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Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate

Created by Elli Amir

Worldbreakers is a tactical card game set in an alternate 13th century. We successfully funded in March, 2022, and the game hit stores a year later, in March, 2023! Worldbreakers was a smashing hit and we are now out-of-stock. The good news is that we greenlit a second printing and an expansion, The Indigo Sisterhood! Read more in our latest crowdfunding campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elli-amir/worldbreakers-the-indigo-sisterhood

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Catch-up update
over 1 year ago – Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 09:50:49 PM

The waiting game continues! LongPack is in the process of printing the Worldbreakersproduction sample. Once it's done, they will send me photos for my approval, after which the full print run will commence. Meanwhile, here is a recap of the past few updates, in case you missed them:

  • The assets were first finalized and sent to LongPack on May 31. This update also has eye candy of the box design and the text on the back of the Card Doubler.
  • Even before printing the digital (pre-production) sample, LongPack identified two issues. One, the box was too small and we increased its height by 8mm (0.3 inches). Two, there was an alignment mismatch in cutting some of the counters, which they fixed.
  •  Jamie and I received the digital sample on July 12. Check out that post for a bunch of super-exciting photos! Plus a derpy photo of me holding the box at DHL ;) I flew to Jamie's place for a day to review all of the components, we made a long list of changes, and Jamie proceeded to crush me 4-1.

*phew* I think that covers the past three months of Worldbreakers news. Reading all these updates again, I'm ecstatic that we got so far, so fast. I especially want to thank Jamie, who promptly provided invaluable feedback, and Laura (our agent in LongPack) for being communicative and transparent. Fingers crossed that I have awesome photos for the next update.

-- Elli (he/they) and the Worldbreakers team

Waiting for production sample
over 1 year ago – Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 12:27:01 PM

Another quick update: LongPack has approved all of the files and I counter-approved their digital versions. We are now waiting for photos of the production sample, which should take another 10-15 days. I will make sure to share them with you as soon as I get them! Once I approve the photos, we should move into printing 🎉 according to LongPack, printing should take 30-45 days. Getting closer!

-- Elli (he/they) and the Worldbreakers team

Final-FINAL assets sent to printer
over 1 year ago – Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 06:41:56 AM

I finished updating the Worldbreakers assets according to LongPack's feedback. Briefly, the copyright, card number, and illustrator line on the bottom of the card was too low, so I had to move it up in all of the card Illustrator files. I am now waiting for the confirmation from LongPack, and we should enter the printing queue soon!

-- Elli (he/they) and the Worldbreakers Team

PS Apologies for the short update. I am in the process of relocating my family to a new state. I promise that the next update will be more exciting ;)

Pre-production review, standing at the production starting line!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 05:37:22 PM

I spent the past two weeks fixing all of the issues that Jamie and I identified in the pre-production sample. We ended up with 64 tasks, and thankfully most of them were quite small: typos, missing hyphens, moving pieces of text by a few pixels at a time, and the like. I sent the updated assets to LongPack on Monday and their artistic team is now reviewing the PDFs for the last time. As soon as they give the green light, production will begin!

Bigger & Better Turn Tracker

One change which I am particularly proud of is a size increase for the turn tracker. When Jamie and I played our first ever game of Worldbreakers using the pre-production sample (Jamie won ;-)) we both noticed that the turn tracker is somewhat humble. The board should be more of a centerpiece! We agreed that it should be bigger. I am very grateful to LongPack, who agreed to such a big change. The new tracker is twice the size of the original design:

A brief design history: I originally planned to package Worldbreakers in a teeny tiny 6.5" x 4" box. I loved the idea of a small box that you could keep in your backpack or easily lug around conventions. The biggest turn tracker that I could squeeze in that box was 6" x 2", and that was the size of the tracker throughout development. Due to all of the additional cards (a 54-card solo campaign deck, an additional copy of the 20 neutral cards, and another ~20 cards such as the promos), I had to increase the box size to 8.5" x 5". Increasing the tracker size to 8.2" x 3" seems like an obvious next step now.

If all goes according to plan, my next update will be about beginning production. Will keep you posted ;)

— Elli (he/they) and the Worldbreakers Team

The Worldbreakers pre-production sample has arrived!
over 1 year ago – Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 06:47:55 PM

It's here!

I collected the Worldbreakers pre-production sample this past Thursday, and it's BEAUTIFUL!

Yesterday (Monday) I flew from NJ to Jamie's so that the two of us can review all of the components together. We ended up with 54 changes, almost all of them tiny (for example, "Muhandasat Savior" has a typo in the title). There are several alignment issues and I will reach out to LongPack to ask if they're cause for concern or an expected artifact from the digital printing of the pre-production sample.

After a long day of work, we even got a game in ...

... which Jamie won a decisive 10-3. Jamie then won the following three games as well ;-) thankfully I managed to pilot a 10-8 win on our fifth game. With a spreadsheetful of changes and a 1-4 record, I merrily hopped on a plane back home.

As of today, we are still six weeks ahead of schedule! Assuming no delays due to alignment issues (... or COVID ...), Worldbreakers should definitely reach your gaming table by the March deadline.

— Elli (he/they) and the Worldbreakers Team