Vist Verdan: We should have most of the bodies cleared by your arrival.

  I am continuing to search for great 3d artists to work on Siege of Verdan for me.  I have some royalty free stuff that I have been using but if the game is successful I will have to get some “exclusive stuff”.

    I wanted reveal a few of the “First Expansion” Unique Rulers that will be a part of the game.  I hope you find them as interesting as I do.

The Jester Patr:  A ruler who’s main focus is to control the world by eliminating those that oppose him. This ruler gives bonuses to Spies and Assassins.

 Abcus Cyn: One of my favorite. This member of the banking guild believes that Verdan can be united with a strong economic system, trade, and power in unexpected places. She gives combat bonuses to Merchants, and recourse bonuses to those with banks in play.

Admiral Dale: Those that control the sea control the world.  The Admiral is the only ruler to date that can take to the sea on his own (no ship required).  Admiral Dale also gives bonuses to Ships for movement (you will be amazed how far that extra MV gets you per turn).

I have many more that I am not ready to reveal yet, but I am pretty far ahead on expansion cards. Designing cards has by far been my favorite part of this experience, balancing power and avoiding power creep weighs heavily on what cards I develop.

I would like to leave you with a picture of the Display tower after paint and mounting to its base.  It was a fist time experience and I would have done things differently knowing what I know now, but its almost done and I I think it looks like a “ruined tower” I hope it gets some attention at The dice tower convention con. She is 42 inches of Plaster, fiberglass, foam, blood, sweat, and tears.

The Magic Box

    I have decided to offer a collectors edition of Siege of Verdan.  I realize that this may make me sound pompous, “What kind of person makes a collectors edition of a game that they are not sure anyone will want to buy.”

    I have confidence in the game and I am looking for any way possible to make it stand out.  The kickstarter version should MSRP around $70  and I hope that the Collectors edition will retail for about $170. It will be in very limited quantity (all made here in the US). The make up on the collector’s edition is not very high. It is really just to get the juices flowing catch some peoples attention.  

    I posted about it a few days ago on some of the facebook pages…the response was huge!! I don’t know how many “likes” or purchases it will equate to but it was certainly a moral booster for the company. 

    The Collectors edition has a solid core top, 4 pyl sanded walls and a mdf bottom. It’s stained with a custom resin painted badge. The whole thing is distressed. The collectors edition game will also have custom molded game pieces instead of card board chits for the Unit pieces.

    I do plan to send a few of these to reviewers and local game library’s.  This has gotten some mixed opinions (send the econ-kickstarter to review) reviewers wont appreciate it they will just sell it etc.)

   They have convinced me to make a few extra copies and sell them on the kickstarter.

Thank you for reading…

Next week- More on the Tower display for the dice tower convention 2014.  It’s killing me!!   

All hands on wood (wooden card holders)

    The rush is on.  Less then 30 days until Dice tower convention and we are working hard to get demo’s out.  Not just Demo’s, but also designing and ordering flyers, and cards and displays and Sign up sheets –oh my.

     I am toying with the idea of giving away a free postcard (yep one you can actually main off and send to a friend via mail…you remember hand written postcard). That portrays Verdan as a lovely vacation spot (with war and assassins, and grim stuff).  Hopefully it will encourage people to sign up for our email blast.  We only intend to blast once or twice right before our kickstarter launches and before it ends.

    What do you think about the postcards? Just the right amount of campy?  Let me know!

Below will be an image from the post card...The caption will probably read...

"Visit Verdan, the fires are almost out."

-  back to work!!