Lost & Found Announcement! 🃏
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Hey folks—I’m on holiday this week, but the marketing machine for my next project has started a little ahead of schedule so I wanted to share it with you.
It’s called The Lost & Found Collection. You can follow the project on Kickstarter now and learn more about the project here. It launches on the 3rd September.
The Lost & Found Collection is a set of three card-based story games about objects with a will of their own, for solo or group play. Two of the games, Artefact and Bucket of Bolts, are reworked editions of existing games. The third, Counterpart, is a brand new experience. All three share the same structure, with you creating your central character (an item, ship or robot) and then telling their story through the people they spend time with over a long and eventful existence.
This project wouldn’t be happening without the success of Koriko. I’ve taken everything I’ve learned about solo games and cards since my first project, Artefact, to create a completely new, card-based format for that game—and two others! It’s simpler, richer and more flexible, letting you tell all kinds of stories about strange objects and inhuman perspectives—either on your own or with friends.
It’s worth signing up to be notified, because if you back it within the first 24 hours you’ll get a free mouse patch—and there’s a second, different free mouse patch for returning backers from my previous projects (that’s you!).
The Lost & Found Collection features
Artefact, which has sold over 10,000 copies to date and been featured in Shut Up & Sit Down, is a game of legendary treasures and the heroes they endure beyond.
Bucket of Bolts, with returning artist Torben ready to create more weird space stuff than anyone thought was possible, is a game of iconic spaceships and the captains they fly beyond.
Counterpart, featuring artist Liam Cobb whose graphic novel What Awaits Them was on The Guardian’s Best of 2023 list, is a game of thinking machines and the humans they live beyond.
All three games are contained within a beautiful illustrated slipcase, featuring possibly the best piece of art I’ve commissioned to date by Mousehole Press logo designer Stacey Thomas. It's such a brilliant piece, actually, that I want people to experience it for the first time when it arrives with them—so I'm only showing sneaky peeks in the previews!
Each game comes with 24 unique people cards to meet, 12 different ways to end your time with them, and six ways to end your story.
Each of these 126 jumbo-sized cards (6 x 3.8”) is filled with evocative prompts and oddball lists, and features a unique illustration.
With the new card-based format, each game can be played solo or with a group with no additional setup (or clumsy book handovers) required.
It also makes starting play even quicker than the original games—all the rules are on the setup cards, just open the box and start playing.
Existing owners of Artefact or Bucket of Bolts will get all the new content as a free digital update, including an interactive version of the game.
Thanks folks!
Jack
Forgive me this is an odd question, but, can the decks be combined somehow? Like they function as standalone games on their own, but also as expansions to each other? I love when Button Shy games like Converge and the -polis series do this.
Looking forward to this! Love the form factor and excited to hear about the third game. And happy to hear Torben is doing illustrations!