New Thunderbirds Co-Operative Boardgame
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 12:28 pmhi there, I've been a long time Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet fan and so it's amazing to be announcing this news. I'm the publisher and founder of Modiphius, a British games company that is producing the new Thunderbirds boardgame.
I'd love to hear your thoughts and get feedback. We're in the final stages of development and will be launching a Kickstarter in february to help fund the main production and extra content to go in the game, it will be released in September this year.
You can read more about it on this page but the draft cover is below: [url="http://www.modiphius.com/thunderbirds"]www.modiphius.com/thunderbirds[/url]. There will be a full set of lovely models of Thunderbirds 1-5 plus Fab 1 in the box (we'll be unveiling these soon), along with character models of the Tracy brothers plus Lady Penelope - all as playable characters. We'll be introducing more vehicles, models and playable characters as part of the kickstarter - and you can help tell us what you'd like to see through a survey on that page.
The game is designed by Matt Leacock, who had huge success with his co-operative Pandemic, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert games and Thunderbirds is also designed to play with your friends, against the game. It's designed as a real cross-over 'geek dad' game where older gamers can play it together or play it with their families and the playtesters seem to be enjoying the tense gameplay.
The whole team are passionate about Thunderbirds and ensuring that it is true to the original series and we have some great surprises up our sleeve to expand the possible options with the game. Now...if this is a success we're thinking about developing a Captain Scarlet game :-)
Look forward to your comments
(Chris)
I'd love to hear your thoughts and get feedback. We're in the final stages of development and will be launching a Kickstarter in february to help fund the main production and extra content to go in the game, it will be released in September this year.
You can read more about it on this page but the draft cover is below: [url="http://www.modiphius.com/thunderbirds"]www.modiphius.com/thunderbirds[/url]. There will be a full set of lovely models of Thunderbirds 1-5 plus Fab 1 in the box (we'll be unveiling these soon), along with character models of the Tracy brothers plus Lady Penelope - all as playable characters. We'll be introducing more vehicles, models and playable characters as part of the kickstarter - and you can help tell us what you'd like to see through a survey on that page.
The game is designed by Matt Leacock, who had huge success with his co-operative Pandemic, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert games and Thunderbirds is also designed to play with your friends, against the game. It's designed as a real cross-over 'geek dad' game where older gamers can play it together or play it with their families and the playtesters seem to be enjoying the tense gameplay.
The whole team are passionate about Thunderbirds and ensuring that it is true to the original series and we have some great surprises up our sleeve to expand the possible options with the game. Now...if this is a success we're thinking about developing a Captain Scarlet game :-)
Look forward to your comments
(Chris)