Step Between Greek and Norse Gods in Divinus, and Discover Dueling Masters of the Universe

Step Between Greek and Norse Gods in Divinus, and Discover Dueling Masters of the Universe
• Publisher Lucky Duck Games merged an app with a board game in its 2018 release Chronicles of Crime from designer David Cicurel, and it plans to do something similar — but on an even grander scale – for Filip Miłuński's Divinus, which will be crowdfunded in 2021 for release in 2022. Here's an overview:
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Divinus is a competitive, legacy, tile-laying, digital hybrid game in which you play as a demigod seeking to gain the favor of the Gods and ascend to a new pantheon. Players embark on a twelve-scenario campaign that will see them exploring lands, completing quests, interacting with Gods, and impacting the outcome of the epic clash between Greek and Norse pantheons.

Board Game: Divinus
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At the beginning of each campaign scenario, players open a sealed box of new quests, components, stickers, Gods, gameplay mechanisms, and more. The Divinus app provides a narrative for players and sets the stakes for what is to come. Each turn, players spend dice from their pool to explore new tiles from the world board. Laying tiles into their demigod map, they must place tiles adjacent to one another and with matching features while working towards overall quest and God goals.

Throughout the campaign, players make permanent changes to their demigods by collecting powerful artifacts, forging their dice by altering their faces, and earning titles for the feats they achieve. Players will also permanently change the game world by altering tiles and placing new locations, heroes, and monsters onto the map tiles. When players complete quests or other significant goals, they can make pivotal decisions through the app.

Players will decide the outcome of dilemmas such as choosing which side is victorious in battle, building or destroying a holy site, and choosing whether a God lives or dies. Whichever outcome the player chooses, the game components may be changed and the app will remember and present contextual options in the future that are impacted by the decision. Returning to a fort that you helped the Norse Gods build could see you praised, while demigods favored by the Greek pantheon could be shunned.

The Divinus campaign is ideally played over several game sessions due to the persistent and changing world. The rulebook grows with each scenario as new rules and content are unlocked. Once the campaign is complete, players can replay their unique copy of Divinus with a post-campaign Infinite Replayability mode.
• Speaking of Cicurel and board games combined with apps, in Q4 2021 Lucky Duck Games will release his game Kids' Chronicles: Quest for the Moon Stones, which is for 1-4 players aged 7 and up, with this title serving as the first in the publisher's line of children's games.

Here's how it works:
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Kids' Chronicles: Quest for the Moon Stones is a family, co-operative game of adventure and mystery investigation, mixing a board game and app.

 

As magicians' apprentices, players dive into the fairy tale lands of the Kingdom of Summer and the Winter Empire. Accompanied by the faithful familiar, Nills The Moon Cat, they embark on a quest to find four magical Moon Stones. To achieve their goal, young magicians have to solve numerous mysteries and help inhabitants of both Kingdoms overcome their problems.

Using the Scan&Play technology, each component — locations, characters, items, etc. — has a unique QR code, which depending on the scenario selected will activate and trigger different clues and stories. Experiencing the 3D scenes requires only a mobile phone or a tablet. Players simply hold their mobile device in front of their eyes to immerse themselves in the game's universe and search for clues in a virtual world.

The game comes with one tutorial and five unique stories. Each game session lasts around 30 to 45 minutes.
• In June 2020, CMON Limited announced that it planned to Kickstart Masters of the Universe: The Board Game in 2021 for release in North America, South America, and Asia.

Turns out that a second game based on the same IP will be crowdfunded at roughly the same time, with Archon Studio planning to bring Jakub S. Olekszyk and Dave Ketch's Masters of The Universe: Fields of Eternia – The Board Game to market via Gamefound (preview link), with this title being available only in the UK and Europe.

Board Game: Masters of The Universe: Fields of Eternia The Board Game
Promotional image on Gamefound

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