One Deck Dungeon: Relics of the Forge

Hello friends! Sorry for not posting this yesterday, my schedule for the week got a bit jumbled because of some family commitments.

The campaign is coming along, our next stretch goal is at 2400 backers and we're just about at $170K! Hurray for that, and thanks everyone for being on the ride :)

Our next stream will be a week from today, September 4th at 2PM Eastern. Timing didn't work out right for a stream this week, but we're excited to discuss more development with everyone - the next stream will be about Encounters.

Relic Riddle #4:



This one was a tricky one! The key here is the word "heady", which in wordplay parlance, means to look at the head, or first letter, of each word.  If you read the first letters of all the words in the clue, they spell out ITS A CHALICE, which leads you to the correct answer. We're down to just 7 people who've answered all 5 correctly! 

Up next is Riddle #5, which will be open until our stream on Wednesday. We'll be mostly away during the holiday weekend, and we hope everyone has a good time at home, at PAX if you're there, or wherever your travels may take you. Happy Dungeoning, all! 

Hello and happy Wednedsay! We ran a shorter stream yesterday to share a live peek in to some of our development process.

But first, we shared the solution to Relic Riddle #2.



Each of the four choices could be anagrammed to something you want, clued by the words "mixed up" in the riddle title. Over half of you got it right! Hurray :D

Relic Riddle #3 is live, and it's attached to this update. Its answer will be revealed during Friday's stream.

Plastic Cards Video

I also took a couple minutes to show the differences between deluxe plastic and standard cards. You can see the clip here - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2230056941 (Sorry, can't embed twitch clips!)



Stream Recap

You can watch the full stream (a bit under an hour) here:



During the stream, we focused on balance discussion of the Thrasher and Flamberge, and talked through some of the ideas we've had over the past few days after seeing playtesting and reports. The heroes are coming along nicely, and I'm pretty happy with the thematic feel we're getting out of each of them now! 

We're also continuing to evolve the individual Relics' balance, to make sure your dungeon delving experience is as fun and interesting as possible. One Deck Dungeon is a game with some luck, and we want to make sure you've got some clever ways to mitigate that luck where possible in the new expansion. 

We'll be back on Friday with more stream! Hope to see you all there :)

And now...a riddle:

Hello friends and dungeon associates! The first week is coming to a close, and it has been an eventful few days. My computer is happily back and functioning after some replacement parts, the folks at MicroCenter crushed it and got things tested and done in under 24 hours! Kudos to them, for sure.

Stretch Goals

With over 1500 backers, we have reached our first Stretch Goal, +1 Relic! That brings us to 9, and extends the number of Trivia Teams whose relic-names will be guaranteed to be in the expansion to 2. Each +1 Relic will increase both of those numbers!

We hope to hit lots more goals in the coming weeks :)

Our campaign's stretch goals are *all* backer-count based. Back for $1 and you're part of the stretch goal process - you can support the campaign in that way even if you plan to buy it at retail later!

Relics Riddle #1 Answer

The poll for our first wordplay riddle is closed, and exactly half of you got it right! Here's how each of the items was concealing a Monster:



The start and end of each item's name can be combined to form a monster: DRAGON, HARPY, MIMIC, and TREANT. The [MI]dnight blue cera[MIC] was the mimic!

The rest of the riddles will employ different wordplay tricks, good luck with them, and I'm absolutely thrilled that lots of folks enjoyed this one.

Streaming

We just finished today's stream on Twitch (You can always watch the VOD early at https://twitch.tv/asmadigames/videos/ ). It'll be up on YouTube sometime this weekend, we played through a full demo floor of Relics and then some development chat plus a second shorter game.

We'll be doing streams next Tuesday and Friday at 2PM Eastern each. Hope you tune in!

Campaign Streamlining / Updates

We've made a bunch of small edits to the images and wording on the BackerKit page to make things clearer and easier to understand for newcomers - if you've got any feedback feel free to share it! We want as many folks to come in and enjoy our new Dungeon offering as possible :) 

Thanks to each and every one of you that's backed already - you make this all happen! 

Greetings and good morning, friends of the Dungeon. We funded in our first day, are over 1000 backers, and are on our way to more adventures!

Hundreds of you have already tried our riddles, and after peeking at the results, some of you are even correct. Nice work :)

So the Forge is hot, the campaign is hot, the CPU is hot, which means - wait, the CPU is hot? That's not supposed to happen! Indeed, my computer is registering CPU temperatures of Undesirable Levels and turned itself off. It should not be doing this! It is two years old. So, today will unfortunately be mired more in computer repairs than in doing all the cool things I'd like to be doing for the second day of our BackerKit campaign.

Cross your fingers for me, and if anyone knows a good Ice Mage, please send them my way. Ideally, this will not impact the Friday stream. We'll keep you all posted.

Growing the Campaign

1000 of you have already backed the campaign, but we'd love to hit all the stretch goals in our list! If you want to help, the best thing you can do is just tell your friends. The more folks that know we're live, the better.

Really though, the only way to reach the most people is for someone to make a TikTok where they roll dice, every die rolls a 1, and they flip the table in fiery rage. I'm pretty sure that's how the Internet works in 2024. So if any of you has really bad luck, get to it!

Thank You

Seriously, though. Thanks to each person who enjoys One Deck Dungeon and makes making games fun for us. We love to do it, and we love that you play our stuff and have fun :)

Thank you friends, we just crossed our 50K base goal.

Everyone may commence celebrations and consume cake, or your delicious item of preference!

Stretch goals begin - our stretch goals are based on backer count, not dollar count, so any folks that come into the campaign for $1 count toward them! If you've got a dungeoneering friend, let them know :)

Here's another card preview as a reward:



The Firebird heats things up! It gives the Forge a little fuel bump, but the danger level is high.