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Since 2005’s Elantris, Brandon Sanderson has regularly risen in prominence as one of many greatest (and busiest) fantasy authors working as we speak. And like different authors of comparable standing, Sanderson’s attain is regularly increasing outdoors of books over to different industries akin to video games. Although he’s stepped into the online game area with a VR sport based mostly on his Stormlight Archive sequence and serving to to create the universe for final 12 months’s Moonbreaker, the creator has his eyes set primarily within the tabletop area.
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Based on Dicebreaker, Sanderson’s work is being tailored into an upcoming deckbuilding sport. The title is in manufacturing over at Brotherwise Video games, finest identified for the likes of Boss Monster and Name to Journey. At time of writing, it’s unclear on which e book sequence is being tailored, akin to Elantris or Mistborn. Equally, it’s not identified who’s main the cost on this sport—Brotherwise president Johnny O’Neal merely informed Dicebreaker it was being created by “a widely known designer.”
Brotherwise can also be at the moment at work on a tabletop RPG based mostly on Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive novels, which itself comes after the developer created a themed growth for Name to Journey. The TTRPG is ready to hit subsequent 12 months, joined by the Horneater novella and that November’s Knights of Wind & Fact, the following mainline e book within the sequence. The unnamed deckbuilder can also be meant to launch someday subsequent 12 months as nicely, presumably earlier than the discharge of Knights. Miniatures based mostly on the franchise are additionally being developed by Brotherwise and reportedly gearing up for a launch in, you guessed it—2024.
io9 has reached out to Brotherwise for extra info on the Sanderson deckbuilder, and can replace when a response is given.
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