Fantasy Flight Games has received licensing rights to publish Star Wars card, role-playing, and miniature games worldwide. Already they’ve announced two Star Wars products for release early 2012.
The first game will be a ship-to-ship combat game called X-Wing that puts players in the roles of X-Wings and TIE fighters locked in space combat.
The second game will be Star Wars: The Card Game. It’ll be a co-op Living Card Game for 1 – 4 players where players take control of various Star Wars heroes. The game will also support solo play.
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01 Aug
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Card Games, CCGs, Miniatures, Modern Board Games, Other, RPGs
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New:
Project | Description | Required | Raised | Days Remaining |
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Dominion Realms
Angel Lassalle |
Educational CCG | $5000 | $20 | 56 |
Can’t We All Just Get Along Dice
John Lutheran |
Dice with religious symbols for faces | $1000 | $60 | 56 |
Dinosaurs…in SPAAACE! | 1950s RPG with dinosaurs and rockets | $7000 | $1153 | 55 |
Fealty | Light, card-driven area control board game | $10000 | $1815 | 26 |
Scotlings Team Miniatures | Pudgy Scottish miniatures | $2500 | $2934 | 40 |
Game designs (relist) | Chess pieces made from piece’s names; to be 3d printed | $5000 | $326 | 21 |
Of Dice and Men
Danielle Hitchcock |
Stage play about D&D players | $1200 | $496 | 28 |
Ocho | Melding card game | $1200 | $654 | 28 |
Oh My God! There’s an Axe in My Head | Humorous strategy and diplomacy board game | $16000 | $1010 | 41 |
Glory to Rome | Reworking of popular resource management card game | $21000 | $1915 | 20 |
25 Jul
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Card Games, CCGs, Miniatures, Modern Board Games, RPGs
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New:
Project | Description | Required | Raised | Days Remaining |
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Hellas Action Deck, Pt 2 | Expansion cards for Hellas RPG | $1200 | $1625 | 6 |
Flash Point: Fire Rescue | Firefighter-themed cooperative board game | $5000 | $8481 | 24 |
Mass Transit III Maps & Surveillance Station Tiles | Accessories for miniatures and RPGs | $2500 | $3856 | 7 |
CARD-tamen | Gamification card system for learning | $2000 | $1408 | 26 |
Argyle & Crew | Sockpuppet-themed RPG | $3000 | $733 | 32 |
Scurvy Dogs | Pirate-themed board game | $20000 | $990 | 43 |
New Mexico Game Jam | 48 hour game design challenge | $1500 | $375 | 14 |
Crossbones | Pirate-themed board game | $7500 | $80 | 44 |
Double Agent (relist) | Mafia-like game | $2500 | $145 | 44 |
Chronicles of the Void (relist) | Space Opera RPG | $9000 | $7378 | 27 |
25 Jul
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Classic Board Games, Miniatures, Modern Board Games
First of all, RIP to Elliot Handler, the “el” in Mattel and the inventor of Hot Wheels. (source)
The Chicago Sun-Times Southtown Star promotes Nick Metzler and his game That’s Cheating. (source)
The Salt-Lake Tribune promotes Brian Kelley and his recently successful Kickstarter project for White Elephant. (source)
The Rapid City Journal promotes Identity Pursuit. (source)
Business Insider promotes Monopoly to teach children negotiation and risk-taking. (source)
CNN Shanghai promotes Mahjong parlors. (source)
PC Magazine promotes board games with computer programming themes. (source)
The Kitchener Record promotes military miniature gamers at the War Bunker Club. (source)
20 Jul
Posted by David Miller as Card Games, CCGs, Miniatures, Modern Board Games, RPGs, War Games
Through July, a $75 order at RPGShop.com earns a set of seven sparkling dice. Order $100 and get five more random dice. [Oh I see; that’s glittering dice for Independence Day fireworks.]
The Dice Hate Me blog and Moosetache Games are giving away copies of Rowboat and Hike.
