Revolution!, Coming in April from Steve Jackson

In April 2009, Steve Jackson Games plans to publish Revolution! from first-time designer Philip duBarry. Revolution! is something of a departure for SJG as the game fits squarely in the Eurogame camp, with the players’ actions being driven by blind auctions and area control.

The goal of Revolution! is to end up with the most support, which generally involves having the most support in the seven parts of town, although points are available in other ways, too. Each round, the three-to-four players secretly bid for control of different characters; three types of currencies are used for bidding, with Force outranking Blackmail and Blackmail outranking Gold. Each character provides a unique set of benefits: support (i.e. points), gold, influence markers, blackmail, and so forth.

DuBarry has done an excellent job of marketing his game, creating a blog to talk about its development and his self-publication efforts, and a Flash demo to show how to play the game in a couple of minutes.

This game has been added to Gone Cardboard.

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