Game Previews from FIJ 2020 I: The 7th Citadel, Robespierre, Magnum Opus, and It's a Wonderful World: Ascension

Game Previews from FIJ 2020 I: The 7th Citadel, Robespierre, Magnum Opus, and It's a Wonderful World: Ascension
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Today, March 10, BGG will start a livestream from GAMA Expo 2020, and you can see the current line-up of who's presenting what here, but before we get started with that, let's highlight a few of the games that were featured in our most recent livestream, that being our livestream from the Festival International des Jeux (FIJ), which took place in Cannes, France on February 20-23, 2020.

For even more from FIJ 2020 — and for all the game overview videos that we record at conventions around the world — head to our BGG Express YouTube channel. I've published more than 25 videos from FIJ 2020 so far, and we now have another seventy-ish videos in the queue ready to go, albeit with some of those games not even being listed in the BGG database. Regardless, I'll publish them all by March 17 one way or another since the edited GAMA Expo 2020 videos will be following before long...



• The most anticipated game on our FIJ 2020 schedule was undoubtedly The 7th Citadel from Ludovic Roudy, Bruno Sautter, and publisher Serious Poulp, with Sautter giving a high-level view of the game and an overview of how it compares to The 7th Continent, their previous release.





• Publisher La Boîte de Jeu has had a hit in Frédéric Guérard's It's a Wonderful World, and in February 2020 it ran a Kickstarter campaign (KS link) to fund a reprint of the game and a new expansion, Ascension, that will be released in Q4 2020. Here's an overview of that new material:





Bragelonne Games is a relatively new game publisher from not-at-all-new book publisher Bragelonne, and we saw multiple new and upcoming games from the company at FIJ 2020, including Lionel Borg's Magnum Opus: The Great Work, with Borg presenting the game himself:





• Another Bragelonne Games release, this coming out in June 2020, is Olivier Caïra's Butine!, which is another entry in the recent trend of bee-themed games:





• Firmino Martínez's design Robespierre: The Game of the French Revolution has been in the BGG database since 2013, and it finally seems to be nearing publication via Spanish publisher 2Tomatoes:

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