![]() The game is based on the Tuareg people, a matrilineal Muslim confederation who live in the Sahara and where the men wear a veil instead of the women. On that note, an English second edition of Targi, a game sitting very high in the BoardGameGeek rankings, has been announced for later this year, and it’s expected that the first English-language release of the expansion won’t be far behind. Moving swiftly on, one of the things I truly love about the industry is all of the board games that expose me to cultures or areas of history that I might never have heard of. If anything, CMON got lucky. What if the Wikipedia edit had been by a racist troll? The tale of Kotahi is the kind of story where your laugh, then wince, then stare into the middle distance for a bit. This is a funny story, of course, but it’s also kind of shocking? It’s bad enough that an established publisher raised over $4 million doing its character design via the sort of cursory Wikipedia-surfing that 13-year-olds get stern warnings about, but these corners were cut while exaggerating the imagery of another culture. In other words, research for Rising Sun was being done via Wikipedia and as a result a random Maori guy was immortalised in CMON’s biggest release of the year.ĬMON have since stated that they were indeed “tricked”, and have sent a couple of copies of the game to Kotahi and his friend in a coy bit of PR, but I’m not sure they come out of this looking good. ![]() The backers couldn’t find any Japanese folklore by that name, but they did find a fake Wikipedia entry where someone put their friend, Kotahi-Manawa Bradford, in Wikipedia’s list of Japanese mythical creatures as a joke. To summarise, CMON’s ludicrously successful Kickstarter game, Rising Sun, was this month shipped to some 32,000 backers only for a few people to begin asking about this “Kotahi” stretch goal miniature. There’s only one story that could possibly kick us off this week: How a Random New Zealand Man Became a Character in Rising Sun. Quinns: Good morning, my sweet creatures of the table. Rising sun, Menara, Targi, Kero, Clank!, uboot, Gentes, Greenland, Neanderthal
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