Jocuri noi 2015

[DanielIndru]

Incep deja sa se anunte titlurile pentru anul urmator, acum ca principalele aparitii la Essen 2014 sunt deja cunoscute.

Eminent Domain: Battlecruisers suna foarte similar ca mecanici cu Glass Road si probabil va avea aceeasi grafica superba din Eminent Domain, ambele jocuri fiind plasate in acelasi univers, dar create de designers diferiti.

[DanielIndru]

Lanterns: The Harvest Festival e acum pe Kistarter si arata interesant.
Din pacate, costurile cu livrarea il fac prohibitiv pentru Romania.

The harvest is in, and the artisans are hard at work preparing for the upcoming festival. Decorate the palace lake with floating lanterns and compete to become the most honored artisan when the festival begins.

Players have a hand of tiles depicting various color arrangements of floating lanterns, as well as an inventory of individual lantern cards of specific colors. When you place a tile, all players (you and your opponents) receive a lantern card corresponding to the color on the side of the tile facing them. Place carefully to earn cards and other bonuses for yourself, while also looking to deny your opponents. Players gain honor by dedicating sets of lantern cards (three pairs, for example, or all seven colors), and the player with the most honor at the end of the game wins.

[cristianf]

Partea a doua a fost anuntata de ceva vreme pentru anul asta dar cred ca va fi disponibila de abia la anul:



Si tot pentru la anul, sub forma de zvon deocamdata, cu cladiri futuriste, amenajari ulterioare pentru bonus de puncte, megaorase construite in mod cooperativ si chiar dezastre :



Fiecare dintre ele va fi un joc de sine statator.

[DanielIndru]

Campania pe Kickstarter incepe maine, 27.10.2014

Steampunk Rally is an upcoming strategy game that incorporates steampunk as more than just a bit of chrome. Using a unique dice-placement mechanic, players take on the roles of famous inventors like Nikola Tesla and Marie Curie constructing fantastical contraptions that make use of steam, heat and electricity in an attempt to win a no-holds-barred race through the Swiss alps!

Thousands of viable card combos add tons of depth and replayability, and simultaneous resolution keeps the action fast and furious.

Features
• Build and race amazingly visceral steampunk contraptions
• Includes 84 dice (possibly upgraded to 108 with stretch goals)!
• Simultaneous resolution allows for a 2-6 player game all in a nearly static 45 minute timeframe
• Thousands of viable card combos adds tons of depth and replayability
• 2014 Winner of the international Ciutat de Granollers game design contest

[m4r1us]

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Steam Ship Company

Players invest in six historical Steam Ship Companies, which transport freight, passengers and mail around the world of the late 19th century. New type of ships are developed which carry more cargo, but also demand more iron to be constructed and coal to be run.
Players are not only investors of the companies, but also industrialists running their own coal mines, iron works, and railways. They make a lot of money by selling coal and iron to the companies of their choice. Of course they want "their" company to flourish and to pay out dividends. But beware, the control of a company may be taken over by another investor...
The game starts with paddle steamers and ends after fast liners have appeared.

Cu alte cuvinte, Rondel meets 18XX.
Am urmarit a doua jumatate a unei partide la Essen si jocul a devenit must buy instantaneu.
Se pot gasi similaritati cu Imperial, dar varianta asta e mai pe gustul meu.

[DanielIndru]

Mi se pare mai degraba o combinatie de Imperial cu Brass.

[cristianf]

Deja e pe vine:

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Imperial Settlers: Why Can't We Be Friends, the first Empire Pack for Imperial Settlers, includes new common cards for the central deck, new cards for each of the base game's four factions, and two new cards for use in the solo game with some factions.

One new effect on the cards is "open production", an ability that allows an opponent to visit your building for the resource produced there while giving you the worker who made that trek. Hope you can put him to use once again!

[DanielIndru]

Elysium - un amestec intens si scurt de drafting si set collection.

Mythic Greece. As an upstart demigod, you want to earn the favor of the Olympians and become a figure of legend yourself. Gather heroes and powerful artefacts, please the gods and bear their power to write your own epic tale.

Let your allies achieve their destiny and enter the Elysium, home of the glorious and the brave. Once the stories are written, only one demigod will be chosen to stand at the side of Zeus.
Elysium is a game of set collecting and combinations in which players recruit cards representing heroes, items, powers and gods. These cards have many different powers and you can create powerful combination to earn gold (the help of the gods) and victory points (the favor of the gods). Each card belongs to one of the eight Olympians gods (a Domain), and shows a power according to its rank (1 to 3).

During the five turns of the game, players will try to transfer their cards to the Elysium and write their own Legends, which are series of cards from the same domain or from different domains of the same rank. The more epic the Legends, the more favor from the gods they’ll earn. But as they go to Elysium, most cards lose their power and players will therefore have to renounce some of their combinations !

