{"id":9947,"date":"2018-09-30T13:51:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T13:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2025-02-16T19:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:47:48","slug":"venture-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/venture-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" data-attachment-id=\"9945\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/venture-angels\/venture-angels\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"venture angels\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-584x584.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-584x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-584x584.jpg 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Venture Angels est un jeu de bluff et d\u2019ench\u00e8res \u00e0 demi secr\u00e8tes, un genre d\u00e9j\u00e0 bien balis\u00e9 auquel je m\u2019\u00e9tais d\u00e9j\u00e0 essay\u00e9 il y a une quinzaine d\u2019ann\u00e9es avec Corruption, dans lequel les joueurs \u00e9taient des entrepreneurs en b\u00e2timent cherchant \u00e0 obtenir des contrats publics, puis avec Vabanque, o\u00f9 ils cherchaient \u00e0 prendre le contr\u00f4le de casinos. Plus encore que Corruption et Vabanque, Venture Angels est un jeu rapide et minimaliste, tant par ses r\u00e8gles que par son mat\u00e9riel. Cela n\u2019a rien d\u2019\u00e9tonnant &#8211; dans des jeux o\u00f9 l\u2019essentiel se passe dans la t\u00eate des joueurs, il n\u2019est pas n\u00e9cessaire que beaucoup se passe sur la table.<br>Chaque joueur est donc un milliardaire qui cherche \u00e0 investir ses milliards dans des projets susceptibles de lui rapporter encore plus de milliards. Les projets d\u2019investissement sont divis\u00e9s en trois grandes cat\u00e9gories, tout ce qui touche \u00e0 la conqu\u00eate spatiale, \u00e0 l\u2019informatique et \u00e0 la biologie. Au d\u00e9but de chacune des trois manches du jeu, un certain nombre de projets sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s, puis les joueurs misent secr\u00e8tement, un \u00e0 un, des jetons valant 0, 2, 3 ou 4 milliards de dollars sous les projets de leur choix. Les jetons sont ensuite r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s, et l\u2019on regarde tout d\u2019abord si certains projets ont \u00e9chou\u00e9. C\u2019est le cas de ceux dont le financement total est insuffisant, ainsi que de celui o\u00f9 les sommes totales investies sont les plus \u00e9lev\u00e9s. Les projets insuffisamment financ\u00e9s \u00e9chouent, et le projet le mieux financ\u00e9 \u00e9tait trop tentant, quelqu\u2019un est parti avec la caisse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"350\" data-attachment-id=\"9950\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/venture-angels\/venture-angels-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"venture angels 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-2-584x350.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-2-584x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-2-584x350.jpg 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-2-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-2-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>C\u2019est en commandant des jeux sur Kickstarter, ce qui m\u2019arrive un peu trop souvent, que j\u2019ai eu l\u2019id\u00e9e qui fait tout l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat et l\u2019originalit\u00e9 Venture Angels, le seuil de financement, en de\u00e7\u00e0 duquel tous les investissements consacr\u00e9s \u00e0 un projet l\u2019ont \u00e9t\u00e9 en pure perte. Amusante et pertinente, cette r\u00e8gle encourageait cependant un peu trop les joueurs \u00e0 se concentrer sur les quelques projets les plus ambitieux. C\u2019est donc pour contrebalancer cette premi\u00e8re exclusion que j\u2019en ai introduit une seconde, faisant \u00e9galement \u00e9chouer le projet le plus financ\u00e9. Cela cr\u00e9e des dilemmes int\u00e9ressants pour les joueurs pouss\u00e9s \u00e0 se diversifier, mais pas trop, tout en gardant un \u0153il sur les choix de leurs concurrents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bien \u00e9videmment, les premiers prototypes du jeu avaient pour th\u00e8me Kickstarter, et les cat\u00e9gories \u00e9taient gadgets technologiques, jeux video et jeux de soci\u00e9t\u00e9, parmi lesquels Cohen Le Barbare, le 7\u00e8me Incontinent, Cards against Humidity et Exploding Mittens. Malheureusement, le th\u00e8me ne fonctionnait en fait pas tr\u00e8s bien, une campagne Kickstarter n\u2019\u00e9tant pas vraiment une ench\u00e8re avec un gagnant, et tr\u00e8s rapidement je suis pass\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019univers des milliardaires de la Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" data-attachment-id=\"9951\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/venture-angels\/venture-angels-seoul\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1509733033&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"venture angels seoul\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-584x438.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-584x438.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-584x438.jpg 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Premi\u00e8re partie du prototype \u00e0 S\u00e9oul avec Kevin Kim, Vincent Dutrait, Yohan Goh (enfin, je crois que c&#8217;est lui de dos) et leurs amis joueurs.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Une toute premi\u00e8re \u00e9bauche de ce jeu, que j\u2019avais avec moi \u00e0 la Gen Con 2017, avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 suscit\u00e9 quelque int\u00e9r\u00eat chez des \u00e9diteurs. Quelques semaines plus tard, lors d\u2019une br\u00e8ve visite \u00e0 S\u00e9oul, je montrai une version un peu plus d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e \u00e0 Kevin Kichan Kim, de Mandoo Games, qui d\u00e9cida presque aussit\u00f4t de le publier. Le d\u00e9veloppement du jeu a ensuite consist\u00e9 essentiellement \u00e0 bricoler un peu les m\u00e9canismes pour aider un peu les joueurs en retard et leur permettre de se refaire, afin que le jeu reste toujours ouvert et tendu jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la troisi\u00e8me et derni\u00e8re manche. Nous avons donc introduit l\u2019un apr\u00e8s l\u2019autre l\u2019obligation pour les joueurs en t\u00eate de jouer leurs premiers jetons visibles, un syst\u00e8me de score qui limite les possibilit\u00e9s des joueurs qui ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 remport\u00e9 plusieurs cartes, et un petit jeton bonus pour le dernier joueur. C\u2019est l\u2019\u00e9quipe de Mandoo Games qui a eu l\u2019id\u00e9e de remplacer les cartes de mon prototype par des jetons, dont la manipulation est bien plus agr\u00e9able et qui sugg\u00e8rent bien que c\u2019est l\u00e0 un jeu d\u2019argent et de paris. Les graphismes de Ian O&#8217;Toole, aussi minimalistes et l\u00e9gers que les m\u00e9canismes du jeu, sont parfaitement adapt\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/venture-angels-iran-karobar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"10934\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=10934\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/venture-angels-iran-karobar.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"venture angels iran karobar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/venture-angels-iran-karobar-584x584.