OVERVIEW
Black Metro is a strategic area control game where players battle
each other to amass power. Gather resources to research powerful
technologies, build fortifications and upgrade units. Control
districts through military strength and dominate your opponents.
Gain political influence through syndicate support and missions.

HISTORY
In the summer of 2020, amidst the lockdowns during the Covid-19
global pandemic; one lone and stoic, yet charismatic individual,
renowned amongst close friends for uncanny strategic and tactical
brilliance, embarked on a mission of grand proportions.
After 2 years of development, Black Metro was primed to
showcase at the 2022 UK Games Expo. Overwhelmingly positive
feedback, signalled the greenlight to advance the project toward a
physical print run, following the digital release on Steam PC.

FEATURES
Workers have dual use: Winning spaces and using spaces
Winning spaces prevents other players from fully using them
Spread workers to use more spaces or consolidate for control
Powerful technologies to ‘mix and match’ playstyles
Minimal tokens for ease of gameplay management

COMPONENTS
1 Double-sided game board (2ft x 2ft)
4 Double-sided player mats
4 Player storage boxes
10 Candidate cards (tarot sized)
146 Game cards (poker sized): 54 Fortunes, 48 Technologies, 24 Missions, 12 Syndicates, 8 Upgrades
94 Wooden game pieces: 72 Units, 20 Trackers, 1 Round marker, 1 First player marker
6 Landmark tiles
1 Six-sided dice
1 Rulebook
1 Discretionary bonus limited edition Black Metro hardback book (while stocks last)

TESTIMONIALS
“It is hard to say in very simple terms exactly what kind of game Black Metro is, because it incorporates different elements that combine to make the whole experience something with its own flavour, and greater than a simply rehashed sum of the parts. There is worker placement, area control, resource management and a few other things besides, which sounds like a recipe for a multi-layered headache, but actually everything comes together in a really solid and satisfying way.”
– Nicholas O’Neill

“This is a deep, thinky game with straightforward rules and a fine tuned gameplay that flows intrinsically.”
-Ty Napier

“It’s an awesome blend of worker placement and area control which really makes you consider more where to place your units.”
-Dizz (BoardGameFanatic)

CREDITS
Game Designer: Emesh De Zoysa
Artists: Diego Sanchez and Nathan Pool

CONTACT
For press kit, and other enquiries, please contact info@absoluteascendancy.com

Design by Yoni Goldstein, art by John Biggs, development by Joe Dewhurst & Ronen Goldstein

A new board game about revolutionary spectacle & civil disorder at the Democratic National Convention riots of 1968.

In CHICAGO ‘68, players take the roles of either the Establishment or the Demonstrators in this fast-paced game of street clashes, tear gas, and political spectacle.

The game tells the story of the “Yippies”, a young ragtag band of revolutionaries and political pranksters, and their allies in the antiwar movement, who took to the streets during the election year of 1968. They faced a powerful adversary: the Chicago Police Department, the Army National Guard, and the Windy City’s notorious political “machine” – the smoke filled back rooms of party bosses and city administrators.

Players will find CHICAGO ‘68 to be intuitive, thematic, and tactically rich. It combines a “units on the map” style of asymmetrical conflict simulation with area control, tableau activation, and hand building mechanics.

Each side plays from two unique hands consisting of leadership and rank-and-file actions. These include deploying police platoons and conducting mass arrests, leading marches and giving speeches, and working the delegates on the convention floor. The Establishment must maintain law and order in the eyes of the American Public (represented in-game as “Exposure” points) while also ensuring that their handpicked nominee is voted by the delegates (represented by the delegate track and the cube-pull from the delegate bag). The Establishment player must manage to dominate both of these victory conditions in order to win. The Demonstrators, on the other hand, can win the game by leading in either of the two conditions. They can pivot from street battles to the political arena, making them a reactive and chaotic force to contend with.

The game is built around an open event system that encourages emergent narratives and multiple historical possibilities. These are represented by the “street theater” cards that the Yippie agitators are adding to their tableau: a powerful splay of effects that can trigger once their pieces are positioned at the right time and place. The Mayor can respond with new policies and police tactics; an array of card effects that can radically reshape the game state… but grow progressively more costly as the game unfolds.

CHICAGO ‘68 supports 1-4 players in solo, competitive, cooperative, and team play modes.
Duration: 45 mins per player or 90 mins (solo) + teaching time.

