{"id":815,"date":"2023-09-21T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2023-09-25T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T09:03:23","slug":"lucky-duck-games-to-launch-food-chain-magnate-special-edition-on-gamefound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/lucky-duck-games-to-launch-food-chain-magnate-special-edition-on-gamefound\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Duck Games to launch visually redesigned Food Chain Magnate special edition on Gamefound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lucky Duck Games has agreed a deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/175914\/food-chain-magnate\" title=\"\">Food Chain Magnate<\/a> creator Splotter Spellen to launch a Gamefound campaign for a special edition of the brain-burning fast food restaurant management game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1950s-set heavy strategy game sees players running restaurants competing to deliver burgers, pizzas and drinks to residential homes, as well as hiring and managing staff using a card-based system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new edition includes a &#8220;complete visual overhaul&#8221; but identical rules according to Lucky Duck&#8217;s Az Drummond, who said the campaign will include both the base game and <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/261526\/food-chain-magnate-ketchup-mechanism-other-ideas\">The Ketchup Mechanism &amp; Other Ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FCM-drinks.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-817\" width=\"316\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FCM-drinks.webp 600w, https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FCM-drinks-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FCM-drinks-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wheeler said, &#8220;We plan to make significant enhancements to the game\u2019s components including the addition of miniatures for the restaurants, marketing tokens, and houses plus a new milestone tracker and storage solution as part of the box.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The special edition, which will be English language only, is planned as a one-off print run and will not go into retail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food Chain Magnate has been notoriously tricky for players to buy over the years, with limited print runs from small Dutch publisher Splotter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gamefound campaign is planned to begin on November 14, with a page<a href=\"https:\/\/gamefound.com\/en\/projects\/lucky-duck-games\/food-chain-magnate-special-edition\"> due to go live here<\/a> within the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food Chain Magnate is currently ranked at number 38 on BoardGameGeek, with an 8.1 rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/buttondown.com\/boardgamewire\" style=\"background-color:#f6bf00\">For more stories like this direct to your email inbox, click here to sign up for BoardGameWire&#8217;s free email newsletter. \n\nAnd if you&#8217;ve found our reporting interesting or useful, please consider a paid subscription to help support our journalism!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky Duck Games has agreed a deal with Food Chain Magnate creator Splotter Spellen to launch a Gamefound campaign for a special edition of the brain-burning fast food restaurant management game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,376,26,214,377,378],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crowdfunding","tag-food-chain-magnate","tag-gamefound","tag-lucky-duck-games","tag-splotter-spellen","tag-strategy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}