Millbrook Games, a Bellevue, Washington Start-Up, Announces The Release of Its New, Fast-Paced, Gem-Trading Game, FACETS OF FORTUNE
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Facets of Fortune (http://www.facetsoffortune.com), a new, independent, gem-trading family game published by Millbrook Games of Bellevue, Washington, officially launches November 2, 2017. This is the company's first product.
Game Overview: In Facets of Fortune, you are plunged into a world of high-powered gem trading with a relatively small amount of money to get you started. Your goal is to buy low and sell high, using special gem trading cards in strategic and surprising ways to make thrilling plays for cash. Sometimes, it seems like your fortunes have fallen so low that you'll never get ahead, but with one clever play you could suddenly find yourself on top of the gem world. In a recent review, BoardGameCapital.com succinctly described the essence of the game: "The challenging, random and addicting nature of this game makes Facets of Fortune one of our current favorites."
Facets of Fortune is for 2 to 4 players, takes about 45 minutes to play, and is intended for ages 10 and up. The suggested retail price is $24.95.
Background: Millbrook's president, Lowell Press, created Facets of Fortune well over twenty years ago but finally set about developing it in the summer of 2011 when he wanted to at least temporarily engage his two sons, who were 12 and 9 at the time, in something other than video games. Says Press, "I was surprised by how much my kids got into the creative process of game design. Whether or not you publish, I highly recommend creating board games with your kids as a way of engaging with them. It makes for some serious quality time."
Press, a fan of monetary games as a kid, said, "Facets of Fortune reminds me of an addictive market game I used to play called Stocks and Bonds. It was so exciting to make big money by picking the right stocks. And it was also so crushing to lose it all! It taught me how precarious it is to take big risks with your own money." Unlike Stocks and Bonds, Facets of Fortune is not modeled on real-world markets. It presents to players a unique system wherein gem markets ultimately rise to a very high value, and players know that it is a race to make money before the markets begin to crash and become worthless. "The key to the game," said Press, "is that you have to figure out how to use your gem cards in clever ways to make gem purchase and sale decisions before it's too late. If you make those clever plays, and have a little luck, you will make millions and win the game."
For the look of the game, Press sought out experienced graphic designer Marcia Friedman, of Seattle-based Friedman-Petersen, who has worked on a number of successful board game projects, including Cranium and Find It. The game has an aesthetically pleasing look to it; as one critic, DadsGamingAddiction.com, put it, Facets of Fortune is "one of the prettiest games I've seen in a while."
About the Game Designer: LOWELL PRESS, creator of Facets of Fortune, is the author of the middle grade novel, The Kingdom of the Sun and Moon, which won the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Teen Fiction given by the Independent Book Publishers Association (www.thekingdomofthesunandmoon.com). He now runs Millbrook Games.
LINKS:
http://www.facetsoffortune.com
https://www.facebook.com/facetsoffortune/
CONTACT: Lowell Press
Millbrook Games
PO Box 50648
Bellevue, WA 98015
[email protected]
Phone: Available upon request
SOURCE Millbrook Games
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