Hello fellow gamers! Harvey Cornell here from Dragon Phoenix Games. In my last post I promised to get the Castles of Burgundy Co-op released in a few days. It has been delayed a bit because we were trying to get the advanced prototype for one of our own game designs out for printing. It is called Blackstone Castle and we will give you some photos of this exciting new game in an upcoming blog after we get the prototype back from the printer.
Our Castles of Burgundy Co-op is a two-three player game. When played with two players, the third player is played as a dummy under control of the two players. This is actually the funnest way to play it in my opinion. The objective of the game is for all three players to completely fill their city grid with hex tiles. In order to make this possible, the game will be played over six rounds instead of five, and the board will be filled with hex tiles as if four players were playing. The victory points are still important as they allow players to get extra help such as rerolling a die or getting extra dice. Thus it plays very similar to the base game with the point salad aspect still being important.
Well, without further ado, here is the Castles of Burgundy Co-op adaptation!
Go to our website to download the instructions here:
www.DragonPhoenixGames.com/friends-and-lovers
Here is the youtube video with our overview of the variant:
Youtube Video
We are also hard at work on getting Above and Below released, the second highest vote getter in our recent poll. We hope to get that one out by next weekend.
Thanks to those of you sent votes in since the last post. We hear you. Keep the votes coming. If nothing changes, the next one up after Above and Below is Viticulture.
Here is an updated list of games that we have co-ops ready for or are working on and we could push ahead to get them ready if we get enough requests.
Ready except for video:
Splendor
Century: Spice Road
Patchwork
Viticulture
Bruges
Tzolk’in
Machi Koro
Rise of Augustus
Mesopotamia
Nearly ready:
Lords of Waterdeep
Grand Austria Hotel
Champions of Midgard
Isle of Skye
Carcassonne: South Seas
The Voyages of Marco Polo
In testing:
Dominion
San Juan
Race for the Galaxy
Euphoria
Agricola
Le Havre
Istanbul
City of Iron
Bora Bora
Concept Development Stages:
Terraforming Mars
Scythe
Terra Mystica
Tikal
7 Wonders
Alhambra
Power Grid
Puerto Rico
Caverna
Let us know what you are interested in and we will try to work on the highest vote getters.
Happy gaming!
Harvey Cornell