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Summer's almost here in the northern hemisphere. High temperatures. Blazing sun. Bugs. ... ... Sounds like a perfect time to stay inside where it's cool and play some board games. And that's just what AEG's making easier for you with their Summer Sale happening now.

From the announcement:

Summertime means friends and game nights! Enjoy them with some of AEG's hottest titles, including Tiny Towns, Calico, Point Salad, Meeples & Monsters and more!

Head to alderacstore.com now to take advantage of these great deals before they cool!

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If you're looking to head back into the dungeons of Thunderstone Quest but you're wishing you had some new foes to tackle, you're in luck. AEG has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Nature's Wrath and Rotten Roots, a pair of new quests for the deck-builder game.

From the campaign:

The campaign's more than 2x funded with 9 days left to go.

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Wormholes is coming soon from AEG. They asked peter McPherson, the game's designer, to give us all a bit of insight into its creation. We get a bit of the base foundation in this first entry.

From the article:

Peter McPherson talks about the origins of this little game in big space, leading up to its release. Let’s tear some wormholes in space-time!

I can point to the moment of inspiration for this game: re-reading Becky Chamber’s incredible book The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. The story focuses on a diverse crew of humans and aliens on a ship that links planets together with wormholes.

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I mean, Community Manager would be cool, but what if you could be the one in charge of it all? AEG is looking to hire a new VP of Sales & Marketing. If you're wanting to shoot straight to the top, here's your chance.

From the posting:

Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) is a progressive and dynamic company that makes a range of board and card games, with the ambition to be the best small games company in the world. As part of the growth of our company, we are looking for the right individual to join our leadership team.

This position will lead our company by: creating innovative and effective marketing plans; in managing a team of sales & marketing staff; in identifying opportunities for growth in new channels and with new products; and in participating in the strategic planning for the company as a whole.

The successful candidate for this position will have prior experience in a managerial role overseeing sales & marketing teams. Will be able to demonstrate the ability to create an actionable plan for marketing & sales. Will have excellent interpersonal skills and a history of connecting with important people in appropriate channels. Will be capable of assembling a sales forecast and a marketing budget. Will be experienced in leveraging trade shows, consumer shows, and advertising platforms including Facebook and Google to drive revenue. Will be driven to expand the reach of AEG to new audiences.

We are seeking a senior leader who can join our team and immediately have an impact; this is a position suitable for someone with five or more years of management experience, who is comfortable with accountability for revenue generation.

The successful applicant can be based anywhere in the world and will work from home.

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Beware the cute things. It may seem like a good idea to just have the cute Priggles around, but they're clingy little bastards. So, even though they're good for getting rid of aliens, it can be hard to get rid of THEM in return. The Problem with Priggles is a new expansion for The Captain is Dead that's available now from AEG.

From the website:

Nobody knows what Priggles are or where they came from. What is known is that they don’t like the aliens. Or maybe it’s the aliens that don’t like them? Either way, who cares? The important thing is that they can be used against the aliens, and that makes them really handy. Unfortunately, they’re clingy little things, and once they get their cute little hooks in you, it can be really hard to shake them off...

 CONTENTS  

• 9 Priggle Cards

• 1 Cargo Pod Card

• 2 Rules Cards

• 2 Reference Cards

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A new meeple-rolling game (yes, meeple-rolling) is coming to Kickstarter next month from AEG. It's called Rolling Heights. Head on through to sign up and be notified when the game launches.

From the announcement:

John D Clair's brand new strategic meeple-rolling game of city building and expansion comes to Kickstarter on February 8th. Featuring the art of Kwanchai Moriya. Don't miss out!

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AEG's certainly not sitting out the sales time of year. They've got special deals where you can get 50% off select games and even end up with a free copy of Thunderstone Quest: Barricades.

From the announcement:

It's a great time to complete your collections or pick up gifts for friends and loved ones during our huge Black Friday sale! For a limited time you can get many games for 50% OFF, and shipments in the U.S. over $100 receive FREE shipping! Plus some other amazing deals as well, read on!

50% OFF

•   Inner Compass

•   Istanbul Dice

•   Scorpius Freighter

•   Atelier: The Artist's Studio

•   Cheaty Mages

•   The Captain is Dead: Lockdown

•   ALL Microexpansions!

And for a limited time:

Buy Thunderstone Quest retail edition, receive the Thunderstone Quest: Barricades retail edition FREE!

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Black Friday is next week. But going on now, AEG has their Green Friday sale happening. When you order Tiny Towns, you get the entire line of expansions for one special price. Head on over and check it out before it gets away.

From the announcement:

This week sees an amazing last chance offer on Tiny Towns at alderacstore.com. Buy the entire Tiny Towns game line for just $75!

