August 2022 News
Matt Wolfe
Group member Joshua Bowman developed the Guns and Treasure base game, while also co-designing the stand-alone Parrots and Monkeys expansion.
Guns or Treasure is a game for 2-6 players, ages 8+ that plays in 10-15 minutes. Plunge into a world of colorful pirate captains bluffing and battling their way to capture the most loot. The game offers a satisfying shipbuilding experience, rapid rounds of maritime marauding, and Captains whose special abilities can sway the tide of any given battle.
The game and expansion are currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/castillogames/guns-or-treasure
The Wolves, co-designed by group member Clarence Simpson, was announced by Pandasaurus Games.
The Wolves is a pack-building strategy game for 2-5 players. It’s survival of the fittest as you compete to build the largest, most dominant pack by claiming territory, recruiting lone wolves, and hunting prey. But be careful not to expand too recklessly into terrain where your rivals thrive – they may lure members of your pack away!
The Wolves is scheduled for retail release on October 26, 2022. You can learn more at https://pandasaurusgames.com/blogs/news/announcing-the-wolves
Dulce, designed by group member Julio Nazario and published by Stronghold Games, is scheduled for retail release on September 7, 2022.
Dulce, designed by group member Julio Nazario and published by Stronghold Games, is scheduled for retail release on September 7, 2022.
Competition is tough in the world of sweets. You need to plant your fields strategically with cacao, coffee, peanuts, and vanilla, then use those beans efficiently to make the best confectionaries around! Using every resource is necessary to beat out your competition.
In Dulce, each player has their own deck with beans on one side of each card and a factory on the other, as well as their own field in which to plant. Every round, one player draws a card and the others search their deck for the same card, then everyone chooses their action simultaneously: plant, harvest, or build a new factory. Planting gains you new cacao, coffee, peanut, and vanilla resources, and harvesting allows you to use those resources in your factories.
Each confectionary made in your factories earns you one point, and at the end of twenty rounds, the player with the most points wins!