A game of balance and opportunity with simple action, but constant dilemmas and complex strategies.

[DanielIndru]

Martin Wallace - Ships
Deocamdata nicio poza.

Ships deals with the history of shipping, from the time of the Phoenicians to the modern era. The game is divided into three ages, marked with different ship types. The first age is that of the galley, followed by the age of the galleon, then finally the steamship age. The board combines a track showing the development of ships, similar to that in Automobile, with a map of Europe and an area representing the rest of the world.

Your turn is divided into two phases. In the first phase, you choose to either conduct commerce (such as selling goods, taxing locations or improving your warehouse) or take a card, selecting one from seven on display; the cards vary in their effects, granting money, victory points or special actions.

In the second phase, you choose whether to place a ship, move a ship, or retrieve ships/merchants. When you place a ship, you do so in either the merchant box or the warship box in one of eleven levels. A merchant allows you to place a merchant cube on the board, giving you one or two goods counters to place in your warehouse. A warship lets you take control of a location at the cost of one food goods counter.

Once all of your ships are on the board, you can either move them (paying money to advance its level and take the associated action) or retrieve it from the board so that you can place it elsewhere later. As ships are placed in a level, the cost of placing in the next level reduces — until finally somebody is willing to pay the cost to place in that level (which earns bonus points and possible additional income). When a ship is placed in the first galleon level, galleys become redundant; similarly, someone placing in the first steamship level makes galleons redundant. During the galleon and steamship ages, you can pay extra to move more ships, so having money in hand gives you a greater range of options and allows you to use your fleet more efficiently.

When placing ships, you can initially place only in "1" locations, which are grouped around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Once someone pays to move to a "2" location, which are grouped around the western Mediterranean, that area opens to others, with the other areas being Northern Europe (3), the Americas (4), East Indies (5) and the Pacific (6). As soon as a new area opens, players score points for merchants and control discs in the present area, with the points earned being the same as the number of the area.

Ships includes six types of goods: food, oil, metal, wine, cloth and spices. Each has a monetary value as well as a special power. Food can be used to take control of locations, thus building an empire. Oil can be used to gain extra actions. Metal helps to advance your ships along the outer track. Wine can be converted to goods of a lower value. Cloth can be converted to victory points, while spices have the highest monetary value. You have to decide whether to cash your goods in for money or use their power.

[DanielIndru]

Clockwork Kingdom - un joc ce mi-a placut din prezentari, dar care a fost prea scump in campania pe Kickstarter.

Clockwork Kingdom is a game in which each player takes the role of a lord attempting to claim the throne in the wake of the king's death. To start the game, each player has a small army of loyal steam-powered automatons to do their bidding. Each player must choose where to send his servants, whether to get supplies from the market, build useful contraptions in the workshop, or even attempt to acquire powerful alchemy stones, all the while warring with opponents in a number of battlefields in an attempt to control the kingdom by force.

However, players have more at their disposal than simple automatons. Throughout the course of the game, players can also recruit Alchemists, Professors, and Artificers to their cadre of loyal vassals, each with their own unique abilities. To claim the Clockwork Throne, players must make difficult decisions to outwit their opponents in an attempt to gather resources, obtain workers, manufacture contraptions, and dominate battlefields.

[DanielIndru]

Vital Lacerda - The Gallerist

The Gallerist, a modern and exciting new job that joins the art dealer activity with the gallery owner, the curator and the artist manager, and you are about to be that guy.

The guy who promotes artists, buy them art, decides which are the best exhibitions, gets international influence to bring more visitors to his gallery and makes his gallery the most known gallery of the world.

As in the Gallerist you will patron featured artists to create valuable art, you will have to manage assistants, present the best exhibit as quickly as possible, and sell the best artwork to the better buyers, for the best prices. The more people want to see and appreciate your gallery’s artwork, the more prestige and money you earn.
At the end of the game, the Gallerist with the most prestige wins.

The Gallerist is a medium-heavyweight economic and resource management game. It plays with 2 to 4 players in about 30 min per player.

During the game, you will find new promising artists, acquire artwork and find buyers to sell it to, put on your exhibits, and invite new visitors to your gallery. You must also influence the international art market to improve the value of the works of art exhibited in your gallery. You must try to get the right number of assistants to help with each exhibition. Competition among the art galleries is fierce, as such, and if the opportunity arises, perhaps you can hurt the opposing galleries with some bad reviews.

You will “spoil” the chosen artists in order to increase their fame until they become celebrities, and push the value of their works sky high until they become a masterpiece. This will be done by getting sponsors for the artists, and sending them to art school to improve their skills year after school year, until they reach their full potential.

You may sponsor artists and sell work of arts in exchange for money. You can also gain prestige by investing in the offshore market and fulfilling market goals. But the exhibitions are the primary way to gain prestige for your gallery.

