Narrative board game in solo or cooperative, in a post-apocalyptic saga with giant insects !
Latest Updates from Our Project:
đ€đŠ Once Upon a Line - Thank you & Merci
almost 2 years ago
â Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 07:06:09 AM
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 The campaign is over... but it's now that it all starts, thanks to you! Behind our screens, we applaud and thank each of you even if we don't have the chance to know you all personally.
In March, we will open the pledge manager on Backerkit, where you can finalize your support and let us know your delivery address. You will receive a message to announce its opening.
Going forward, we will keep you informed of our progress regularly (once a month on average) on the edition of this game and its expansions. We will not confuse speed with haste because we want to deliver the greatest adventure we are capable of creating.
As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome as you are part of this journey, so keep in touch with us here or on social media: Facebook / BGG / Instagram / CWOWD
Come on, everyone get on board our bigleoptera, we're taking you on an adventure the likes of whichyou've never seen before...
Goodbye for now,
Dan & William
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En Mars, nous ouvrirons le "pledge manager" (gestionnaire de promesses de dons) sur Backerkit, oĂč vous pourrez finaliser votre soutien et nous indiquer votre adresse de livraison. Vous recevrez un message pour vous annoncer son ouverture.
đŠđ„ Last Livestream Event of Once Upon a Line KS campaign
almost 2 years ago
â Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 08:21:09 AM
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The campaign ends in 24 hours and we wanted to take the time to thank you all for your support during these 3 weeks by giving you one last "live" campaign with a little surprise: the creation of an original illustration of the game Le Breath of the Butterfly live!
Guillaume Weber is the artist behind the two covers of the Splendor & Degradation and The Trance of the Silverfish expansions. While we are live, he will create for our greatest wonder an illustration of Chapter 1 of the main saga.
His work will probably not be completely finished, we will discover his progress at the end of the live. Don't miss this rare and precious moment: the birth of a graphical work by a very talented artist!
The Competition
You enjoyed participating in the contest by submitting your best ideas for using 4 possible insects in the Kell universe. We are therefore very happy to reveal to you this work-in-progress sketch made by Alex after the public vote which rewarded Jojojo95's original proposal to use ladybugs as a sail for a boat. Illustration: Alexandre Gimbel
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đŠ Once Upon a Line - Daily Reveal đ #15
almost 2 years ago
â Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 06:06:42 AM
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âIn the ant's house, the dew is a flood.â - Arab proverb
It is with these few words of rare poetry that we conclude the cycle of fifteen Daily Reveals... not without a certain emotion!
All of these scenarios would be in vain without their associated deck of Story Cards! That's why we're opening this beautiful Splendor & Degradation expansion box one last time to slip in one last component.
In this adventure, you will experience, from the inside, the tipping point in the life of Father Latreille. Find out how he went from light to dark, and how he somehow returned to light. The most beautiful treasures of life are not always where we expect them.
In this scenario, nearly 19 XXL format cards will be added and almost all illustrated. Among them, 2 cards for a new surprise Hero to unlock for The Butterflyâs Breath saga...
đŹ The authors' note:
âThis is the last Daily Reveal News of this campaign and we are closing a small slice of our life there. Much more than simple commercial operations, these crowdfunding campaigns are for us the means to constitute the base of our main engine: the players!
Seen from the outside, it is undoubtedly in your eyes a beautiful campaign well carried out by two motivated friends. Seen from our window, it is above all a small piece of our being that we will have deposited in a social and global arena. Each of your encouragements, even discreet ones, came to weigh criticisms completely justified but which it is difficult to embrace when the sleep is lacking and the stress wins us. On the lookout on all fronts, we have done our best to explain, reveal and serve. No doubt we will say to ourselves later that âwe should haveâ and that âwe could haveâ but much more than the destination, it is the path that we must remember.
All these words to tell you that we are infinitely grateful for your trust. We will try to be worthy of it and offer you the best playful and narrative experience of which we are capable. We will now concentrate all our last strength in what purists call the final rush⊠and finally enjoy a deserved break.
