what is emergents: genesis
Emergents: Genesis is a Deck-Building game that was successfully funded on Kickstarter. In collaboration with Urban Island Games and Top8Games we developed a fantastic game engine and melded it together with an original and rich comic book world.
The Four Professors
Character and Card Classes
Acolyte Class Cards
Non-Stop Class Cards
Sculptor Class Cards
Strongharm Class Cards
Players build and play their decks along the four factions, which each have their own unique play styles.
Like many deck-building games players are given a starting deck that consists of a game currency (Skill) and other actions that let you perform attacks.
The Process?
Our team at Urban Island Games created a game engine and unique mechanics for each class that we loved and we created a paper-proxy prototype. We then tested and balanced the game over several iterations. Once we got to a place that we liked, we adapted the game into cards with complimentary flavor derived from hundreds of pieces of already existing art. After that we prepped, launched, marketed our Kickstarter campaign.
The Result?
At the end of our campaign, we raised $25,000, more than 135% of our goal. We proceeded to work out logistics for printing the game, and we manufactured it to send off to backers. Emergents: Genesis is currently being published by a hobby game company called Kess Co.