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Videos from Gen Con 2014: Imperial Settlers, Strife, Evolution, War Stories: Liberty Road & Board Games That Tell Stories

Videos from Gen Con 2014: Imperial Settlers, Strife, Evolution, War Stories: Liberty Road & Board Games That Tell Stories
Board Game: Imperial Settlers
• In case anyone is not yet familiar with Portal Games' Imperial Settlers, designer Ignacy Trzewiczek will be happy to correct that error, forcibly if need be since he knows aikido.





From gallery of W Eric Martin
• Trzewiczek also gave a short pitch for his book Board Games That Tell Stories, which collects essays that he's written for the BGG blog of the same name while including additional essay from many other designers.





Board Game: War Stories: Liberty Road
• As Beth Heile mentions at the start of the video below, War Stories: Liberty Road from Conquistador Games was the first game featured in the BGG booth during Gen Con 2014, and it's now one of the final videos to be posted. Cosmic justice of some sort, I suppose — or me just working my way down from the top of the teetering pile...





Board Game: Evolution
• Designer Dominic Crapuchettes of North Star Games has overhauled the evolution-based gameplay found in Knorre and Machin's Evolution: The Origin of Species and dressed it up in snazzy new clothes, and that revamped Evolution will hit the retail market before the end of 2014





Board Game: Strife: Legacy of the Eternals
• Finally, we have a preview video for Christopher Hamm's Strife from V3G, which will be available in Europe from Cube Factory of Ideas in time for Spiel 2014 in October, while being Kickstarted in the U.S. for release here at some later date. It's a topsy-turvy world!

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