5-Minute Dungeon is a chaotic, cooperative, real-time card game. Battle the clock to defeat each dungeon in less than 5 minutes!
Our Kickstarter campaign for our 5-Minute Dungeon expansion pack, Curses! Foiled Again, has just gone LIVE! Head on over and grab a copy!
Thanks for all your support on Kickstarter!
Thanks to all of you who responded to our previous update about the Kickstarter. We want this to be a great campaign for everybody, so we appreciate all your feedback.
As we listen to what you have to say, one word seems to keep coming up: “sleeves”.
We learned from the last campaign that a lot of our backers like to protect their cards with plastic sleeves. And while we designed our game tray with lots of space to hold all the cards, and even allowed extra slots for expansions, sleeves make cards a lot thicker… and this is a game with hundreds of cards!
So a lot of you have been wondering: “If I put my cards in sleeves, will the expansion fit into my existing game tray?”
And the answer, unfortunately, is no. With the expansion added, there are so many cards that you would need to store some of them in the expansion box.
We realize that’s not an ideal situation, so we’ve come up with an option we hope you’ll like.
First of all, we’re going to redesign the tray in the Big Box to have bigger slots to accommodate sleeved cards... which is great for new backers, you say, but what if I backed the last Kickstarter and already own the game?
Well, we’re going to offer an optional upgrade to the expansion pledge levels that will allow you to swap out the small box and tray for the larger box with the new sleeve-friendly tray. If you choose this upgrade, then you'll receive a big box with the expansion bundled inside instead of the small box. Then all you have to do is move your original game cards and mats into the new tray, and you're good to go!
All you need to do is pledge at the $CDN 20 (Curses Expansion) or $CDN 25 (Curses Expansion + KS Booster) levels, and then after the campaign, you’ll be given an option to upgrade to the larger box when you complete your survey in BackerKit.
Due to the additional handling involved, there will be a small fee of $5 CDN for the upgrade.
Then you’re all set! The current Kickstarter box will hold all the cards, including the Curses! Foiled Again! expansion pack content.
Thanks again to all of you who wrote in with your suggestions. Only four days to go until the Kickstarter goes live at 11 am EST on Tuesday, May 22! See you there!
Only one week to go until the Kickstarter for our expansion to 5-Minute Dungeon, Curses! Foiled Again! We’re going live on May 22.
With the Kickstarter right around the corner, we’d like to tell you a bit about what to expect from the campaign.
For starters, we’re going to keep this campaign short. Instead of running a month-long campaign as we did for the full game, we’re going to run the campaign for only two weeks, from May 22 to June 5.
We had a lot of fun last time when backers contributed by choosing the art and titles for some of the cards. (Remember the Necrobouncer? And the Low-Tech Mech?) We’re definitely going to do more of that. We love seeing what you can come up with! So for this campaign, we've decided to focus on community involvement rather than have any stretch goals. Regardless of how the funding turns out, we're going to include everything that was originally going to be a stretch goal. Everything is unlocked from day one.
We’ll reveal more details as the campaign unfolds, but it should be a lot of fun.
We’ve had lots of questions about what rewards backers will be able to choose from. We’re going to be offering three backer levels:
Curses! Foiled Again! Expansion ($20 CDN… about $15 USD)
This is just the expansion itself, pure and simple. If you have the full game from the previous Kickstarter, this backer level will provide everything you need to play the expanded version.
Curses! Foiled Again! + Kickstarter Booster ($25 CDN… about $20 USD)
If you have friends who bought the retail copy of the game and are jealous that you have that awesome bonus content from the previous Kickstarter, and they don’t, you may want to tell them about this backer option! It comes with the expansion content, plus the 25 bonus cards and 2 bonus bosses from the previous Kickstarter bundled inside!
This bonus content is Kickstarter-exclusive… it won’t be sold in stores. Grab it now while you can!
The Big Box ($50 CDN… about $40 USD)
Did you loan your precious Kickstarter copy to some friends, and they’re refusing to give it back? Or are you the type of backer who just HAS to have the latest and greatest version of the game? lf so, we’ve got you covered with The Big Box! With one purchase, it gets you the whole deal: everything in the retail edition of 5-Minute Dungeon, plus the bonus cards and bosses from the previous Kickstarter, PLUS the Curses! Foiled Again expansion... all bundled together in one neat box!
The campaign goes live next Tuesday, May 22 at 11 am EST! And to start things off with a bang, we’re planning to offer an Early Bird special: 500 copies of the Big Box at a $5 discount! Show up early and take advantage of this great deal!
See you next Tuesday!
Two weeks to go until the Kickstarter! We’re going live on May 22.
As we saw last week, the dungeon bosses are getting new cards in their arsenal to make things tougher on the heroes. How will the heroes respond to this new threat?
To bring more firepower to the table, the heroes have joined forces with the Druid and Shaman. They’re a very versatile class, with an even split of all the resources and solutions to deal with all three of the dungeon card types (Monster, Person and Obstacle). And they also have their own type of resource card, which counts as any number of one type of symbol… great against bosses that need many resources to defeat (I’m looking at you, Grime Reaper, with your seven scroll symbols).
With them by your side, you can now play with up to 6 players!
As if that weren’t enough, we’ve also added Artifacts into the game. These cards have powerful effects that the party can activate once per dungeon.
Each hero class has its own artifact, and your party brings along the artifacts for any classes that aren’t being used that game. This provides some much-needed help for games with fewer players!
Next week, we’ll fill you in on all the details about the Kickstarter campaign itself!
Only three short weeks to go until the Kickstarter goes live for our expansion to 5-Minute Dungeon, Curses! Foiled Again! We’re going live on May 22.
So what's new in the dungeon?
Curses are a new kind of dungeon card that makes things a lot more interesting for players.
These cards get shuffled into the dungeon deck and have a variety of effects, just like Event cards. But instead of making you do a one-time action (such as discarding a card), Curses actually change the rules of the game. They might force you to play with fewer cards, or play with your hand face down, or stop you from using your ability. And on top of that, when they come out, they stick around for the rest of the dungeon... unless, of course, you can find a way to remove them!
As part of the Curses! Foiled Again expansion, each of the bosses gets its own custom deck of Boss Cards which includes Curses, new Event Cards, and new Mini-Bosses. So the Curses and other Boss Cards you encounter when battling the Baby Barbarian are different from those you’ll encounter when taking on the Grime Reaper, and so on.
Things are about to get tougher in the dungeon! What will the heroes bring to the table to help them take on these new challenges? We’ll give you a preview next week.