Portal Games Informant #63
We finish working on our project: Robinson Crusoe: Mystery Tales. Everything is almost ready! Development’s work is over. Now its graphics designers time!
We finish working on our project: Robinson Crusoe: Mystery Tales. Everything is almost ready! Development’s work is over. Now its graphics designers time!
I remember Cry Havoc being one of the hot games releasing at Gencon 2016. This asymmetric, area control game did not disappoint me or many others. Unfortunately, my Cry Havoc stayed on my shelf through most of 2017 because of new games releasing and any game, even the great ones,
We have encountered a small bug while working on the First Martians companion app. While setting up the Landing mission, there should be a text prompt asking you to put randomly four spare parts on the map – two in the first Ring, and two in the second Ring. Each
It was a long journey. We started with a paragraph book, just like a base game of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, and then we began to develop the idea and look for improvements. *** The one thing that has always bothered me are these moments where players are snatching the
On the Antares Database, you can find information stored by the police, the FBI, the military, and federal intelligence agencies. When you encounter the “@” character, you need to choose the right section in the menu, then input the correct name or number. The Antares Database website will go live
Welcome, Detectives! We have only a few copies left in our pre-order campaign, so welcome in the last week of our pre-order campaign! The offer will end any day now. Today we reveal 6 Plastic Character IDs, small cool gadget that can replace the standard, cardboard Character Tiles. Those modern
Learn more about the development process of our new hex-based strategy – Monolith Arena! Thank you for watching this video. We hope you enjoy a sneak peak into our work. Let us know in the comments what would you like to see in upcoming videos.
Detective is a game night experience and solving a case can take more than three hours. Since you will most likely play each case only once, don’t ruin the experience by playing in a rush, in a bad mood, or under any other circumstances that will not help you fully
Welcome, Detectives! Fourth week of our pre-order campaign starts with a reveal of the next bonus component for the Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. Today we reveal 35 Wooden Tokens of the best quality, that can replace standard cardboard tokens. Wooden Tokens are going to be a fine addition
by Ignacy Trzewiczek The rulebook for Detective is the first rulebook we published that besides rules of the game also covers advice on how to approach the game to enjoy it the most. Why would we do that? What differs Detective from any other game? Why care to tell you
Detective is a cooperative game. All players share the Skill tokens, Stress tokens, and Authority tokens in a common Token pool and use a Time marker to track the passing of time when resolving all Actions. We use the word “you” to represent the entire team. You are going to
We’ve entered the convention season. I just came back from Pyrcon, next week I am going to UK Game Expo, and in U.S. geeks and publishers have BGG Spring, Origins, and The Dice Tower con on the horizon. Everything builds up to the biggest of them all – Gen Con.
In may, this very month we finally released all 12 (twelve!) armies for Neuroshima Hex. There was a ton of armies released only in Poland and for years fans worldwide were waiting for release – Portal Games was releasing two or three per year, but that was a very slow
First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet is being updated to version 1.25 on PC platform! There is NO auto-update feature for PC version – download it manually here: https://rebrand.ly/FM-PCapp This is a multiple language version – the app supports English, Polish, Czech, and Italian!
Last week I wrote about the philosophy behind the new expansion for Imperial Settlers. Today let me go and dive into the details of each deck. What exactly did we do? What cards made it to the appropriate decks? Romans In a base game of Imperial Settlers Romans built a