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

Project: CardWeaver Reprint

Designer: Stephen Rosania

Artist: Leandro Furlanetto (The Shared Dream), Phillip Simpson (The Shared Dream)

Publisher: ODAM Publishing (The Shared Dream)

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, deck building, fantasy, horror, interrupts, market, science fiction, team-based game

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “A one-versus-all deckbuilding card game based on the world of The Shared Dream. Up to 3 players team up against another player and whichever team survives wins. Each player purchases cards from a market (called the Dreamscape) that is set by the character they have chosen. This gives each character its own capabilities, playstyle and strategies, while emphasizing teamwork since no one character can fill every role in the team.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $55

All-In (w/shipping): $165

Campaign Ends: 2/4

Game Ships: Apr. 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 30% with 20 days to go.

Project: Illumination & The Road to Canterbury by Alf Seegert

Designer: Alf Seegert (Cubist, Fantastiqa: The Rucksack Edition, Haven)

Artists: Claire Campin, Jake “Seven” Thomashow, Heironymus Bosch (Battle for Souls, Musée), Pixel Productions Inc. (Blockers!, Fantastiqa: The Rucksack Edition, Modern Art Card Game)

Publisher: Eagle-Gryphon Games (Age of Steam, Baseball Highlights: 2045, Brass: Lancashire, Can’t Stop, Carson City, Defenders of the Realm, Diamant, Empires: Age of Discovery, Escape Plan, Fleet, For Sale, Francis Drake, The Gallerist, High Society, Lisboa, On Mars, Railways of the World, Rococo, Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age, Santiago de Cuba, Struggle of Empires, Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization, Tumblin-Dice, Vinhos Deluxe Edition)

Genre/Mechanisms: area majority/influence, medieval, point to point movement, set collection, tile placement (Illumination); area majority/influence, card drafting, hand management, humor, medieval, religious, set collection, take that (The Road to Canterbury)

Player Count: 1-2 (Illumination); 2-3 (The Road to Canterbury)

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: low

Summary: “In Illumination, players are monks competing to become the new head of the Scriptorium. They do so by illuminating manuscripts with elaborate religious artwork. But not all is as peaceful as it once was! Possessed with eccentric enthusiasm, one player has turned from the reverent to the irreverent by scrawling demons instead of angels and by painting fierce dragons instead of noble knights. Who will become the new master of the Scriptorium? Will it be the monk who reverently illuminates the page with monks, dogs, knights and angels; or the irreverent monk who whimsically draws the forces of rabbit, squirrel, dragon and demon?

In The Road to Canterbury, players are medieval pardoners who travel the road to Canterbury tempting Pilgrims with the Seven Deadly Sins—and then pardon these sins for a fee! Each sin with which a player tempts a Pilgrim increases the amount of money that will be paid when that sin is pardoned, but also brings Death one step closer, which threatens to kill off their customers!”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $38, either Illumination or The Road to Canterbury

All-In (w/shipping): $68, both games

Campaign Ends: 1/29

Game Ships: Oct. 2021

Funding Status: Currently at 69% with 14 days to go.