{"id":9822,"date":"2015-02-02T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2015-02-02T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:45:13","slug":"mission-to-mars-2049-a-family-board-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9822","title":{"rendered":"Mission to Mars 2049: A family board game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crowd-sourcing campaign to fund production of the board game <em>Mission to Mars 2049<\/em> has now exceeded its primary goal and is aiming for stretch goals:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/mission-to-mars-2049-a-family-board-game\" target=\"_d\">Mission to Mars 2049: A Family Board Game &#8211;\u00a0Indiegogo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Mission to Mars 2049 is a family board game that is set in the near future. In this game you are in control of a human colony settled on Mars (there can be up to four of them) and your objective is to build a water extraction station on top of the Martian Polar Ice Cape before any other player does. In order to do that, you will need to have a strategy for acquiring resources and building your colony faster than anyone else.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This video gives an overview of the game:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mission to Mars 2049: a family board game\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/115791342?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video outlines the rules in more detail:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mars 2049 - How to Play?\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/115750014?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crowd-sourcing campaign to fund production of the board game Mission to Mars 2049 has now exceeded its primary goal and is aiming for stretch goals:\u00a0Mission to Mars 2049: A Family Board Game &#8211;\u00a0Indiegogo. Mission to Mars 2049 is a family board game that is set in the near future. In this game you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9822\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mission to Mars 2049: A family board game<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[16,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-education","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2yq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1290,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1290","url_meta":{"origin":9822,"position":0},"title":"Update on Mars Colony Challenger &#8211; vote for it for Steam","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Mars Colony Challenger from HyperKat Games, mentioned here the other day, has been posted on the Steam Greenlight site where it can be voted on for inclusion in the Steam store's online collection of games for sale: Steam Greenlight :: Mars Colony: Challenger. 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