This bundle includes the Tiny Towns base game, the expansions Villagers and Fortune, the Tiny Trees microexpansion, and the Larkstone promo building.

Head to alderacstore.com now to take advantage of this great deal!

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It's the week of Halloween and AEG has a special haunted treat for you. Pick up Whirling Witchcraft and get an extra special surprise with Custom Heroes for free. We're gonna need a bigger plastic pumpkin to hold all these goodies.

From the announcement:

We have a special treat at alderacstore.com this week! Buy Whirling Witchcraft and get Custom Heroes for FREE! Just add Whirling Witchcraft to your card and our store gremlins will put Custom Heroes in there automatically.

 Whirling Witchcraft has you compete with other students to craft powerful potions, while Custom Heroes uses card crafting to let you equip heroes to win a unique ladder-style card game.

 Visit https://alderacstore.com/whirling-witchcraft/ before October 31 to get this great deal!

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The great kings of ancient Egypt were known for being buried with masses of treasure. But now, it's you can land a mass of treasure by getting the Premium Edition of Valley of the Kings from AEG for cheaper than usual. They'll even throw in a free expansion.

From the announcement:

Don't miss this great deal at Alderacstore.com! Valley of the Kings Premium Edition is now 15% OFF at alderacstore.com! And when you order now you'll get the micro-expansion Necropolis for FREE! Stock your tomb with all the best artifacts, riches, and servants for the afterlife to win. One of the most unique deck-building games as what you remove from your deck is as crucial as what you keep.

The Valley of the Kings deal expires 8/22/21.

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The card-crafting game Edge of Darkness is meeting up with the other card crafting game Mystic Vale, as the two stories come together in Emissaries of the Vale, the new expansion for Edge of Darkness up on Kickstarter now.

From the campaign:

The campaign's headed to 3x funded with 9 days left to go.

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A new expansion for the card-crafting worker-placement game, Edge of Darkness, is coming soon to Kickstarter. It's called Emissaries of the Vale and it will add tons of new options to your games. AEG has announced the campaign and posted up a bit more info on their website for you to check out.

From the website:

You’ll need to gather help from the Vale and learn the ways of druidic magic if you are going to defeat the Blight before it destroys the Vale forever! When the dust settles, will your Guild be victorious? Find out in this exciting new release for Edge of Darkness, John D Clair’s award-winning card crafting worker placement game.

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While much of the world is getting back to some semblance of "normal," there's still a lot of questions about conventions and such. If you can't make it out to one, AEG's looking to bring it to you with their Big Game Night Kickstarter. Get yourself two new games from one campaign.

From the campaign:

The campaign's more than 6x funded with 9 days left to go.

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Smash Up has a whole ton of expansions out there. If you've fallen behind, it can seem a bit financially daunting to catch back up. Well, AEG's helping, as they're running a BOGO (Buy One, Get One) sale for Smash Up and its expansions over in their webshop.

From the announcement:

Don't miss this great deal at Alderacstore.com! Buy any Smash Up title and get another of equal or lesser value for FREE!

And best of all, this deal is cumulative! Buy two Smash Up titles, get two for free, and so on. This deal is a great chance to complete your collection, so don't miss it!

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Do you have an idea for the next big game? Or even just a small game you think people would enjoy? Something in-between? Want a chance to get it created? Then AEG is looking for you. They've got their Pitch Project going on now where designers can submit their games that may be picked up by the company for development and distribution.

From the website:

We recently launched the entry information for an AEG Pitch Project. For the next 3 months AEG is closing the normal submissions process and running a PITCH PROJECT for members of our designer forum. 

What is the PITCH PROJECT? The first PITCH PROJECT was the brainchild of Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim and was run on the All But Published website a few months ago for designers to submit games via sell sheet and then the owners of the top sheets, as voted on by a jury of game design professionals, could pitch their games to multiple companies at one time. It was a great success and AEG signed one game and continues conversations with multiple designers who took part. We found it to be such a good way to look at multiple games in a short time, we have asked Jay and Sen to work with us to do an AEG version of the PITCH PROJECT for the members of our design forum. 

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The Dark Council is organizing the monsters in the surrounding countryside to attack the city. Shore up the city's defenses and repel their onslaught in Meeples & Monsters, a new bag-building engine building game from AEG that's up on Kickstarter now.

About the game:

Meeples and Monsters is a big, beautiful bag-building engine builder by designer Ole Steiness (Champions of Midgard and more). Depth, replayability, beautiful components, and a splash of meeple humor will have you coming back for “just one more play” game night after game night!

The campaign funded pretty quickly and is more than 7x funded now with 16 days left to go.

