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Crowdfunding Round-up: Worlds Destroyed, Heroes Engaged, Stories Told & Necks Stretched

Crowdfunding Round-up: Worlds Destroyed, Heroes Engaged, Stories Told & Necks Stretched
Board Game: ZNA
• Let's dash through another Kickstarter minefield of fun with single sentence descriptions of as many projects as I can muster, starting with Funforge's ZNA, a co-op zombie survival game from Florian Desforges with the *NA coming in through bio-hacker labs that let you create special concoctions to defeat the regenerating, mutating and possibly teleporting zombies in this post-apocalyptic world. (KS link)

• Radomir Mirchev's Bright Future also drops you into a post-apocalyptic world — this one triggered by nuclear war, mind you — with players, whether human or mutant, trying to survive in a semi-safe underground environment. (KS link)

• Jonathan Pac Cantin's Hangtown sounds as much fun to visit as Whipville or Noogieburg, but at least in Hangtown you'll have the chance to participate in the California gold rush and scoop up a few nuggets before the noose lands around your neck. (KS link)

Board Game: Pixel Tactics Deluxe
• Designer/publisher D. Brad Talton Jr. of Level 99 Games is not content to offer people only one way to play his designs, so with Pixel Tactics Deluxe he's adding yet another 25 heroes to the Pixel Tactics universe, along with multiple new game modes, a bunch of promo hero cards (some new, some not), and multiple other hero minipaks as its funding level keeps leveling up. (KS link)

• German publisher Spieltrieb is on Spieleschmiede once again with another title in its Little 'n' Nice series, this being a nine-card game titled Upstairs in which players are secret agents who need to reach a roof in order to avoid being blown to bits by a bomb. (Spieleschmiede link)

• Heroes in the fairy world of 12 Realms have a new place to get into trouble with MAGE Company's 12 Realms: Ghost Town, which is in fact a town trapped by dark lords in another realm from which you must find certain items in time in order to rescue it. (KS link) (Spieleschmiede link)

Board Game: Night of Man
• Unlike the post-apocalyptic worlds presented in the first two games listed above, Mark H. Walker's Night of Man from Flying Pig Games posits an Earth destroyed by an alien invasion, with the players trying to arm and armor themselves to prevent the metaphorical "night of man". (KS link)

• Queen Games is continuing to supersize its offerings with the Lancaster: Big Box that collects Matthias Cramer's Lancaster base game as well as the two existing expansions, a new game board and an unneeded apostrophe in the word "gets". (KS link)

• On Korean funding site Tumblbug, Justin Oh and Harrison Kwon are trying to get support for their party game Touch Stone in which players each roll a die, then race to find the appropriate rune stone in their bag and toss it into the pit in the center of the board, with winners being able to set up blocking cards to make things tougher for opponents. (Tumblbug link)

Board Game: Hyle
• German publisher franjos is in the "gathering interest" stage of a Startnext project for a coffee table edition of Eric Solomon's Hyle 7, which is a super-clever two-player game in which Chaos tries to prevent Order from creating color palindromes with wood tokens on a tiny playing field. (Startnext link)

• Story War: Sentinel Conflict takes the Sentinels of the Multiverse universe and challenges players to create stories that involve the heroes, villains, devices, and equipment they assemble in order to defeat those with lesser-storytelling abilities. (KS link)

• FreeSpace Tactics is a space combat miniatures game from video game designer Chris Taylor that's inspired by the FreeSpace digital games, about which I know nothing as I almost never play computer or video games; I'm not into space games or miniature games either, so let's just say this game probably isn't in my wheelhouse. (KS link)

• Eagle-Gryphon Games is powering on in its E•G•G Series of games, with title #3 — King's Kilt from Gordon Hamilton — offering backers the chance to both claim a position as Kng of Scotland and vote on the tartans to be used in the game. (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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