Our last words will go to Az, our campaign partner whose translation of these words will surely make one blush a little. Thank you for taking great care of us during these three weeks. (Az: Oh Dan & William are sneaky sweethearts!)
We remain available in comment, in private and on social networks.
See you at the end of the month, at the Cannes International Game Festival, Stand 05.08!â
Opening of the plot:
At the age of 80, Latreille is determined to resume his destiny. Armed with his courage and a fierce confidence, he goes to the entrance of the great white tower, a monumental building dedicated to the training of the intellectual elite of Kell. At the entrance, a large amphitheater where dozens of candidates jostle for the admission exam. Among them, the young Scarin accosted him in a familiar tone and offered to give him the answers to the written test, obtained from a reliable source by a cousin Lepidore.
Is this boy trustworthy? Are you ready to cheat on this exam to get the magic password? Is the imposing examiner, named Chrysal, distracted enough to be fooled by Scarin's the shemeer?
Whatever happens, it is the practical exam on a wild island that will put our elder severely to the test. And despite his great experience, Latreille knows that he no longer has the ardor of his 20s.
Illustration: Guillaume Weber
 đSplendor & DegradationÂ
So here we are at the end of the revelations of the expansion offered to all backers. We hope that these little stories of about 90 minutes each will immerse you in memorable adventures, to be experienced alone or with others.
đ Let us know in the comments what you thought of these daily reveals and the campaign in general.Â
Your opinion is very important to us!
Important: the number of cards in each scenario can be increased or decreased (maximum 3 cards) when the whole game is finished in order to harmonize and balance the contents and the duration of the games.
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𧎠Expansion Update - The Transe of the Silverfish
almost 2 years ago
â Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:32:36 AM
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Expansion: The Trance of the Silverfish
In this expansion, you play as a young Zephyrhyme, barely a few thousand years old. Your peers, to validate your probationary period, ask you to prove yourself on âMinor Tragediesâ.
The City of Kell is full of many personal dramas and it is by embodying a young public writer named Frigan, that you will have to prove yourself.
Accustomed to rubbing shoulders with all layers of Kellian society to find inspiration, Frigan is shrewd and accustomed to the most devious intrigues. Within his mind, you detect three separate cases that are tormenting his soul. Nothing indicates that these mysteries are related, so you decide to embody a second Hero, intimately linked to each of them.
Contents
Each box of The Trance of the Silverfish expansion contains:
4 Grids of Destiny format 200x100mm for games of around 90 minutes.
~100 XXL cards 126x88mm format
1 Challenge Gateway
1 Sheet of Rules
New:
This expansioncontains 4 exclusive scenarios!
Except for the last one, you can play each scenario in the order of your choice! Macabre Trance is the last Chapter of this story which will give you an epic outcome at the height of a small saga rich in discoveries.
In each scenario, you play as Frigan and a second character related to him and to the story. Discover these 3 amazing Heroes a little further downâŠ
Introducing Frigan
Frigan is the main hero of this expansion. Present throughout this saga, you sense that this epic will mark a decisive turning point in his life.
He is a young public writer of integrity and virtue... perhaps a little too much in the eyes of his editor, who just fired him from the Gazette for being overzealous in a recent investigation involving two senior members of the SquadrAnt Legion.
Frigan is what is commonly called Casteless, a Kellian who has pledged allegiance to no Major Guild. Without the support of a community, he is therefore immediately at the foot of the wall financially, and begins by selling his writings to the highest bidder.
Accustomed to rubbing shoulders with all layers of Kellian society to find inspiration, Frigan is shrewd and accustomed to the most devious intrigues. He is a rather resourceful nosy journalist who knows how to get people to confide in him, to obtain their confessions, or who knows how to blend in with the crowd to better collect confidential information.
Mrs Dori
Former nurse of Frigan, Madame Dori came to him to report her husband's strange behavior. Suddenly touched by piety, he abandoned his work as an accountant and devoted himself fully to a new faith that he refuses to talk about. Between his increasingly frequent absences, he isolates himself in an incomprehensible mystical fervor.