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"Where can I get that cool game?" It's a question gamers ask all the time. Knowing what company's going to be distributing a game can really make a difference in getting that game onto your tabletop. Well, if you're looking for the much-anticipated Cascadia from Flatout Games, you'll want to get in contact with AEG about it, since they'll be handling distribution.

From the announcement:

Flatout Games and Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) announce AEG’s participation in the production and sales of Cascadia.

Flatout Games has followed up their smash hit Calico with Cascadia – A puzzly tile-laying game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest designed by Randy Flynn with gorgeous artwork by Beth Sobel!

Cascadia has already racked up fantastic reviews and tremendous sales through Kickstarter. Now Cascadia will also be made available to retail stores worldwide through AEG.

Interested retailers will be able to order Cascadia from any distributor that carries AEG products

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The great race is on! Cubes of all types are looking to win the annual Cube Cup competition. But who will cross the finish line first? That's up to you to decide in Cubitos, a new board game now available from AEG.

From the website:

Players take on the role of participants in the annual Cube Cup; a race of strategy and luck to determine the Cubitos Champion. Each player has a runner on the racetrack and a support team, represented by all the dice you roll. Each turn you roll dice and use their results to move along the racetrack, buy new dice, and use abilities. But you must be careful not to push your luck rolling too much or you could bust!

Get ready to race with the wackiest group of characters to ever tie on some running shoes!  And with four tracks to choose from, and multiple variants of each character, there are countless ways to play.

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Smash Up is the card game from AEG of sending out Minions and breaking Bases. The game has a bunch of expansions utilizing all kinds of themes and now, a new one is available, and it's a big one. It's Smash Up: Marvel and it's thanks to the partnership between AEG and The OP.

From the announcement:

You’ve waited to have your hand at pitting powerful factions against one another in the first officially licensed version of your tabletop favorite… And that boundless comic world geek-out is finally here! Smash Up: Marvel is now available from The Op and AEG!

This first officially licensed Smash Up product created in partnership with AEG carries on the fantastical concept of their flagship “shufflebuilding” card game, by allowing players to choose two decks of fan favorite characters and combining their powers to dominate the creations of their opponents!

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Warlord was the card game of D20 combat, pitting your fighters against your opponent's. It's been gone for a very long time, but it's coming back, at least in a limited form. AEG will be taking pre-orders for a 20th Anniversary Edition pack starting on February 1st and running until only February 5th.

From the announcement:

The legendary collectible card game of d20 combat, Warlord had a long history with many players still active in tournaments and leagues to this day. Warlord is a long-time favorite of many at AEG, and we did not want to let the 20^th Anniversary of this classic game pass without a tribute.

In the days of the CCG, Warlord was unique in its “Challenge System” which allowed players to take on rare and powerful enemies at special events. The most coveted of these were the Medusan Lords, completely unique cards that represented the creators’ own role-playing game characters. Defy the odds and defeat one and the player claimed it as their own. 

In this special 20^th Anniversary pack, we look back at the origins of the Medusan Lords, when they were simple Warlords. This will allow everyone to build all-new decks using these characters! And included are items related to each, a new challenge Overlord, and a new alternate-art of the always useful Brine Fiend!

As said, the only way to make sure you get a copy is to pre-order February 1 through February 5, 2021 at alderacstore.com.

• Orders will be accepted through those dates.
• Each account may order up to 10 copies.
• After pre-orders end, the product will go to press and be shipped by this summer.

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I know. I know. We don't cover CCGs all that often on the page. However, this one is kinda close to my heart. Warlord was a game I played way back in the day. Heck, my LGS had the Warlord fever so much, one guy was even nicknamed Warlord Guy. Well, the game's not been around in a long time, but AEG is releasing a new set.

From the article:

After two decades, a classic of the CCG era returns. Warlord: Saga of the Storm is back for a birthday celebration. This year will see the release of a 20th Anniversary Celebration pack featuring all-new cards for the game. This pack is a look at who some of the Medusan Lords were when they were but Warlords. You can build entirely new decks around them! Including my favorite, and the first Medusan Lord defeated, Nassiral Hate.

You may be asking yourself, “why is AEG producing a set for a game that has not been published in nearly 15 years, and have no current plans to bring it back?” 

Four reasons:

1. We still love the game.
2. The fans, who have become our friends over the decades, are still connected, playing and trading cards.
3. We loved the idea of exploring the history of some of our favorite characters.
4. 20 years is an amazing milestone for any game product.

