Hi everyone! Friday has rolled around and unlike the last few Fridays I am actually writing an update! Hooray for me!
Even though I didn’t write updates then, I want you to know that you were still in my heart. I had honest-to-god guilt for not keeping up on it. Sometimes I can rationalize skipping it: “I’m busy” or “Is anyone actually reading this?” but deep down I know it’s important because I promised to do it for the few people that do love the game as much as I do. So sorry for missing those weeks. It will probably happen again… shit, I don’t know if this will even get posted. I did have a pleasant surprise that included the updates. I was talking to a partner who has done screen printing for us in the past about a new project and they mentioned that they like Epic Spell Wars… AND read the updates!!! Totally made my day.
So let’s do an update on the Kickstarter stuff! Here is where we stand.
– FFF club cards and stuff: At the printers! May be able to send the first of season 2 out before the end of year!
– ESW 6: Files done (or 95%), so ready but will be sent with ESW A3 and printed at the same time.
– ESW A3: Art done, files in process… holy shit, there are so many cards in this game, it’s insane.
– ESW Storage Box: Should be getting samples soon of various print processes and seeing how cool it’s going to be!
– Sleeve, etc: Ready to go!
– Satan’s Salute Statue: Well, check out the packaging. HAHAHAHAH…. Certainly not going to see this on the shelves of Walmart!
That’s the update. We continue to test and improve ESW A3. Until the last second the files go out, we use the time to playtest and shave the edges off the card file. One of the concepts we are looking at is making the Satan Player a secondary smaller rulebook that teaches you to BE Satan! I really want it to be clear that the game works VERY well and has so much fun and depth (and new stuff going on) EVEN if you don’t have a player taking the mantle of SATAN. Next week, I will show off a Starter card we added to be incorporated into the game if no one is Satan.
I mentioned it briefly above, but I am super excited to see how the various print concepts we have stacked on top of each other turn out for the storage box. Not sure we will see “real” samples or just mock-ups, but I will share once we get something. Triple black, florescent inks, and foil hits should look super fucking cool.
Oh, and here is another picture of the final Spellbook / Champion / Familiar storage box. This has the final side fix AND I made sure the plastic tray inside matched the color of the pages to…. KEEP THE ILLUSION ALIVE!!! Hahaha, I become obsessed with the stupidest shit.
Until next week, I love you very much, and hope you have a chance to run a few games of ESW A2 with your friends. Man, very little makes me happier than playing this game, and when I can carve out a 10+ hour block to do it… heaven. How about the rest of you? I know my stamina is goofy high, but what’s your ideal play session?
-cory
I was able to pull off a tournament last 4th of July with family and friends. It took all day, it was glorious! Got the spellbooks in the mail last week got a couple of game in hoping to play more this weekend. Had a few questions I posted over in the forum but the post is being held for moderation?
that sounds amazing 🙂
moderation? that’s odd let me look into it
Hi Cory,
I’m a new player. A couple of weeks ago I finally got to try the first game with my girlfriend and a friend of ours, we all loved it.
We are looking forward to get together again to try the Annihilageddon’s.
Very fan of the art and the game, I hope soon you will have an update of FFF 1 for those of us who still didn’t know the game back then.
Best regards and thanks for giving us such a unique game, also to Bixby who deserves it.
The Spellbook / Champion / Familiar storage box looks so fucking cool!!!
Will it be inside KS pack?
For what’s it worth, I do check in here every week to see if you posted, and get immensely disappointed and heartbroken when there is no log.
Same, dude!
Hey,
Glad to see a new post. I check back every week for these, especially on Fridays and Saturday. So it’s always appreciated when I see a new post filled with exciting new content.
That box looks dope as all fuck. Please allow me to add the statue to my Kickstarter. I regret not adding it originally 😂😂😂
Abd postage from America sucks I’d rather add it to the kickstarter than order it from the website.
As for how long I like to play for… I think my ideal amount of playtime is as long as people will play it with me for. Unluckily my wife doesn’t love it half as much as me as she doesn’t win often. I might start allowing her to pick her chosen ability and familiar haha. I’m definitely happy to play this for a whole day if able to though. I’ve only managed to pull out gang bangers once and she moaned that my gang was OP whilst hers was shite. She had the merkin kingdom and I had cthulhu kids.
All the best,
Damo
wow I know that feeling very well, I can remember as a kid making sure everyone “had fun” so they would keep playing 🙂
Hey it’s me, I’m the screen printer guy! And even though I’m late to this one (I totaled my car and then everyone in my house got Covid one by one making it last an eternity), I DO read them! You’re the best, Cory. Can’t wait to see what we can do together on that project.