KeyForge

... fun sounds to hear.

Uh, we are gonna be talking about probably the biggest news in KeyForge since, uh, the news of Ghost Galaxy taking over from Fantasy Flight Games.

Would you agree with that?

I would...

I was like, "Huh? Okay." Now-

Yeah, it was definitely unexpected.

I think Riku came on to different servers as Yellow King and did, like, a preview spoiler thing, but, like, then the, the, the news dropped, it was like, "Oh my God." Like, what? What?

Yep.

Now, am I misremembering or am I remembering correctly that the cards themselves, were those algorithmically generated or was it just the combination of them?

The cards were generated by hand, at least in the earlier sets This me not being an expert on KeyForge, but from how I remember, and I think in the later set they expe- experimented more with like inside a deck you could have one card which is a bit buffed compared to what it normally is, and another which is like a bit slower or something.

Right.

And so they did venture into that, but from the onset it was like handcrafted cards but, uh, procedurally generated decks.

Speaking of, do, do you wanna start with your game, and we can, uh, talk about what the journey was and how that one started?

Sure.

Um, so our game is called Oddball, and, uh, I'm glad we kinda like set the table with KeyForge because one way to sort of explain what our game is doing is it's like one step beyond KeyForge, right? KeyForge has, as Christian explained, like randomized decks but handcrafted cards.

We're actually randomizing at the card level, so every single card in the game will be unique in the world in that it will only be printed once.

It's on the boat.

And that was so that it was a business decision by the guy that runs – and I think he's the guy that owns the company that makes Keyforge now because they sold FFG to Asmodee.

But anyway, one of his – he had a lot of – I don't remember them off the top of my head, but he had a number of business decisions and ways that he wanted to run his business that I was just scratching my head at, and one of them was – We don't tell people when games come out.

We create anticipation by saying it's going to be out around this time.

um well just a quick one on mansions of madness um an update i posted on the discord earlier a new scenario coming next month uh so this is the second new scenario from ffg for mansions of madness second edition um after you know years of radio silence from them i can only assume that they've got somebody that knows how to work the scenario generator software now um and they've been working on it because i think For people who don't know, FFG got hacked at some point and lost a lot of their algorithm stuff.

Apparently stuff for Keyforge went missing, but I believe they were affected more widely.

And at that point, and since then we've had no Mansions of Madness content, there is a fan...

What's the word I'm after here? Program that you can use to make scenarios, but it's awful.

Future Self.

Hello, Archons, and welcome to Help From Future Self, the conversational Keyforge podcast by and for Keyforge friends.

I'm your host, Sydney, and I am so super hyped to be joined this week by your favorite returning character, Nick.

Hello, Liquid Squash.

Oh my gosh, I loved it so much.

Like literally seeing them in person and getting to chat with them about, especially like Alliance, but like also in general, just like who they are and what they do and like how they live their lives.

And like they're people that like I know online and I basically only know them from Keyforge and like I love human beings and people and hanging out and being social and getting to know them was so amazing.

I cannot wait.

So that's Mindbug.

And the last example, I think one of the most clever resource systems I've ever seen in a game, and it isn't even exactly a resource system, but this is Keyforge.

In Keyforge, in every deck in Keyforge, you have three different factions of cards.

And this hand here is a good example.

You have three different factions shown here.

But do I want to play all of them? Is that information that I want you to have right now? And if I play all three of them, it means that my hand, most likely in the next turn, is going to be filled with different icons.

So it means that on my next turn, I'll have to choose, okay, do I want to play, do I want to choose a different faction and put those cards into play? Or do I want to use the cards that I have in play that I played the previous turn of this egg faction? Because you only choose one faction per turn.

I think it's such a clever system in Keyforge.

Yeah.

I have one that I can jump in with, which is, so KeyForge is the Richard Garfield game where you have decks with three different suits, um, and the hand management of it, the, the way that the energy system, there isn't really one.

It's just like on your turn declare one of those suits and you can play as many cards of that suit as you want.

The game calls them houses.

Hello, Archons.

Welcome to Help From Future Self, the conversational Keyforge podcast by and for Keyforge friends.

I'm your host, Sydney, and I am joined this week by one of my best Keyforge friends, other Nick.

Hey, Liquid Squash.

How you doing?

I ended up buying that one and hoping, crossing my fingers, that I can get that to the table at some point.

Totally.

Did you know that Keyforge has a dedicated group of people who play Root? I think Quickdrop posted in the Help Me Feed Yourself Discord, they have their own Discord of 25 people.