through a Gamefound crowdfunding campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCarolingi, designed by history teacher Sebastian Freudenberg and prolific game designer Christophe Cantzler, is set in the ninth century, in the wake of the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Players take on the role of Charlemagne’s grandchildren – the Carolingi – as they fight over his vast realm, using a bag-based action selection system to control areas of the map, unite regions, develop their realms, attract followers and gain glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eggert brought the game to Blenneman due to his experience with historical games, having publised titles including Arkwright, The Virgin Queen and John Company through Spielworxx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eggert’s own significant experience in board games includes publishing Spiel des Jahres winner Camel Up, Kennerspiel winner Village and Alexander Pfister designs Great Western Trail and Mombasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He left Eggertspiel in 2020, three years after the company was taken over by Plan B Games. A year after that Plan B was scooped up by Asmodee as part of its frenetic acquisitions spree under the ownership of private equity investor PAI Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eggert is also part of Deep Print Games, the publisher launched in 2020 as a who’s who of German board game industry. Its team also includes Pegasus Spiele’s Karsten Esser and Andreas Finkernagel, ex-Eggertspiele and Plan B designer Philipp El Alaoui, and Viktor Kobilke and Matthias Nagy from Frosted Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carolingi’s campaign is set to run for another 21 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n