In Plate It Up, players use random ingredients to create outrageous, delicious, or just plain weird dishes. Inspired by a player-selected star ingredient and scenario like “She was a 10 until she ordered…” or “While driving stick, I once saw my dad eating…”, each player crafts the perfect dish to outdo the others. For example, “She was a 10 until she ordered a deep-fried hot dog covered in sprinkles.” The chef who earns the most orders each round takes a step closer to being crowned the ultimate culinary champion.
“Our mission with Plate It Up is to create a game that adapts to every group that plays,” said Justin Martin, Owner of Blue Wasatch Games. “Whether you’re making a dish to tickle an 8-year-old’s funny bone, or a culinary masterpiece you know grandma would love, Plate It Up provides a place for everyone’s creativity to shine. Every round is unique, not only because of the scenarios and ingredients, but because of the people we play with.”
Plate It Up Key Features:
● Quick Bites: Featuring fast-paced 5-minute rounds and simple rules, ensuring an enjoyable and straightforward experience for players of all ages.
● Everybody Plays: In Plate It Up, unlike other party games, every player actively submits dishes each round and participates in voting, ensuring a dynamic and inclusive experience for all players.
● Immersive by Design: Plate It Up completely immerses each player with unique punny restaurants, matching restaurant order tokens, and completely unique menus for creating and displaying dishes.
● Endless Imagination: Plate It Up includes over 350 ingredients and scenarios, meaning every game offers a new recipe for laughter and creativity.

For more information or press assets, visit https://www.bluewasatch.com/pages/press.

Plate It Up is available on Amazon here or on our website here.

Retailers and distributors interested in partnering with us can contact us at sales@bluewasatch.com.

About Blue Wasatch Games
Blue Wasatch Games is a family run game company and creator of bestseller, Bamboozled. It creates unique and innovative products that inspire, entertain and encourage families and friends to spend time together. The mission of Blue Wasatch Games is to create games and experiences that deepen connections and encourage time spent together. The company strives to provide reasons to get together, spark conversations, share laughter, and create memories.

Los Angeles, CA, 5/28/2024 – Thunk Board Games, an industry leader in indie tabletop gaming, is thrilled to announce the digital release of their acclaimed board game “Don’t Let It Die” on the Android platform via the Google Play Store.

Thunk Board Games, under the leadership of Dustin Hendrickson, combines traditional gaming elements with innovative design principles from the digital realm. Hendrickson, a seasoned gamer and programmer with extensive experience in game design, has steered Thunk Board Games to the forefront of the industry, offering games that ensure depth and replayability.

“Don’t Let It Die,” a prehistoric survival board game, seamlessly transitions from its physical form to a captivating digital experience. The game offers a dramatic solo adventure with strategic depth, blending tribe building, resource management, and adaptability into a compact, engaging, and replayable experience.

Set in a prehistoric world, the adventure begins with a momentous event: a lightning strike igniting a lone tree, bestowing your tribe with the invaluable gift of fire. This monumental discovery becomes the cornerstone of your survival. Players are immersed in a world where the fate of their tribe hangs in the balance, faced with the relentless threats of hunger, predators, and the unforgiving elements of a bygone era.

In “Don’t Let It Die,” the battle to keep the flame alive against all odds adds a vital layer to your strategic considerations. Will you prioritize gathering food, fueling the ever-hungry flame, or crafting vital tools and weapons? Each decision is critical, potentially spelling the difference between the prosperity and extinction of your tribe.

“Don’t Let It Die” is now available for download on the Google Play Store. Dive into this prehistoric adventure and ensure the survival of your tribe through strategic decision-making and resource management.

For more information, please visit https://thunkboardgames.com/digital or follow us on https://twitter.com/thunk_games

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ThunkBoardGames.DontLetItDie

Press Contact:

Thunk Board Games
Dustin Hendrickson
Owner
thunkboardgames@gmail.com

Dated: 04/10/2024

A fast-paced, mouth-watering game for the whole family!
“¿Cuántos Tacos?”

www.BonkaGames.com

Bonka Games, founded and created by Rachel Mayne in 2022, is excited to unveil its latest creation, ¿Cuántos Tacos?, which is set to be published through an upcoming Kickstarter funding campaign. Inspired by a passion for games and a love for tacos, Rachel Mayne embarked on a journey to create a unique gaming experience that brings together family and friends for a fast-paced, dice-chucking fiesta.

¿Cuántos Tacos? is the brainchild of Rachel Mayne, whose inspiration for the game stems from her love for tacos and the joy of playing games with her husband. Combining elements from their favorite games, Rachel embarked on the journey of designing her first game prototype. After a year of rigorous playtesting and tweaking, the final product, ¿Cuántos Tacos?, promises to deliver endless fun and excitement for players of all ages.

