If you like Pandemic even a little, this game is going to appeal to you. If you don't like Pandemic, the Legacy elements of this game may change your mind. Very excited for this one.
• Fraasch also mentions that he played a reboot of Tom Lehmann's To Court the King, a design in progress with no final name with Bézier Games being the company behind this project. Gameplay sounds similar to the original — roll dice to get combinations to claim characters that provide either more dice or special powers — with players once again needing to roll a huge set of dice in the end to claim the big prize.
• Two other prototypes that Fraasch tried out are Temple of Feng Shui, a building game of "vertical area control" from Bézier and Overflow, a Bejewled-inspired set creation game with special actions and player elimination from new designer Phong Tram and his Thumbtack Games.
• On Opinionated Gamers, Larry Levy describes a number of forthcoming games, including Scott Almes' Loop Inc. (which I previewed on BGGN in mid-April 2014) and Martin Wallace's Mythotopia, coming in 2014 from his Treefrog Games.
• I already linked to this on BGG's Twitter account — feel free to follow if you want to catch links about game design, prototypes, and other odds and ends — but here's a shot of Antoine Bauza's 7 Wonders Duel, a two-player version of his 7 Wonders game in which players apparently draft cards from a central pyramid in order to build their wonder and move toward victory on a Twilight Struggle-ish VP seesaw. (link)