Join the other brave adventurers and take part in our crowdfunding campaign for an awesome next generation board game that won’t leave you cold! Check out a game play video here (in Finnish with English captions):

RACE TO THE NORTH POLE

Race to the North Pole is world’s first Fusion Board Game. The game is suitable for almost all ages and the goal is to get player’s expedition team to North Pole first. Game can be played from 2 to 4 players and average play time is around 30 minutes.

Each player has their own expedition team. Game is played by playing cards for your team members on the board. Cards are used either to advance your own team, or to “eat” opponents team members, in which case they are returned to the starting camp.

The occasinally rotating game board simulates unexpected weather conditions in the Arctic. With each rotate team members move around on the board, the board itself changes and player’s hands of cards are switched. This makes Race to the North Pole a surprising and fun game where everyone has to live in the moment.

Game comes with plenty of blank pieces, where players can create their own new content or get it online from our website. This way the playing community can add more fun features to the already great game! On top of this players can take advantage of their smart device along with the game. This can be used to get extra content for the game or additional mechanics. For example the turning of the board is more difficult to predict with the “weather channel” mechanic.

We still need proper graphics and printing for the game. The goal of our crowdfunding campaign is to bring out a fantastic and long lasting board game. The game is fully a product on Finland. Please note, that game presented on images and videos is a prototype and not the finalized version of the game. You can find all the rewards available on the column on the right side of the page!

WHAT ARE FUSION BOARD GAMES?

Fusion Board Games is a concept we made for next generation’s board games. These games combine traditional board gaming to current technology. We hope that Race to the North Pole will be the first in a long line of entertaining board games. Fusion Board Games have three special features:

1. Extra Content: It’s important to note, that our games always work straight out from the box without the need of any gadgets. On top of that thay allow players to find extra content online which can be used by either transferring the information to the blank pieces provided with the game or by using a smart device along with the game. Extra content might be for example alternative rules for the game, new character cards or a totally new deck of cards.
2. Customizability: Because our games come with blank pieces, players can also create their own content on them thus making the game more suitable for any specific group of players. These can be characters, cards, tiles and so on. Players can also create new content online and share it with the whole world!
3. Smart devices: Fusion Board Games allow players to use their smart devices. Mobile phones and tablet computers can be used along with our games. Anyone can go online and find new content and mechanics for our games. Most of the content is free of charge, except the mechanics that are expensive to create. Those will be available with a small fee. Extra content and mechanics will be coded in HTML5 so that it will work on any modern device.

HOW DOES CROWDFUNDING WORK AND HOW IS MY MONEY SPENT

Our crowdfunding works so, that if our minimum goal (25,000€) is reached by the end of August 2014, we have money to create the game in which case it will ship before Christmas 2014. If the minimum goal is not reached, the money is returned to the funders.

Because of the nature of crowdfunding it’s very important that those who have already taken part in the campaign share it forwards. The campaign will only succeed when large enough crowd take apart in the campaign.

CAMPAIGN GOALS AND STRECTH GOALS

The actual goal of our campaign is 40,000€. This will allow us to create the game and online content exactly the way we are planning to. We have also made stretch goals so people who have already taken part in the campaign would share it forwards.

WHAT RISKS DOES THE CAMPAIGN HAVE?

We advertise our campaign as risk free investment for following reasons: We return every penny it the minimum goal is not reached. When the minimum goal is reached we promise to deliver the rewards for our funders. We already have an artist and printing settled for the game. Schedules have also been set so that the game is out from print well before Christmas and we have time to ship out the game. International shipping does play a factor here but we’ll do our best to make sure that every funder gets their game before Christmas. The most realistic risks are unexpected delays or if the game doesn’t for some reason match funder expectations. We naturally don’t believe in either scenario thus we’re calling our campaign risk free!

FUND! LIKE! SHARE!

Help us to publish world first Fusion Board Game! Buy yourself a game from our campaign and why not another one for Christmas present! By buying two games you’ll receive a T-shirt as well. Remember to like and share our campaign on social media, especially to those who are interested in board gaming. Let’s make games together!

Thank you!

-Jouni and Tomi

Links:

This campaign site
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Company website

PLAYMORE GAMES INC

Playmore Games Inc. is a company started by two enthusiastic board game designers Jouni Jussila and Tomi Vainikka. Company is based in Nurmes, Finland. Our office is in Helsinki, Finland. The company designs and publishes Fusion Board Games, which is a trademark owned by Playmore Games Inc.

We are also currently looking for investors. If you are interested in investing in us please contact Jouni Jussila (+358 46 9200 885, jouni@playmore.fi)