Kanban it's a game that will takes you in a Factory producing cars. The players are ambitious workers who are trying to impress the Director to achieve as high a position as possible in the Company and secure their careers.

Kanban is an "euro" hard-game, advised fot 2-4 players. The game will take about 120 minutes.

Here it is possible to buy the English or the Italian version of the game: you will receive it to your home or you can pick-up it to the next Essen Fair or on the next Lucca Fair.

How to play?

Each game turn represents a work day, made of two phases:

• In the first phase players choose in which department wants stay working and place there their worker in the appropriate space. The Board shows the factory subdivided in several Departments, like the Assembly Lines or Testing & Innovations.
• In the second phase players make their decision about the actions to perform in the chosen Department according with the rules.

Time working is measured in Shifts; indicated in the game as a quarters of a clock coloured in blue. Some tasks require 1 Shift to be completed, others more than one. All players partecipate for producing Cars in the same Company, so it's better to all if production works continuously without interruptions. At the same time  each player must find his/her way to win, for example being more specialized in some Departments than in others.

The game is a good schematization of how work a true industry:

Assembly Line Department: Cars are assembled by giving requests car Parts. There are at all 5 car models: different colours meeples. Mounting a model in Demand gives bonus Red Seat.

Logistic Department: Assembly Line needs 6 different car Parts:Chassis, Transmission, Turbo, Engine, Suspension, Brakes, represented in the game by cubes of different colours. You may make an Order to fill the warehouses of this Department and than catch Parts in your own stocks in your Player Board for let you keep going on the production. 
Alternatively you can spend car Parts for Upgrade a Design.

Design Department: Innovative Designs are developed in this Department. You may choose in which design want work. You need a Design make upgrades and claim  Cars in your own garages. 

Testing & Innovation Department: It consist in the Test Track and Innovation. Completed Cars get to the Test Track; you can claim Cars frome there to Test Design about that model. Some actions make Cars run on the Test Track. When will carried enough test there a Meeting at the end of the day (see farward)

In Innovation you can Upgrade a Design. This let you Innovate a car Part in a car model. On the board is shown which part of a model has been upgraded part and on the Innovation Track are indicated the values of each Part.

Recycling:It's possible exchange a car Part from your Player Board that is not still here with a different Part placed in this Department. Recycling is so important for save time and economize on your work.

Administration Department: Here takes place Meetings. During a Meeting Director and workers discuss about the works in the factory. Discuss is regarding Performance Goal shared between all workers and Personal Goal that players put in game from their hands. Speak about a Goal provides Victory Points (VP). Each player can speak for a maximum number of time equal to the Seat that he/she has. You must complete same mini-goal go get more Seat to use in the next Meeting. More tasks you fulfill and more the Director is interested in listening you during Meetings.

Specialization Track: players can specialize his/her knowledge in departments through studing books or spending time at the workstations. Improving your specialization level you will get the Certification; this gives you benefit or extra actions when you work in that Department. After being Certificated you will became an Expert and get several rewards. Who gets Expert first in a Department obtain bonus Seat.

Director: Sandra guides the Factory, but above all checks worker’s progress. She visits a different Department each day and performs there some actions. Then rewards the most specialized worker in this Department with a prize if he/she fulfill specific conditions.
At the beginning of the game is possible choosing for a Director in “nice” mood or “serious” mood. In the second case she gives penalty to who doesn’t respect conditions.
 

Box Content

Components

• One player board
• 16 pages Rulebook English version (or Italian depending on the version purchased)

To the players in 4 colors:

• 1 player board
• 7 discs to track shifts and training
• 1 certification meeple (short bust)
• 1 worker meeple (tall)
• 5 player lock tiles
• Player aid sheet

Factory manager components:

• 1 pink worker pawn
• 1 pink cylinder to track the week count

Other tokens:

• 1 white cylinder to track the production cycle
• 1 white wooden car to track the production cycle
• 6 cubes to trace car parts value
• 9 cubes x 6 colors representing car parts
• 8 wooden car tokens x 5 colors (green, blue, yellow, red and black)
• 1 two sided production track overlay for 2 and 3-player games
• A big huge white wooden token to signal the meetings (building shaped)

Cards:

• 12 kanban cards to order parts
• 32 Performance goal cards

Tiles:

• 7 blueprints x 5 models
• 44 seat tiles (24 red and 20 in player colors)
• 12 factory goal tiles
• 5 kanban tiles for cars demand
• 20 plaque award tiles
• 16 book tiles
• 12 wild cube tiles
• 6 final score tiles

Stretch-Goals

There are these goals planned: 

Who is the game for?

Kanban is an hard management strategic game, not advised for inexpert gamers. There is no luck. The mechanics makes a dense network of possibilities and each act influence more sides of the game. You should gauge carefully tour moves and perform your combo. There are several way to get PP and also in 4 player may each has a different strategy. At the same time different strategies could have common points, making players clash each others.
 

Which version?

Each beckers recives the Italian version published by Giochix.it or the English version by Strongold Games.
 

Crowdpreordering

The aim of this campaign is to realize a pre-order of the game Kanban. This makes vantages for the publisher who can estimate how many copies sold; for the purchaser who get special offer not available in common shops and receives his copy of the game long before normal sale.
 

How to pay?

Is allowed to pay with credit cards (Paypal) or by Bank wire transfer.
 

Shipping costs

Shipping is free for Italy and comes about with DHL or SDA courier. For shipping out of Italy there is a tariff depending on the destination country. You can see about this cost on the table below or clicking on “Shipping Options” after your order. 

It’s possible catch your copy here in Rome for free, or at Giochix/Giochistarter stand on Lucca Comics and Games Fair, or on Giochix stand at Essen Fair (1C123). 

For other countries make the pledge and then click "Shipping options" on the shopping cart: the system will show you the shipping cost to your country.

When receive the game? 

Kanban comes out at next Spiel 2014. Shipping will stats immediately after that. Copies booked by Giochistarter will ships before all others booking, letting you play this game as soon as possible.