Roadmap
Here’s the long long long road behind and ahead
December 2021
- Final Revisions ‘Legends Set’
- Batch production of ‘Legends Set’
Oktober – November 2021
- Editing and proof print of ‘Legends Set’
- Playtest rounds for ‘Legends Set’
- First Ideas for Set 5 ‘Inspiration & Aspiration’
September 2021
- Belgian Open Arcmage Championships
- Organized by the Arcmage Arena Battle Group Ghent
- Preparation for community building
- New player groups
August 2021 (done)
- Release of Set 4: ‘Shadow Waves’
- Change working title ‘Legends Set’ to ‘Smooth Sailing’
- 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