Thanks to everyone who visited us at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry for their third annual Mini Maker Fair. We feel so honored to have been part of this great gathering of DIY artists and creators from the start.
Many of you asked where you could find a copy if our games, so here are some links!
Minions of the Meadow is in en route to or in the hands of backers all over the world! It’s been a long road, but it’s incredibly exciting to see those Trapdoor Spiders, Ladybirds and Centipede Broodmothers marching across your game tables.
Don’t worry if you missed out on the Kickstarter: you can order right here.
Weird 
City Games is excited to announce that we will be teaming up with the STEM Center (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Portland Community College to offer our first ever Board Game Design camp this Spring Break.
During the camp, kids from 10-14 will learn and play many different types of games, become familiar with common terms and game design concepts, build their skills of collaboration and positive feedback, and design a board game as a group!
Spring Break Camps – March 27th-30th
Location – All workshops/camps will be held at the
PCC SE STEM Center SCOM 231 – 2305 SE 82nd Ave
Age – 10 -14
Price – $185
Join the Weird City Games design team and learn to create worlds and tell stories through game design. Throughout the week we will be working as a group to design a brand new tabletop game. Each day will be a blend of learning new games, discussing how games work, and prototyping and playtesting our own game. Intrigued? Find out more and sign up here!
Wow! Wow! Wow!
You know that feeling when you have been exercising for hours and you are tired but energized, when your body is depleted but you have acclimated to the effort and are boosted by endorphins and the joy of a challenge? Pure. Adrenaline. That is how we feel right now! This campaign has been a marathon six-legged march and all our backers have carried us farther than we thought possible; we are left pleasantly exhausted and full of gratitude and excitement to get this game made.
If you missed out on the campaign, you can still pre-order a copy of the game and expansion here!
As spring dawns the great thaw begins. Deep beneath the lush meadow grasses the queen stirs in her nest and the colony comes to life. Soldiers venture forth, battling centipedes while clashing with opposing colonies for territory. Workers dig an ever-expanding network of tunnels in their tireless search for food. The first larvae hatch and it is clear this generation will be different: the young colonies rapidly evolve into a multitude of new forms. The ants march out to claim the meadow as their own.
In March of the Ants, you create the shared Meadow board by sending your ants to explore it, revealing and strategically placing two dozen unique tiles like Fern, Pebble, and Nest of Centipedes.
Populate new territory by breeding larvae and marching your ants onto collection sites. Will you engage competing colonies in battle, seeking to claim the land for yourself? Or will you establish peaceful, symbiotic relationships and share the spoils? All of this must be done while carefully managing the resources in your underground nest.
Forage for Event Cards like Strange Appetite, Cold Snap, and Fungal Outbreak to impact the entire board – or just one unlucky opponent.
Mutate your colony with special Evolution Cards like the Trap Jaw head, Weaver thorax, and Leaf Cutter abdomen. What weird and wondrous path will your colony’s evolution take: advanced Workers, fearsome Soldiers, or a fertile Queen?
Emerge triumphant by scoring Colony Points as your ants explore and control the Meadow. Search for Colony Goals like Epic Stores, Followers of the Eyeless, and Extensive Tunnels to plan your route to victory.
March of the Ants takes strategy underground…literally!
In Minions of the Meadow colonies gain powerful new tools to aid in their expansion and conquest. Major Workers enhance your abilities to explore and battle while Aphid Farms grant majestic rewards. Parasitic Evolutions thwart your opponents’ best laid plans while Tactics create a deeper level of plotting and scheming during combat. Beware fearsome new Predators as they are drawn to the most successful colonies in the meadow, eager and hungry.
The wolf is on the loose, spreading fear and panic throughout the countryside. You must quickly build three houses to protect yourself and those lackadaisical siblings of yours. Choose where to gather, decide if you want to visit your secret stash, trust that premonition you had, or throw a fancy party. Build quickly and build wisely.
Journey to the depth of space as the captain of a space-trawler and claim your fortune among the stars. Your ship is designed for long missions and extracting ore from asteroids. Plunder loot by hiding in cosmic clouds and raiding un-expecting mining operations. Get rich by exploring the unknown and mapping complete space formations. Make negations with explored planets, to lease their ships and expand your fleet. Push your ship into overdrive to do as much as possible, but beware of a system failure which will put your ship out of business.
Space Miner is tile game of exploration where players reveal tiles to create mine-able asteroid fields or nebulas capable of hiding a surprise attack, and roll dice to explore, extract or conquer space. Keep rolling the dice to take additional actions, but each time roll an extra overdrive dice. The more action you take the more likely your ship is to be destroyed, causing you to start your new turn from scratch.Advanced rules add the Space Mining Council rules where the formations your ships occupy grant you influence in the treacherous council of mining captains. Elect players to add advantages or disadvantages to players, or enact laws to change the rules of the game. The need to hold formations creates a tension between wanting to take more actions and needing to maintain a captain’s influence.
2-3 players in 30-45 minutes.
The Weird City Games crew is proud to announce the debut of our podcast, The Homnifriend Playtime Hour. For a full explanation of what the heck that means, plus other tidbits and thoughts from the Weird City Crew, tune in here: Episode 1: I’ll Back That!