[DanielIndru]

Philip duBarry - Spirits of the Rice Paddy

Ancient Balinese legend describes a host of powerful spirits who help poor rice farmers achieve success. These farmers have long used a sophisticated irrigation system to organize rice cultivation by integrating religious devotion and social responsibility with traditional farming methods. Even modern farmers seek to placate the spirit world in their quest to produce an abundant harvest.

In Spirits of the Rice Paddy, players must compete with fellow rice farmers to construct and tend rice paddies. Oxen can build walls and remove large rocks. Ducks can be employed to eat harmful pests and fertilize the fledgling crops. Weeds must be kept at bay. Most importantly, water must be conserved and released with the greatest of care. With a little luck, all that back-breaking labor will pay off in the end. The good news is that the spirits are eager to assist, granting many special abilities, blessings, and magic. The farmer who produces the most rice over seven rounds wins the game.

[DanielIndru]

Fara poze deocamdata:

Race for the Galaxy: Xeno Invasion, an expansion for the RftG base game that comprises the third story arc in the game series, depicts the galaxy as being under attack by waves of violently xenophobic aliens, dubbed the Xenos. XI adds Xeno military worlds (worlds conquered and occupied by them), specific military vs. Xenos, and a new keyword: ANTI-XENO. To provide a good proportion of new Xeno worlds, keyword, and powers, XI is not compatible with the other expansion story arcs.

Xeno Invasion, which is aimed at intermediate players, includes 51 game cards to be added to the base set, and includes an optional Invasion Game, with Produce: Repair and invasion cards, a repulse track, bunkers, and various counters.

The Invasion game adds two new ways the game can end: by either repulsing or falling to the Xenos. In Produce, players can repair damaged worlds and donate goods to the war effort (earning VPs). Players can also earn VP awards by defeating their share of the Xeno attackers and having the highest military vs Xenos, while they lose the use of damaged worlds that they fail to defend (until they are repaired). The Xeno attacks take place at the end of each round, starting with round 3, and typically take less than 30 seconds to resolve so that players can immediately return to selecting their actions for the next round.

[DanielIndru]

Un concept interesant de cooperare competitiva: Between Two Cities

It is the early 1800s, a time of immense construction and urbanization. You are a world-renowned master city planner who has been asked to redesign two different cities. Projects of such significance require the expertise of more than one person, so for each assignment you are paired with a partner with whom to discuss and execute your grandiose plans. Will your planning and collaborative skills be enough to design the most impressive city in world?
Overview

Between Two Cities is a partnership-driven tile-drafting game where each tile represents part of a city (factory, shop, park, landmarks, etc). You work with the player on your left to design the heart of one city, and with the player on your right to design the heart of another city. On each turn you select two tiles from hand, reveal them, then work with your partners separately to place one of those tiles into each of your two cities before passing the remaining hand of tiles around the table.

Goal

At the end of the game, each city is scored for its livability. Your final score is the lower of the livability scores of the two cities you helped design. To win, you have to share your attention and your devotion between two cities. The player with the highest final score wins the game.

[DanielIndru]

Biblios Dice

As a medieval monk, you are charged with increasing the prestige of the abbey's collection of historical and sacred texts. By acquiring the resources for manuscript illustration and reproduction, your abbey produces and sells its valuable works, thereby bringing in finances necessary for maintaining a fine abbey. Will you succeed in making your abbey the most prestigious of all?

Biblios Dice is a revision of Scripts and Scribes: The Dice Game, which is itself a dice version of Biblios (originally called Scripts and Scribes).

The object is to acquire gold and to collect resources – scrolls, manuscripts, pigments, quills, ink – to exchange for gold. The follows the same basic theme as Biblios, but with interesting changes due to the use of dice. As in Scripts and Scribes, players compete in five different categories and the values of the categories change during the game. In addition, depending upon the dice roll, there may be many or few auctions during the game in which players auction their resources for gold or auction gold for resources.

Biblios Dice differs from its earlier version Scripts and Scribes: The Dice Game in a few important ways. Regarding the production and components, Biblios Dice has much nicer artwork, the game board has been divided into separate boards, and the resource dice are etched. Regarding the rules, Biblios Dice has a few important changes. The goal of the game is now to collect the most VPs, rather than gold. There is only one type of auction in this game and the first and second place winners of the auction get dice (not winner take all). The auctions also do not happen as randomly, but can be predicted based upon the progress of the mule on the market board.

[DanielIndru]

Parca m-am cam saturat de dice placement, om vedea ce e si cu jocul asta: Artifacts, Inc. de Ryan Laukat - deocamdata nicio poza.

New York, 1929: A frenzy of interest in antiquity is sweeping the nation! With museums hungry for mysterious and exotic artifacts — and you hungry for adventure — you start up your own archeology company. Untold wonders await within dangerous jungles, harsh deserts, and wind-swept mountains. Will you gain a reputation as the most intrepid and famous adventurer of all time?

