3-Player Mode & Conventions – Let’s Meet Up At Spielewelt
about 1 year ago – Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 11:06:20 PM

Mystery Unlocked!

As we promised, our first free mystery gift is here! The 3-player rules are now going to be included in each rulebook, making Riverbed Hunt a 3-9 players game! In this variant, the Merchants are going to be played by the game itself (using only the Chief Merchant role) as an AI, and the players are going to use two simple Separatists and the Profiteer, during the setup. Each team is looking for their elements underneath the tiles, as usual, and of course, whenever a kelp is revealed the players must progress the respective track counter on the Track board. Additionally, each of the Chief’s turns, the players are going to progress the kelp track counter one space forward. So, the two teams (Separatists and the Profiteer) are going to compete with each other, while at the same time they will have to reveal their elements in just a few rounds; otherwise the game (Merchants) wins. It’s going to have a fast but tactical race feel where every move or mistake matters...

The river tiles and ability cards used for the 3-player mode are going to be less than the 4-player game, in order to keep the same balances. Having said that, the Wild Stream ability deck is going be compatible with the 3-player mode.

To be honest, we tried really hard to make the game playable with two players as well, but unfortunately, we couldn’t find a way to make the deduction part of it actually work. So, instead of creating a totally different game feel just to make Riverbed Hunt a 2-9 players, we decided to keep it only down to three players where the game is fun and yet, a Riverbed Hunt experience.

Conventions During Campaign

We would like to say a big Thank You to all the people who joined us and show their interest for Riverbed Hunt during the Spellenspektakel fair in Utrecht, last weekend. Your support was incredible and it was so nice meeting you all! We hope to have the same, warm welcome at the Spielewelt convention in Bielefeld (November 11-12th). And of course, if you plan on being there we would love to meet you in person and play some Riverbed Hunt together! See you soon Tritons!

Until then, stay Oddly Legendary! 

The Odd Statue Games Team

Campaign Recap & Mystery Unlock
about 1 year ago – Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 06:05:30 AM

Launch Recap

It’s been almost four days already since the campaign launched and we wouldn’t have made it this far without your help! Thinking that this is our first Kickstarter project, we weren’t sure what to expect, until day 1! Your enthusiasm and trust in us and Riverbed Hunt has deeply moved our small team. You are amazing!! Can’t thank you enough.

Here’s a recap of what we have achieved so far:

• Funding goal reached in 41 hours!
• Over 120% funded and still 10 days to go.
• Almost 250 Triton backers believed in Riverbed Hunt.
• First 2 stretch goals unlocked!
• Riverbed Hunt was selected as a “Project We Love”, by Kickstarter.

Mystery Unlock

And now let’s move to some more spicy news! During the last month or so, we’ve been working on some game development aspects in order to deliver you an even better game, and instead of presenting them up front, we thought of keeping the suspense by revealing them to you, as the campaign progresses. Well, we are very excited to inform you that the first one is about to be revealed tomorrow, November 7th! Unfortunately I can’t share more for now, but I have a question for you…

Question: can you guess what this first mystery unlock might be?! The clue is “less meeples!”. Let us see your answers in the comments below!

Until then, stay Oddly Legendary!

The Odd Statue Games Team

Linen Finish Unlocked
about 1 year ago – Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 07:35:16 AM

One of the most common, but at the same time, most important quality upgrade in board games’ history has been unlocked for our game too, through the first two stretch goals. All Riverbed Hunt’s cards, tiles, boards, and tokens will be produced with linen finish! Thank you!

“Not so long ago, around ten years or so, there was a time where I was working on one of my never-finished board game projects and during that period, I thought of approaching a small, local publisher to get some information about how the board game publishing industry works; I had no clue at all. I remember showing them a card from another, already published game, which I had fallen in love with its quality and wanted to know everything about it. I wanted to know how could I produce my game’s cards with the exact same material and what was the difference between this and a normal-paper card. In fact, I had no idea how to call this and that’s why I brought the card with me. With his eyes bugging, the guy from the publishing company told me that this was called linen finish and that only huge companies like Asmodee, Fantasy Flight Games, or Days of Wonder produce that kind of quality; other games don’t do that…” – Yan Theo

What's Next

The next stretch goal is about the active player token, upgrading it from cardboard to wooden.

The active player token is mostly needed in higher player count or when the Wild Stream ability deck is included in the game, since there are many cards that could be played out of turn and interrupt other players’ actions. It is a unique component that moves around the table as players take turns, so being wooden would give it this special feel, distinguishing it from all the other tokens/markers.

Feel free to spread the word and share the campaign, so we can reach this goal faster.

Until then,

stay Oddly Legendary!

The Odd Statue Games Team