If you're a board game aficionado, you might have the work of Oink Games on your radar. Their compact, stylish game boxes are much more fun to pull out at a party than a massive Monopoly box, and much easier to learn, too. And now, they're hoping to bring those board games to Switch, with a Kickstarter goal of just £19,500 ($27,800).
Oink Games are trying to build "a world where you can play board games, even if you can't see each other", by building software that'll let you play their games on a Switch. The first available ones will be Deep Sea Adventure and Startups, but stretch goals will allow them to bring more of their 30-game catalogue to the Switch, too. 200% funded will bring Moon Adventure into the mix, and 300% will add Fake Artist Goes To New York.
The team are planning four modes: solo play against an AI, local co-op with one Switch and local co-op with more than one Switch, and online play.
The game is aimed at markets in Japan, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, to name a few, with language support including Japanese, English, French, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese.
You can check out the Kickstarter here, which has tiers that include copies of their board games as well as download codes when the game is ready.
[source kickstarter.com]
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I don't know much but, Gladly do so.
Board game for the Switch? Of course, that is a great idea
Are board games popular in Japan?
I don't know much about this but SURE. BRING IT OVER
I haven’t played any titles from Oink Games yet, but their visual designs are often quite pleasing, with Takeshi & Hiroshi, Tiger Trio’s Tasty Travels and this game included. I’ll consider backing, but I’d have to do more research on how their board games play.
Man oh man, I wish Betrayal at House on the Hill would get a digital version. And no, the add-on for Tabletop Simulator does NOT count. Something actually optimized for the platform which could give each player a personal view of the house layout and meaningfully portray the Haunt elements as more than just tokens.
Hopefully they'll pay attention to the presentation of their games, which is largely why Clubhouse Games did so well. Porting board games to video games is easy, that's been done countless times, but making the board game appeal and play well in a different medium is a challenge.
I have stacks of Oink games! I love them, though none of their other games has beaten Deep Sea Adventure for us. Not played the ones in the image yet though.
Deep Sea Adventure is a great little game.
They make great boardgames! I'm excited for these.
This campaign is performing depressingly poor.
DEEP SEA ADVENTURE PLEASE!!!!
Those are pretty elegant. I haven't seen them before but I am interested.
I love board gaming, A Fake Artist Goes to New York is a fantastic game!
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