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The Tokyo Game Market is the largest games fair in Japan. Our author Sybille Whitehill took a look around the event for us in the spring.
More Play Experiences
The Swiss Museum of Games has had a new director since last year: Selim Krichane. The video game expert told Bruce Whitehill how he would like to raise the profile of the renowned museum on the shore of Lake Geneva.
Please note:
This issue of spielbox includes the mini ex-
pansion “Prince” for Dominion by Donald X.
Vaccarino (Rio Grande Games). For rules clar-
ification read this FAQ from Dominion Strat-
egy Wiki: ◊ “Prince” has you play the same
cheap Action every turn for the rest of the
game. ◊ The turn you play “Prince,” you may set aside
a non-Duration non-Command Action card from your hand costing $4 or less; then every turn after that you play the Action at the start of the turn. Command is a type that appears on cards like this; it has no meaning beyond stopping these cards from playing each other. ◊ If you don’t set aside an Action card, you’ll discard the “Prince” from play during Clean-up. Otherwise, “Prince” will stay in play for the rest of the game. ◊ When playing the set-aside card, normally this means that you follow its instructions. For example, if you set aside a “Village,” you will get +1 Card and +2 Actions at the start of each of your turns. ◊ The Action card stays set aside. If the card tries to move itself (e.g. “Mining Village”), it stays set aside and it fails to move. If the card has a bonus that is conditional on moving itself (such as “Pixie,” which gives “Boons” only if it trashes itself), you won’t get its bonus. But if the bonus is not phrased so as to be conditional on the card moving (such as “Tragic Hero,” which trashes itself and gains a Treasure), you’ll get its bonus. ◊ With cost-reduction, you can set aside a card that normally costs more than $4. ◊ Cards costing Potion or Debt can never be set aside with “Prince.” ◊ Playing the card each turn doesn’t use up your normal Action play, and is mandatory. ◊ At the end of the game, both “Prince” and the set-aside card are re- turned to your deck before scoring. ◊ “Prince” plays its Action on extra turns from “Outpost,” “Possession,” etc. ◊ If you play this with “Throne Room,” you can set aside 2 cards on this. You will play both of them at the start of each of your turns. Both the “Throne Room” and the “Prince” will stay in play for the rest of the game. ◊ If you play a “Nec- romancer” that plays a “Throne Room” that plays a “Prince” twice, the “Necromancer” will stay in play for the rest of the game. ◊ You ordinarily don’t get to play the set-aside card on the turn when you set it aside. However, if you play a “Prince” via an effect triggered by the start of your turn (e.g. with “Piazza” and set aside a card, you’ll play the set-aside card on the same turn. ◊ The start of your turn is part of your Action phase. This matters if you use “Prince” to play “Crown.”
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“A Desire for Another Theme”
Jamey Stegmaier, head of the publishing house Stonemaier Games, explains why the publisher has decided to re-release its bestseller Wingspan (after all, the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2019) in a completely revised form.
Great Honor Plus Impostor Feelings
Connie Vogelmann tells how it felt to follow in Elizabeth Hargrave’s big footsteps when she was developing Wyrmspan.
“I Spent Hours on the Internet”
Luc Rémond won the Spiel des Jahres with Sky Team. In this interview, he talks about how
he got into the subject and what story the individual airports tell.
“Creative Ways to Solve Problems”
Matt Leacock and co-designer Matteo Menapace won the Kennerspiel des Jahres with Daybreak. In the interview with Leacock we talk about scientific facts, the fun of playing, and our own carbon footprint.
“I Enjoy Puttering”
Arno Steinwender and co-designer Markus Slawitscheck won the Kinderspiel des Jahres with Magic Keys. Steinwender tells us about the long journey from starting with the idea to ending with the finished game.
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