One Deck Dungeon: Relics of the Forge

Hello friends! We have been catching up on a lot of stuff since the campaign completed, but I wanted to check in with you all about our timelines and progress.

Pledge Manager: Will be opening the first week in November. I need to do some backend things with regard to shipping, we will be trying out BackerKit's "charge shipping later" feature which will allow us to set shipping prices when we get them at the completion of production (in the Spring). Freight/etc prices are wild right now but should come down after the holidays. The quotes I have right now are not what anyone wants to be paying!

Work, Streams, Adventures: Took a couple weeks off of thinking about Dungeon to re-clear the brainspace after the campaign ended, but I'm back to scheming and development this week. We will do a couple streams in November to show off things as they're built. In particular, we'll have cool art to show :)

PAX Unplugged: We have a large booth at PAX U in December, and will have a prototype of Relics on hand to show off to people! If you're attending, you can come see it. Their Expo Map hasn't been released yet, but we're right in the middle of the hall. Frankly, it seems like they built the whole thing around us, the center of the gaming universe. Very kind of them!

Plushies: The campaign for Floral Frolic's cool plushies ends TODAY - if you backed our project and back theirs before it ends, you'll get the free Foxfire pin! Also, they're cool people and plushies are fun. 

Thank you all again for your support! We can't make games without people to play them, as it turns out, so you all are a very important part of the process. Happy random warm-wave in October week, if you're up in the Northeast like we are. 

\o/ We did it! 3600 backers just now, thank you all very much for the last day push.

With this...we have unlocked an additional promo hero for the Abyssal Trove (and of course, every Vault that contains the Trove). But who is she? We...can't tell you yet! It's a secret. There is still some contractual business to be done before we can reveal her, but we are pretty excited about it :)

We'll be revealing more about her and various other things (and of course more playtesting!) during the months following the campaign, so stay tuned.

Overtime Mode

A new feature on BackerKit is overtime mode! You may have noticed Backer Trains during the campaign when many people joined at once. Well - as long as there's a train going, the campaign will not end. Starting at 6:00PM, any new backer or any backer increasing their pledge will extend the campaign to ten minutes from their moment of pledginess. Pledginess is indeed a real word. 

Happy End Day, everyone! 

Hello friends! We are in the home stretch, the last floor of the dungeon, but there is still adventuring to do.

Friday we had our last in-campaign Dev Stream:




where we took the Foxfire for another spin with the Luminous Chime. Both a little too good? Perhaps! This is why we playtest.

We'll do some dev streams in the coming months, we haven't quite worked out a schedule yet but it's a lot of fun testing with friends in chat.

Riddle #10 Answer

This was another tough one! Three of the four books had Green words, and one had a Red word. Green means go, Red means stop! The final riddle, the boss riddle, is up now. It's linked at the end of this post.



Stretch Goals and Post-Campaign Pre-orders

We're still cruising through stretch goals, and there's more we'd love to do with more support. The reality is, this is not like most campaigns where all the stretch goals are sitting in a folder somewhere and instantly discovered fully ready-for-print when reached. We do stretch goals for things we'd like to do, with proper funding. So we will definitely commit to the stretch goals we reach during the campaign, and anything beyond that we'd *like* to do, but it'll depend on how pre-orders go in the pledge manager phase.

A reminder: Any pledge (even $1!) counts towards stretch goals. So tell your friends :)

Stream Schedule

Tuesday afternoon will be our last in-campaign stream, it'll be at 3PM Eastern. The campaign ends at 6PM Eastern! 

Also on twitch.tv/asmadigames, on Monday afternoon at 2:30 Eastern we'll be doing an Innovation Ultimate unboxing to show off the insert, the cards, and such. 

And on Sunday at 4PM, another Curling game! It's the first weekend of our Sunday league, and I'll be streaming it again to our Twitch channel. Who knows, maybe there's even a curling tabletop game on the horizon. 👀

With 1 week to go, we're up to 440% funding, closing in on 3000 backers, and more stretch goals on the horizon! Hurray for all of these things.

On today's dev stream, we talked about the newly unlocked Dungeon Randomizer, showed a couple relics, and went over Riddle answers:



Dungeon Randomizer

This is a fun stretch goal! When I initially thought of the concept, I thought it would develop out as fragmented floors - one floor from one dungeon, a second from another, etc. Turns out, that sounds better than it is in practice. Did not work well - instead, we're randomizing what's *in* each dungeon, so it's turned out a bit more as Dungeon Variants, but it's still a cool concept. Each copy of the Abyssal Trove will have a pack of dungeon cards, all of which are varied alternate versions of existing dungeons. When selecting the Yeti's Cavern, you'll randomly choose one of the three versions of it (tentatively titled A B C, but that will likely change)

As you can see, there're similar concepts but different boxes and modified effects. But it's not just the dungeon that's changed the boss is different as well! There's lots of balancing work to be done here, but we think you'll have fun enjoying even more ways to play Dungeon with now up to 50 different dungeon/boss cards! 

Relics

We also are testing two more relics this week, the Map of Destiny, and the Obsidian Hammer. The Hammer is a low-complexity relic, with a simple spend stuff/get stuff economy. It's important to have these in Relics, especially for players coming to it as a first-ever Dungeon set. We want to have a good mix of complexity levels. The Map of Destiny is definitely on the higher complexity side. It plays around with how doors and exploration work.

Riddle #9 Solution

Riddle 9's foxy premise was months of the year! Each of the words in the answer options started with the same letter as one of the months on your modern day calendar, and they were organized into trios. JFM goes with January, February, March, and was the correct answer.  Good luck on Riddle #10!

Hello and greetings! We are 2 weeks away from the conclusion of our funding campaign for One Deck Dungeon: Relics of the Forge, and the new Vault box set, and we have some fun news to share. This update is going out to our full subscriber list on BackerKit to share said fun news. 

First off, we've crossed 400% funded at $200K overall. That's super cool! Thank you to each and every person who's already backed, and we're excited to see more people come in as the campaign draws to a conclusion.

Secondly, Our good friends over at Floral Frolic are also running a BackerKit campaign which just launched, and we're doing a crossover with them. That crossover is Foxfire:



She is our latest promo hero, and will be included in every copy of the Abyssal Trove (or the Vault, which includes the Trove). As our crossover promotion, you can get a pin of her in fox-form if you back both our campaign and theirs:



Floral Frolic are our illustration partners for Good Puppers, much of 1001 Odysseys, and some secret upcoming projects we'll announce sometime :)  Their campaign is for some cool plushies and pins. It just launched. Please take a peek at their campaign, they're great people and if you have a need for plushies for yourself or a gift, they're really cute:


Today's Stream

If you missed it, we just posted our VOD of today's stream, which includes testing of the Foxfire hero and some new relic tweaks. Our next stream will be Monday.




Relic Riddle #8 Answer

This one...was a tricky one. Less than a quarter of people got it right!


Each of the characters was hiding a number inside, reflecting their total HP. At a glance, if you didn't see the TY in tycoon, you might have thought he only had nine HP, but he is much stronger than that! 

Riddle #9 is open, and is Fox themed, it will be open until our next stream on Monday.