🔥 New Dune Board Game at Escape Velocity 2019

Preview the New Dune Board Game at Escape Velocity 2019

Award-winning game publisher Gale Force Nine, in association with the Museum of Science Fiction, is proud to announce the return of the classic 1979 strategy board game, Dune. Original designers Peter Olotka, Bill Eberle and Jack Kittredge are working on the new edition which will feature completely new graphics, components, and updated rules.

“We wanted to do something classic and have the original game from Peter Olotka and the guys that wrote the original Dune game,” said John-Paul Brisigotti, CEO of Gale Force Nine. “The game is great. It was great in ’79 and it's still great today. We've basically taken the Avalon Hill game, and then Peter and the guys updated the rules to modernize them a little. But fundamentally that classic game will be out this summer by August.”

The Dune board game is a strategy game designed for two to six players and is based on the iconic series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert. Players select a unique faction at the start of each game and must engage in high stakes diplomacy in order to safely harvest valuable spice while avoiding giant sandworms and rival factions.

“Dune was the second game we designed after Cosmic Encounter,” said Peter Olotka, the game's co-designer. “The secret to the Dune board game's longevity is that it subtly envelops the players so that they 'become' the characters in Frank Herbert’s amazing novel. Dune players recount their games like spinoff chapters to the books. We are overjoyed to be able update Dune with Gale Force Nine and the Museum of Science Fiction as our stewards and our friends.”

The new edition will have a special preview at Escape Velocity 2019, the fourth annual convention presented by the Museum of Science Fiction, scheduled for May 24-26 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor, MD, right outside of Washington, DC.

“I have probably played the Dune game every year of my life since 1979, and I am so proud to be able to help bring it to a new generation,” said Charles Hildebrandt, Production Counsel for the Museum of Science Fiction. “The mission of the Museum of Science Fiction is to promote science and arts education through science fiction, and science fiction boardgames represent the perfect distillation of that mission.”

At Escape Velocity, players will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try to beat the Dune designers at their own game. On Sunday, May 26, Peter, Bill, and Jack will be ready to fight for control of Arrakis.

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There’s just no shortage of amazing things to do at Escape Velocity this year! Between the nonstop events at Escape Velocity and all the fun ways to play at National Harbor, your family is sure to be occupied all weekend! Book a hotel room for naptime and stay all weekend!

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The Museum of Science Fiction and NASA are partnering to bring Escape Velocity 2018 to Washington, DC.

The event is a futuristic world’s fair to promote informal STEAM educational activities within the context of science fiction using the fun of comic cons and fascination of science and engineering festivals. Escape Velocity 2018 seeks to make a measurable positive impact to boost informal learning on the more conceptually challenging academic areas.

Escape Velocity's mission is to attract young people to science, technology, engineering, art, and math by producing and presenting the most compelling, exciting, educational, and entertaining science festival in the United States using science fiction as its primary engine.

Escape Velocity will achieve orbit on May 25-27, 2018 at the Marriott Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC.