How do you announce the launch of a Kickstarter? Well
here goes…let me introduce Expansionist.
This is what I have working on for the last six months
and it’s now on Kickstarter here:
Yes, it’s a tabletop game where you build settlements and
expand beyond the mountains placing hex land tiles and event tiles to either
upgrade your own settlements or download grade your opponent’s. Its evolution
began with my map drawing at Dark Realm Maps. I’ve always drawn a wide range of
maps and one of my ideas saw me creating land tiles. They seemed to spark
people’s interest and I thought how cool this would be as a board game.
I’m going to talk more about the Event Tiles in a later
post, but I came up with a mechanic which was based around them. On the face of
it, it was straight forward but threw up a deep cycle of positive and negative
placement tiles that quickly grew a matrix of the maps I so love drawing.
Expansionist is a game that draws upon many influences
from computer games like Sid Myers Civilization to Settlers of Catan, from
Zombies!!! to my RPG experiences, not to mention the hundreds of maps I’ve
drawn and published over the last few years. Yet, it is none of these and I
feel we have created an original game in Expansionist based around my own map
style that has inspired many people and has the support of a community devoted
to gaming.
One of the core aims of this game is to design something
that played for about an hour. I wasn’t interested in creating something that
was overly complex, as I have talked about in previous blog posts here. It can
also accommodate many players, more than what the Base Box sets out to begin
with. It truly has an epic scale.
If you have any questions, please let me know down below.
Plenty more to follow...
Toby
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