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Press release:
The Loire Valley during the 15th Century. As influential princes, players devote their efforts to careful trading and building in order to lead their estates to prominence.

Short Description:
In the original board game “The Castles of Burgundy“, released in 2011 and designed by the cult author Stefan Feld, players work to build the most successful medieval princedom.
They chose to place new settlements, gather resources, trade, and build castles. TCOB is a classic strategy board game, where everything you do gains you some points. But some choices bring you points faster and easier.

The Castles of Burgundy’s unbroken popularity (Rank 11 overall on Boardgamegeek) even spawned card and dice game spinoffs.

DIGIDICED now sets out to develop the digital adaption. The game will be released on different platforms (iOS, Android, PC, Mac and Linux) and offer cross-platform play, different interfaces for big and small screens, 9 languages and the usual good feature set provided by DIGIDICED.

Gameplay:
Two dice set out the action options, but the players always make the final choices. Whether trading or livestock farming, city building or scientific research, many different paths lead to the prosperity and prominence of the players!
The many ways to gain victory points in this building game require careful thought round after round along with extensive planning ahead. Thanks to the different estates, the game remains challenging for the players for a long time, as no two games play out alike.

Awards of the board game:
2012 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee
2012 Games Magazine Best New Advanced Strategy Game Winner
2012 As d’Or – Jeu de l’Année Nominee
2011 Tric Trac Nominee
2011 Tric Trac de Bronze
2011 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
2011 Meeples’ Choice Award
2011 International Gamers Award – General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
2011 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee
2011 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place

Features:
– platforms: Android, iOS, Steam (Mac, PC, Linux)
– cross-platform play
– ranked and casual games
– computer opponents
– hot-seat offline play
– asynchronous game with notifications
– fast ranked games for live experience
– languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Russian and Italian

About the developer:
DIGIDICED, the digital board game company specialized in bringing your favorite board game to the digital world. We are a team of dedicated developers who build and publish games for iOS, Android, PC, Linux, Mac and the Nintendo Switch.

Our gameography:
2015: Le Havre: The Inland Port
2016: Patchwork
2016: Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small
2017: Terra Mystica & Terra Mystica: Fire and Ice
2017: Cottage Garden
2017: Bohnanza: The Duel
2018: Isle of Skye
2018: Stockpile
(2018: Indian Summer – Release 18th of October)
(2018: Castles of Burgundy – in production)

Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround