Roadmap

Here’s the long long long road behind and ahead

Oktober – December 2022

• Finalize set V: ‘Changing Winds’
• Batch production of ‘Changing Winds’ (First print)

September 2022: Second Open European Arcmage Championship

July – Autust 2022

• Editing and proof print of V: ‘Changing Winds’
  • Desert Fire
  • Meet the Ishtarians
• Finalize artwork for
  • Desert Fire
  • Meet the Ishtarians
• Playtest rounds for V: ‘Changing Winds’
• Start on set V ‘Changing Winds’ mechanics
  • First full draft for: Meet the Ishtarians

June 2022

• Start on set V ‘Changing Winds’ mechanics
  • First full draft for: Desert Fire
• Editing and proof print of V: ‘Changing Winds’
  • Order Restored 
  • Smooth Sailing
  • Black Waters
• Finalize artwork for
  • Order Restored
  • Smooth Sailing
  • Black Waters

April – May 2022 (done)

• Adding sound effects for Aminduna game client
• Adding shortcut for Aminduna game client

March 2022 (done)

• Playtest rounds for V: ‘Changing Winds’
  • Smooth Sailing

Februari 2022 (done)

• First artwork for set V: ‘Changing Winds’
  • Order Restored (All but the city artwork)
  • Smooth Sailing (All)
  • Desert Fire (start)
  • Meet the Ishtarians (start)
  • Black Waters (All but the city artwork)

Januari 2022 (done)

• Start on set V ‘Changing Winds’ mechanics
  • First full draft for: Order Restored

December 2021 (done)

• Start on set V ‘Changing Winds’ mechanics
  • First full draft for: Smooth Sailing
  • First full draft for: Black Waters
• Box design for ‘Changing Winds’

Oktober – December 2021 (done)

• First ideas for set V: ‘Changing Winds’
  • Order Restored (Empire – theme: loyalty)
  • Smooth Sailing (House of Noble – theme: sailors and (en)counters)
  • Desert Fire (Red Banner – theme: finally, there will be dragons)
  • Meet the Ishtarians (Gaian – theme: family & city life)
  • Black Waters (Dark Legion – theme: nagas and scorpions)

September 2021 (done)

• Start improving the UI for Aminduna game client  (new buttons, backgrounds, hand animation, resources styling, etc…)
• Arcbot matchmaking on arcmage’s matchmaking matrix channel

August 2021 (done)

• Release of Set 4: ‘Shadow Waves’
• Change working title ‘Legends Set’ to ‘Changing Winds’
• Start artwork for ‘Smooth Sailing’

June – July 2021 (done)

• First Ideas for for the ‘Legends Set’
  • This will be a smaller set without complete decks but with amazing single card addons
• Batch production of ‘Rebirth Set’ (Forth print)
• Batch production of ‘Enchanted Realm Set’ (Second print)
• Batch production of ‘Shadow Waves Set’ (First print)

May 2021 (done)

• Submit Non-Profit application
• Arcmage at ‘Zomerspel’ (Summer Games Fair) when not cancelled. 

April 2021 (done)

• Final Revisions ‘Shadow Waves’
• Artwork for: Orcish Revolt (98%)
• Aminduna 2.0 Release

March 2021 (done)

• Playtest rounds for ‘Shadow Waves’
• Artwork for: Orcish Revolt (95%)
• Beta version of Aminduna 2.0
• Final version of ‘Terms of Service’
• Final version of ‘Fair Play Policy’
• Final version of ‘Non-discrimination Policy’

Februari 2021 (done)

• Draft of Non-Profit founding charter
• Draft of Terms of Service for Arcmage websites, online games and card databases
• Draft of Fair Play Policy
• Draft of Non-discrimination Policy
• Alpha version of Aminduna 2.0

Januari 2021 (done)

• Preparation to turn Arcmage in a legal Non-Profit Organization under Belgian law
• Start implementing Aminduna 2.0

October – November – December 2020 (done)

• Final Revisions ‘New Horizons’
• Batch production of ‘New Horizons’
• Editing and proof print of ‘Shadow Waves’
• Playtest rounds for ‘Shadow Waves’
• Roadmap for Aminduna 2.0
  • upgrade to a state of the art open source stack
  • support markdown layout for cards
  • add language features for cards
  • add user account management

September 2020 (done)

• Start on set IV ‘Shadow Waves’ mechanics
  • First full draft for: Keeping the Colors
  • First full draft for: Lucky Loser
  • First full draft for: Orcish Revolt
  • First full draft for: Creatures on Ice
  • First full draft for: Necormancing
• Box for set ‘Shadow Waves’ 

August  – juli 2020 (done)

