“As the name suggests, this is set in 2029, where the final battle of trying to get through to Skynet. This is essentially the first glimpse of the future war that you saw in the movie, but expanded out as a full game experience,” Chang said.
“This is one of the things that we wanted to do, we pitched to the movie studio to say, ‘We got to see this little, tiny glimpse, but I wanted to experience what that was like.’ This is what that is.”
Players work cooperatively against Skynet, attempting to reprogram a terminator and be able to send it back in time to save John Connor and protect him. “There are some directives. You have to hack the system to be able to travel back into 1995 to set this in motion,” Allen said. “That's one of many win conditions you have to have. You also have to get John Connor all the way through to open the gates, to be able to infiltrate Skynet by hacking the defense grid.”
Terminator 2029 will be funded via Kickstarter in September, with a planned trade release tentative scheduled for 2018. There are plans for a retailer backer level on Kickstarter. Trade release is tentatively estimated at $59.00 - $69.00.
The game was designed by Ian O’Toole. “He's well known as a graphic artist who did Lisboa, the Gallerist,” Allen shared. “He definitely is a Euro gamer. It was an interesting thing to see a Euro game design person, who plays a lot of Euro games, try and create a thematic game.”
Passport Game Studios took over global distribution for the Rule & Make earlier this year (see “Passport to Distribute Rule & Make Games”). It released Skyward: The Airborne City at Gen Con. Passport will be releasing other Rule & Make Games soon.
Space Goat Productions has a license for the first Terminator movie and plans to release The Terminator: The Official Board Game at the end of this year (see “The Past and Future Collide in 'The Terminator' Board Game”).
