Hello, friends! It's been a busy few months for the Assemblage production team. Nat has been hard at work finalizing the game text, Pat has been researching manufacturers, and Brigitte and Dustin have been collaborating with our layout artist, Andrew Klein, and our illustrator, Jill Colbert of Manfish Inc., to design the cards and guidebook for you.
All of these moving pieces are finally coming together, and we anticipate ordering a prototype from our manufacturer in the next few weeks. If that prototype looks good, we'll order the games, and, if the tariff gods are on our side, we should be able to fulfill this project by later this fall.
In the meantime, here's a sneak peek at some of Jill's gorgeous card illustrations so you can get as excited as we are!
Belly of a Titan
Psychic Disturbance
Sapotroph
Commensalism
We'll send another update when we can show off the card designs and game prototype!
We can't wait to build (and break) new worlds with you soon!
<3 The Scryptid Games Team Nat, Brigitte, Pat, & Dustin
We are halfway through Pocketopia, and you've already unlocked our second Assemblage stretch goal! Now every backer who chooses the physical game will get a slicker luxe version of Assemblage: High quality black-core cards, more illustrations, and a more tactile, durable guidebook. We are now working toward our third stretch goal, which will level up the game to include full color tarot-sized cards!
To celebrate, Assemblage creator Nat Mesnard is live streaming with Viditya Voleti, the creator of A Land Once Magic at 6:30pm ET this evening! Nat and Viditya both teach game design, and they've both created unique world building games for Pocketopia.
Thanks to YOU, this little project that could is definitely going to be A Real Thing!! You rock!
Now we are working toward our first stretch goal! When we raise $6,000, we’ll make sure every backer gets a slicker version of the final game: High quality black-core cards, more illustrations, and a more tactile, durable guidebook.
Will you help us spread the word?
And, if you haven't already, don't forget to back Why We Fight by our collaboration partner Stop Drop & Roll Games Studio so you earn Collective Action, an exclusive game duet that includes two PDFs and a set of print-and-play cards inviting you to create and play as both a group of humans encountering a weird ecology AND a weird ecology experiencing the incursion of a group of humans.