Upcoming game: _RiftZone_

Instead of reviewing something, a quick preview this time. This one is my brother-in-law's passion project that he's been working on for the past couple of years with a friend -- basically, to make a tabletop battle game but offload all of the busywork to an AR-driven app.

Here's the formal blurb:

Welcome to the RiftZone!

RiftZone:Contact is the first chapter of the RiftZone Odyssey, a fast-paced, tactical miniature war game that utilizes Augmented Reality to capture the battle between the United Earth Defense Force, and the Scry’Ox Collective as they battle for the distant world of Proxima Centauri.

As both civilizations, unaware of each other, searched for a new home, first contact between the human starship and a Scry’Ox Queenship ended in catastrophe.

War was on the horizon, and a habitable planet was worth any price. Humanity and the Skry’ox spent a decade preparing to claim the planet for themselves.

The UEDF starships slipped between dimensions. The Scry’ox folded space to make the jump across the galaxy. The reaction caused by the competing technology of the arriving fleets created an inter-dimensional shockwave, ripping the very fabric of space itself. Both fleets destroyed by the reaction, ground forces were cut off from their home worlds. War rages on the fungal planet, and something lurks on the other side of the rift that looms in the sky above.

Pick a side and fight. No rule books. No rulers. No dice. The calculations are done for you. All you have to do is win.

More info here : https://boostedrealitygames.com.

If it sounds potentially interesting, here's the Kickstarter pre-launch page. Check it out!