My first experience with Small Box Games was when I Kickstarted their game Tooth & Nail: Factions. It was a great experience—the game came when they said it was (even earlier, I think!), and the quality was great. So I was excited to get an email from them announcing a new Kickstarter campaign.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the campaign is for not one, not two, but three different card games!
Shadow of the Sun is for 3-4 players and is set in the city of Hemloch—one of Small Box Games' other games.
The Valkyrie Incident is a deck-building game for 2 players.
And Stone & Relic is a kingdom-building game for 2-4 players.
If you back just one game, it'll run you $23, including shipping. $44 will get you two of the games shipped, and $62 gets you all three games. This is an interesting strategy. On the one hand, $23 is very reasonable for a quality card game, but as you ramp up the price, $62 seems expensive. It's not that it's a poor value, but rather that's a lot to spend at once. (It's certainly more than my gaming "allowance.") It doesn't seem to be affecting the campaign at all—after less than a day they've very nearly hit their funding goal, and the vast majority of backers have opted for the all-three-games option.
From the Kickstarter page you also download and read the rules for all three games, so you'll have a good idea about each game before you plunk down your hard-earned money. Will you back any of these? How many? Which one are you most excited about?
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So we don't have an interview this week, but we're working on a couple cool ones, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, Fantasy Flight announced Cyber Exodus, the third expansion for Netrunner—which would be more exciting if the first one was available yet. Aww...who am I kidding? It's still exciting! I (Firestone) have played Netrunner a few times now, and it's pretty stinking fun. I'm working on the review, and I should have it in the next week or so.
