Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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In Arribada, players lay out turtles during a mass nesting event known as an arribada, “arrival by sea.” The goal of the game is to place turtles in groups (sequences or sets) to score points and to make sure as few of your turtles as possible are left stranded by the end of the game. Family means no turtle gets left behind!
Arribada is an approachable strategy game with surprising depth and layered interaction. It’s satisfying and easy to build sets and sequences of your turtles, but things get even more interesting when players begin to fight over the same turtle! Some turtles are better at scoring you quick points, while others are super effective for capturing opponent tiles or gaining bonus turns. When you capture an opponent turtle, it becomes a wild to help you build even more lucrative groups! Meanwhile, players are competing for presence and majorities across the four quadrants for massive end-game points. But be careful, any stranded turtles at game end will hurt your score!
In Seagrass, players take on the role of marine naturalists, exploring the many reefs and colonies of creatures that thrive among these expanding and diverse “rainforests of the sea.”
Seagrass is an approachable strategy game with surprising depth and layered interaction. On your turn, simply expand a colony of aquatic creatures or expand a reef. Your colonies score you more points the bigger they get, and they help you compete for majorities around reefs. Expanding reefs will increase their point value and help you replenish your hand of tiles, but expanding a reef will also make it a more juicy target for your opponents! Playing out multiple tiles of the same type will grant powerful turns, but spreading out your plays will allow you to score the same colonies more times! Decisions are a tricky strategic balance in this underwater ecosystem.
As of April 16th, this project has raised $88,000 of their $15,000 goal. This project has 7 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $39, you will get one game. For a pledge of $78, you will get both games. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitewinggamesnick/arribada-and-seagrass-charming-travel-friendly-board-games?
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