Reviews & Previews of Indie and Kickstarted Games
It’s the Italian renaissance. Fairway is a master of a great house of Florence and commissioning great works of art and architecture and hiring great artists of the time. You guessed it, it’s not reality. It’s time for Fairway’s review of Florenza: The Card Game.
In episode 42 we enter a world full of superheroes in the deckbuilding game called Emergents Genesis! Be the first to defeat your opponents and reduce their health to zero by growing your hand and gaining powerful cards.
In his continuing series, Dan chats with Helaina Cappel of Kids Table Board Gaming about her Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants Kickstarter campaign. Helaina discusses working with designer, Scott Almes, advertising and preparation, and the struggle of bringing family-friendly games to Kickstarter.
Pew! Pew! Pew! Boom! With a pocket full of tokens, Fairway takes over the joystick and previews the upcoming dice-rolling, micro game, Starcade by designer Derak Morrell. It’s coming to Kickstarter next week.
In episode 41, we check out a 3-5 player competitive card game called Battle of the Bands.
Can you get any smaller than a small, purple meeple? We found out when The Inquisitive Meeple looks at four different games that are geared towards toddlers in this Toddler Edition of Meeple-Sized Reviews.
“Hey, that’s not nice. No pushing.” “But that’s the game!” “Fine. Let me toss you and see how much you like it.” “Wee!” Today, Fairway picks up Tiny Swords: Tactics a tile placement, combat game with adorable pixel art and plenty of pushing, shoving, and tossing fun.
The silly cogtraption is broken again. And there’s only a few qualified cogineers capable of repairing it. In today’s review, Fairway takes on that role in this review of COGZ. See if he’s good enough to reCOGnize the broken cognections or if the machine will remain broken.
“Can you hear me now?” “Can you hear me now?” Today, Fairway picks up an abstract strategy game that the Verizon guy can love, Nodes. See if Fairway can find a signal in the middle of a wide open space or whether his opponent’s communication systems were better.
This week, Dan delves deep into the dark world of the dystopian future in which a determined team of do-gooder hackers try to take down a dastardly corporation. Or at least you talks to the Hackers Guild #Kickstarter creator about the campaign. For those interested in the preview of the game itself, check out Fairway’s preview.