On Kickstarter July 21 – August 20
Add Further Enjoyable to All Your Favourite Card Video games
Match of the Mythic Kingdoms is our new fantasy-themed set of ordinary enjoying playing cards (52 playing cards + 2 jokers), accessible 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 employ them to play all of your favourite card video games.
Watch the teaser video above to see prototypes of a few of the playing cards. Then, Observe 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: Observe 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 basically concerning the journey and story, so till the marketing campaign formally launches, we’ll hold you up to date by way of this web page.
We (Jim, Greg, and Jon) have been speaking about doing a kickstarter marketing campaign for years. We toyed with numerous concepts for creating our personal video games, and primarily based on our strengths we determined to develop a collector’s set of illustrated enjoying playing cards.
We love video games with a robust theme and superb art work, particularly fantasy. Themed enjoying playing cards just 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 enjoying a trick-taking recreation (like Hearts, Three 13, and so on.), choosing a trump is not simply choosing a colour – you declare the Elves or the Undead to be dominant that spherical. Whenever you play Warfare along with your children, you don’t simply examine 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 a wide range 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) favor 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 components.
Along with the enjoying 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 E-book which 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% finished! There’s nonetheless yet another card for instance, and that will likely be one of many stretch targets (an additional joker).
Our authentic intention was to launch the kickstarter this spring, however COVID-19 put an enormous wrench in that. On the plus facet, 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 well-liked manufacturers), however we will likely be utilizing USPCC for the precise print run. That may contain printing and verifying proofs previous to the ultimate run.
These of you who’ve ever tried promoting bodily objects understand how huge of a job success might be (the method of receiving stock and transport it to clients). We will likely be dealing with the distribution inside the US, and we’re partnering with ArtOfPlay.com to deal with the success for worldwide orders.
How does Kickstarter Work?
In case you have no concept what kickstarter is, you may Learn concerning the fundamentals on Kickstarter.com.
To buy these playing cards, you’ll need to create an account on Kickstarter.com after which decide 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 until the venture is funded (but it surely WILL be funded).
The marketing campaign will final 30 days, and you’ll have an opportunity inside that point to vary your pledge stage (due to course it would be best to get as many units of playing cards as you may, proper?). We will likely be sending updates concerning the venture, tales concerning 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?
One of the simplest ways to assist proper now’s 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.
At the moment, we’re within the pre-launch section of this venture, making an attempt to unfold the information, create some buzz concerning the venture, and so on. The purpose is to get as many early backers as potential, 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 return. To try this would require a really profitable marketing campaign, and essentially the most profitable campaigns are those which have profitable launch days.
Observe Us by way of Social Media
We will solely hand around in so many locations, so we’re selecting Instagram because the place that we are going to be monitoring most intently in the course of the marketing campaign. So, one of the simplest ways to message us is to comply with us on Instagram!
