use sheep to steal cakes from one another. Two advanced sheep are shuffled among the other cards each game to provide for surprise plays and help you practice shuffling sheep, should you ever need to call upon this skill in the future. (KS link)
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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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