Fantasy Author Brandon Sanderson is Getting a Deckbuilding Game

Since 2005’s Elantris, Brandon Sanderson has regularly risen in prominence as one of many greatest (and busiest) fantasy authors working right now. And like different authors of comparable standing, Sanderson’s attain is regularly increasing exterior of books over to different industries reminiscent of video games. Although he’s stepped into the online game house with a VR recreation based mostly on his Stormlight Archive sequence and serving to to create the universe for final 12 months’s Moonbreaker, the writer has his eyes set primarily within the tabletop house.

In response to Dicebreaker, Sanderson’s work is being tailored into an upcoming deckbuilding recreation. The title is in manufacturing over at Brotherwise Video games, greatest recognized for the likes of Boss Monster and Name to Journey. At time of writing, it’s unclear on which guide sequence is being tailored, reminiscent of Elantris or Mistborn. Equally, it’s not recognized who’s main the cost on this recreation—Brotherwise president Johnny O’Neal merely advised 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 enlargement for Name to Journey. The TTRPG is about to hit subsequent 12 months, joined by the Horneater novella and that November’s Knights of Wind & Fact, the following mainline guide 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 data on the Sanderson deckbuilder, and can replace when a response is given.

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