Warlord was pitched to me when the d20 craze was in full swing. I loved the game but the cherry on top of the pitch was they wanted to use my game world as the setting for Warlord. We launched Warlord using the tag line “The game you already know how to play” and if you had ever played a d20 roleplaying game you did indeed know how to play. We gave away 400,000 decks, inserting them into all of the major magazines, distributor catalogs, and handing them out at shows. Yes, you read that right, 400,000. That’s almost half a million. It was a huge gamble but it paid off and Warlord: Saga of the Storm was the greatest launch of a new game in AEG’s history.

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The cube. It's a pretty standard shape. 6 equal sides. Pretty unassuming. But when the cubes are trying to race as quickly as they can across the finish line, things will get interesting. And that's what you'll be doing in Cubitos, a new board game coming next month from AEG.

About the game:

Cubitos is on the way to stores near you! February 19th will see the release of John D Clairs next exciting game, putting you in role of wacky cube creatures racing for the win, and the bizarre team that helps them!

Race across the board using abilities found on dice you collect along the way. Will you try for creative abilities to overcome obstacles, or just go for a flat out run as fast as possible? Either might work, or you might end up flat on your back. Learn more in these great reviews and play throughs!

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Do you have a game idea? Do you think it'd be the next big thing in gaming? Want to get it published by one of the biggest publishers in the business? Well, AEG is taking submissions and in this time of COVID-19, they've had to change their format for doing so. They've posted updated guidelines for sending them a game to try.

From the post:

The New Normal

I am John Zinser CEO of AEG but my current title and job is Director of Creative. This means I’m responsible for making sure AEG makes the greatest games we can. And that’s where you come in. 

The time of Covid has certainly changed the way we review games and develop them. In 2019 AEG staff members were gathering at the awesome AEG Larkstone house multiple days each week, playing games and reviewing submissions in person. That is no longer happening.  

We have adapted. Now, for AEG, it’s Zoom Calls, Videos, and Tabletop Simulator. But the goal is the same – find great games. TTS has proven invaluable as we not only use it to see game submissions, but also to test our games in development. 

OUR PROMISE TO YOU

Our strategy is to publish fewer games and sell more copies of each.. If we publish your game, it is going to get a lot of promotion and attention in the marketplace. This will translate into sales and more royalties for you. This isn’t just corporate talk, in the last three years we have:

• Increased the sales of most new games we have launched. 
• Increased the number of games that get reprints 
• We have had excellent success on Kickstarter.
• Increased our international business ten fold.  

AEG’s success in these areas have led directly to increased royalties to our designers.

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One last sales announcement for you today. This one's from AEG and it's a 20% off of everything sale going on now. It's 20% because 2020, but if you hold out, I bet it'll be even better in 2099 (not a guarantee. You should probably just go take advantage of the sale they're having now).

From the announcement:

Everything in the AEG Online Store is on sale this week. We just couldn't wait for Black Friday! You can get ANYTHING in the online store at 20% off just by using the code 202020 at check out!

That's right, this deal is good for everything from Smash Up to Thunderstone Quest, Ecos to Point Salad. And not only that, it also applies to our new micro-expansions such as Tiny Towns: Tiny Trees and Mystic: Vale: Evergreen.

Don't miss this amazing deal through November 30th on alderacstore.com.

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Build your deck, gather your gear, and head down into the dungeon. AEG's Thunderstone Quest is more than a deck-builder, it's a dungeon-delver too. And it's got two new expansions up on Kickstarter.

About the Campaign:

Thunderstone Quest is Hall-of-Fame designer Mike Elliott’s deck-building game of dungeon exploration. During each game, you control a group of heroes represented by your deck. During your turn you can choose to visit the village to heal up and gear up, or you can look for glory and fame by entering the dungeon where you can fight monsters for victory points and loot. The game ends in a dramatic boss where you try to take down the Guardian – a powerful enemy of great renown. Each Quest is a series of games that let you experience an exciting narrative story through unique set-ups and developing card interactions.

In Darkness Rising, you’ll have to deal with Count Mortas. A villian who feeds off the life force of the citizens of Ebonwood, a dimension shrouded in perpetual twilight. New heroes rise to take down the Count. To do so, they may decide to draw on dark powers themselves, but they must be careful, draw too much and all will be lost!

In Miricelle’s Return, one of Thunderstone’s most popular characters tries to take down Thunderstone Keep itself! Miricelle returns to Thunderstone Keep and with her an army of Scions and entranced heroes. It’s up to a ragtag group of outcasts to save Thunderstone Keep in the epic conclusion of the Miricelle story arc!

In addition to the two new quests, The Enemies Among Us comes with an additional Superdeluxe box big enough to fit all the contents of this Kickstarter AND the last one for easy storage. We’re also including more than 300 printed plastic dividers so you can upgrade all of your current paper dividers.

The campaign's more than 3x funded, but it's a quick one with only 9 days left.

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