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Kickstart Monday: Body of Evidence: The Murder Mystery Autopsy Game and Fromage

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On September 18, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

There are certainly some exciting projects out in crowdfunding land. Let’s take a look at a couple of games that we think you should check out.

Body of Evidence: The Murder Mystery Autopsy Game

First up this week is Body of Evidence: The Murder Mystery Autopsy Game, a Kickstarter from Mysterious Package Company.

Body of Evidence is a murder mystery game for 1-4 players with a playtime of 2-3 hours. In the game the players will find themselves posed with solving the murder of victim Christian LeClair. The investigation will take the players through a series of case files and they must use their deductive reasoning and sleuthing skills to build a clear picture of the case. Evidence from the crime scene and field work will help the players in their investigation with documents, clippings, and physical evidence guiding the players toward the truth. Ultimately though the players must head to the morgue to perform an autopsy on the body gathering the definitive evidence to prove their case. If the players have followed the clues correctly they will be able to solve the case and confront the culprit.

Body of Evidence features a single pledge level for $37 USD which represents a 10% discount from the retail price. There are also a number of add-ons for other games from Mysterious Package Company. If you are itching to dig in to this mystery find your way to the Kickstarter page and make a pledge before September 21, 2023.

Fromage

Our second game this week is Fromage, a Kickstarter campaign by Road to Infamy.

Fromage is a 1-4 player medium complexity  eurogame that is all about cheese. As a French cheese maker players will make a variety of artisan cheeses, age and sell them. The game features a unique four quadrant rotating game board that is triple layered which allows for  a huge variety of game setups. The game board rotating is also how your cheese ages! During the game players take actions using a simultaneous worker placement mechanic with each player placing workers in the quadrant of the board that is facing them. The campaign notes that this simultaneous worker placement condenses the playtime to around 40 minutes. To run a successful creamery, players must compete in each of the four quadrants of the game board. For example in the festival section players must place their cheeses on display in a connected group to show them off to festival goers while in the Villes section players score points for having the most influence in six different regions of France. Players can also build structures for unique abilities, harvest fruit for specialty cheeses and fulfill orders for extra points.

The campaign has two pledge levels, the standard edition for $35 USD and a limited edition for $49 USD that includes upgrades, wooden tokens and a neoprene Lazy Susan mat for the rotating game board. Make sure to visit the Fromage campaign page before October 10, 2023 to make your pledge.

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Kickstart Monday: Midhalla and Farms Race

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On August 28, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

There are certainly some exciting projects out in crowdfunding land. Let’s take a look at a couple of games that we think you should check out.

Midhalla

Our first game this week is a Kickstarter for Midhalla from Fyrnwest Games.

Midhalla is a cooperative dungeon crawl adventure through an epic fantasy viking setting. Players will experience the deep lore of Midhalla through a multi-chapter campaign. Each chapter will present a variety of enemies and events and the adaptive difficulty system will make sure that there is always a challenge to be found.

Midhalla features a unique deterministic combat system that combines elements of dungeon crawling and tower defense. Players must work together in combat by using combos to take down enemies and laying traps to control the battlefield. As they explore the world players will encounter events where they will make important decisions that will shape the storyline of the game. As they progress the story, players will unlock many new options like new classes, items, chapters and events and will have many opportunities to  advance their character to grow more powerful. The unique combination of tower defense with traditional dungeon crawling and a non-random deterministic combat system makes Midhalla worth a look if you are fan of dungeon crawl campaigns.

The base pledge for the core Midhalla game runs approximately $94 USD and the Champion Pledge which features the Saga of Harkon expansion including a fifth player addition will run about $117 USD. The Midhalla campaign will end on September 13, 2023 so make sure to make your pledge before then.

Farms Race

Next up this week we have Farms Race, a Kickstarter campaign from Medium Brow Games. 

Farms Race is pretty unique in that it is a parody eurogame that is supposed to feel like “Catan with nukes”. Players take the role of mutated farm animals that have gained sentience due to radioactive power plants. As either mutated cows, pigs, chickens, or sheep players will battle for control of the once peaceful countryside with their mutant abilities and yes even nuclear weapons. 