In the Bakugan Mechtanium Surge Comic Contest, the three funniest entries will win prize packages of Bakugan. The deadline is July 31st.
To celebrate the product’s nomination for an ENnie Award, Super Genius Games has put Mythic Menagerie: Kingdom of Graves on sale for $1.00.
The Summer Sale Part 2 at Brigade Miniatures includes 15% off select 6mm and 15mm miniatures.
Steve Jackson Games is accepting proposals for a subtitle to the upcoming Munchkin 8. The chosen submission earns credit in the rules and an autographed copy of the game.
And don’t forget the Launch Pad giveaway by Stratus Games, here in Purple Pawn’s Play section.
18 Jul
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Card Games, CCGs, Miniatures, Modern Board Games, Other, RPGs
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New:
Project | Description | Required | Raised | Days Remaining |
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2 Sow or Not 2 Sow | A “Kingdom of God”-themed board game. | $16500 | $650 | 38 |
Far West | Western, Wuxia, and Steampunk themed RPG (and other stuff) | $5000 | $10125 | 38 |
The Manhattan Project | Worker placement game about building the atomic bomb | $5000 | $2877 | 28 |
Rack Attack
Craig Parsons |
Some kind of interactive, push-your luck dice game | $18400 | $0 | 24 |
Steel City Games Fest | 24 hour game fest with all types of games | $3000 | $557 | 16 |
Flapjacks & Sasquatches | Push your luck dice game with card effects | $10000 | $1650 | 41 |
Wagon Webcomic Battle | Webcomic CCG | $1500 | $60 | 28 |
Mafia Gameplay Cards | Cards for the game Mafia | $10000 | $50 | 26 |
Palegain Born | Campaign setting for Pathfinder | $3000 | $100 | 40 |
The Summer Campaign Sale at Wargame Vault offers 20% off products from dozens of publishers.
Through Friday, July 15th, Geek Chic (gamer furniture) is running a Customer Appreciation Sale with 10% off orders for most furniture, and an additional 5% off for returning customers.
Describe superhero, Pointyman, for the Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer blog. Best description gets a Smallville RPG PDF.
11 Jul
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Card Games, CCGs, Miniatures, Modern Board Games, RPGs
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Project | Description | Required | Raised | Days Remaining |
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Katalyka | Civ building sci-fi game. | $7500 | $580 | 39 |
Adventurer Conqueror King | RPG system | $4000 | $1470 | 26 |
Children of Fire RPG | RPG centered around angels and demons | $625 | $841 | 23 |
Open Gateways
Troy |
Classless 4e-compatible RPG | $2500 | $250 | 58 |
The Dying Dimension | Space-themed Chess variant with a shrinking board and miniatures | $11500 | $1177 | 47 |
Double Agent | Spy-themed Werewolf/Mafia clone | $2500 | $110 | 58 |
10 Jul
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Modern Board Games, War Games
Sovereign, an “open source” board game project from Ruben Hopmans, is a fairly abstracted civilization building war game. Build your cities and armies, advance your technologies, and attack other people. First to 7 points of one type (military, expansion, technology) wins.
The game was inspired by tinkering with Risk, but more resembles Civilization meets Antike. Still, combat is a series of unit combinations and dice rolling, so it’s not too Euro.
“Open source” in this case means free to print and play, shared under a creative commons license, and some of the evolving game rules and maps were suggested by others. And you are encouraged to play around with unit strengths.
The Game Crafter is getting an upgrade.
Two years after launching print-on-demand game services with a bang, Tavis Parker and the gang are making sweeping revisions to the service. Perhaps the most important one is that a game will not show up for searches or browsing unless at least one copy has been sold (the designer can publicize a direct link to the game). While enterprising game designers will likely buy at least one copy of their own games, it should still raise the average quality of games that are generally available on the site.
Additional changes include a host of new and changed components, better boxes, better site utilities, a web service API, better searching options, and many many others. See source for details.
Best of luck to the new site.
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