Dreadwood Games

About Mage's Gambit

Mage's Gambit is an homage to the classic board game; Wiz War. Our adaptation of this game to CORE will be a real time Deathmatch / Capture the Flag round based game. The players will use a deck of ability cards to determine the abilities that are available to them during the game. This deck will be configurable by each player. Each card is either a single use spell or may be a piece of equipment that gives them an advantage over the other Mages.

Featuring:​

• Reconfigurable play board

  • Choose your home zone's rotation before the round starts.​

  • The play board will reconfigure based on the number of players. We plan to initially support 2-4 player games.

• Multiple win conditions

  • Kill all opponents​.

  • Capture two opponents treasures.

• Deck Building

  • Use the prebuilt deck or make your own​.

• Attack Spells​

  • Blast your opponents with fire balls, lightning bolts and other deadly and beautiful magic.

• Counter Spells

  • Defend yourself against other wizards with spell shields, mage armor and other protective spells.​

• Neutral Spells

  • Summon a wall to protect your treasure, swap places with an opponent or destroy a wall that's in your way.​

• Power Spells

  • You're a mage not a nimble thief or athletic fighter. Your base movement speed is slow but that's why you have magic! Speed yourself up or make your other spells more powerful, the choice is yours!​

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In addition to the above features we want to explore the following possibilities in the future as we roll this unique game out!​

• Monetization Possibilities

  • Map Skins - since each player has a home zone we will be able to offer reskins so each player can personalize their zone.​

  • Prop Packs - players can customize their avatar with different mage themed props, staves, wands, spellbooks, familiars, etc.

  • Card Skins - a major aspect of our game is that it is a partial collectible card game and since your spell cards are always up on your screen we can offer themed card skins for your spell deck.

  • Card Packs - again since this is a card based game we will be able to offer card packs that can be purchased to expand your options for what abilities to include in your deck.

  • Themed packs - since we have so many components that can be purchased we can offer bundles. Example - Fire theme pack could include a fire skin for your map, fire staff and spell book, imp familiar and fire themed card designs. All these components could be purchased separately but would be discounted in a bundle.

  • Initially we will make sure that some options in each category are available with in game earned currency.

• Tournament Possibilities

  • E-Sports style bracket tournament - this game is well positioned to leverage a bracket style tournament with a purse to the top 4 players and the winner of the Final.​

  • Seasonal Rankings - this game also allows us to have seasonal rankings with give-aways at the end of each season that could be any combination of the in game rewards in the above list.

• Solo PvE Spin off - we could potentially leverage the mechanics of this game and create a single or multiplayer PvE spin off that would leverage the same deck ability mechanics but pit you and your friends against NPC's.

• More Maps - we will be releasing new player zones and new map configurations.

• More Players - we would like to expand the map settings so that more than 4 players can participate in a round.