To celebrate the successful completion of the Deadzone Kickstarter, and reflect on the previous year of Mantic’s growth, the team went paintballing this weekend.

Not used to resolving firefights with raw physicality we created a real life set of Deadzone counters.  Much to bemusement of staff and non-Mantic players.

Here’s James, modelling a giant Injured token.  Dear dear, -1 fighting modifier to all actions and survival mods for you, Mr. Hewitt.

And this is Chris, doing his absolute hardest to generate a Beserk counter (though from his expression you’d think it was a Constipated counter).

And finally, here’s Ronnie hoping a rampant display of chest hair would stop paintballs in much the same way as body armour.

This man gleefully shot his staff until the marshals escorted them to the dead zone.  (Question is, when you’re shot in Deadzone are you escorted to the paintball?)

Chris Webb

Space Dwarf enthusiast, Chris “Curis” Webb, gets the glamorous pixel and ink responsibilities at Mantic. He has been known to wave his stylus around as though it were a magic wand. Look out for his upcoming Thor Pattern Iron Ancestor conversion – McHammer.

Deadzone development began many, many months ago. We knew we wanted to create a skirmish game that combined simple but interesting game play, faction development, claustrophobic battlegrounds and great 3D scenery – and making it a fantastic example of all that the Warpath universe will become.

Slowly each piece of the jigsaw started to appear. Game play developed. The greens arrived from the sculptors, wonderful pieces of art landed in the dropbox. Then we received the gaming mat in the post. When the scenery tiles were delivered the office stopped to look. As each component arrived anticipation built.

The Kickstarter began 38 days ago.

However, none of us were ready for what happened then!!

We had asked for a $50,000 goal, higher than our other Kickstarters because of the more complex tooling. We thought this might take a few days.

On the first day we got 1297 backers and the project was funded in 33 minutes!

Since then there have been around 37,395 comments in the main section, plus many more in all the updates, 1000′s of messages in the inbox, and 66 stretch goals. We have undertaken building 6 factions, with boosters, vehicles and characters, mercenaries, 2 core tile sets and 3 battle zones and game play that will allow PvP, solo play, multi-mat and multi-player plus a fantastic selection of scenarios – and of course hard plastic zombies.

You have told us you want us to make this game, and make it great. We will do everything in our power to make you a game and models that you will be proud of backing.

Thank you for showing us faith in us – you support is truly humbling. Together we will make Deadzone everything we all know it can be – and more!

Cheers,

Ronnie!

A Word on the Survey

The survey will be out in a couple of weeks when Amazon has finished finalising all of the payments.

And finally – a word from Jake!

I just wanted to say thanks to all the backers of this incredible campaign. Deadzone is off and running in spectacular fashion!

I’d also like to say a huge thanks to all those brave folk who stepped up and built themselves boards to try out the Alpha and Beta rules for themselves. There’s been loads of really useful feedback and the game is definitely stronger for all your efforts. If you’re interested in continuing to follow its development then be sure to subscribe to my blog at www.quirkworthy.com where I’ll be posting further updates over the coming weeks/months.

Thanks again.

Jake

Mantic Games

Mantic Games

  

The Deadzone Kickstarter ends this weekend – it’s your last chance to climb aboard!

This weekend our Deadzone Kickstarter ends. The backing we receive helps us make games that look, feel and play brilliantly – and it is done because of the support we receive from our fans. The strike team pledge (aka the sweet spot!) offers fantastic value to our backers – as a way of saying thank you for helping make the game so awesome!

For example, the Strike Team includes the following:

The complete boxed game,
• including the rule book
• 4 complete faction decks cards – unique to each force
• all the counters, including objective, wound, overwatch markers
• all the compendium and campaign add-ons delivered directly to your tablet or PC
• and the dice …

You also get 4 complete faction sets – with all the models you need to get gaming, including:

• The Enforcers – sent to exterminate the Plague Outbreak
• The Plague – an outbreak is infecting the planet – creating a ‘Deadzone’
• The Orxs – working for the highest bidders – while killing and having fun!
• The Rebs – using the ‘Containment Protocol’ to steal unguarded vital resources, medical equipment and weapons!
• Plus a selection of great heroes, mercenaries and characters, such as Nastanza, Recon Unit N32-19 and The Survivor – featured in the Nexus Psi campaign pack and within the game.

Blaine – this new Kickstarter Exclusive Miniature has been funded and included free with game pledges of Recon ($100+Early Bird), Strike Team ($150+Early Bird) and up!

With all the scenery you need to play:

• A selection of tiles with clips and struts to allow you to build a unique 3D gaming mat every time you play
• A hard wearing, highly detailed, full colour, printed and non-slide 2×2 gaming mat (which will retail for up to $40
• Plus a selection of barricades, barrels and other cover to use in-play

And a few exclusives for supporting the campaign:

• A series of collectable postcards (mountable) illustrating the DeadZone art
• A signed lithoprint – only available to Kickstarter backers
• And a number of the unique sculpts will only be available during this kickstarter campaign

Oh, and of course there is the free sprue of plastic zombies – what kickstarter would be complete without those!!!

So, please get on over and help us make this the most fantastic kickstarter ever – and grab yourselves an absolute bargain while you do!!

Cheers,

Ronnie

Mantic Games

Mantic Games