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NegativeZero
Posts: 94 Location: Melbourne, Australia |
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For reference, 'deck building' card games are not anything like trading card games. The way they work is that everyone starts with a fixed set of ten or so cards and there is a supply of extra cards in the center of the table. Players use their starting cards to acquire new cards from that central supply, building up a deck as they play. It's all about managing probabilities in your deck and usually about acquiring more point cards than everyone else before a certain number of cards in the supply are exhausted. The game should contain a large, fixed set of cards and while most popular Deck Builders offer expansions, again, you'd only need one copy of that to play. There's no blind, randomized packages or anything - you get everything you need to play in the box.
I'd probably have backed this if they hadn't made the ludicrous decision to restrict the regions they're going to ship to the Americas. Though they're asking for so little that there's no way this Kickstarter will fail, they're never going to be successful long-term in the board game arena if they can't sell stuff to the biggest board game markets (i.e. Europe). |
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firedragon54738
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Card games not bad but its got nothing on Black Jack
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IanC
Posts: 685 Location: Essex, England |
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And of course the UK doesn't exist to them.
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invalidname
 Contributor Posts: 2444 Location: Grand Rapids, MI |
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To add on to the nice summary by NegativeZero… I mentioned it on page 1, but if you don't get deck-building games, a perfectly good place to get started is with Tanto Cuore, which takes the basic deck-building mechanics introduced by Dominion and dresses them up in frilly anime maid outfits.
Quick summary: all players start with the same 10 cards: 7 "1-Love" cards and 3 "Collette"s. Collete is worth one victory point (VP), so the game starts in an all-way tie with 3 points. Each player draws a hand of 5 cards from their deck. On your turn, you have one "serving" and one "employment". Each serving means one maid in your hand can use her special abilities. An employment means you can use the accumulated "love" in your hand (heh heh) to buy the services of one maid in the town, provided you have enough love points. You then put your cards in a discard pile, which will later be shuffled into your deck once you need to do so to draw a hand. The idea is that there's a cycle of hand to discard to deck to hand, and you want to start introducing cards that will help you later. Some maids let you draw extra cards or provide additional servings or employments, and these are used to create combos where you burn through far more than five cards in a hand. There are also higher-value love cards which you can buy, which is crucial because most of the cards that deliver victory points have a high cost, and it's challenging to get a single hand with the 9 love you'll need to buy Marianne and her 6 victory points. Yes, this is as entirely maid fetishy as it sounds. Although after the imouto craze and now anthromporphized weapons as moé girls, maids don't seem so bad. Anyways, it's easy and cheap to get a feel for it. There's a really well done iOS version of Tanto Cuore on the App Store, it only costs $3, and it has competent AI play, plus online play (look me up, I'm "invalidname"). |
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Conner Crooks
 Posts: 83 Location: Seven Seas |
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As we mentioned across our social media feeds, and on our Kickstarter's FAQ, we had originally approached this project with the hope of obtaining worldwide distribution rights. Unfortunately, we were unable to get permission and are limited to distribution in North/Central/South America. While I cannot say for sure that we'll have worldwide distro for our other projects, it is something we will continue to seek out as the Seven Seas Games division advances. It isn't our intention to leave out wanting-players, and we will do what we can to make them available in the future. We will also hopefully have more news on our distribution & retail plans for Seven Seas Games in the coming weeks. |
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enurtsol
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Already funded
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