Gameplay seems Catan-like but with combat and area control as well. The board is made up of hexes of various terrain types that provide different tradable resources (wheat, wood, brick, plutonium and weapons). You gain resources based on a dice roll like in Catan but you will need to control the region with your herd of animals to reap the benefits. Your herds can move to different hexes and fight off other animals and humans in dice-based combat. You can also construct barns, armories and spy cards to help you in your conquest and in the race to 10 victory points to win the game.

Farms Race seems too hilarious to pass up and may just please fans and haters of Catan alike. The base game will cost only $45 USD but you can splurge for the Deluxe Edition running $80 USD that features upgraded components and “an expansion’s worth of content”. If you are ready like I am to dominate the countryside with your mutant radioactive chickens then make sure to make you pledge for Farms Race before the campaign ends on September 14, 2023,

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Kickstart Monday: Mistwind and Hideous Abomination

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On August 14, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

There are certainly some exciting projects out in crowdfunding land. Let’s take a look at a couple of games that we think you should check out.

Mistwind

First up this week is Mistwind, a Kickstarter project from First Fish Games.

In Mistwind players use flying transport whales to build networks across four different Nations. Players will build routes between the different nations’ ports loading basic resources or cargo onto their transports and selling it in other locations where the demand for that cargo is higher. Amusingly moving your transport whales will often cost krill. I have to say this is the only game I’ve seen that uses krill as a basic resource. Building your personal outposts at a port will reduce the cost in krill you must pay to move your whale. At the end of the game you will score for cargo you’ve delivered, the network you’ve built, achievements you’ve claimed and several other categories which look to give the game a healthy number of paths to victory. 

Mistwind Demo @ GenCon – Game Board
Mistwind Demo @ GenCon - Components
Mistwind Demo @ GenCon – Components

The captivating art design really helps this game stand out and is what caught my eye when I talked about it in our recent GenCon 2023 preview episode of the Wiscodice podcast. The combination of worker placement, network building and pickup and delivery looks quite interesting and I think this is a game to watch. The Kickstarter version of Mistwind will run about $95USD. If Mistwind seems like it will deliver for you, head to the Kickstarter page before August 31, 2023 to make your pledge.

Hideous Abomination 2nd Edition

Our second project this week is the Kickstarter for Hideous Abomination 2nd Edition from designer Judson Cowan.

Hideous Abomination is a tile laying game where players assemble hideous monsters from an assortment of outlandish body parts. Every tile in the game has detailed colorful artwork depicting some monstrous body alert whether it be  squid like tentacle, the head of an aquatic cyclops, the arm of a giant praying mantis or just a big glob of pink goo with an eye in it. Players will earn points for the most dominant color on their creations so they must at least  try to keep  their creature a consistent color. They can win award cards with categories like Most Eyes and Most Head tiles. Hideous Abomination is a quick light family oriented game where much of the joy of the game is just seeing how strange of a monster you can manage to make. The game comes with over 200 unique body part tiles for your monster making needs. The base edition comes in at a very affordable $21USD and there are a number of more deluxe versions on offer as well. 

If you are ready to see what kinds of Hideous Abomination you can create visit the project page before the campaign ends on August 29, 2023,

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Kickstart Monday: Aethermon: Collect and Innovation: Ultimate

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On August 7, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

There are certainly some exciting projects out in crowdfunding land. Let’s take a look at a couple of games that we think you should check out.

Aethermon: Collect

Our first project this week is Aethermon: Collect a Gamefound campaign from Aethermon Studios.

Arthermon: Collect is a set collection game for 1-4 players set in a world with magical creatures called Aethermon.  

Aethermon obviously draws inspiration from other cute collectible monster properties but it has its own unique style and aesthetic that it brings to the genre. During the game players will be collecting Aethermon cards from the game board. Players will be attempting to collect high value Aethermon to improve their score and to collect Aethermon in the same family to double the score of those Aethermon. The game can be played both competitively and cooperatively. In competitive mode players draft powerful Artefacts to give them an edge against their opponents while in cooperative mode players will combine their scores in a joint effort to collect the most valuable Aethermon.   

