(or here’s a list of what launched yesterday that might deserve a closer look)

Project: Card Game: The Card Game

Designer: Ivan Escalante (NecronomiCORP, War for Chicken Island)

Artists: Ivan Escalante (Hero: Prepare Your Champion, NecronomiCORP, War for Chicken Island), Aburtov, Betteo, Fero Pe, Gabbardina, Mario Gonzalez, Raven Bezan, Daniel Cabrera

Publisher: Gnomosapiens (NecronomiCORP, War for Chicken Island)

Genre/Mechanisms: bluffing, card drafting, memory, player elimination, take that

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: high

Summary: A light hand management game with some pretty cool, relatively unknown, guest artists.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $37

All-In (w/shipping): $269, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 10/12

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 76%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Code 3

Designers: Brandon Byler, Matt Ruggiero

Artist: n/a (come on, get your shit together & properly credit your artists)

Publisher: Black Key Games (Joust for Fun)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, partnerships, storytelling, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A scenario-based hand management game (the base game offered here comes with 4 scenarios) themed around 80’s cop/action movies.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $60

All-In (w/shipping): $60, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/13

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 74%, with 30 days to go.

Project: Hey Cutie

Designer: Brian Sowers (Hero’s Crossing)

Artists: Alex Rodriguez, Isaac Espitia

Publisher: One Method Monkey (Hero’s Crossing)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, set collection, take that

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A hand management game themed around dating and flirting, featuring lots of unusual characters.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $31

All-In (w/shipping): $606, includes vanity rewards

Campaign Ends: 10/12

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 19%, with 29 days to go.

Project: Stacked

Designers: Sean Brown (Alien Uprising, Pirate Dice: Voyage on the Rolling Seas, Spurs: A Tale in the Old West), LeAnn Phillips, Tim Phillips (Alien Uprising: Zothren Invasion)

Artist: Tim Phillips

Publisher: Mr. B Games (Days of Ire: Budapest 1956, Perudo, Posthuman)

Genre/Mechanisms: action/dexterity, trick-taking

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A stacking & dexterity game featuring 3D, Tetris-like pieces.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $60

All-In (w/shipping): $60, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/4

Game Ships: Aug. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 27%, with 21 days to go.