Developer:

REDFOX Game Studio

Based in Auckland,

New Zealand

Release Date:

Coming to Kickstarter Q4 2020.

PLATFORM:

Physical card game.

Website:

www.redfoxgamestudio.com/robot-battle-card-game

Regular Price:

2-4 player game

USD $24

Expansion (each)

USD $15

Playmat (each)

USD $12

Mecha Nation® is a physical card game for two to four players (up to six with expansion decks).  Players run a country that is trying to build a massive battle robot (Mecha).  The first to start their turn with a complete robot wins!

Attack other players’ robots with your own, or hamper other players ability to build their robots.

The expansion decks add more variety and complexity to strategy, as well as allowing additional players.

The game takes 10-40 minutes to play and requires a little bit of space for the physical card layout (about the same amount of space as a Magic The Gathering game).

At the 2017 NZ Game Developers Conference, Stephen attended a half-day game design workshop.  The facilitators provided a card deck with circles, triangles, and square shapes.  Stephen got the idea to use "layout" to build a robot, and to use the shapes to represent attack/defence/balanced.

The game started out as an elimination game - last player alive wins.  Through play testing, the game change quite a lot to its current form, which is a first player to hold the victory condition wins.  This makes the game more inclusive.

The shapes were also replaced with specific parts; body, head, arms, and legs.  The theme of the game was developed to players representing countries and this informed the flavour of events, and the art style.

While the game allows strategic play so good players can influence the outcome, it also has game mechanics to help players recover from set-backs, and positional mechanics that come in to effect with three or more players - to mitigate "ganging up" type play.  This makes the game a good, fun, family experience.

The game has a wide appeal - my mum and my daughter both enjoy the game. The game is targeted for 9 to 50 year-olds.

The Robot Battle Card Game includes the following features:

• 132 Awesomely designed, professional quality cards with stunning art for your visual pleasure during play.

• Robot parts, events, and abilities inspired by America, Japan, Russia, and China.

• Layout-based card play that creates the satisfaction of building-up a massive battle robot

• Positional-based card play that creates interesting dynamics when playing with three or more players

• A beautiful, professional designed quick start guide and rule manual.

• A number of expansion decks, with nearly 200 additional cards.