Bezier Games has announced Ted Alspach’s Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig, set to release in February next year.
Architects will once again compete for the favor of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in a new game from the creator of the award-winning Castles of Mad King Ludwig, this time in a “flip and draw” format. In Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig, players use cards to determine which rooms and features they can add to their castles, which are then drawn on a sheet of translucent drafting paper using the game’s colored pencils. As they design their castles, the players can compete for the king’s favors and try to fulfill their individual goals and the requirements of royal decrees to score points.
Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig includes a vellum sketch pad with 50 sheets, a score pad, 5 sketching panels, 35 cardboard tokens, 196 cards, 8 colored pencils, a pencil sharpener, a castle-shaped eraser, and 5 player aids. The game is intended for 1 to 5 players. MSRP is $40.00.
Bezier Games is raising funds for the production of the game through a Kickstarter campaign that has attracted $83,307 in pledges from 1,153 backers as of this writing (an average of $72.25 per backer). Backer fulfillment is scheduled for February 2024 with release into the trade to follow.
Last autumn, Bezier announced the Renovations expansion for Castles of Mad King Ludwig (see “Bezier Games Unveils ‘Castles of Mad King Ludwig’ Expansion”).
Source: ICV2