Described as a fast-paced, dice-chucking fiesta, ¿Cuántos Tacos? invites players to compete against each other in a race to make as many tacos as possible. With every roll of the dice, players must strategize to fulfill taco orders worth various points, keeping the game engaging and unpredictable.

In ¿Cuántos Tacos?, players take turns rolling six dice, each representing tortillas, proteins, toppings, and sauces. Players have the flexibility to keep or re-roll dice to complete their taco orders, while also utilizing bonus actions such as re-rolling or locking dice on other players’ turns. The game continues through a set number of rounds, with points awarded for completed taco orders and deducted for incomplete ones. The player with the most points at the end emerges as the winner, making every game session a thrilling competition.

Bonka Games, founded by Rachel Mayne in 2022, is a game development company dedicated to creating innovative and entertaining tabletop games for families and friends to enjoy. With a passion for creativity and a commitment to quality, Bonka Games aims to deliver memorable gaming experiences that bring people together.

For more information and reviews, please visit www.BonkaGames.com.
Kickstarter prelaunch page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rachelmayne/cuantos-tacos-a-dice-chucking-fiesta-for-the-whole-family

To join the taco-making fiesta and learn more about ¿Cuántos Tacos?, visit our website at www.BonkaGames.com. Get ready to roll the dice, assemble your tacos, and compete for taco supremacy!

For media enquiries about Bonka Games Contact:
Rachel Mayne Founder & CEO
Phone: (816) 223-6033
cuantostacos@bonkagames.com

Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710384861/sake-sorcerers-adventures-kings-and-economics-rulebook

SAKE is a fantasy roleplaying game with elements of a strategy game. In SAKE, you play the ruler of a domain, a merchant prince, a pirate lord or start as an adventurer with the goal of rising to power.

SAKE (Sorcerers, Adventures, Kings, and Economics) is the game for players who want:
• Play a pirate, adventure on the seas, trade with faraway cultures, and battle the imperial navy trying to catch you.
• Or play a warlord: build up your domain, hire armies, and construct castles to wage war against your rivals.
• Play as a sorcerer deeply interested in dangerous magic, not afraid to enter the Otherworld in search of more power.
• Or play as a priest as a sort of collector of gods, haggling with alien and fickle deities to channel their immense power.
• Campaign of building and managing a kingdom while its inner politics are in turmoil, and its powerful nature god wants the blood of its rulers.
• Campaign of trading and adventuring on the seas, with a ship as your home.

You delve into dungeons, explore pockets of the Otherworld to find treasures, make pacts with fickle gods, study dangerous magic, scheme to assassinate rivals, trade to gather resources and raise an army to fight wars.

SAKE is a full pointbuy system, which means all character development happens by buying skills and abilities using EXP gained from Your character’s personality traits and events during gameplay.

SAKE is designed to take place in an early modern (fantasy) world, with muskets and plate armour, cannons and galleys, rising capitalism and waning feudalism. With magic and gods mixed in.

The game’s rules support more serious types of campaigns, like balancing between different political interest groups when playing domain ruler, or deciding how far one is ready to go when meddling with gods or magic for power that could save their party and/or domain.

Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav
Seventh Son Publishing, LLC
sake@sake.ee
www.sake.ee

Join us on this journey and help us create something truly special. Back this project today and let’s build this game together.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/undertreegames/mad-m

A cool card game for you called Monkey Madness. It’s a super fun game that mixes laughter and strategy for your game nights. Imagine swinging through the jungle and becoming the ultimate champion of Monkey Madness!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/undertreegames/mad-matc…

Ready for a wild adventure? Come swing from tree to tree with us and become the master of Monkey Madness. Support us now, and let’s make this awesome game a reality! Together, we’ll bring the jungle to your gaming table!

iOS – https://apps.apple.com/app/stone-age-digital-edition/id6445834434

Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acram.StoneAge

As part of our commitment to excellence and transparency, we are offering exclusive access to the current beta tests to the press members. You can also receive full access to conduct a detailed review and coverage following the official launch.

Why Stone Age: Digital Edition?

Stone Age brings the strategic depth and engaging gameplay of the classic board game to digital platforms, offering an accessible yet challenging experience for players of all levels. With its rich visuals, intuitive interface, and faithful recreation of the original game’s mechanics, Stone Age: Digital Edition is poised to be a standout title in digital board gaming.

For press inquiries, additional information, and access to media assets, please email contact@acram.eu or simply respond to this message! We are available for interviews, previews, and to provide any further details you may need.

Thank you for your attention – we are eager to see your coverage and to welcome players into the rich, prehistoric world of Stone Age.