Natural disasters will soon be a thing of the past," proclaimed Professor Sêni Lativ, project manager for weather manipulation at Lightning Technologies. Tests of his new invention, the Weather Machine, have yielded positive results. Visions of quelling floods, controlling cyclones and ending droughts make him smile. In Weather Machine, you are the scientists on Professor Lativ's team and you change the local weather: adjusting rainfall for farms, keeping the wind and sky clear for green energy sources, adjusting the temperature for resorts and sporting events. So far, the prototype is quite effective; however, a trend is emerging that reveals a disturbing side effect: Each use of the weather machine also changes conditions elsewhere on the planet - a "butterfly effect".
Professor Lativ's dreams of eliminating climate disasters are quickly turning into nightmares of the end of humanity. Each test has even worse side effects. One day, the professor bursts into the laboratory, determination in his eyes, followed immediately by stoics in stone-faced suits. Government officials accepted the urgency of the situation, and the fact that only Professor Lativ's team could solve the problem he himself had raised. "We have to build a new prototype," he announces as the agents give him sidelong glances, "...but this time we're going to do it right." The agents nod silently in confirmation. "The government is funding this project, and we're going to get it right."
As Professor Lativ explains the plan, the need to find suppliers for enough robots and chemicals is clear. As well as materials, time is of the essence; you need to be focused and efficient to have any hope of mastering this growing global terror, the Earth's atmosphere, before conditions become too harsh for Homo sapiens and countless other species in all biomes. At this point, Professor Sêni Lativ will be remembered as a mad but brilliant scientist for as long as humanity survives, but you could go down in history as the saviour of the world.
Weather Machine funded on the Kickstarter platform
Weather Machine was funded on the Crowdfunding Kickstarter (See the campaign) platform on the Dec 18, 2021, the campaign lasted 37 days. 9,163 people helped funded the game, whose the amount requested was $150,000.00. Thanks to these 9,163 people the game could be funded up to $1,181,402.00, ~787.60%.
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Contents of the box : 1 game board, 4 labs, 4 scientist meeples, 48 bots, 4 score markers, 20 coupon markers, 4 initiative markers, 4 turn order markers, 12 funding markers, 24 breakthrough markers, 3 government markers, 1 Lativ assistant, 5 Lativ bots, 12 citation tokens, 5 lock tokens, 12 award tokens, 1 Nobel Prize, 10 Government Research tokens, 15 Laboratory Research tokens, 10 R&D Research tokens, 25 Chemicals, 15 Extreme Weather tiles, 15 Experiment tiles, 30 Workshop tiles, 15 Grant tiles, 12 Investment tiles, 36 Objective tiles in 4 sets, 50 Machine parts, 1 Rulebook, 4 Game Aids.
