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

Project: Carroll Country Cake Swap

Designer: David Sensenig

Artist: David Sensenig

Publisher: Jealous Cat Games

Genre/Mechanisms: card drafting, pattern building, pattern recognition, press your luck, set collection

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A card drafting game where players compete to build the most impressive cakes.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $32

All-In (w/shipping): $70

Campaign Ends: 8/15

Game Ships: June 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 6%, with 21 days to go.

Project: Equip: Battle, Collect Credits, and Buy Cards!

Designer: Sum Chan

Artist: Sum Chan

Publisher: Sum Chan

Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, card selection, dexterity, hand management

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A light, 2-player card battler for kids, featuring dexterity, card selection, and card combining.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $44

All-In (w/shipping): $46

Campaign Ends: 8/23

Game Ships: Jan. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 69%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Frontier

Designer: Kate Edmunds

Artist: Kate Edmunds

Publisher: Jackdaw Co.

Genre/Mechanisms: card selection, hand management, tableau-building

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A simple card drafting & tableau-building game with watercolor art and set in a 17th century rural land of magic.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $47

All-In (w/shipping): $47, same as above

Campaign Ends: 8/23

Game Ships: Nov. 2019

Funding Status: Currently at 65%, with 28 days to go.

Project: Import/Export

Designer: Jordan Draper (Import/Export, Tokyo Metro, Turin Market)

Artist: Jordan Draper (Import/Export, Tokyo Metro, Turin Market)

Publisher: Jordan Draper Games (Import/Export, Tokyo Metro, Turin Market)

Genre/Mechanisms: auction/bidding, bluffing, commodity speculation, economic, hand management, pick up & deliver, stock holding, take that, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: low

Summary: A “definitive” version (i.e. more stuff) of Jordan Draper’s highest-rated game Import/Export, an economic and pick up & deliver game themed around shipping.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $74

All-In (w/shipping): $74, same as above

Campaign Ends: 8/22

Game Ships: May 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 24%, with 23 days to go.