Upon the Giza plateau, the eminent architects of Ancient Egypt are summoned by the Pharaoh. The challenge transcends mere tomb construction; it encompasses the creation of engineering marvels — monuments destined for veneration, to elevate the Pharaoh’s honor eternally towards the heavens. In Pyramidice, a game of dice and card combos, players compete to build the greatest Pyramid ever seen. Pyramidice: compete to build the greatest …
Three new games start to hit the US stores from July 28th – and in other countries in the coming weeks: the euro-thematic game Cangaceiros, the family and party game Ensemble, and the economic game The Rich and The Good. Cangaceiros: run a band of Cangaceiros,legendary bandits in Brazilian northeast. Cangaceiros is a strategic competitive game set in Brazil in the late 1800s and early 1900s. …
The desert region of the Sertão, in the Northeast Region of Brazil, was the background for the deeds of the “cangaceiros,” men who embraced the way of the cangaço – from canga, which means yoke. As the bull carries the yoke, so the cangaceiro carried weapons and the deadly burden of that choice, leaving behind their loved ones, and living in the scorching hinterland sprinkled with …
Some of the art by Emiliano Mammucari for the game in exhibition at the Brazilian Embassy. The Cangaceiros, legendary bandits of 19th-20th century in the Brazilian northeast, have entered the collective imagination through movies, books, and comics, and are now the protagonists in a board game produced by the Italian game publisher Ergo Ludo Editions, published in English by Ares Games. Cangaceiros, developed to be faithful …
Feared throughout the Brazilian northeast, they fight for honor and freedom: the “cangaceiros” were bandits who stand against the abuses of large landowners called Coronéis and the government, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Now, they come to the tabletop in a strategic competitive game. Designed by Roberto Pestrin and created by Ergo Ludo Editions, Cangaceiros has its English edition published and distributed by Ares …
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