Currently running Kickstarter a crowdfunding campaign to publish a board game based on the film license based on The Thing. Pendragon Game Studio raised over 225.000 euros from the “Swarm”, the financing goal was 42.000 euros and has already been achieved. Anyone who is unsure whether they want to support the board game at this time can postpone the decision. The board game for The Thing goes on sale via Area.
As Area and Pendragon Game Studios announce, a cooperation has been concluded to bring The Thing: The Boardgame onto the market. The crowdfunding campaign is currently running and the game is to be delivered to the supporters in December 2021. As Area Games has now announced, the board game will go on sale afterwards. A publication can therefore be expected sometime in 2022.
The Thing: The board game with a traitor mechanism
The Pendragon Game Studio project successfully made the leap into crowdfunding a long time ago. The Thing: The Boardgame adheres closely to the original film and uses the license from Universal Studios. One to eight players cooperate in order to survive in the Antarctic, with one exception: One of the players tries to thwart the group's plans as an alien organism. Similar to Battlestar Galactica, The Thing also uses a traitor mechanism that should create tension.
Pendragon Game Studio brought the crowdfunding campaign online on September 22nd, and within around an hour and a half the funding target of 42.000 euros had already been reached. The board game came from the Italian authors Andrea Crespi - formerly responsible for Alone, Apollo XIII or Potion Explosion, and Giuseppe Cicero.
The board game for The Thing is only Pendragon Game Studios' second Kickstarter project, a board game with a post-apocalyptic setting had previously been published with Last Aurora - Area will also be launching this game after the Kickstarter editions have been shipped.
The pledge costs 79 euros. the Kickstarter campaign from Pendragon Game Studios The Thing runs through October 14th.
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