Comentarios del Propio Eklund sobre su BIOS: GENESIS:
"GAME LENGTH. The playtest log shows the game to be taking 2 hours. First play will likely be longer. There is a short game (see C0.4), an introductory game (C3), a kinder-gentler variant (C4), and (most important) a solitaire game (C1). If playing 2-player with your wife, I recommend the cooperative game (C2), at least to start.
SETUP is pretty brief: its a cardgame so the decks have to be sorted and arranged. You dump all the tokens into a bowl representing the primordial soup.
COMPLEXITY. No mistake, this is a hard game to learn. It's a nerd's game, the subject matter is super-ambitious, and I cover a huge array of topics. The rules are relatively long. It is helpful to know biological terms, as the game is full of jargon. There is a glossary, a back page icon decoder, an extended example of play, and 57 footnotes.
BIOS GENESIS is available for discounted preorder now at
www.sierra-madre-games.eu. As of today there are 385 preorders from private customers. This represents an entirely unexpected demand! Anticipating that a game about biochemistry would sell sluggishly, I ordered only 2000 games, (compared to 5000 games for Pax Renaissance, for instance). By the time of debut in Messe Essen Germany, half these games will be gone, and Bios Genesis may well sell out this year without ever getting to the discount on-line shops. "