In Artifacts, Inc., 2-4 players compete to grow the most famous archeology company. Players roll dice, which represent their troop of adventurers, and place them on cards in order to find artifacts, sell them to museums, and purchase new cards representing their company assets. Players can choose to focus on making lots of money by selling artifacts, having museum majorities, creating the best combination of expeditions and buildings, or searching below the waves for lost cities and hidden treasures. The first player to reach 20 reputation triggers the end of the game, and the player with the most total reputation wins!

[DanielIndru]

Hands in the Sea is a two-player deck building wargame on the First Punic War, between Rome and Carthage, 264-241 BC.

Each player has a starting deck of cards they use to perform various actions, up to two per round. Actions range from colonization, to naval movement, to battle, with most activity centered in and around Sicily and Sardinia/Corsica. Players may also purchase additional cards from their own custom decks, or from a set of neutral cards that either player may purchase. There are also Strategy cards that each player can purchase (one, max) that give the owning player some special advantage.

The game is played over the course of several turns, up to a maximum of twelve. At the end of each turn, players resolve random events, collect income and score victory points. There are several paths to victory, ranging from simply having the highest score at the end of the game, to capturing the opposing player's capital.

Inspired by A Few Acres of Snow, this game features several new elements, including navies, naval battles, cavalry superiority, mercenaries, field battles, sieges, manpower, strategy cards, random events, turn based scoring, bribery and tactical bonuses.

The name of the game is based on a quote from a Carthaginian commander, who claimed at the outbreak of hostilities that the Carthaginian control of the seas was such that the Romans would not even dare wash their hands in the sea.

[DanielIndru]

Probabil la un moment dat TMG va lansa o campanie pe Kickstarter:

Inventors and tinkerers abound in the Victorian era, harnessing the power of clockwork, steam, and electricks to build machines capable of anything to give glory to Queen Victoria, whose airship presides over the board!

In the steampunk worker placement game Steam Works, you'll put your mechanics to work collecting components and power sources, then you'll literally build devices by assembling those sources and components. What's more, those devices in turn become action spaces for other players to use!

In the game, a central board provides some initial worker spaces, but the heart of the game is in assembling modular component tiles into a device for other players to use. Components are either "sources" or "sinks", providing or requiring one or more of the three power types: clockwork, steam, or Tesla-style electrickal power. The central board allows players to construct small devices with two components (a source and a sink), but devices with three, four or more components will become possible — as soon as the players assemble a device to let it be possible. Because of the modular mix-and-match nature of the components, the available action spaces vary widely from one game to the next, providing a large replayability. Each game players will create devices never seen before. Replayability and flavor are also enhanced by persona cards that give each player a unique set of starting components and a fun steampunk name and portrait.

[DanielIndru]

Nippon - de Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro si Paulo Soledade (Madeira)

Japan during the Meiji Dynasty — a closed isolated feudal country decides to change into a modern westernized state. The Empire sends emissaries to foreign nations, brings technicians and scholars from the west, builds railroads, invests in education, and achieves an outstandingly fast industrial revolution. The nation and Emperor count on the support of the Great Four, the big conglomerates that emerge with great power and massive control over the Japanese economy. They are called Zaibatsu, and their influence on the Meiji Emperor and importance on the faith of Japan became incredibly high.

In Nippon, players control Zaibatsu and try to develop their web of power by investing in new industries, fighting for monopolies, taking part of government investments, and building up their influence and power as they oversee the era of rapid industrialization in Japan. Japan's unique social and geographic characteristics make this process a challenging endeavor. Natural resources are scarce, differences between the islands dramatic, political changes hard to accomplish, and social stratifications deep-rooted on the country.

The foundations of the big Zaibatsu were the traditional silk workshops, but soon the conglomerates diversified their influence and power building a complex structure of interconnected companies that made them giant players in the world's new industrial era. Players take the reigns of these big corporations and try to develop them in order to grow and achieve power, keeping in close mind the general interest of the Empire of the rising sun.

On each turn players execute one of the five available actions that allow them to build new industries, ship goods to foreign countries, or develop the transportation system of the country, whether building ships or investing on the railroads. Money is short during gameplay as it's always used to perform actions. To win the game, players are challenged to do the best investment for their Zaibatsu and get the most influence over each of the major four Japanese islands. Each player has a personal tableau that represents his personal investments (Zaibatsu) and every time a player builds something of his own or of a promoted new industry by the Emperor, he's developing his own abilities and paths leading to new opportunities.

Nippon is a fast-paced economic game with challenging decisions in which players oversee the birth of a "new" nation, "a giant fresh from sleep"...

[DanielIndru]

Acum pe Kickstarter pentru 30 zile la un pret prohibitiv.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/20 ... xe-version