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

Project: Analog Apps by Fisher Heaton Games, featuring WAYK & TANGL

Designers: David Abelson (Intelle, WAYK), Christopher Yoder (TANGL)

Artist: David Abelson (WAYK, TANGL)

Publisher: Fisher Heaton Games (Intelle)

Genre/Mechanisms: abstract strategy, modular board, point to point movement, puzzle; abstract strategy, pattern building, puzzle, real-time, tile placement

Player Count: 1-2; 2-6

Solo Mode: yes; no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “WAYK is a 1-2 player abstract strategy game… [where] players control robots on a sleep ship whose task is to awaken all the passengers on the ship and usher them to escape pods before the ship explodes; TANGL is a quick abstract polyomino race game… [where] players race to create a rectangle using a mismatched set of heptamino and hexamino pieces and are rewarded for speed and accuracy.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $22

All-In (w/shipping): $77

Campaign Ends: 11/18

Game Ships: July 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 12%, with 18 days to go.

Project: League of Infamy

Designers: James M. Hewitt (Blood Bowl 2016 Edition, Hellboy: The Board Game, Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower), Sophie Williams (Hellboy: The Board Game)

Artist: n/a (credit your artists, people!)

Publisher: Mantic Games (DreadBall: The Futuristic Sports Game, Dungeon Saga: Dwarf King’s Quest, Hellboy: The Board Game)

Genre/Mechanisms: campaign driven, cooperative game, dice rolling, exploration, fighting, grid movement, hand management, miniatures, resource management, variable player powers

Player Count: 2-5

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-high

Summary: An “occasionally cooperative dungeon-crawler” where players take on the roles of villains on “a disgraceful mission to kidnap cute little baby Drakons, steal their eggs, and viciously wipe out any irritating, goody-goody Elves that try to stop [their] nefarious schemes.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $116

All-In (w/shipping): $199

Campaign Ends: 11/13

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 249%, with 14 days to go.