EVE Online has announced a collaboration with Titan Forge to create a board game adaption of everyone's favourite spreadsheets in space game.
The announcement comes during Gen Con, the largest tabletop convention in North America, and during the 20th anniversary of EVE which is being celebrated throughout the year. The goal with the board game is to bring the space exploration from New Eden, player-driven narratives, and strategy warfare to your dining room table.
Titan Forge is a Polish company that is well-known for their tabletop miniatures and they have also published a few games, notably, the Lobotomy series and Armymals. With their miniatures experience, it is no surprise that the ship pieces look awesome.
The above pieces are modelled after the Widow, Vargur, Paladin, and Kronos ships respectively.
So, how is the game itself? The press release describes it as being a "blend of classic 4x strategy elements and Euro-game mechanics". You will get to command a "diverse fleet of starships" and "delve into the intricacies of interstellar politics, resource management, and tactical combat". It sounds like it has an opportunity to be much like EVE itself, with hopefully less spreadsheets.
If you want to get your hands on it ahead of the official release, the game will be playable for the first time during EVE's upcoming Fanfest event, which is taking place from September 21-23. The only problem? You're going to need to go to Reykjavik, Iceland, which not very many folks visiting our site are from - but we hear it is a beautiful place.
If you're interested, you can sign up to be notified on the launch of their Kickstarter which is scheduled to make a debut in "Q4", after Fanfest.
Comments
Why the hell is such a big company still using kickstarter? Are they so afraid to release a board game from a well known video game. Plus every fan of space themed board games will buy this
A lot of tabletop products go straight for kickstarters. Let's you better estimate the print run you'll need out of the gates, let's you offer people upgrades, and most importantly, mitigates the financial risk entirely.
I do kinda hate it, but I also can't ignore the hype that can be generated through crowdfunding. That in turn creates FOMO and now you've got yourself a copy of a game you maybe didn't really need to be buy right then and there lol.
I bought a copy of Riot's Mechs vs Minions when it originally launched due to FOMO. It's quite a fun game but if it wasn't marketed as having limited supply and being serialized, I don't know if I would have ever bought it. It was a couple of years before I actually ended up playing it.