Gone Cardboard: Pocket Rockets, Coming from Hazgaard

Pocket Rockets is a new title from designer Antoine Bauza, who will have released more than a half-dozen titles in a year once Spiel 09 rolls around, including Bakong, Pony Express and Ghost Stories.

Race games seem to hold a special appeal for Bauza, and Pocket Rockets has racing elements as players are trying to complete rockets quickly before the limited fuel supplies run out and the game ends. As in many games, efficient building in an inefficient factory will be key to your victory. Six cards comprise the factory, with a launch site and a recycling workshop sitting opposite one another, while a conveyor and three assembly plants (white, red, yellow) take up the other four locations. On a turn, a player has four action points with which to move her token in the direction of the conveyor, draw a rocket card – whether base, fuselage or tip – from one of four decks near the factory, or use the power of one of the factory cards. The assembly plants let you play a card of the appropriate color, the recycling workshop lets you trade a card in hand for another one (which is needed due to a three card hand limit), and the launch site gives fuel with which to launch a completed rocket.

The game ends when fuel is exhausted, and players score two points per fuselage card in their completed rockets as well as 1-4 points for the fuel used. Rocket tips provide players with special powers, such as an additional action point and the ability to move either direction on the conveyor.

Pocket Rockets is for 2-4 players, ages 10 and up, with a playing time of 20 minutes. The publisher, Hazgaard Editions, will release the game in July 2009, and Asmodee Editions will distribute it in North America and elsewhere. Rules are available in German, French and English on the Pocket Rockets website. This game has been updated on Gone Cardboard.

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