I’m pleased to report after years of waiting and 1 moment of weakness I’m down to 0 games from crowd funding or preorders.
Primal was years late but is fortunately very good. A.I.Pokalypse was my moment of weakness which was last. I backed it before Primal was delivered and it arrived a short time after. So as of September this year I’m out of the ks race and hopefully I will stay that way unless I play games a lot again.
I’m mildly envious of String Railway
Played the old version with the wrong crowd, but it does look fun
I fear it’s not PBF-able…
Talking of which.
Any games about one space race achieving some kind of ascendency over their neighbours we could play?
Just come up with a quick bezier curve markup plug-in for the site and it’ll practically run itself
Displaying a bezier curve that the user could move around was one of my programming projects in college, using OpenGL. Wow, memories…
Pride of Ninja - A Japanese themed card drafting game by Ninja Star Games — Kickstarter
Age of Assassins reprint. Do I still like it since years ago when someone brought it along with paste-ups?? I don’t know. Will give it a shot
I just got a notification suggesting that shipping will be “from 15 December onwards”. I’m not sure where it’ll be coming from, but it probably needed to be leaving at the start of the month to have any realistic hope of arriving in time for the holiday. Oh well. If it somehow manages to show up earlier, it’ll just be a happy surprise :). Here’s hoping it doesn’t get lost in the noise completely!
Seems like the new Tales of the Arabian Nights campaign is in progress:
I don’t think I would have shelled out for the new edition when I have a nice one already, but I see that they’ve gone and included conversion packs for adding the new content to previous editions, so now I do actually have something to ponder.
It’s still a chunk of cash, but certainly less than buying the full game – and with this being a new publisher, I can only say so good on them for doing that – it must have been a fair amount of work to make it happen.
And… just in time for me to not have time to play :/.
Hopefully I’ll get it to the table before long!
Apparently the Hispania campaign also attracted more new Tetrarchia customers than they’d anticipated, so if the FOMO is strong then Last days of Late Pledge, and maybe of Tetrarchia! | Hispania might be of interest. Personally I’d be surprised if another reprint didn’t happen sooner or later, but I don’t really know how these things work, so that’s nothing more than a guess. Also, while I’ve yet to play Hispania myself, @yashima confirmed the similarities and suggested that you probably don’t need both games.
Was not expecting to stumble onto this this morning
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plaidhatgames/ashes-ascendancy
Ashes Ascendancy is the next era of Ashes; a new entry point for the series, and a continuation of Ashes Reborn. Fully compatible with all of Ashes Reborn, Ashes Ascendancy marks the introduction of two new magic types for Phoenixborn to use, the competitive card play you know and love, plus a new type of foe for players to take down in solo/co-op battles.
I might be pledging for more games this year than I expected (~1)
Is Merchants a good Knizia? Not heard of the original
Played twice I believe and it’s pretty good. I think this is the ONLY game ive ever seen that uses Dutch auction (very appropriate to a game called Merchants of Amsterdam). Most auctions are either blind or several variants of English-style auction.
The way the OG MoA does it is that theres a wind-up price-timer. You wind it up and the dial spins through the price zones. Anyone can press the button and pay the price the dial is pointing to. A proper Dutch auction.
Im curious on how Allplay executes this
For the amount of stuff I’ve bought, I really need to find someone to actually play Ashes with. Or actually get round to playing the Red Rains boxes …
It’s really good. Maybe I’m biased because it’s been a fun way to take my Phoenixborn out for a shakedown without actually having an opponent to play against.
That’s what I was hoping for, so good to hear.
Unfortunately, the table I’d play on is currently covered in stacks of books, as I haven’t yet built the bookcase that’s intended to house them.
I thought Twinkle Twinkle looked neat.
That does sound really cool
