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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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• Polish publisher Kuźnia Gier has unveiled its plans for 2012, and in addition to the already announced – but not really revealed – Alcatraz: The Scapegoat expansion due out at Spiel 2012, the publisher plans to release an expansion for its other Spiel 2011 release, the fast-playing pattern-recognition game Top-A-Top. This expansion will likely be playable as a standalone game, too. (These games have also been licensed to other publishers: Alcatraz to Z-Man Games, Filosofia and the Russian publisher Mosigra, and Top-A-Top to IELLO.)
The designers of Alcatraz and Kingpin – Rafał Cywicki, Krzysztof Cywicki and Krzysztof Hanusz – will have a "big game" ready for Spiel 2012, but no details have been announced for now. Kuźnia Gier should also have an adult-oriented party game at the end of 2012. The politically-themed Inwigilacja will appear in a new edition in Q3 2012, but once again only in Polish.
On the RPG front, Wolsung – aka, Wolsung: Steam Pulp Fantasy – will appear in an English-language edition from Studio 2 Publishing.
• Mantic Games, best known for miniature game Dwarf King's Hold: Dead Rising, has another game with miniatures on the horizon, the Space Hulk-ish Project Pandora: Grim Cargo, due out in April 2012. Here's a brief game description from the publisher:
Quote: Project Pandora: Grim Cargo is a sci-fi board game pitting the Corporation against the mysterious 8th Race, Veer-Myn rat-creatures, who have boarded a Corporation starship in an attempt to steal its precious cargo, a cargo which the Corporation will do everything in its power to keep hold of.
The game features an innovative dice-driven combat mechanism and a scenario-based narrative, allowing you to recreate the mission as well as twenty highly detailed plastic Corporation and 8th Race miniatures, stunning new artwork depicting the starship and action counters, and the Grim Cargo rule book, featuring a host of fast-paced and easy-to-learn rules that will lead to some incredibly tense games.
• In yesterday's new game round-up, I mentioned The Game Master's new "Smart & Fun" line, which is meant to deliver games that play with up to five, can be taught in just over a minute, and include different levels of play for players of different ages. In addition to Match Point, now due in June 2012 instead of May, The Game Master will release Apen Jungle – a Dutch version of Reiner Knizia's Monkeyland from Sirius due in May 2012 – and Limbo Party, in which animals dance to dice rolls while trying to avoid a snake at their dancing tree. No release date on this latter title.
• And we'll close out with a couple of crowd-funding game projects in the works, starting with one on the German site Startnext.de:
-----• Orkhorde is the first publication by German blog Roachware, which is working with established publisher Spieltrieb. Lead your orc horde to collect trophies and food, while also participating in raids with all the other hordes. (Startnext link)
-----• Conquest Gaming, which was reborn in 2010 with its release for Warlords of Europe, has launched a Kickstarter project for its second big release: Russ Rupe's StelCon: Infinity, which it describes as "a light strategy war game on a galactic scale". (KS link)
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