It’s fucking Friday again… it’s insane how quickly time moves. (I am nearly 100% positive I have started one of these updates with that same sentence, BUT it is crazy… it’s a blur.) The older you get the faster it seems to move. I try to be very present and live in the moment, but a weird side effect of that is your long-term memory is garbage AND it exacerbates the time speeding up thing. There are a couple of things that keep me rooted to the real movement of time: my kid and the flow of products we make. Every time something new comes out that I had a hand in, it’s VERY gratifying. MAN, I cannot wait to deliver all the stuff from this ESW Kickstarter. Seeing it played and getting a response is amazing AND then I can start on ESW A4 (that’s a lie… I have already started on it). And I am having a hard time waiting to talk about it… the nature of how long it takes to make games always means you have moved on to the next thing before the last one is fully released.
We have what I believe is the final playtest session for ESW A3 today. Here is a picture of us doing it!
After this is final tweaks and final file preparations. Now that all the art is done, no more time for testing… it’s the moment of truth. This is the most outrageous product we have ever made, by far. It’s funny: Ben (the lead designer of the game) and I talk about how much we want ESW to be “art” and by that we mean that each new game is really taking risks to elevate the deck-building genre. It can’t just be another set of cards; it must figure out what it’s doing that’s NEW. Good or bad, this game is certainly art. I love it… hopefully, you love it.
I promised last week to share one of the cards we included to insure an amazing experience even if Satan isn’t playing (the man has a busy schedule of hell shit to do, like fisting *guy you hate* or other devil shit… he can’t be playing games all the time!). So if it’s just wizards, we wanted to make sure you still had the fun extra stuff from A3 as part of the game. Now Satan Taints and Devil bosses are well-represented even without Satan, but we wanted to give it a bump. So we included this new Starter card…
Also, we have the FFF Season 1 mailers hitting our online store! And eBay so the international people can get it! It is more expensive than it cost on the Kickstarter. Couple of reasons for that: I didn’t want the original backers to feel like they got screwed and the actual cost to do all these mailers was WAY more then I expected. So I priced in alignment with what we usually sell promo cards at, plus all the extra stuff… it’s a lot of stuff in the 12 mailers. Mmmmmm mmailers….
Thanks to the people commenting on the post last week. It for sure makes me feel good that there ARE a few people reading this. Now if I can get 1M people to comment, I will be an influencer and sell Coke the rights to shave their logo into my pubes and post it to Only Fans. Step 3: Put all the money I just made back into creating weirder and weirder ESW products… ultimately dying alone and surrounded by butthole-themed deck-building cards. Perfect!
Well, my friends, until next week I love you very much and look forward to playing good touch/bad touch if we ever actually meet in person.
—cory
Now you only need 999,999 more people to comment. Have a fantastic weekend!
almost there!!!
Wait where can we get those card sleeves? Or are those the ones that’ll come in the ESW3 box?
Those sleeves were the original ESW sleeves from way before Annihligeddon.
ya my friends at Ultra Pro did a few sleeves but they are all sold out now… the sleeves for the KS are very cool tho
Ah damn, I wasn’t a fan around the time of the first game! I’m really excited to see the ESW3 box then!
Oh no! Cory forgot to mention my Spellbook storage unboxing. must have gotten lost in thoughts of Coke and Influencer $$. lol
theres the link if you wanna see what’s in the box (before you buy it or still waiting)
https://youtu.be/XWrQ-YI1_JM?si=1CFpjppkKbIWI0Lt
DUDE!!!! I am so sorry, I will make it up to you! 🙂
and thank you again for making such cool content I love the little standees
Glad to hear everything is moving along well. I’m stoked to play the new games!!
Fuck yea! Bring on more carnage!
I’m confused, user Glboxingglove has been posting the makers they recieve and their 5th mailer contained the following:
RS Bixby character
Some bullshit drawing familiar
Uncle Andys laurels
Annihilageddon arena
None of these are present in the cryptozoic store page for the year one mailers. Is this not included? I already pulled the trigger and purchased it on Ebay for an eye watering £160 😭 am I not getting it all?
I have already purchased the RS Bixby character already though as I wanted to get it and purchased it from the store months ago. But I don’t wanna miss out on anything else 😂
I’ve resigned myself to never getting the alt art cthulhu… Or a nacho bag 😂
But I don’t wanna miss anything henceforth.
I’m gobsmacked at how cracking this game is looking. I introduced the first annihilageddon to some people just yesterday and they thought it was the dogs bollocks. One of them did ask why the mortal kombat themed card contained a person wearing a finish flag on their t-shirt being slaughtered 😂😂😂😂 I told them it’s probably a nod to a developer haha
As an aside, will satanic panic be released with a tray big enough to fit all of the cards with sleeves on? I’m seriously considering buying a 3D printer just to mock up some inserts as the ones for A1 and A2 don’t do well with my dragon shield sleeves at all 😭
Glad to read another weeks worth of legendary shite.
I patiently waiting for next week’s,
Damo
I should fucking proof read stuff before I post it 😭😭😭 glboxinglove has been posting mailers.
Impatiently waiting for next week’s
Damo
R.S. and his familiar are indeed missing. Unless those were just meant to be extra bonus since it was at Conventions and not originally part of the mailers.
The other 2 cards – Uncle Andy and Arena – are in the lower left pictures with the 25 promo cards.
Yea I saw them both on there after and didn’t wanna send a third message haha. I also noticed that the listing on cryptozoic has 5 starter card where as you only recieved 4 🤔
Looks amazing! Don’t get discouraged, a lot of people read your posts and only a small portion actually comment.
Super excited to see the progress and even moreso for FFF year 1! I’ve been checking here religiously since last year waiting for them to come out. Snagged one right away! Can’t wait!
Keep up the magnificent work sir. We all appreciate it.
thanks man!
Finally made an account to say some things:
1. As mentioned above – there are in fact some people who read but do not comment bcuz they do not have the account (aint nobody got time for creating another account)
2. The game is f****** amazing. We are playing it non stop from past december when our friend got the copy of ESW:A2 from kickstarter. Now we already have three copies among us of the second edition and one copy of the first one as well XD
3. Can’t wait for the 3rd game 😀
4. I see even during the playtests someone picked the best familiar – Duke Freakout ESQ
Mostly reading, rarely posting… but at anytime with you man! ESW is kinda like coke… not the soft drink.
Hey Cory
loving your updates – keep em coming. Really looking forward to the game and excited that you are allready working on the next one
Its taking every ounce of my self control to not buy another set of mailers just to fish for the uncircumsized sheet.
Uncircumcised sheet?
send me an email…
If he’s referring to uncut sheets of cards like the sheets that maestro media released with their binding of isaac kickstarter. I’d be happy to actually buy a sheet if cryptozoic is willing to put some up on ebay. I didn’t grab one from TBOI but I don’t think I could resist having some artwork from annihilageddon up on my walls.