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The board games explode in popularity in Kickstarter in 2021

Board games are tabletop games that generally utilize pieces relocated or put on a pre-marked board (playing surface) as well as usually consist of elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games too. Most feature a competitors in between two or even more players. In checkers, a gamer wins by recording all opposing pieces, while Eurogames often finish with a calculation of last ratings. Pandemic is a cooperative video game where players all win or lose as a team, and secure jewelry is a puzzle for a single person. There are several ranges of board games. Their representation of real-life scenarios can range from having no inherent theme, such as checkers, to having a certain motif as well as story, such as Cluedo. Rules can vary from the very straightforward, such as in Snakes and Ladders; to deeply complex, as in Advanced Squad Leader. The moment called for to find out to play or understand a game varies significantly from video game to game, but is not always correlated w...

Good news for digital board games, as the ASMODEE Group opens license options

Digital board games are probably one of the most interesting genres in the mobile area. Not only because it is fast, dynamic and active with publications, but because it effectively includes most other genres. Asmodee is the world's second largest board game publisher - and you have just stated that you open up developers licenses. This means that big and small developers throw their hats into the ring and snap their existing products and make them mobile games. If you have a sharp eye for digital board games, you probably already have made some adjustments to your properties. Games like Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Pandemic, Catan Stories and Fighting Fantasy Legend come from their catalog, but where they previously protected the publication of customizations, they have announced they opened access to their other games. In the press release, games like KeyForge, Legend of the Five Rings, Twilight Empire and Small World were mentioned as outstanding elements in their catalog. K...