Games by "Boxed Lightning（盒中闪电）" and "Jingyansi Boardgame（静言思桌游）"

Today I'll introduce some games by Chinese board game publisher "Boxed Lightning（盒中闪电）".

I went to China twice last year and once this year.

https://sugoroku-kozo.blogspot.com/2018/03/beijing-board-game-report.html
https://sugoroku-kozo.blogspot.com/2018/09/beijing-dice-con.html
https://sugoroku-kozo.blogspot.com/2019/01/board-games-in-shanghai-and-dice-con.html

In these trips, I met Boxed Lightning's games and bought them.

This publisher creates many interesting and complex strategy games, but many of them haven't appeared on BGG yet. 


This time I will introduce four games. A game designer group "Jingyansi Board Game（静言思桌游）" in Boxed Lightning developed these.

"The Deception of Antique（古董局中局）" and "Rescue Polar Bears(拯救北极熊）" are also Boxed Lightning's games, but I don't mention them now because they have introduced on BGG already.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/234510/deception-antiques-12-chinese-zodiac-bronze-heads

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/205544/rescue-polar-bears

1. Ocean（海洋公园） 

This game is an aquarium management game.

Players purchase attractive fishes to make their aquarium attractive. 

To maintain the health of fishes, facilities corresponding to fishes and waste disposal ability are required. 

Each fish has a different ability. Some of them grow as the round progresses. And some other fishes form pairs and breed.

This game is not only great as a game of management and expansion reproduction but also has attractive illustrations of beautiful fishes.

2.Pingyao（平遥）

Pingyao（平遥） is an ancient city in China that flourished in the financial industry in the era of Ming（明）and Qing（清）.

This game is the first game of Chinese Four Ancient Cities series（中国四大古城系列）.

In this game, players run financial companies in Qing(清) age. Each player has several branches, each branch gains profits by operating the money deposited. This game also simulates the bank remittance mechanism. This is an excellent financial game.

3.Dunhuang（敦煌）

Dunhuang（敦煌） is an ancient city of China flourishing as a relay point of the Silk Road, also famous for mural paintings.

This game is a worker placement game. When a player paints a mural painting, all players can send a worker to the mural to take action until the mural painting is completed. When other players use the action on the mural painting, the mural painting progresses.

This game contains several sets of goods - gold, tea, silk, jade, porcelain, etc. At the beginning of the game, players choose three of them. Each set has its own characteristics, and the combination changes the feel of the game.

4.Huizhou（徽州）

Huizhou（徽州）is an ancient city with abundant cultural assets in China.

Players manage water transportation companies in Huizhou. 

Players arrange ships in the river to make a transportation line and purchase goods. If you use a ship for the sale of salt, you gain high profit, but during that time the number of goods to be bought decreases.

In this game, if you make a high achievement in some fields such as influence on the area, development of agriculture, industrial, or commerce, salt sale, etc., you can make a paifang（牌坊）(memorial archway) that is a proof of honor. This is a major way to win victory points.

By the way, I am preparing to sell these four games at the next Tokyo Game Market.

There are few arrivals and I can not prepare English version rules, but if you come to the Tokyo Game Market on May 25, I really want you to see these games.

I will inform you of the details as the game market approaches.