To see the game in action and hear more about WiscoDice’s thoughts on Aethermon: Collect, check out our YouTube Video here.

The campaign has a number of pledge options starting with a print and play pledge for about A$5, a standard pledge for A$30, a deluxe pledge for A$60 and also higher tier pledges for those with deep pockets. The campaign runs until August 30th 2023, so make your pledge before then.

Innovation: Ultimate

Our next game this week is Innovation: Ultimate a Backerkit project from Asmadi Games.

Innovation: Ultimate is an updated version of Innovation originally released in 2010 by designer Carl Chudyk. Innovation is a tableau and civilization building game where players will play card representing ideas, technology and inventions. You begin the game in Age 1 or Prehistory starting out with cards like Writing or Metalworking. Each card has an effect you can choose to trigger with one of your two actions on your turn which may allow you to attack your opponents, expand your civilization and even advance to the next Age.

Innovation: Ultimate has a number of new features and improvements to the original game. While the original game featured 10 Ages to progress to, Innovation: Ultimate now has an eleventh age, the Prudence Age with futuristic speculative technology. The boxed set also includes the 4 existing expansions for Innovation and a new fifth expansion called The Unseen. The new expansion brings in a mechanic called Safeguard that lets to stash available achievements so that you can claim them but your opponents can’t. Cards in the Unseen expansion deal with subterfuge, shadowy technologies and other clandestine concepts.

The Innovation: Ultimate campaign is keeping it simple with only one pledge level for $69 USD but this includes approximately 750 cards and a box insert that is designed to support both sleeved and unsleeved cards. If you are ready to dive into the ultimate version of Innovation make your pledge before September 15, 2023 when the Backerkit campaign ends.

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Kickstart Monday: Luddit and Avante Card

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On July 31, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

There are certainly some exciting projects out in crowdfunding land. Let’s take a look at a couple of games that we think you should check out.

Luddite

Our first project of the week is the Kickstarter for Luddite by Cogito Ergo Meeple.

Luddite is a pretty unique offering. The game itself is a roll and write campaign game that can be played with 1 to an unlimited number of players (with print and play sheets). The game is set in a future dystopia where the player is a “digital saboteur” hacking into systems to combat AI and bionic automatons that have taken the place of a human workforce. The campaign includes multiple maps and will increase in complexity as the story progresses.

As another unique element  Luddite features is a graphic novel that incorporates with the game and no doubt helps set the mood of a dystopian sci-fi future. As a big fan personally of comics and graphic novels I think it’s a very cool addition  and I  would not mind if more board game kickstarters included these kinds of bonus items.

If you are willing to forego the bells and whistles you can get the print and play version for about $5 USD (which includes an electronic version of the comic). The full physical version will run about $40 USD and includes dry erase game maps as well as custom dice, a dice tray, and coins. The Luddit Kickstarter campaign ends on August 5, 2023, so hit up the project page before then.

Avant Carde

Next up this week is the Kickstarter for Avant Carde the 1 to 5 player game from Resonym Games. 

In Avant Carde players are thematically displaying their collection of Avant Garde art. The artworks are represented by a deck of art cards numbered  1 through 14. To display their art the player plays art cards from their hand, making sure that each card matches the previous card’s color or number. Players want to play as many cards as possible because each card they play is worth $1. Then they can use this money to buy more art that works with their current card or even cards with special patron powers, which may  totally change the way  you can play your cards. The game comes with  3 different patron decks so you can get a lot of replayability with a variety of patron powers 

Avant card looks like a quick playing easy to learn game with a slight deck building mechanic and enough going on to be a winner for both a casual crowd and more seasoned gamers. The Kickstarter edition will run $29 USD and will come with a micro-expansion and some bonus metal coins. If you are interested, the campaign will conclude on August 12, 2023, so visit the project now to make your pledge.

Did we miss your favorite project?

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