Celestia + Celestia Contest!

[sourisdudesert]

We are proud to introduce today Celestia, a game from Aaron Weissblum published by BLAM ! editions.

Celestia is a reimplementation of Cloud 9, that some of you may know. In this game, all players control together an aircraft which flies across wonderful cities, in order to find treasures.

On each turn, some dice define a challenge to go to the next island. One of you - the "captain" of this turn - must discard the cards corresponding to the dice in order to move to the next city - otherwise the aircraft will crash (ie : no treasure for any of the passengers).

The other passengers have the choice to stay in the aircraft, in order to make the longest possible trip and get treasures with a lot of points, or to leave the aircraft and get a treasure with less points. But this choice may be risky : the aircraft may crash, and of course you don't know if the captain is telling the truth when he says that he won't crash this turn ... By the way, on the next turn YOU may be the captain

To learn how to play this amazing game, we recommend you this 8 minutes Dice Tower videos.

Celestia can be played from 2 to 6 players, but the game for 2-3 players is way more tactical and definitely not for beginners. This is why only 4-6 players configurations are opened at now.

To celebrate this digital adaptation, Blam! and BGA are organizing the Celestia Contest!

The contest starts now, and ends on March 31th at 21:00 CET. The first 10 players on BGA world rank will get the following gifts :
1st player : Celestia official playmat + Celestia expansion + 9 beautiful ex libris.
2nd player : Celestia expansion + Celestia Twinples + 9 ex libris.
3rd player : Celestia Twinples + 9 ex libris.
4-5th : 4 ex libris.
6-10th : 2 ex libris.

Needless to say that Celestia adaptation is one of the most beautiful digital adaptation we have it on BGA, and for this we'd like to thank Marc-André Larivière who developed this adaptation using BGA Studio! We'd also like to thank Blam! edition for this game and their authorization to have it there and for the contest!

Good luck for the contest!

[Emfatic]

I can't start a turn based game of Celestia. It only gives realtime options.

[sourisdudesert]

Yes. Considering the nature of the game and its interactions, this game would not make much sense in turn based.

[theicecamel]

What part of 'the game and its interactions' make less sense in a turn-based format?

[MrKris]

Glad to see Celestia on BGA. Sad that it's only in real time though

[ryanh221]

Exactly why I came here: Disappointed to not find a turn-based option.

[Cappie]

Please change the real time enforcement.

[sourisdudesert]

Well. On this game you can interrupt the game when this is not your turn in many ways, for example with a jetpack, with a hook, or with some card to help the captain.

If we give active turn based turns of all players each time there is a possible interaction, this becomes a turn based nightmare, where 66% of the time you must go on BGA to say that you cannot do the possible action.

And of course we cannot skip for you the action you cannot do, otherwise your opponents know you dont have the card.

In addition, the heart of the game are the exchange between captain and the crew about what to do. This is very difficult to have exchanges in turn based.

[Amekins]

Wonderful news!!!!

[Kosmo Cat]

I've never heard about this game before. Played if two times and loved it. It's really fun!