Newsletter 19-219:
NEW GAMES FROM ION GAME DESIGN
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NEW GAMES FROM ION GAME DESIGN

NEW GAMES FROM ION GAME DESIGN


Dear Customers,

there are several new games for pre-order from our publisher Ion Game Design.

BIOS: GENESIS 2ND EDITION
BIOS: GENESIS 2ND EDITION

You start as an ingredient in the primordial soup, and try to create life. Solitaire, competitive, and cooperative play options. This is the first game in the Bios:Trilogy, being followed by Bios:Megafauna 2 and Bios:Origins 2. The Bios games are linked yet independent.
Special: If you order over 200 euros, shipping is free! (Must be in a single order.)
Compared to the 1st edition, there are components now for 4 instead of 3 organisms for each player, 100 new commissioned artworks, 68 page rules/ science background, & a folding player aid.

Pre-Order BIOS: GENESIS 2ND EDITION now at Spiel direkt eG.
BIOS: MEGAFAUNA 2ND EDITION
BIOS: MEGAFAUNA 2ND EDITION

Start as a plant or animal making first landfall half a billion years ago, then evolve it on drifting continents in the face of competition and huge ecological events: Win if become the dominant herbivore or carnivore.
In the full game you can grow from 200 grams to 20 tonnes. The atmosphere is tracked for oxygen, cloud cover, and greenhouse gases, and the decisions the players make influence the climate.
Bios Megafauna comes with 8 "continents" that can drift around, 160 mutation cards, 140 wooden laser-cut creeples of flying, burrowing, swimming, and armored creatures, various tokens of fossils and monsters, 110 wooden cubes, 42 climate disks, and 20 dice (mainly to track creature size). For the full game, there are 3 latitude strips and a climate board that tracks oxygen, clouds, and greenhouse gases. The game is the second game of the "Bios" trilogy, which can be played together or separately.

Pre-Order BIOS: MEGAFAUNA 2ND EDITION now at Spiel direkt eG.
BIOS:ORIGINS (SECOND EDITION)
BIOS:ORIGINS (SECOND EDITION)

We have reworked the game Origins from ground up, keeping its bottom-up take on civilization games, but with new features to integrate it with the arc from the predecessor games Bios:Genesis and Bios:Megafauna (second edition). The old Origins had dice, these are gone, but the classic map is retained.
Bios:Origins include 2 maps. One traditional Earth map and one more empty ocean map. New is a hexgrid, found on the back of the map board, for building custom maps. This can be used to to create custom maps using the punch out hexes included in Bios:Origins or recreate the cratons from an end state of Bios:Megafauna (second edition) if you are playing a trilogy campaign game.
The empty ocean map can be used in your Bios:Megafauna game too if you want, while playing that.
The cards have been sorted in categories of Culture, Politics, and Industry, and a Market has been added.

Pre-Order BIOS:ORIGINS (SECOND EDITION) now at Spiel direkt eG.
PAX PORIFRIANA 2:ND COLLECTORS EDITION
PAX PORIFRIANA 2:ND COLLECTORS EDITION

Pax Porfiriana– Latin for "The Porfirian Peace" – refers to the 33-year reign of dictator Porfirio Díaz, who ruled Mexico with an iron hand until toppled by the 1910 Revolution.
As a rich businessman (Hacendado) in the turbulent pre-revolutionary borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico, players compete to build business empires of ranches, mines, rails, troops, and banks while subverting opponents with bandidos, Indians, and lawsuits.
Your overarching interest in all your investments is to gather enough prestige in the form of backers and justification in order to be able to seize power during one of the periodic times of turmoil where the leadership of the country is hanging on by a thread.

Pre-Order PAX PORIFRIANA 2:ND COLLECTORS EDITION now at Spiel direkt eG.
PAX TRANSHUMANITY
PAX TRANSHUMANITY

In the game designer Matt Eklund's own words: Pax Transhumanityis a game about idea development in a non-dystopian near future. In traditional Pax-style, the players have access to a marketplace of ideas to compete over.
Unlike other Pax games, there are no hands or tableaux in the traditional sense. The players’ goal is to invest in viable ideas and use infrastructure to release them to the world. Once an idea is commercialized it becomes part of the human progress splay, becoming part of human history and making other ideas viable. It will also likely generate growth (new cubes), solve humanitarian problems (VP chits), or break down barriers (place company disks).

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PAX PORFIRIANA / PAX TRANSHUMANITY FOLDING BOARD
PAX PORFIRIANA / PAX TRANSHUMANITY FOLDING BOARD

Double-sided, one side for Pax Porfiriana, and the other for Pax Transhumanity.

Pre-Order PAX PORFIRIANA / PAX TRANSHUMANITY FOLDING BOARD now at Spiel direkt eG.

At the Spiel direkt eG you will find a unique range of games of exceptional publishers.
Just have a look.

Best regards
Henning Poehl
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