Silence before the Storm: Proofreading
over 5 years ago – Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 02:42:13 PM

Who's enjoying the summer?

We're doing like everyone else in the Netherlands currently: trying to survive the heat wave by staying inside all day! But we've also been doing something else:

• finalizing the rulebooks for the base game
• finalizing the rulebook for the expansion
• setting up Backerkit
• finalizing all the files for the manufacturer

We're right on schedule! Right now we would like to ask you to go through the rulebooks of the base game (English, German and Dutch) and the Expansion, and comment on anything unclear, strange or otherwise faulty. Other languages will possibly be added as a download online. In a week or so we will send all the files to the manufacturer.

Use sunscreen and take care!

The Black Box Adventures team.

Have a look at the box:

Thank you!
almost 6 years ago – Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:21:46 PM

Thanks to all of you we can bring this game to life!

We couldn't have done it without all the support we got from each and every single one of you. Our special thanks to the guys who have been actively contributing to this game by play testing, spreading the word, criticising us and thinking of the solutions of how to make the lice less itchy. 

Aaaaand kudos to this fantastic person who managed to back our project on the final second! This is so awesome! 

Yeah... We didn't reach the stretch goals. But this game deserves more and so do you. Just like with Frutti di Mare: Veni, Vidi, Antipasti! the future funds that we collect before the production will contribute to unlocking of the stretch goals. We'll give you more details in the next update.

This has been another thrilling and in the end satisfying month for us. We'll give you sporadic updates to tell you about the production progress and fulfilment.

Stay tuned for the pledge manager from BackerKit!

Podcast with designer Allan Kirkeby
almost 6 years ago – Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:49:44 AM

Less than 24 hours to go to unlock those stretch goals!

Last week game designer Allan Kirkeby was a guest on a podcast from Indie Board Game Designers Podcast. Listen to the episode to hear how Allan got into designing board games and how he came up with Itchy Monkey.

48 Hours... Ready, Set, Spawn!
almost 6 years ago – Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:50:47 PM

One small jump for a louse, one giant bump for licekind!

Itchy Monkey is a fact! But, we’ve got 2 days left to unlock some nice stretch goals! Extra artwork for every monkey, a totally new discovered species with an extra special ability, and more.

We hope the €1 backers and the people that liked our campaign decide to step in, so they too will be able to enjoy our battle of lice. Also, don’t forget to add €5 euro to your pledge in order to get the expansion “License to Kill”, as this will make you rethink all your previous strategies! Still easy to learn, still hard to master :)

Come on everybody, just one more share, like, retweet, Kicktraq click, BGG thumbs up for this final stretch!

Expansion now available: License to Kill!
almost 6 years ago – Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:19:19 AM

Get your Lice-nse to Kill here! 

Before and during this campaign we've been working very hard (and secretly) on the first expansion of Itchy Monkey, called "License to Kill". And yes...we do love our cheesy word jokes, live and let lice!

This expansion will be an add-on. It'll come in its own small tuck-box, and you can get it for just €5! If you'd like to get License to Kill you can simply add the amount to your pledge and confirm in the pledge manager after the campaign. No extra shipping will be charged.

Each player receives 3 extra "spy lice". These spies can infiltrate monkeys which already have lice of an opponent! The spies are able to move the monkey, and will also count towards the number of worker lice on that monkey (beware of that nitpicking!). This adds cool new strategies, as you only lice twice! Also, we'll add a completely new game mode in which you're playing as a species of monkeys, trying to get rid of the lice!

Note: the extra game mode was supposed to be a stretch goal, but we've now added it to this expansion.