Over the last four years, my brother and I have partnered up with top artists, play-tested with tabletop gamers at conventions like PAX West and ETX, and gotten feedback on different prototypes of the game from hundreds upon hundreds of people. We actually already had a Kickstarter for an older version that ended not-so-well.

 

In order to make the game we have now, we sorta had to unmake that last one a bit. Actually, scratch that: We had to annihilate that thing. I burned it and threw it in the trash. Then launched it from my dollar store trash bin farther into space than David Bowie's original 1971 Life on Mars radio waves. In other words, we made some changes.

 

These changes included redoing the entire card format to make it look uniquely stunning and easier to read, remaking all the card effects to be more playable and way more streamlined. We kept the core mechanics such as the Rift, player-based markets, trading, and monster elimination - except all of that is done much, much better now. We also added some new things such as guildmaster powers, players now being able to play as the monsters, an extremely easy-to-learn and super fun casual format, and a basic but interesting solo mode that allows players to work out some very powerful combos.

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We overhauled the rules as well. A round of WarRift is now much more fluid and concise. There are multiple simple little things we changed, like how players now keep the monsters they slay as trophies during the game. This makes it easy to keep track of your valor points, and verify your winning status when the game is over. The game now plays a lot more like a solid tabletop deck-builder, and less like a complex TCG.

 

We designed way more unique cards, and cut back on pointless duplicates. This gives our backers more variety, and a way better price this time around. Throughout the redesigning of WarRift, we believe it is self-evident that we are dedicated to bringing you a game that you want to play, at an affordable price. We're very excited about that.