CD Projekt Red, one of the largest video game developers in Europe, is partnering with board game makers Go On Board to produce a fighting construction game based on The Witcher. It is callies The Witcher: Old World, and will use the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform to do so.
Seconds a BoardGameGeek News, the game takes place before the story of Geralt de Rivia and will revolve around five different schools of wizards, with players fighting monsters and each another, Use decks in a race to see who can build the notoriety of your wizarding school first. Here is a short explanation of the game description:
The game allows players to build their own card decks by choosing from a wide range of abilities: attacks, dodges, and wizard combat magic, known as “signs.” Through card synergy, players aim to achieve powerful combos while using the distinctive abilities of their school of wizards to their full potential. Missions, battles and even dice poker allow each player to earn money, get new items and train their skills.
Throughout their journey, players will win more cards, unlock combos, and occasionally duel with each other. between the termination of contracts to kill monsters. Sounds neat!
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The strangest thing is that the project will apparently be launched through a Kickstarter campaign that will be published sometime in May. This is the Go On Board platform that was used to fund their previous board games, the Valhalla dice card game and the Titans miniature game, and has become the target of many other board game manufacturers. Many of these, however, are not associated with large companies. As recently as a year ago, CD Projekt Red was valued at more than $ 6 billion.
That number has dropped since then Cyberpunk 2077messy release last December, And again after large extensions of internal and proprietary data allegedly stolen in a ransomware attack. Somehow, I think the company could still afford to bear the costs of making a new board game.