As we told in our previous articles in this series, we had the opportunity to create a game inspired by “The Hobbit,” to be published as a new entry in Ares’ “War of the Ring” line. And we decided to design the game to be a tactical-level simulation of The Battle of Five Armies, using a modified version of the game engine we first used in …
Great start for the Season 2 of Galaxy Defenders on Kickstarter, “The Earth Strikes Back!”. Launched on May 28th, it achieved the $40,000 initial funding goal in less than 5 minutes, and is reaching stretch goals very fast. In the second day, more than 10 goals have been unlocked, and in 35 hours the project reached the same amount of funding achieved in 35 days by …
Ares Games will run 12 events at GenCon 2014 (August 14-17, Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis). Among them is the first attempt to set the record for most players in a Sails of Glory game. The event is scheduled for Thursday 14th, at 10 AM, and up to 52 players can register to participate. In the Sails of Glory Record Breaker attempt, players will receive a frigate …
The new Galaxy Defenders campaign – “The Earth Strikes Back!” – started today on Kickstarter, and the funding goal of $40,000 was achieved in less than 5 minutes after the launch! In this “Season 2”, Ares Games and Gremlin Project present two new expansion sets, “Operation Strikeback” and “Extinction Protocol”, which will bring the cooperative science-fiction board and miniature game to new battlefields. The campaign ends …
The “Operation Strikeback” and “Extinction Protocol” expansions of Galaxy Defenders will pit the heroic Agents against even more dangerous aliens, fighting from the silent battlefields of the Moon to the eerie landscape of the aliens’ homeworld. But in these titanic struggles, the Agents will not be alone. New classes, new agents, and new mechanics will be introduced as special options in the Kickstarter of the upcoming …
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