Imperial Twing is a fast paced strategic card and dice playing game played by 2-4 players where you battle every player whenever you want, even together with other players. The rules are easy to learn even for kids age 7 making it a great game for families as well.
Imperial Twing is launching on Kickstarter later this year!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imperialgamesgmbh/imperial-twing
The Empire Needs You!
We have been working on bringing Imperial Twing to life for over two years, which has included designing and developing the game play, characters, critters, artwork, cards, dice, … and many hundreds of hours of play-testing.
Whilst the game is nearly ready, recent play-testing has revealed that we need to improve the primary colors of the cards (back and front) in order to make them easier to distinguish in certain light conditions, and by people with more limited sight.
As we want to deliver THE BEST POSSIBLE GAME we can, we have decided to ask the Kickstarter Community – to help us finish the project.
As a reward we will be sending each backer of this project digital art files of the Imperial Twing character card(s) of their choice in their new colour scheme!
The great new is the pre-launch campaign is already funded … in less than four minutes!
If you want to support us further, you can do so here.
Update #2 – Stretch Goals added!
After a fantastic start we are already at 115% funded (CHF 927.-) with 19 days to go!!
We have already learned a lot from our first Kickstarter launch and we really appreciate all of the support we have received so far.
We did notice that it wasn’t entirely clear to everyone which of the Characters is which … so we added a clarification to the campaign:
- Mage of the Lambent Matchstick – RED
- Sorceress of the Picturesque Flowerpot – GREEN
- Witch of the Burbling Rivulet – BLUE
- Warlock of the Balmy Sea Breeze – WHITE
One of our first lessons was that Backers weren’t able to select multiple images – so we have added the option to get two or three images (on top of being able to get 1 or 4 …)
Also we realised that our original Stretch Goal was perhaps slightly ambitious so we have updated (and added) to it.
Stretch Goal #1 – when we reach CHF 1,000 we will add a digital watermarked copy of the “Cat” card for every Backer.
Stretch Goal #2 – if we reach CHF 2,000 we will also add a digital watermarked copy of the “Teddy of Agony” card for every Backer.
Meanwhile …
We have already begun working on updating the cards, including:
– revising the primary colors on the back of the cards to make them more easily distinguished
– revising the colors of the border / decorations on the front of the cards to make them more easily distinguished
– adding the relevant “elemental icon” to the Magic Object cards (instead of having a generic “magic object” icon)
– making the “Mount” symbol clearer on the relevant Critter cards
We are also finalising the details of the manufacturing of the entire game and will provide updated images of the “final” version before we launch the game on Kickstarter.
Update #3 – Redesign of card backs completed!
The first step of our card redesign is completed, with the backs of the cards getting a color makeover.
As you can see, the original card backs did have different colours for different kinds of cards, specifically:
- Object cards – GREEN back
- Event cards – RED back
- Critter cards – BLUE back
- Character cards – PURPLE back
However we found the colors simply weren’t different enough, especially in low or yellowish indoor light situations.
Whilst we have kept the color scheme the same, as you can see the new colors are more vibrant and easier to tell apart.
We sincerely hope the new color scheme will make the game easier to play for everyone!
We are now proceeding with the somewhat more complicated task of updating the colors on the “front side” of most of the cards. Stay tined for further updates 🙂
Update #4 – Entering the final countdown!!
Thank you again to everyone who has backed our “mini campaign” to help us prepare for the launch of Imperial Twing.
Our Digital Character Art campaign is entering its last day, with about 30 hours left to run and 120% funded.
Can we reach the 1k “stretch goal”?
Only time will tell …
Next steps:
Once this campaign ends we will continue to diligently work on completing the changes to the cards, and ensuring everyone who backed this project receives their files as soon as possible.
You can “follow” our Imperial Twing launch campaign on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imperialgamesgmbh/imperial-twing
And if you so desire, please sign up for our newsletter to get further updates: https://imperialtwing.com/register/
And there is more (upcoming … free giveaways!)
In the next few weeks we plan to run a series of “giveaways” on social media, which will give our followers/backers some cool stuff 😉
– A limited edition PROTOTYPE of Imperial Twing (1 of only 10 ever to be made in the history of the universe) … you could be one of the FIRST people to own a fully playable copy of the game! Value; priceless 😉
– A signed certificate bestowing a unique (1 of a kind) Imperial Title, created by our soon-to-be-released *Imperial Title Generator* 😉 Value: invaluable
– A limited edition A3 fine-art print of one of the Imperial Twing characters (value CHF 285.00)
We will send out details on how to enter each giveaway on our social media accounts and to our email list subscribers. You can earn “entries” by helping share the news of Imperial Twing with your friends, families and networks 🙂
May the Orn be with you …
The Archmage
Thank you again to everyone who has supported us so far!!
– The Emperor and The Archmage