Beneath her air of an impotent old woman, Madame Dori remains a vigorous person with a perfectly sharp mind. Her love for her husband makes her capable of the greatest feats...
Chrys O'Bal
Chrysobal (his real name) is the only son of a powerful Lepilazuli named Pyral. A rebellious teenager, âChrysâ affirms a deep disagreement with his social rank, preferring to claim his membership of the Silencers, a very select club whose emblem is a black moth. Forced to accompany his father on a river safari, he will lend a hand to Frigan, who has come there to write Pyral's autobiography.
Hoverfay
Under the guise of a prostitute from the chic neighborhoods, Hoverfay is well known to the SquadrAnt Legion services for being the privileged informer of several investigative journalists.
While she risks her life and her cover every day, it is to her brother Lubin that she owes her most recent endangerment. Recently molested by four Skeeters to obtain information about her brother, Hoverfay comes one morning to seek Frigan's help to get the young man out of the dirty sheets he has gotten himself into.
Before going to visit his apartment, a detour to his place of work should be most instructive...
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đŠ Once Upon a Line - Daily Reveal đ #14
almost 2 years ago
â Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 07:20:39 AM
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"Men as they really are, insects devouring one another on a little atom of mud" - Voltaire
In the world of Kell, it sometimes happens that certain individuals weave with others such a powerful spiritual connection that each draws from the other a symbiotic force. From then on, the Zephyrhymes hold extensive control by tapping into the natural abilities of that Hero's companion.
In Splendor & Degradation, you may be lucky enough to be able to add one of them to your Hero pool.
đŹ The authors' note:
âTo create is to throw hundreds of stupid ideas, mechanical wanderings, and useless artifices into a big mess bag and wait for an accident. Because yes, our discoveries are most of the time born of an error: bad pronunciation, a joke taken seriously or a misunderstanding. And when a creative deposit seems to have been unearthed, we follow it hoping to find a prolific vein. It is then explored until validating, invalidating or rectifying the initial idea.
This laborious search in which everything is permitted is a small moment of grace and complicity that is dear to us. He reminds us of the RPG years and our teenage madness (see  Daily Reveal #13). But of all the phases in the design of a game, the most delicate stage (for us) is that of purification!
Once the heart of the mechanics has stopped, we circle around like butterflies near a flame and seek to extract the best juice (with the pulp please) only finding a stoppage within our limits at the one-upmanship.
And that's where our sneakiest enemy lurks: Mr. Plus!
While it is easy to add layers like garnishing a burger, you have to know how to find a balance that preserves the user experience and generates the much sought-after playful ecstasy. And that is why we apply to all external proposals from enthusiastic âfansâ the basic precept: less is more!â
đŠ A New Companion
In Splendor & Degradation, you have the possibility to unlock one of the rare Heroes with his companion!
If you have already seen or tested the Prologue of the Butterflyâs Breath saga, in a video, at a convention, or on Tabletop Simulator, then you have already met these two individuals intimately linked by their common history.
By unlocking Father Latreille's third Talent, you gain the ability to associate his pet moth with him.
One Hero in play but two talent cards and their associated tiles: the moth then grants you two new exclusive Talents.
âïž This Hero and his companion can be played in the The Butterflyâs Breath saga, (except the Prologue, as indicated on the Latreille Hero card).
Illustration: Leandro Di Terlizzi
Moth Illustration Making-Of
Next Update
Stay tuned for the next expansion update on "The Trance of the Silverfish" later today!
Last Campaign Livestream
We'll also meet again on Thursday at 8pm CET for the last livestream of this Kickstarter campaign, tell us in comments all the topics you want us to discuss.
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On se retrouve Jeudi Ă 20h CET pour le dernier Live de cette campagne Kickstarter, dites-nous en commentaire tous les sujets que vous souhaitez que lâon aborde !
Merci et Ă demain pour la derniĂšre Daily Reveal de cette campagne âŠ
Dan & William