Shiver Me Timbers, a open world pirate game with modular miniatures, is live on Kickstarter.
Erlangen, Germany, June 6th 2019. The Kickstarter campaign for the strategic open world pirate game Shiver Me Timbers by German publisher Weltflucht Verlag is online right now. The campaign with a funding goal of 35.000 Euro will end on June 27th 2019.
Shiver Me Timbers is the first project by game designer and publisher Michal Vitkovsky. The game is designed for 2 to 4 players ages 14+. Depending on player count and play variant, the game takes between 90 and 180 minutes to play. During the campaign, two pledge levels will be available: the standard pledge contains a copy of the game and any unlocked stretch goals. The deluxe pledge also contains 75 metal coins and four large chests in which players can hide their treasures and their gold.
As a true sandbox game, Shiver Me Timbers offers an open world with multiple paths to victory: players collect victory points by attacking ships at sea, raiding fortresses, trading goods, rescuing lost relatives, raising treasures, fighting sea monsters, fulfilling missions for the governor and more.
The biggest eye catcher of the game are the large, 24 part modular miniatures: Players start out with a small model which they can upgrade with additional canons, sails or cargo units to increase its strength, its speed or its hull. The game board is fully modular, too. It is set-up strategically by the players after they have chosen their secret victory conditions. Combat against other players and Non Player Characters is decided by fast, tactical card-based duels, granting lots of interaction and minimizing the luck factor of the game.
The artwork and the graphic design of the game were provided by Indonesian digital artist Unique Litani Soparie. The 3D models were designed by Australian 3D artist Andy Monks from Trick Monkey Studios. Two times Ennie award nominee Tyler Omichinski from Canada completes the international team as Editor-in-Chief for English in-game content.
In 2018, Shiver Me Timbers was successfully introduced on the Berlin Brettspiel Con and the SPIEL in Essen. Independent reviews in German and English are available via the BGG page (boardgamegeek.com) and on the Facebook page ShiverMeTimbersBoardgame. In addition, Jonathan Cox from JonGetsGames has provided a detailed three person play through which is available on Youtube (www.youtube.com).
