The· Kickstarter campaign for Frostpunk: Board games So far, about $ 2.5 million has been promised, entering the last 24 hours. This will be one of the biggest video game crossover projects of the year. Polygon told Jakub Wiśniewski, one of the co-founders of Glass Cannon Unplugged, about the details of what fans should expect. Delivery is estimated to be in June 2021 and copies start at € 75 (about $ 88).
Frostpunk It is based on 2018 video game of the same name.. A twisted city builder designed and published by 11 Bit Studio. The city in which the player is responsible is a refugee from another apocalyptic event in Europe during the Victorian era. As a city leader, players are tasked with keeping their citizens warm and safe.
This isn’t the first time Wiśniewski has used 11-bit Studio with a desktop version of its product.He was part of the team behind This War of Mine: Board game, Polygon reviewed in 2017. Unfortunately, we weren’t completely kind to it.
In my opinion, part of the problem was the structure of the game itself. Rather than picking up the best parts of the game and using them as inspiration for the desktop experience, it was just a port, a fine note-by-note reproduction of the video game itself. The result was a boring experience that took too long to play.
Wiśniewski, this time with him and designer Adam Kwapinski ( Lord of Hellas, Nemesis, And other popular desktop games) take a very different approach.
“I don’t call This war of mine It’s a mistake to some extent, “Wiśniewski told Polygon in an interview with Zoom earlier this week. “Many video game mechanics, as you said, were almost 100% ready to be ported to board games. Frostpunk It differs greatly in many ways. “
Some of the differences occur in terms of scale. This war of mine It was an intimate survival story with the four protagonists Frostpunk Players are responsible for up to 1,000 citizens. But instead of porting video games, this time we’re looking for localization details.
“I’m from a translation background,” Wiśniewski said. “I used to translate prose from Polish to English and vice versa. We decided to adapt and translate video games to localize the board game language. Frostpunk This is our first approach to this. “
Following the trend of desktop space, full-scale Demo version of Frostpunk: Board games Available on Desktop simulator.. Client owners can download the demo for free. You can also play with your friends to see if you like the system. Only then will they have to decide if they want to withdraw money for a copy when it becomes available next year.