Blue Moon City
{{Short description|2006 board and card game}}
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| title = Blue Moon City
| image_link = 180px
| image_caption = The box cover of Blue Moon City
| designer = Reiner Knizia
| publisher = Fantasy Flight Games (U.S.)
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| players = 2 to 4
| ages = 10 and up
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Blue Moon City is a 2006 designer board game by Reiner Knizia. The game has similar artwork to, and some thematic connections with, the Blue Moon card game, also designed by Knizia.{{Cite web |last=Applecline |first=Shannon |date=23 February 2006 |title=Anatomy of a Game: Blue Moon |url=https://www.mechanics-and-meeples.com/2006/02/23/anatomy-of-a-game-blue-moon/ |access-date=31 August 2023 |website=Mechanics and Meeples |publication-date=23 February 2006}} It is a city-building game with a heavy fantasy theme.{{cite book |last1=Wallis |first1=James |title=Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made |date=2023 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ueWtEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT71 |access-date=4 October 2023}}
Publication history
Shannon Appelcline explained that in the early 2000s, "Fantasy Flight's eurogame production started to slow as the company increasingly developed its own voice. Top games like Reiner Knizias' Blue Moon City (2006) and Beowulf: The Movie Board Game (2007) — the latter a redevelopment of an older FFG title — appeared, but they were a dwindling part of FFG's board game production."{{cite book| last = Appelcline| first = Shannon| title = Designers & Dragons: The 90s| publisher = Evil Hat Productions | date = 2014| pages = 304 | isbn = 978-1-61317-084-7}}
Reception
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Mikko Saari from Lautapeliopas praised the game's elegance and engagement. He stated that the game was "not very far from popular card-based war games in terms of basic mechanics".{{Cite web |date=2009-03-21 |title=Blue Moon City -lautapelin arvostelu ＞ Lautapeliopas |url=https://www.lautapeliopas.fi/peliarvostelut/blue-moon-city/ |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=Lautapeliopas |language=fi}} It also won the 2006 Meeples' Choice Award, and was ranked 4th Place in the 2006 Deutscher Spiele Preis.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} It was also nominated for the 2006 Spiel des Jahres awards.{{Cite web |last=sdj-admin |title=Blue Moon City |url=https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/spiele/blue-moon-city/ |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=Spiel des Jahres |language=de-DE}}
References
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External links
- {{bgg|21882|Blue Moon City}}
Category:Fantasy Flight Games games
Category:Board games introduced in 2006
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