Gone Cardboard News: Dust - Coming from Fantasy Flight

Fantasy Flight Games released a huge schedule of games through 2007 at the GAMA Trade Show, but one game that didn’t appear on the list was a title that FFG signed during GTS. That game, Dust, designed by Spartaco Albertarelli and Angelo Zucca, is set in an alternate fantasy world created by artist Paolo Parente. (You might recognize the name from Magic the Gathering artwork.) Here’s a long, edited description of the setting and game play from the designers:

1950—After the discovery of an alien artifact that has changed the flow of history in the ‘40s, the Cold War is fought between three political blockades: the SinoRussian, the Axis and the Allied.

Armed with incredible weapons, derived from alien technology, the great powers are trying to take control of the planet. In the meanwhile groups of specialized forces are fighting in any corner of the planet to discover secrets scattered all around the world, not to mention the diplomatic war that is fought also inside the bloackades.

It’s a war battled also in the undeground, with spies working to steal secrets and diplomats trying to create new alliances. Secret bases, hidden in the most uncomfortable places on Earth, are trying to develop new lethal weapons using the information given by the aliens found and trying to find a way to manage the incredible power of a mysterious energy that lies inside our planet.

In the game, all the players move their armies to conquer new territories, while infiltrating their spies in the enemy’s, but also friends’, lines. Only one of them will succeed, but you never know whether you are really fighting for yourself or at the end of the game someone else, maybe your pretend best ally, will be able to steal your points and claim victory.

Dust—which is published by DustGames—is scheduled for a September 2007 release, with Editrice Giochi handling the Italian version (as Liga reported in April 2007) and Millenium doing the French/German/Spanish version. Fantasy Flight will distribute the English version of Dust.

This game has been added to Gone Cardboard.

Source: KaleidosGames



Posted by W. Eric Martin on May 31, 2007 at 07:00 AM in Game NewsGame Announcements / 1895

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