Whichever player acquires the most wealth by the end of both the canal age and rail age of industry, will be the winner of the video game version of Brass: Birmingham. As players invest more into their businesses, they’ll be able to unlock technologies and open up new opportunities to muscle in on even more profitable industries. Similar to the tabletop original, players in the digital edition of Brass: Birmingham will take turns to play cards from their hand to perform various actions - such as building new coal mines, ironworks, potteries, breweries and cotton mills to further increase their production output and earn more profits. As ambitious entrepreneurs, players will be looking to establish themselves as successful industrialists by gathering resources, managing their existing factories and constructing new ones. Released on the Steam store for PC earlier this week, the digital board game version of Brass: Birmingham sees players becoming competing factory-owners during the British industrial revolution. It would also happen post Birmingham launch if it does actually happen.”ĭicebreaker has reached out to Roxley for further information.Outproduce your rivals and become an 18th century success in the newly released digital edition of Brass: Birmingham, which has released to mixed reviews. Other than publishing the Brass series of board games, Roxley is known for releasing beginner game Santorini and the upcoming sequel to scientist racing game Steampunk Rally, Steampunk Rally Fusion.Īsked whether fans could expect Lancashire to get the same digital treatment as Birmingham in the future, Brown replied, “We are discussing this, but no concrete plans yet. Gavan Brown was a co-designer for Brass: Birmingham, alongside Martin Wallace - creator of the original Brass: Lancashire and train game Railways of the World - and Matt Tolman, co-creator of deckbuilding board game Super Motherload. Whichever player successfully collects the most victory points by selling products, claiming industrial tiles and building their rail and canal network claims victory. Finally, players can scout to discover new locations and resources with which to expand their businesses - an action new to Brass: Birmingham. Set during the height of Britain’s industrial revolution, the board game sees players constructing factories and other parts of their entrepreneurial empire whilst plying their wares and acquiring new funds to keep their businesses afloat.Ī single round contains six separate steps, during which players must decide how they will grow their businesses, where to connect their factories to on the canal and rail network, make a profit from their goods, and collect loans to finance their endeavours. The app will initially launch on mobile devices, but Brown expressed the desire to release the digital version on PC as well.īrass: Birmingham is a sequel to Brass: Lancashire, originally published as Brass before being retitled for its updated 2018 re-release, in which players compete to develop the greatest industrial network the English Midlands has ever seen. Asked whether there would ever be a digital board game version of Brass: Birmingham, after the original Brass was adapted into an app in 2015, Brown confirmed that an app was indeed in the works.Īccording to Brown, the digital version of Brass: Birmingham is being produced by the same team that worked on the Brass app - Phalanx - and is set to be released in early 2021. The upcoming app was revealed by the director of Roxley - which publishes the Brass series - Gavan Brown, in a forum discussion on BoardGameGeek. Industrial revolution board game Brass: Birmingham is getting a digital version on mobile next year, with an app for the updated edition of the original Brass, Lancashire, possibly to follow.
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