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Citizens of Canterbury: Today has been a great day for Canterbury! We raised nearly $3,000 today and are now at 93% of our goal! The walls are securely in place throughout our fair city, and now we have but to fix the rafters in place during our... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury: We have received dozens of requests over the past week to create more Canterbury Add-Ons to allow our citizens to continue to show their support of the city. And so after researching all of your suggestions, the most viable... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury: Tonight we welcomed our 500th citizen into the city! As we enter the final days of our campaign, we wanted to provide you with links to all of the reviews, videos, podcasts, and other information that has developed about... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury: Today we have posted the German Rulebook for Canterbury! It is available for download here: http://www.zdh.com/quixotic/canterbury_rulebook_web_deutsch2.pdf Special thanks to our German translator, Ferdinand Köther, for his... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury: We are entering the home stretch of our campaign! We have built up some great momentum since the wonderful "Rahdo Runs Through" review, as well as the announcement of the Tiwsman Shrub Tokens. But we still have a good deal of... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury: Throughout our Kickstarter campaign, we have received wonderful feedback from all of you about ways to make Canterbury better. One item of interest for backers and potential backers has been the presence of something exclusive... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury: We have a giant news item headed your way tomorrow (stay tuned!), but we simply had to let you know about something else exciting that happened today. Many backers and potential backers have requested that the game be reviewed... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury! There is only one element of luck in Canterbury: who goes first! Now, as an exclusive Add-On available only to those who back Canterbury on Kickstarter, you can have your very special way to determine who starts off as the... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury: Today is a big day for our city. So much is going on in our fair domain that it's hard to keep track of it all, so here is a list of all the new things: Today we are hosting a special event on the front page of... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury: We are 10 days into our campaign and nearly at the halfway mark. The pillars are almost raised! To celebrate, we have created special Support Badges for all of you who would like to display them. We have created a 220 X 220... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury: It is only Day 5 of our campaign, and we have already raised 38% of our goal, putting us at $19,086! I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you once again for your encouragement and support, and to let you know about some... (Read More)

Citizens of Canterbury, This has truly been one of the most exciting days of my life. After a year of preparation, we really had no idea what would happen starting at midnight last night, and we were completely blown away by the level of support that... (Read More)

One of the first things that popped into my head after playing Caylus in 2005 was how much I loved the idea that everyone was building the same city. Of course, I also enjoyed the worker placement mechanism, the competition to build the castle, and the resource management aspects of the game, but it was the idea of watching the city's structural dynamic grow based upon player decisions that really got me thinking. Wouldn't it be fun to create a city-building game that focused specifically on this one aspect but felt different from other games of the genre? Of course, a lot of city-building games were out there, so I immediately set about coming up with concepts that would make this game have a different feel than the others. One of the opening parameters of the design was to remove the concept of personal wealth from the game. Players would have to manage expenses, of course, but I didn't want a player to build up a hoard of gold from using his buildings. I wanted the game to be a competitive city-builder in which players would draw from a common treasury, and that treasury would grow as the city expanded. This would allow us to avoid a "rich get richer" scenario for an individual player, and all of the players' available resources would grow based upon their combined decisions as they developed the city. (Read More)