Brandon Sanderson is Getting a Deckbuilding Game in 2024

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

In line with 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 ebook collection is being tailored, resembling 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 be presently 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 & Reality, the subsequent mainline ebook within the collection. The unnamed deckbuilder can be meant to launch someday subsequent 12 months as properly, 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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