Dice Tower News

Publisher Resonym with designers Mary Flanagan and Max Seidman , the team behind the popular party word game Phantom Ink , crowdfunded the real time roll-and-write title Retrograde back in February 2022, and now copies are in the hands of backers. Retrograde has the look and feel of a frantic 1980’s arcade shooter; Roll dice as fast as you can, create combos shown on target cards, and claim the best cards. However, evil droids are populating your sheets, and need to be removed with targeted rolls. If your...

HeroScape: Age of Annihilation has failed to meet its crowdfunding goal, therefore the campaign will not move forward into production. The project, with a singular price point of $250 on Hasbro Pulse , ended with 4,333 backers of the 8,000 goal. Hasbro has published an announcement on what is next for HeroScape: "Our unfortunate answer is… nothing. As we said during the campaign if this project doesn’t meet its goal, we won’t be able to produce Age of Annihilation. That has not changed. HeroScape as a project will be shelved, and there...

New publisher, How to Steam Broccoli (that's really their name), has announced their first game, Tether , designed by Mark McGee ( Kintsugi , Top Pop ) with artwork from Eric Hibbeler ( Trekking Through History , My Father's Work ).

Tether is about astronauts floating in space. It is a card game, where each card has a two-digit number. When the card is rotated in your hand the digits are flipped. For example, a 74 card, can rotate to become a 47 card. Throughout the...

Telecraft is a new title jointly published by Oink Games and Geo Games/Engaging Toys , using their Geo-Fix minis line of snap-together geometric frames. In Telecraft, one player studies a picture of a shape that needs to be assembled from a set of snap-together squares, triangles, pentagrams, and hexagons. They then have only one minute to verbally explain what to do, then everyone else has to assemble the structure on the card. Once one person finishes, they cover their creation with a cloth – no peeking at other players’ constructions....