JKLM Games Announces Titles for UK Games Expo, Spiel 08

JKLM Games has announced four titles to be released at two game conventions in 2008. During UK Games Expo on May 31 and June 1, and Huang Di will debut. Huang Di, by Bryan Johnson, has players competing to build the Great Wall of China, but the game play is unlike Walter Obert’s Chang Cheng or Reiner Knizia’s Great Wall of China as players must use role cards efficiently each round in order to acquire money, workers and forced labor and get their sections of the wall built.

Athene, by Ian Vincent, has players sailing competing ships in the Mediterranean Sea, trying to reach home safely without encountering whirlpools or crashing off the edge of the world. You can view a video explanation of the game on JKLM’s Athene webpage.

Spiel 08 will see the release of Ascendancy, by Nigel Buckle, and Tulipmania 1637, by Scott Nicholson. In Ascendancy, 2-4 players control alien races that are trying to gain power over both the Empire in place at the start of the game and other players. If you preorder the game – details on the Ascendancy webpage – you’ll receive a bonus fifth alien race in addition to the 10-20% discount.

Tulipmania 1637 has players trying to time the market right during the tulip craze in the Netherlands. The subprime mortgage mess in the U.S. economy of 2008 might look like a disaster, but it’s nothing compared to the madness created over gorgeous but short-lived tulips back in the 17th century. Your goal, as you might expect, is to fleece the rubes for as much as you can, inflating prices in your wares and selling them off at the best possible time so that opponents get stuck with dead product. Once again, JKLM has a preorder discount for Tulipmania, although this one does not include a bonus alien race. Pity, I’d love to see a Dutch/Klingon smackdown.

If you use a Windows-based computer, then you can download the JKLM Interactive application and try Tulipmania 1637 online. If you can’t use the application – because you’re on a Mac, for example – you can still visit the Tulipmania page to find out how to play the game.

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