We are happy today to introduce a type of game we didn't have yet on Board Game Arena. Dragon Castle, a game inspired from the traditional Chinese Majhong game, designed by Hjalmar Hach, Luca Ricci and Lorenzo Silva, and published by Horrible Guild, is now available online!
In Dragon Castle, you are a feudal lord building a castle on your realm. Luckily for you, the mighty Dragon Castle, once the pride of the whole country, is now crumbling. You'll be able to draw resources from its waning power to consolidate your own, and if you take care of flattering Dragons and invoking Spirits at the best possible time to help you, maybe your castle will be the next to rise above all others!
On your turn, you'll pick a free tile from the top layer of the Dragon Castle, then choose to pair it with another if possible, or sometimes to take a Shrine instead of a second tile. Then, you'll use these tiles to build your castle. Each time you create a set of 4 connected tiles or more of the same type, you'll consolidate them to score points, and place one or more Shrines (depending on the tile type) to score even more points. Paying attention to what type of tiles other players need in order to prevent them from getting those is advised: it's a powerful way of staying ahead of the competition.
The Dragon will grant you bonus points at the end of the game if you match its conditions, so you should try to please it. Anyway, it's always a bad idea to displease a Dragon! The Spirit's power can also be a big boost on your way to the top, but can be summoned only with a cost: you should make sure it's worth it. Every game is a new challenge since the shape of the Dragon Castle, the Dragon card and the Spirit card in play will be different, creating a lot of combinations to explore.
We would like to give a huge thank you to Horrible Guild for granting us an authorization to host their game online on Board Game Arena, and to the developer hersh who crafted a really great implementation using BGA Studio.
We should also say that the art for the game, created by Cinyee Chiu, is really distinctive and beautiful, transporting you in a colourful Chinese dream of castles, spirits and dragons.
Enjoy the dream and the game!
Zmajski grad
Z veseljem danes predstavljamo vrsto igre, ki je še nismo imeli na Board Game Arena.
Dragon Castle, igra, navdihnjena iz tradicionalne kitajske igre Majhong, ki so jo zasnovali Hjalmar Hach, Luca Ricci in Lorenzo Silva, izdala pa jo je Horrible Guild, je zdaj na voljo na spletu!
Igrajte zdaj!
V Zmajskem gradu ste fevdalni gospodar, ki gradite grad na svojem kraljestvu.
Na srečo se vam zdaj ruši mogočni Zmajski grad, nekoč ponos celotne države.
Vi boste lahko črpali vire iz njene vedno boljše moči, da bi utrdili svoje, in če boste poskrbeli za laskave Zmajeve in priklicali Duhove v najboljšem možnem času, da vam pomagajo, se bo morda vaš grad naslednji dvignil nad vse druge!
Na koncu boste izbrali brezplačno ploščico iz zgornje plasti Zmajevega gradu in jo nato, če je mogoče, združili z drugo ali pa namesto druge ploščice vzeli svetišče.
Nato boste te ploščice uporabili za gradnjo svojega gradu.
Vsakič, ko ustvarite niz 4 povezanih ploščic ali več istega tipa, jih konsolidirate, da dosežete točke, in postavite eno ali več svetišč (odvisno od vrste ploščic), da dosežete še več točk.
Priporočamo, da bodite pozorni na to, kakšne vrste ploščic potrebujejo drugi igralci, da jim preprečijo, da bi jih dobili, saj je to močan način, da ostanete pred konkurenco.
Zmaj vam bo na koncu igre podelil bonus točke, če ustrezate njegovim pogojem, zato mu poskusite ugoditi.
Kakor koli že, vedno je slaba ideja, da ne bi vzljubil zmaja!
Moč Duha je lahko tudi velik zagon na vaši poti do vrha, vendar ga lahko prikličete le s stroški: prepričajte se, da se splača.
Vsaka igra je nov izziv, saj bodo oblike Zmajevega gradu, Zmajeve karte in karte Duha v igri drugačne, kar bo ustvarilo veliko kombinacij za raziskovanje.
Radi bi, da bi velika hvala, da grozno Guild za nas pridobitev dovoljenja za gostovanje svoje igre na spletu na Board Game Arena, in za razvijalce Hersh je oblikovana res odlično izvedbo pomočjo BGA Studio.
Povedati bi morali tudi, da je umetnost za igro, ki jo je ustvaril Cinyee Chiu, res izrazita in lepa, saj vas prevaža v pisanih kitajskih sanjah o gradovih, žganih pijačah in zmajih.
Uživajte v sanjah in igri!