Animal Kingdom Trading Card Game

Community Promo Poll results are in...
almost 2 years ago – Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 08:54:56 PM

Hello Mayors!

The Community Promo vote is now over, and our winner is... Lady of the Tavern! 

She'll get the beautiful borderless promo treatment seen here, so all of you Kickstarter backers will get to see FlareFox's art shown off in its full glory. I'd like to say that it was a close race but... Well, you can see the results at the end of this post! She took the lead on the first day, and it was never too closely contested. 

We love this treatment for promo cards, so just because your particular favourite may not have won this vote, it doesn't mean that it won't have another chance in the future! Keep an eye out for future news about promotional cards.

- Monster Channel

Hero Pack Survey!
almost 2 years ago – Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:16:22 PM

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Community Promo Poll!
almost 2 years ago – Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 12:06:54 PM

Good evening Mayors,

The community vote for the bonus promo card is here! We've selected a dozen cards for you to pick from, and whichever one gets the most votes by the end of November 2nd will be the one that gets the full-art treatment! All of you who backed will be getting a copy of this with your pledges.

https://forms.gle/7aWN4MqjY6wEtyR96

You can vote using the above form, and you can vote for up to 3 cards as we understand that it can be hard to just pick a single favourite!

You'll be able to edit your votes up until the final day in case you change your mind at any point, so don't be afraid to get your votes in early even if you're not entirely decided on your choices.

And don't worry, the survey for the Hero Packs will be coming very soon. We just wanted to make separate announcement posts for both of these things :)

 -  Monster Channel

September is here, as are the Hero Packs!
almost 2 years ago – Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 08:59:26 PM

Hello Mayors!

We hope that you're all having a good summer and that it's not too stuffy where you are? It's been a bit stifling here in the UK, but our moods have been greatly improved by a recent large package that we received...

Hero Packs!

They're finally here, and we are SUPER thrilled at how cool they are! Professionally printed foil cards in actual sealed booster packs, it's something that we wouldn't have imagined a couple of years ago. Now we have them in hand, and we're very excited to get them to all of our wonderful backers (you!) to see what you think of them.

As we mentioned when we ran the Kickstarter, all of these are cards that are available in the full It's a Wild World set, BUT this is the only way you're going to get any of these cards in foil. In fact, this foiling style is exclusive to the Hero Packs themselves, so even the foils in the main set won't have this lovely foiling pattern to them! Exclusive foils to show off to friends and players who didn't get in on the Kickstarter :)

Whilst we're here, why don't we actually take a look at what's in them? If you've been hanging around in our Discord server then you'll already know the contents. It's the extra cards that we allowed in the tournament earlier in the year, that were added to the Tabletop Simulator mod and printable decks! But for those of you who haven't seen them, here are a couple of pictures.

We've opened a few of these packs in order to check the quality of the cards, and they are excellent. It sounds silly to say that 'they feel like professional high budget trading cards', but it's really the best way we can describe them. We're very happy with the print quality and card feel, and we look at these as a successful test for what we'll get when the full set and Starter Decks are sent to print.

That said, there is one thing with these packs that didn't go exactly as we planned. When we sent them to print we'd asked for all of the cards to be randomised, as you'd expect when you open any kind of sealed booster product. What we weren't told until after they arrived is that the randomisation available for an order this size wasn't the full machine randomisation that we thought it would be. The cards in these packs have all been randomised, but it was via what they called 'manual random packing'. This means that they were done by hand, and as a result a few of the packs that I've opened have contained 3-4 of the same attribute. Thankfully I haven't seen duplicates of the same card in packs, but from what we've opened it appears like a portion of the packs may be biased towards a single attribute due to the randomisation method.

We did talk with the printer once we noticed this, but it's not something they can do anything about as with the numbers of Hero Packs that we ordered, this was the only way they can do the randomisation.

We apologise that this it the case, but we do want to say that:
- This will in no way affect the It's a Wild World booster boxes and packs, as they far exceed the minimum number of cards they need in order to do full machine randomisation.
- Although some of the packs have the single-attribute bias, there are still exactly the same number of each card spread among the set so it's unlikely that it will lead to people opening multiple packs that are heavy in one attribute.

 

How do I get my hands on these packs?

The big question! They're currently here in our office, and all of you have 2 options. 

1 - You can get the Hero Packs shipped out early, and receive them soon. If you choose this option it will require you to pay the shipping fee to send them out (roughly £3-12 for most counties, but it will be detailed in the survey).

2 - You can wait for the full product release, and they'll be shipped alongside your full pledge. This won't cost any extra shipping, as they'll be posted along with everything else that you're due to receive.

We will be sending everyone a survey in the near future to allow you to select which option you wish to take.

Additionally we have the League Promo cards from our tournament on hand and ready to ship, and for those of your who are eligible for them we can ship them alongside your Hero Packs. Everyone who entered the event should be in the Discord server, so please keep an eye out for an upcoming announcement.

 

What about those cool uncut sheets in those pictures?

We have a limited number of these that we requested alongside the packs, and we plan to give them out! How exactly? We suggest that you follow us on our Social Media pages and keep an eye out for some upcoming giveaways! We will be sure to announce them here when we run them, but you'll need to be following us on Facebook, Instagram and/or Twitter (X), or be part of our Discord server to enter.

 

How's progress going with It's a Wild World, and the Starter Decks?

We are still working to finish up the artwork for the set at the moment, and that's the main thing we're waiting on now. We're getting there, but with artists only able to work on a single piece at a time we did underestimate the amount of time that it would take to get the hundreds of pieces or art that we needed for the set.

Whilst we wait for this, all of the finished cards that we currently have are being prepared for printing, so that there will be minimal downtime once we have all of the cards ready. We're also in constant contact with the printer, so once the artwork is all finished and we have all the cards prepared correctly, it shouldn't be a long wait to get into the print queue.

 

So! Please keep an eye out on our social media pages and on your e-mail inboxes in the coming days and weeks. We will of course post here once the surveys have been sent out too, as we don't want anyone to miss the chance to get their packs early!

 

Take care of yourselves, and please enjoy this gif showing off the fancy foiling exclusive to the Hero Pack cards!

- Monster Channel

The Quest for the Hero Packs: Printing Complete!
about 2 years ago – Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 07:50:39 PM

Good Evening Mayors!

We hope you're all doing fantastic! We have some incredibly exciting news to share with you today – the Animal Kingdom Hero Packs have been printed!

And we couldn't be more thrilled to show off how they look with you. The style of foiling that we picked for these prints is exclusive to the Hero Packs, and we think it looks awesome! As we’ve said before, these cards will all be non-foil in It’s A Wild World, so this is the only way that you’ll be able to have these in any kind of nice, shiny foil!

Now that they exist as a physical product, the Hero Packs are being shipped out out to us imminently. We are keeping a close eye on the shipping process as we can’t wait to get our hands on them and share more pictures, and we will update you as soon as they arrive at our headquarters. 

Once they are here we’ll make another announcement, then send out another Backerkit Survey to all of you. This will allow you the option to have your Hero Packs shipped to you now for an additional small shipping cost, or to wait until It’s a Wild World is released and have them shipped alongside the rest of your goodies.

We appreciate your patience and support throughout this journey. Your enthusiasm and encouragement have continued to be our driving force, and we can't wait for you to get a hold of these packs yourselves. Thank you once again for being a part of the Animal Kingdom adventure!

- Monster Channel

P.S - I couldn't embed it into this post, but if you go and take a peek over on our discord channel you can see a video of a pack being opened!