Flash Point: Fire Rescue
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Box cover | |
| Designer(s) | Kevin Lanzing |
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| Publisher(s) |
999 Games Hobby Japan Indie Boards and Cards MINDOK |
| Players | 1 to 6 |
| Age range | 10 and up |
| Playing time | 45 minutes |
Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a 2011 thematic cooperative board game designed by Kevin Lanzing with the help of firefighters.[1] The objective is for players to work together to rescue people and animals from a burning building before it collapses. Since the initial release of the game several expansions have been published, which add additional scenarios for players experience. These include fires in a high rise building, a two-story house, and a submarine.
Description
Players are firefighters who at the simplest "family" level can move, put out fires, cut through walls and rescue victims; higher levels introduce specialized roles such as the fire captain, the engine operator, hazmat technicians and paramedics.[1] The game "owe[s] a lot to Pandemic."[2]
Development
The game's development was crowdfunded through a Kickstarter project, with a 30-day funding period that ended on August 18, 2011 with nearly 900 backers, and pledges amounting to more than an order of magnitude greater than the $5000 goal.[1] The money covered expenses such as artwork, product safety tests, and the first print run.
References
- 1 2 3 "Flash Point: Fire Rescue". Kickstarter. August 18, 2011. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ↑ Liu, Jonathan (August 17, 2011). "Get Flash Point: Fire Rescue While It's Hot". Wired. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
External links
- Flash Point: Fire Rescue at BoardGameGeek
- Rules (English) from the publisher's website