KS - Beasts of Balance: New Edition & Battles Expansion

[Simonmjl14]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sensibleobject/beasts-of-balance-new-edition-and-battles-expansio?ref=user_menu

 

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Beasts of Balance is an award-winning game of dexterity, strategy and creation. Players take on the role of Divine Creators, tasked to play solo or with friends to build worlds and reach high scores by stacking magical Artefacts into incredible towers. But this is no standard dexterity game - everything added to the tower interacts with a world that evolves on a wirelessly connected digital device. Stack an Octopus and *poof* you’ve just made a digital Octopus! Add a Migrate Artefact and *shazam* you’ve turned it into a land-dwelling Rocktopus! There’s real skill in deciding on the next piece to add to the stack, and it takes smarts and teamwork to build high-scoring towers and find the most elusive beasts.

(To see a Let’s Play video of the co-op game, click here.)

This time round we've made some small-but-lovely changes to the Beasts of Balance core game box. It's slightly smaller (11.4" x 11.4" x 4.3" / 290mm x 290mm x 110mm), and the inserts have been redesigned to allow more space for extra pieces. Apart from that everything else is exactly the same, meaning that the contents of the box are identical to the original edition.

Everyone up to speed now? Great. Time to share the exciting new stuff we want to make for you! There are three main things in this expansion: Battles, three new Beasts, and Legendaries.

Battles sees you graduate to the next part of your training. Under the short-tempered gaze of Alberick, spirit of the volcano, it's time to learn the art of war. If you can master the mysterious, destructive Primal Power, then you'll best your rivals.

Two to three players each take on the role of a Divine Creator of a single region: Land, Sea or Sky. The aim of the game is to fill your region with powerful beasts, while stealing and smiting those of your opponents.

Primal Power enters your world though a deck of 16 unique NFC Battle Cards. They are used by scanning them on the Plinth, just like the Artefacts. Each player wields a hand of these cards, enabling them to invoke a whole host of weird and wonderful effects on the digital realm. Some are focussed on attack, some will aid in defence, and some will manifest in much more random ways…

(To see prototypes of all 16 cards, click here.)

Battles takes all the physical pieces from the core game and gives you an adrenaline-filled competitive way of playing with them. In Battles, skilful stacking is even more important, as disturbing the tower means Alberick rains down fiery lava damage on your beasts (and your beasts only)! So build carefully, or see your lead evaporate with one ill-timed collapse...

And finally, each Divine Creator chooses a digital avatar in the form of a Guardian. Guardians manifest your will in the form of lightning bolts, tidal waves and dirty great lumps of earth. They also have special, customisable powers that modify the game in interesting, strategic ways...

There's so much more that we're looking forward to sharing with you as the campaign progresses. We're incredibly excited about all of this new stuff, especially how the three game systems (digital / cards / stacking) combine to make a game that's full of depth, variety, strategy and FUN.

Whether you're a seasoned tabletop gamer looking for something truly unique to bring out at your regular games night, or a parent looking for a game designed to get whole families playing together, we can’t wait for you to try it!

 

[Simonmjl14]

Le jeu à l'air super original avec également l'intégration d'une application. Je suis curieux d'en apprendre plus car ça pourrait être un bon petit filler où on ne se casse pas la tête à jouer avec les enfants ou entre deux jeux plus lourds.

[Bastet]

J'y ai joué au JAB. C'est un espèce de Jenga avec des pièces en forme d'animaux et une appli intégrée. Avant de placer une pièce, on scan la pièce et l'app apprend ainsi ce qu'on introduit dans l'écosystème. On peut faire des croisements et on essaie de garder nos animaux en vie le plus longtemps possible. Les règles qui régissent les événements dans l'appli et ce que nos animaux font en réponse aux pièces que l'on place sont inconnu des joueurs. Pour moi, ça enlevé le feeling de contrôle sur ce que l'ont fait. Ça donnait plus un feeling de "il arrivera ce qui arrivera parce que je connais pas les conséquences des décisions que je prend". C'est bien, je suis content de l'avoir essayer mais c'est pas un achat pour moi.