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 ordinary enjoying playing cards (52 playing cards + 2 jokers), out there 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 number of 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 join notification (or click on the button, if you have already got an account)
Step 2: Comply with us on Instagram. We will probably be posting some updates and may even be doing a pair prototype giveaways.
The Story So Far
A Kickstarter marketing campaign is basically in regards to the journey and story, so till the marketing campaign formally launches, we’ll preserve 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 growing our personal video games, and based mostly 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 is just not a novel idea, however our objective 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 sport (like Hearts, Three 13, and so forth.), selecting a trump is now not simply selecting a shade – you declare the Elves or the Undead to be dominant that spherical. Whenever you play Battle along with your children, you don’t simply evaluate numbers … you’ll be able to 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 very new fantasy realm. The Aces are the champions and compete in matches of power and ability. The royalty (J,Q,Okay) desire 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 sport parts.
Along with the enjoying playing cards, all through the 30-day marketing campaign we will probably be sharing the backstory for the theme in addition to every of the illustrations, then compiling the artwork and backstory into an unique Artwork Guide you can buy together with the playing cards.
We vastly underpredicted the hassle all these illustrations would take. However, after an enormous push in 2019, we’re now about 99% performed! There may be nonetheless yet another card as an instance, and that will probably 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 widespread manufacturers), however we will probably 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 know the way huge of a job achievement could be (the method of receiving stock and delivery it to prospects). We will probably be dealing with the distribution inside the US, and we’re partnering with ArtOfPlay.com to deal with the achievement for worldwide orders.
How does Kickstarter Work?
When you’ve got no concept what kickstarter is, you’ll be able to Learn in regards to the fundamentals on Kickstarter.com.
To buy these playing cards, you’ll need to create an account on Kickstarter.com after which choose a pledge stage that will probably be listed on our marketing campaign web page (after the marketing campaign launches). You don’t truly pay something until the mission is funded (but it surely WILL be funded).
The marketing campaign will final 30 days, and you should 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’ll be able to, proper?). We will probably be sending updates in regards to the mission, tales in regards to the playing cards, and different info all through the marketing campaign, however solely to the backers, so pledge as early as you’ll be able to.
How Can I Assist?
The easiest way to assist proper now’s to share the hyperlink to this web page with your pals who love board and card video games in order that they’ll be a part of the early backer e-mail record.
At present, we’re within the pre-launch part of this mission, making an attempt to unfold the information, create some buzz in regards to the mission, and so forth. The objective is to get as many early backers as attainable, in order that we will 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 probably the most profitable campaigns are those which have profitable launch days.
Comply with 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 observe us on Instagram!
