Spirit Island AND Sentinels of Freedom!!
almost 5 years ago – Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:45:39 PM

It's Thursday, April 16th, so that must mean it's time for not one, but TWO great new games to play while staying safe and social distancing!

Spirit Island

Our next digital tabletop game is now available in Early Access. Spirit Island is the cooperative, settler destruction game designed by R. Eric Ruess and published by our good friends at Greater Than Games.

Spirit Island is a deep strategy cooperative game (what can we say, we like the co-op). Players take on the roles of the spirits of the island, and need to work together to build their powers. Protect the land and the native islanders, the Dahan, from the colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction!

Spirit Island is under active development and will be updated regularly. You can think of it as a step between Beta and Retail release. There will be bugs, and some content is currently not available, but the game is much further along than what you might see in a Public Beta (See Steam's Early Access FAQ for more). The current version allows you to play full games with 1-4 Spirits. Most of the content of the core game of Spirit Island is implemented and playable: all Spirits, Power cards, Scenarios, and 2 Adversaries. Your feedback during Early Access can help us make the game the best it can be. Check it out now - you can even save 15% during launch week!

Sentinels of Freedom

Our good friends at Underbite Games are launching another great game today! Christopher and Adam have poured a lot of work into this collaboration, and the game features music from our very own Jean-Marc as well!

Prepare for a story-driven campaign within the Sentinel Comics universe as you join forces with an ever-growing team of heroes to face a wide variety of villains. What seems like a typical bank heist reveals itself to be just the beginning of a much more sinister plan! Create your hero, gather your team, and save the world in this exciting new turn-based strategy game!

• Build your Team - select from the many available heroes and unlock more throughout
• Full story campaign - writers and creators from Sentinel Comics
• Freeform movement - Turn Based game that allows you to move anywhere
• Squad dynamics - heroes or villains can work together for more powerful actions
• Living Environments - multiple objectives, interactions and dangers
• Create your Hero - choose backstory, archetype, powers, and appearance

The game is launching on Steam, and it will come to Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 soon.

We hope you are all hanging in there during social distancing. Stay safe, and play games!

Are you ready for a Heroic Listening Party?
almost 5 years ago – Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 04:41:41 PM

Jean-Marc Giffin (AKA the Maestro of the Multiverse) has been toiling away in the music-mines trying to find all the best notes, and working to put them together in the best possible ways.  Tomorrow, February 18th at 7 PM Eastern on Handelabra Live, Jean-Marc joins Jeremy to debut 4 new hero themes, plus 1 you may have already heard.

We would be thrilled if you would join us to watch live, but fear not - if you can't make it, we always post our live streams to YouTube after the fact.

Catch up on the previous Hero Theme Listening party below:

Spirit Island Campaign Ends Today!
about 5 years ago – Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:51:06 PM

Our campaign to bring Spirit Island to digital is ending in less than 24 hours. As of this writing we've achieved our first stretch goal and we're less than $600 away from achieving the next one!

42k - PROMO SPIRIT: Heart of the Wildfire

• Includes the spirit and associated unique power cards.
• Included in the Deluxe Edition and greater.

44k - PROMO SPIRIT: Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island

• Includes the spirit and associated unique power cards.
• Included in the Deluxe Edition and greater.

Thanks for all your support so far. We're so excited to bring this next project to your screens in 2020!

3.0.8 Update Out Now!
about 5 years ago – Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 06:50:24 PM

As you know, we launched Aeon's End back in September (mostly). What you may not know is that for almost the entire last month of development, the team spent a huge chunk of their time tuning the engine and UI of the game to be easily our slickest, fastest, most streamlined experience to date. If you played the Early Access builds, you likely noticed the speed increases over time. These enhancements started in the engine, but really apply to every aspect of the game.

So why does this matter to Sentinels players? Because after Aeon's End launched, David informed us that it wouldn't be too difficult to bring some of those optimizations to some of our previous games! The first fruits of this endeavor have arrived in version 3.0.8 of Sentinels of the Multiverse which is available now. In addition to the usual bug fixes, this update also brings speed increases of up to 30% in some areas of the game! What else is updated in this version?

• Fixed a problem where the game could hang if a hero was incapacitated on their own turn in OblivAeon mode.
• The game no longer gets stuck if two limited cards already in play are revealed by Great Fortune.
• Fixed an issue where Brain Burn would not work properly in some cases in OblivAeon mode.
• Fixed a problem where Moving Target would not react if damage was both redirected and prevented.
• Fixed an interaction between Stripped Resources and Crystalloid Behemoth so that it is player choice where the Behemoth goes when destroyed.
• Fixed a timing issue between In Medias Res and distortion cards in the Realm of Discord.

Note - it can take up to 24 hours for an update to appear in your App Store.

Spirit Island Campaign Nearly Complete

The campaign for our next game is almost over the line! As of this writing, we're less than 5% away from our funding goal. If you like cooperative strategy (and let's be honest, what Sentinels fan doesn't?), check out the campaign and kick in a few dollars if you're able. Thanks!

(Plus, you know you want more Jean-Marc Music in your life, right?) 

Spirit Island Music with Jean-Marc!
over 5 years ago – Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 06:18:42 PM

During the recent anniversary event, Jean-Marc hosted a listening party for the Freedom Five and folks seemed really excited to finally here some more heroic theme songs. If you missed it live, check it out:

If you are a fan of Jean-Marc's music, you probably already know that he's creating the music for our next game as well: Spirit Island. You can hear some of his early work in the background of the Indiegogo video:

In just a few hours, Jean-Marc will once again be live streaming, and this time he'll be making music! Head over to our Twitch channel at 1 PM Eastern for Spirit Island Dev Stream #3: Music with Jean-Marc.

Spirit Island is now over 75% funded, but that still leaves nearly $10k we need to raise in the next 11 days. At the current pace, that breaks down to just another 300 pledges. Will you be one of those pledges? If you are unfamiliar with the game, why not let the designer himself tell you all about it! Eric joined John on the dev stream last week to talk about his inspirations, and take questions from the chat: