Dice Tower News

Master designer Paolo Mori and publisher KOSMOS have announced an English version of Rustling Leaves . The title originally released in Germany as and is a roll-and-write game, spanning four seasons.

The sheet for Rustling Leaves is a 10x10 square grid of various animals and plants. Each turn, one player rolls the custom dice, which range in value from 1 to 4. Then, everyone marks off an area of their sheet whose length and width are equal to the die rolls, and scores all of one object type within that defined space....

Takenoko by designer Antoine Bauza is a super popular title about managing a garden, growing bamboo, and of course having that bamboo eaten by a panda. In Takenoko, players manage their actions - placing new garden tiles, moving the gardener, irrigating the fields, and moving the panda, all in order to fulfill goal cards.

Publisher Bombyx has teased a new roll-and-write version of this 2011 classic, and I use the term roll and write quite literally. In Takenokolor , co-designed by Bauza and Corentin Lebrat , players “roll”...

Publisher Ravensburger in collaboration with crowdfunding platform Gamefound are looking for the next big family game. Literally.

The publisher behind The Castles of Burgundy , Puerto Rico and The Quest for El Dorado is holding a contest for all those wanna-be game designers out there. Starting November 15, the public is encouraged to submit game ideas online. Ravensburger is specifically looking for family games targeting ages 7 and up, 60 minute playing time max. Promising designs will be asked to send in a prototype, and a jury will...

“The Vampire Council is looking to hire a new city planner to turn Transylvania into the world's newest tech haven! The race is on to present to the Vampire Council the most organized plans for the city to renovate Transylvania into Siliconvania!”

Siliconvania from Reavers of Midgard and Flotilla designer J.B. Howell and publisher WizKids is first and foremost a tile laying game. Bid on tiles that give either immediate or end game effects, then place them in a growing 4x4 city grid. Or bid on...