New Game Round-up: Meet Roland Wright, Welcome the Carnies, and Explore the World of Pandemic Legacy: Season 2

New Game Round-up: Meet Roland Wright, Welcome the Carnies, and Explore the World of Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
 
• We will know that "roll and write" games — designs in which players roll dice, then write something in response — have made it big when a character emerges from the mists to don the name and claim it as their own, and that day has come with the announcement of a "new line of premium roll and write games" from Chris Handy of Perplext. This line of games is based on Roland Wright, "a fictional game designer who is obsessed with making great roll and write games in his 'old time' workshop", says Handy. "He's like a Willy Wonka meets Reiner Knizia."

The series will launch with 3-4 games in 2018, with the first title being Roland Wright: A Pursuit of the Perfect Dice Game. In the game, players select dice each turn to complete game design modules and earn equipment in order to create the "perfect dice game".

Z-Man Games has finally officially announced Pandemic Legacy: Season 2, a standalone game from Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau that throws you seventy years into the future past the events of Season 1. Here's a summary of the game's setting:

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Humanity has been brought to its knees. A network of the last known cities persists, supplied by the "havens", isolated stations floating in the ocean far from the plague. Three generations of survivors have called the havens home. Most of them have never set foot on the mainland. But now supplies are running low and the people have turned to you to lead. It is up to you to save what remaining cities you can and stop the world from ending for good.
The main twist in the game is that instead of removing disease cubes from the board, you're now delivering supplies to the few cities that you can reach, trying to expand that network of locations over time, but limited in your travel to movement by ships or what you can reach over land as air travel is no longer possible. Check the post for more details, with the game due out in Q4 2017 and available for a sneak peek at Gen Con 2017 in August.

Board Game: Gentes
• Uli Blennemann of Spielworxx has opened preorders for Stefan Risthaus' Gentes, with the game shipping in July 2017. Gentes is a civilization game in which you can't get everything you need as the more that you focus on one type of worker, the fewer you can have of another. Full rules can be downloaded in English and German from the Spielworxx website, or you watch an overview video that BGG recorded at the Spielwarenmesse toy fair in early 2017. As is usual with Spielworxx titles, only one thousand copies are being produced.

• French publisher Bombyx has renamed their SPIEL 2017 release from Bruno Cathala and Florian Sirieix yet again, with the one-time Curiosity and later named Steamers now bearing the name of Imaginarium. We recorded an overview of this game in early 2017, and the gameplay remains the same, as far as I know.)

Here's a shot of prototype copies made for the Paris Est Ludique game fair in mid-June 2017:


Board Game: Imaginarium


Board Game Publisher: Pearl Games
• Belgian publisher Pearl Games has posted a teaser video on Facebook for The Carnies, an expansion for Nicolas Robert's The Bloody Inn that will be released at SPIEL 2017 in October.

In addition to this expansion, at SPIEL 2017 Pearl Games will release Claude Lucchini's Otys (a co-publication with Libellud for which we shot an overview video while at the Cannes game fair in February 2017). In 2018, possibly by the game fair in Cannes at the end of February, Pearl Games will release the space game Black Angel, for which there's an overview video of the prototype in French and this image of the prototype.

Board Game: Black Angel

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