David Turczi, author of the board games Anachrony and Kitchen Rush, has successfully completed his Excavation Earth project Kickstarter basic funding – now it’s all about the remaining “stretch goals” until April 29th. Excavation Earth sends players to Earth in the role of aliens to excavate human artifacts that can then be used to make big profits on the extraterrestrial art market.
Almost a classic: looking for artifacts - but with an alien trick
The earth has long been deserted, the last remnants of human civilization are rare - so rare that aliens see valuable art objects in them. The premise is turned off: Players slip in the footsteps of extraterrestrial collectors who don't want to find art for their private collection, but rather to make a lot of cash with it. In order for this to be successful at Excavation Earth, the right time for the sale must be timed - as is typical for a board game. Therein lies the art of extraterrestrial art sales.
Two to four players can take part. The Turczis new board game does not only appeal to professionals: the rules can be learned in less than a quarter of an hour, then you can try it out for the first time. The process seems simple: choose the alien race, of course including special skills; Draft for the first actions and movements and then travel to different excavation sites on earth to get hold of different colored artifact sets.
The next step is to bring the artefacts to the buyers who are randomly active on the marketplace. The colors determine who is interested in what. Yellow buyers are looking for yellow artifacts, blue buyers are looking for blue artworks, and so on. There are also "jokers" who basically buy any trash you try to sell them.
The trick: each player controls several exploration teams, so that tactical movement maneuvers come into play. Because the artefact colors are of different value, a race for the most lucrative resources ensues. Even the dumbest alien will now be able to guess how to win the game: just make the most money.
Also interesting: a variant for 1 to 2 players of Excavation Earth will be made available to all backers as print-and-play during the course of the campaign.
Working with David Turczi on Excavantion Earth Wai-yee, she was involved in Pocket Dungeon and Gordon Calleja, the head behind Vengeance. the Kickstarter campaign runs until April 29th, however, has already successfully reached its financing goal - around 650 backers have invested almost 38.000 euros so far. Excavation Earth is scheduled to be released in November 2020. The German localization will take over Asmodee.
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