• Revisions  for ‘New Horizons’
• Second playtest rounds for ‘New Horizons’
• Artwork for : Keeping the Colors
• Artwork for: Lucky Loser 
• Artwork for: Orcish Revolt (90%)
• Artwork for: Creatures on Ice
• Artwork for: Necormancing

June 2020 (done)

• First ideas for set IV: ‘Shadow Waves’
  • Lucky Loser (Empire – theme: luck)
  • Keeping the Colors (House of Noble – theme: human elite wizards)
  • Orcish Revolt (Red Banner – theme: more orc )
  • Creatures on ice (Gaian – theme: winter and ice)
  • Necromancing (Dark Legion – theme: skeletons and bones)
• Improved web shop
• Improved online demo
  • intro/wait screen
  • coin flip / dice rol
  • better resource handeling
  • unmark all / reset resources
  • edge support (next to FF and chrome)

May 2020

• Better/professional card/box production process (posponed)
• First time on a game fair ‘Zomerspel’ (Summer Games) (Cancelled)

March 2020 – April 2020 (done)

• Extended playtesting for the ‘New Horizons’ set
• First idea for a single player format

Februari 2020 (done)

• Editorial phase for ‘New Horizons’
• First playtesting for the ‘New Horizons’ set

Januari 2020 (done)

• Extended playtesting for  ‘Enchanted Realm’
• Final Revisions ‘Enchanted Realm’
• Batch production of ‘Enchanted Realm’

December 2019 (done)

• First idea for a new Gaian deck: The Founders
• First idea for a new Empire deck: The Dragon Army
• Webshop (for the professional printed cards),
  • everything stays CC-BY-SA4 of course
  • per card/deck/set selling
  • checkout integration/online payment

October 2019 – November 2019 (done)

• Final Revisions ‘Rebirth’
• Start on third set ‘New Horizons’
  • Merfolks: On Higher Tides
  • Earthbound
  • Deadly Reptiles
• Online play trough Tabletop Simulator integration
• Set up crowd funding on liberapay.

September 2019: First Open European Arcmage Championship (done)

Juli 2019 – October 2019 (done)

• New box design for set ‘Enchanted Realm’
• Proof print and playtesting of ‘Enchanted Realm’ set
• Increase social media / pr

May 2019  – June 2019 (done)

• Artwork for : Enchanted World
• Artwork for: Dunefolk
• Artwork for: Merfolk
• Artwork for: The Empire’s Thugs
• Artwork for: Hydra’s Awakening

December 2018 – April 2019 (done):

• Extended playtesting (early developers/adopters)
• Card rules revision
• Start on second set ‘Enchanted Realm’
  • First full draft Gaian deck: Enchanted World
  • First full draft Red Banner deck: Dunefolk
  • First full draft House of Nobles deck: Merfolk
  • First full draft Empire’s deck: The Empire’s Thugs
  • First full draft Dark Legion: Hydra’s Awakening

October 2018 (done):

• Proof print of release candidates (done)
• Production of twenty Rebirth Set Playtest Boxes
• Ordering, sending and shipping

September 2018 (done):

• Proof print of box
• Artwork for the Brothers in Arms deck
• Final editing phase of all Rebirth Set cards

August 2018 (done):

• Revisiting rules, one major rule change (building/foundation of cities)
• First full draft House of Nobles deck : Toll of Time
• First full draft Red Banner deck: The Uprising
• First full draft Dark Legion deck: Shadow League
• First full draft Empire’s deck: Brothers in Arms
• New arcmage logo
• New card back
• First draft/design of box
• First full editing phase of all Rebirth Set cards

Januari 2017 – Juli 2018 (done):

• First idea of a House of Nobles deck : Toll of Time
• First idea of a Red Banner deck: The Uprising
• First idea of a Dark Legion deck: Shadow League
• First idea of a Empire’s deck: Brothers in Arms
• Several play test rounds
• Revisiting rules, one major rule change (removal of players victory points)

December 2016 (done):

• First print-proof of the decks
• Release Gaian Love for Life  and Uneasy Alliance deck for semi-public playtesting (to ourselves -the devs- and possible early adopters)

November 2016 (done):

• Reformation of wtactics into a general card/board game dev community with focus on idea and resource sharing
• Foundation of arcmage.org as a separate card game
• Playable and stable rule set : the ARC (as stable as it can be)
• 2 pre-constructed decks, a single factions deck and a multi factions deck
  • Gaian Love for Life (Gaia)
  • Uneasy Alliance (Red Banner & Dark Legion)

Februari 2016 – oktober 2016 (done):

• Reboot of the wtactics project after several years of inactivity
• Resource gathering (artwork files, documents, source code)
• Retrospective on the wtactics project: lessons learned
• Going forward: creating two per-constructed decks and a coherent ARC rule set