To 280 Backers, We did it!

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Mark Anticole once told me that someone gave him many helpful advices and made Nature of the Beast a success. He shared them with me, and fortunately, I will be able to share on my part with a happy ending.

Thank you 280 backers, especially Martijn Althuizen, Mark Anticole, Mark Walker, and Marco Huysmans. We really did it. We made Di Renjie a success on Kickstarter, and it will not happen without any one of you. It is absolutely a real experience of life time and a true honor.

Now it is my great pleasure to get my butt of the chair and do a victory dance for you … no, you really don’t wanna see that … what I really meant was getting Di Renjie printed and ship them to you as soon as possible. Go Go Go!!!

Just to let you know, I am gonna hold on the survey cuz I am not quite sure what to do with it.

In regarding to the origami card holder, I plan to take Karim Moussally’s suggest and ask if you need all six of them. No matter what, you gotta have two cuz I love it a lot and certainly hope you do too :)

For the backers of Family Collection, do you have your photos ready? They are custom made and cut by hand, so we gotta chop chop on the photos. If you have any question, please email me at any time.

It had been awesome, and it is awesome. Thank you all so much and gonna start working now. If you have any question, please feel free to email me.

Cheers,

Ta-Te

Tien Zi Que for 2-9 Players

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We are in process of completing a new version of Tien Zi Que (TZQ) for two to nine players, and it will be published as a revision of the The Battle of Red Cliffs (2009) http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39375/the-battle-of-red-cliffs

The new version TZQ: The Battle of Red Cliffs comes with 130 cards, plus the followings …

1) Action cards and event cards
2) Peng action to temporary interrupt the active player and take a trick.
3) Team play option.
4) Players are able to take 1-2 tricks per turn.
5) A new system to reuse/recycle the game deck throughout the entire game. In other words, players do not reshuffle the entire deck after every game round.
6) Everyone scores at the end of the game round.
7) A new ladder system for scoring. Players must score a number of point in order to advance to the next scoring level.

With luck and your undivded support, we will have it out before end of the year :)

Cheers!
Ta-Te

2012 Project – Mines of the Sacred Dragon

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Mines of the Sacred Dragon is now added to our 2012 game list. For more information on the game and design background, please vist http://sunrisetornado.com/?page_id=478.

At this time, we are working on the rulebook and the artwork of the dragon and etc. Hopefully it will be ready to launch on Kickstarter by end of March.

Kickstarter Demo
A 13-tile print-to-play demo will be available in mid-March, before launching on Kickstarter. Player can download the file and print these 13 color tiles to experience the game before backing the project. Please note, player will need several tokens in order to play the demo.

Solo Sampler
A one player 20-tile solo sampler with 9 tokens will be part of the Kickstarter pledge. It is for player who like solo game that is really compact and inexpensive to ship.

STGS Back Bonus
Player who backed STGS games (such Di Renjie) will receive extra unique tiles as our token of appreciation :)

 

Di Renjie Launches at Kickstarter

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STGS 1st Kickstarter project – Di Renjie – launched on Feb 22nd!

Di Renjie（DRJ）is a delightful deduction card game for 2 to 6 players. It is a family game with lots of interaction that everyone should enjoy.

The theme of the game is loosely based on a famous politician and detective DRJ during Tang Dynasty, and you may find in-depth history information on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di_Renjie.

Please take a short 5 minutes to check out our video and learn more about the project. Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tatewu/di-renjie-deducti…

Thank you for your time and support!

What is on Valentine’s Day?

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So what does 2D6 say about Mountain of Inferno? That’s right, it’s a charming game to play for couples on Valentine’s Day :) http://www.2d6.org/2012/02/games-for-couples-have-a-happy-2d6-valentine/

Meanwhile, we were playtesting our new game “Mines of the Sacred Dragons 龙王宝藏” on Valentine’s Day. “Mines of the Sacred Dragons” is a 1-5 player light strategy abstract puzzle game. The purpose of the game is to explore mines and to connect them for higher score, and girls win every game on Valentine’s Day :) .

Next in Line: The Mines of the Sacred Dragons

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“Miner” is an abstract strategy game for one to four players. The design of the game was completed in 2006 and never published. After intensive playtesting in January of 2012, we have decided to Kickstart “Miner” after “Di Renjie” and rename the game as “The Mines of the Sacred Dragons“. More information on “Miner” can be found in the Prototype section http://sunrisetornado.com/?page_id=408.

In the past few days, we are working on new tile designs for “The Mines of the Sacred Dragons“. Hopefully we will come up with a winner by end of the month :)

《Di Renjie》Making Video for Kickstarter

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Two friends, Ayumi and Miya, came today and cosplayed in the 《Di Renjie》 Kickstarter video. Though the video is short, but it took at least couple hours to prepare and another couple hours to shoot the video.

On the left is Miya, the Empress, and on the right is Ayumi, the Assassin.

The Empress is a bit camera shy, hiding behind 《Di Renjie》 prototype game box.

“Assassin” is an expansion rule for four to six players。Note: Ayumi does NOT come with the game.

“Table table on the floor, who is the Empress of the world?”

After several exhausting hours, we finally finished part of the video. We will be filiming a little bit more tomorrow and ready for editing next week.

See you soon Kickstarter!