On Kickstarter July 21 – August 20
Add Additional Enjoyable to All Your Favourite Card Video games
Match of the Mythic Kingdoms is our new fantasy-themed set of normal taking part in playing cards (52 playing cards + 2 jokers), obtainable beginning July twenty first 2020, solely on Kickstarter. Hand-illustrated by Greg Swearingen with superb consideration to element, these playing cards will add a brand new layer of enjoyable as you utilize them to play all of your favourite card video games.
Watch the teaser video above to see prototypes of among the playing cards. Then, Comply with us on Instagram to get updates and a few previews of the artwork and playing cards previous to the marketing campaign.
Get Notified When We Launch!
Step 1: Go to the Kickstarter Prelaunch Web page to enroll in notification (or click on the button, if you have already got an account)
Step 2: Comply with us on Instagram. We will likely be posting some updates and would possibly even be doing a pair prototype giveaways.
The Story So Far
A Kickstarter marketing campaign is essentially in regards to the journey and story, so till the marketing campaign formally launches, we’ll maintain you up to date through this web page.
We (Jim, Greg, and Jon) have been speaking about doing a kickstarter marketing campaign for years. We toyed with varied concepts for growing our personal video games, and primarily based on our strengths we determined to develop a collector’s set of illustrated taking part in playing cards.
We love video games with a robust theme and superb art work, particularly fantasy. Themed taking part in playing cards isn’t a singular idea, however our purpose was to develop a theme for the illustrations and design that was wealthy in story, permitting you to use a brand new stage of enjoyable to your favourite card video games.
When you find yourself taking part in a trick-taking recreation (like Hearts, Three 13, and so on.), choosing a trump is now not simply choosing a coloration – you declare the Elves or the Undead to be dominant that spherical. Whenever you play Conflict along with your children, you don’t simply evaluate numbers … you may immerse your self within the story the place 10 Elven knights are battling 6 Orcish warriors.
On this theme, the Match brings 4 mythic kingdoms collectively to compete in quite a lot of video games. The elves, dwarves, orcs, and undead are pretty conventional fantasy races, however the characters are all distinctive and are available from a totally new fantasy realm. The Aces are the champions and compete in matches of power and talent. The royalty (J,Q,Ok) want video games of wit and technique. The connection to our world is thru the video games they play, so you’ll acknowledge within the artwork some acquainted recreation parts.
Along with the taking part in playing cards, all through the 30-day marketing campaign we will likely be sharing the backstory for the theme in addition to every of the illustrations, then compiling the artwork and backstory into an unique Artwork Ebook you could buy together with the playing cards.
We vastly underpredicted the trouble all these illustrations would take. However, after an enormous push in 2019, we’re now about 99% executed! There may be nonetheless yet another card as an instance, and that will likely be one of many stretch objectives (an additional joker).
Our unique intention was to launch the kickstarter this spring, however COVID-19 put an enormous wrench in that. On the plus aspect, the delay allowed us time to print a pair iterations of prototypes. We didn’t print these prototypes utilizing USPCC (the corporate that features the Bicycle, Bee, and different in style manufacturers), however we will likely be utilizing USPCC for the precise print run. That can contain printing and verifying proofs previous to the ultimate run.
These of you who’ve ever tried promoting bodily objects understand how large of a job success will be (the method of receiving stock and delivery it to clients). We will likely be dealing with the distribution throughout the US, and we’re partnering with ArtOfPlay.com to deal with the success for worldwide orders.
How does Kickstarter Work?
You probably have no thought what kickstarter is, you may Learn in regards to the fundamentals on Kickstarter.com.
To buy these playing cards, you will want to create an account on Kickstarter.com after which choose a pledge stage that will likely be listed on our marketing campaign web page (after the marketing campaign launches). You don’t really pay something except the undertaking is funded (nevertheless it WILL be funded).
The marketing campaign will final 30 days, and you’ll have an opportunity inside that point to alter your pledge stage (due to course you’ll want to get as many units of playing cards as you may, proper?). We will likely be sending updates in regards to the undertaking, tales in regards to the playing cards, and different data all through the marketing campaign, however solely to the backers, so pledge as early as you may.
How Can I Assist?
The easiest way to assist proper now could be to share the hyperlink to this web page with your folks who love board and card video games in order that they’ll be a part of the early backer electronic mail record.
Presently, we’re within the pre-launch section of this undertaking, making an attempt to unfold the information, create some buzz in regards to the undertaking, and so on. The purpose is to get as many early backers as attainable, in order that we are able to have an superior launch day.
We hope to make sufficient revenue on this marketing campaign to fund boardgaming.com for a few years to come back. To do this would require a really profitable marketing campaign, and essentially the most profitable campaigns are those which have profitable launch days.
Comply with Us through Social Media
We will solely hand around in so many locations, so we’re selecting Instagram because the place that we’ll be monitoring most intently in the course of the marketing campaign. So, one of the simplest ways to message us is to observe us on Instagram!
