From June 1st to August 31st, we will add 1 Summer Season Promo to each and every order made in the web shop. This card, Bactoviral Research, is designed to make microbe strategies more attractive while putting players into various dilemmas: “Should I play it now to get my microbe cards going, or should I wait until I have more science tags?” “Should I play it now to get the extra science tag I need, or should I wait for other science tags to show up?” “Should I place the microbes on a terraforming microbe card, or should I place them on VP-gaining microbe cards?”
Angel Fury is now on Kickstarter, and it is already funded! This is your chance to get it before all others, and at a decent discount as well. Angel Fury is out most elaborate board game project yet. With over 200 miniatures, it is the perfect crossover between miniature war games and board games. So if you like miniature games, but rarely have the time to play them, Angel Fury will fit perfectly in your collection, with play time between 1-2 hours.
The game also features resource management, hand management, deck-building, and asymmetrical player powers. You can see the introduction below, or at the Kickstarter page. We look forward to welcome you there!
Speaking of Kickstarters, many have now received their Terraforming Mars: Big Box, but the process is long and will continue a few more weeks. We’re also in the production step of Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, which is turning out great. Cheers!
Starting today on March 1st, and ending May 30th, we will be adding a brand new Season Promo Card to each order from the web shop. Here it is: Bio Printing Facility!
First off, Prelude is now launched for the digital version! This long awaited expansion has finally landed, and lets players kickstart their engines and makes the game faster. Prelude is by far the most appreciated expansion for Terraforming Mars, and we’re thrilled to have it out there.
On another note, Brexit is soon final, and the coming week up until Thursday is the last week we’ll be able to send orders to the United Kingdom without adding heavy export costs to each order. So make sure to buy your Christmas gifts soon!
Talking about Christmas gifts, we’ve also added Gift Cards to our web shop. If you don’t know what to give, give a gift card and let them choose for themselves!
Lasly, we’re also preparing the next quarterly newsletter. Please consider subscribing if you want the latest news from FryxGames. Head on over to the subscription page now! 🙂
Our collaboration with Hexy Game Studio has reached the start of our first Kickstarter Campaign together. Our game Space Station sees its 2nd edition, and it is now called Star Scrappers: Orbital. We’ve streamlined the rules and the cards, and Hexy has made awesome new graphics for the game.
The Kickstarter Campaign is now live: (follow THIS link to see it).
We’re very happy for this collaboration, and hope the best for the campaign.
It is very exciting for us to announce that we’ve entered a cooperation with Aconyte Books to produce a book series based in the Terraforming Mars universe. The first book is planned for release next summer (2021), with more books coming later. Here is a link to their own press release:
A. Big. Box. Check it out on Kickstarer the 16th of June!
You can already visit the page on Kickstarter and sign up for notifications on updates (visit it here).
FryxGames on Patreon
We’ve launched a Patreon page where you can sign up and join us behind the scenes to get sneak peeks etc. Right now, we’re revealing some new tiles coming in the Big Box to our patrons. We also have a special deal until June 30th that all new patrons get a 50% discount code on any 1 game, expansion, or accessory on our webshop. So we hope to see you there!
Jacob Fryxelius, designer of Terraforming Mars, reveals some of the easter eggs hidden in Terraforming Mars in this weekly article series.
Starry backgrounds
Here’s another cool science fact about Terraforming Mars, and I leave it to Isaac to explain since he was the one who did it:
Thanks Jacob! When I first developed the design for the gameboard… I have to halt here to say that the development of the gameboard is a chapter of its own where I only came in at the end, building on my brothers prototypes… anyway, I put in some random stars for the background. But then I thought, why not have a real background? So I downloaded a space app, Celestia, and travelled to the future Mars, to around 2400, to find a correct and interesting background. So in the main game you can find Mars in the fishes constellation, with the connecting and important star Al Rescha named. I’ll leave any deeper meaning of choosing that star to you… After our first printrun I came across an astronomy book that pointed out that Al Rescha is actually a blue star, so I felt obliged to change that.
I used the same procedure for the Hellas & Elysium map, where I named one star on the map for reference, so it could be possible (if yet very hard) to figure out what stars you are looking at. Those larger stars on the maps are the ones that you can connect to constellations, but even the smaller ones are correctly placed.
Jacob Fryxelius, designer of Terraforming Mars, reveals some of the easter eggs hidden in Terraforming Mars in this weekly article series.
CrediCor
Corporations are sometimes lead by eccentric CEOs, and this is true for CrediCor. This has the effect that CrediCor prioritizes big and spectacular projects!
The CrediCor logo is based on one of the many alchemic symbols for gold, which, suitably, is also similar to the symbol for Mars. It was only slightly altered to have ‘credits in the core’, and even more resembling an asteroid impact – a typical project for CrediCor.
CrediCor’s business activities can be seen in cards like Earth Office and Business Contacts… and they are of course your Allied Bank of choice if you play with PRELUDE (which you do, right?)
The CrediCor logo is based on one of many alchemic symbols for gold, which also resembles an asteroid impact, and also the symbol for Mars. Very suitable!
