Acrux board game
There are about 3-5 thousand new board games published every year. A board game designer would need to have a very special game to rise above the crowd.
I think that I have such a game: Acrux, which is based on data for 80 local stars from the Gaia and Hipparcos star catalogs created by the European Space Agency. It is the first board game played on an accurate map of the local galaxy.
Acrux is inspired by a classic train game from the famous German designer Franz-Benno Delonge: TransAmerica / Trans Europa although with many enhancements and a completely different graphic design.
Mine for ore and build colonies, research stations and trading posts
In Acrux, 2-4 players travel through 5 regions in the local Milky Way using wormholes, mine for ore and build colonies, research stations and trading posts. Along the way they have the opportunity to learn a bit about stars and planets in the Milky Way.
The rules are only 4 pages long and the game takes about 90 minutes to play. A single player puzzle version is in development.
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