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/venture-angels-iran-karobar-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/venture-angels-iran-karobar-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/venture-angels-iran-karobar-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/venture-angels-iran-karobar-584x584.jpg 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/venture-angels-iran-karobar.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-bandeau-background-color has-background\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Venture Angels<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Un jeu de Bruno Faidutti<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Illustr\u00e9 par Ian O&#8217;Toole<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #800000;\">2 \u00e0 5 joueurs \u2013 15 minutes<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Publi\u00e9 chez Mandoo Games, 2018, ainsi que en persan chez Houpa games puis en anglais chez Gamehead.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" data-attachment-id=\"9945\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/venture-angels\/venture-angels\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"venture angels\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-584x584.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-584x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-584x584.jpg 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Venture Angels is a bluffing and half-secret bidding game, a genre I had already given a try fifteen years ago with Corruption, a game about building contractors, and to a lesser extent with Vabanque, a game about Casinos. Both were relatively simple games, but Venture Angels is even more minimalistic, both with rules and components. In games in which most of the action takes place in the players\u2019 minds, there\u2019s no need for much complexity on the game table.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Each player is a billionaire who tries to invest in various ventures which will yield even more billions. There are three suits, three domains in which to invest, space, computers and biology. The game lasts three rounds. Every round, several projects are drawn and players secretly bid tokens, with values of 0, 2, 3 or 4 billion dollars, on the projects they want. When bids are revealed, players first check which projects succeeded or failed. All the ventures for which the sum of all players\u2019 bids is lower than the funding goal fail. the single one with the most money invested also fail, since some clever guy left with all the money.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" data-attachment-id=\"10012\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/venture-angels\/venture-angels-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"venture angels\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-1-584x438.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-1-584x438.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-1-584x438.jpg 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The original idea in Venture Angels is the funding goal, an idea I obviously had when pledging games on Kickstarter, something I do a bit too often. if there\u2019s not enough money bid on a project, all the money has been spent in vain. This rule is fun and logical, but it had a pernicious side effect, encouraging players to focus on the two or three most ambitious projects. This is why I balanced it with a second rule: the project hat got the highest total funding also fails. this makes for really interesting dilemmas, since players must diversify, but not too much, while always trying to check their opponents.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Of course, the game was first called \u00ab&nbsp;kickstarter, the game&nbsp;\u00bb, and the categories were technological gadgets, video games and boardgames. Among the latter were Cohen the Barbarian, the 7th Incontinent, Cards against Humidity and Exploding Mittens. Unfortunately, the crowdfunding game didn\u2019t work that well, since a kickstarter campaign is not really an auction with one winning bidder. I had to change the theme while keeping the core funding goal idea, and the next idea was silicon valley billionaires.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" data-attachment-id=\"9951\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/venture-angels\/venture-angels-seoul\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1509733033&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"venture angels seoul\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-584x438.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-584x438.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-584x438.jpg 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/venture-angels-seoul.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">A first game of the Venture Angels prototype in Seoul, with Kevin Kim, Vincent Dutrait, Yohan Goh (well, I think it&#8217;s his back in front of the picture &#8211; if one can see a back in front.<br><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I brought a first version of Venture Angels with me at Gen Con, in 2017. Publishers were interested, but nothing was firmly decided. A few weeks later, I spent a few days in Seoul and showed a more developed version to Kevin Kichan Kim, of Mandoo games, who almost at once decided to publish it. The development was fast and easy, consisting mostly of adding catch-up mechanisms so that all players can still win until the third and final round. Players in the lead must now play their first tokens face-up, and there\u2019s even a small bonus token for the last player in the last round. My prototypes used cards, the publisher replaced them with poker-like chips which make the game really feel about money and bidding. Ian O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s art, as minimalistic and light as the game, fit perfectly.<br><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-bandeau-background-color has-background\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Venture Angels<\/strong><\/span><\/em><br><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A game by Bruno Faidutti<\/span><\/em><br><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Art by Ian O&#8217;Toole<\/span><\/em><br><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">2 to 5 players \u2013 15 minutes<\/span><\/em><br><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Published by Mandoo Games, 2018,<\/em><em> also Hoopa Games (Persian) and Gamehead (English)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYQ4pWnyYI4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture Angels est un jeu de bluff et d\u2019ench\u00e8res \u00e0 demi secr\u00e8tes, un genre d\u00e9j\u00e0 bien balis\u00e9 auquel je m\u2019\u00e9tais d\u00e9j\u00e0 essay\u00e9 il y a une quinzaine d\u2019ann\u00e9es avec Corruption, dans lequel les joueurs \u00e9taient des entrepreneurs en b\u00e2timent cherchant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/venture-angels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[315,369,311,242,455,454],"class_list":["post-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-venture-angels","tag-bluff-bluffing","tag-corruption","tag-encheres-auctions-and-bidding","tag-kickstarter","tag-mandoo-games","tag-venture-angels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HNOP-2Ar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17786,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions\/17786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}