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Second Dinner Announces Marvel Snap - Super Hero Card Battler by Ben Brode
Blizzard
Posted
2022/05/19 at 3:15 PM
by
Archimtiros
Second Dinner has announced
Marvel Snap
, a free-to-play card battler set within the Marvel comic book multiverse! Created by former Hearthstone director Ben Brode in 2018, Second Dinner partnered with Marvel and received a $30 million investment from NetEase to produce the newly revealed mobile game over the past four years.
A 15 year veteran of Blizzard Entertainment, Ben Brode began in Quality Assurance for Warcraft III and World of Warcraft, before moving onto the physical Warcraft Trading Card Game and then moving to Hearthstone in 2008. One of the very first members of that team, he headed much of the content and initial card design, being promoted to Lead Designer in 2015 and Game Director the following year. Throughout his time working with Team 5, Brode was seen as the public face of Hearthstone, becoming well known for
his humor and community engagement
on Twitter, Reddit, and Youtube. In 2018, he left Blizzard to form the studio Second Dinner, where he now serves as Chief Creative/Development Officer, joined by several other former
Blizzard employees
.
Four years in the making, Marvel Snap is the "fastest collectable card game in the multiverse," focused on 3 minute matches using small decks of up to 15 cards. Matches take place over three locations with both sides playing simultaneously rather than waiting for each other's turn, using cards focused on the heroes and villain's of the Marvel universe. While deck building won't feature duplicates that bloat many card games up to using 60+ cards at a time, the game will have variant cards representing the different iteration of character appearances throughout the multiverse.
The free-to-play game will launch with over 150 cards to collect, with the aim of being able to unlock all cards without paying, although specific details regarding monetization have yet to be shared. Designed as mobile first, an early access version for PC will also be available alongside Marvel Snap's global launch, with
signups already available for closed beta
on Android devices.
Ben Brode
Marvel Snap is unlike any card battler ever made. We’ve worked tirelessly to ensure that the game is super deep for hardcore players, while remaining very approachable so everyone can jump in and have a blast. We’re stoked to partner with Nuverse so that we can reach millions of players with our first game.
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Comment by
Noswaith
on 2022-05-20T12:09:19-05:00
1 LOVE SPELL
2 WIN EX BACK
3 FRUIT OF THE WOMB
4 PROMOTION SPELL
5 PROTECTION SPELL
6 BUSINESS SPELL
7 HIV AIDS
8 LOTTERY SPELL
9 COURT CASES SPELL
10 GOOD JOB SPELL.
Is this the new mage spec?
Comment by
Xingbg
on 2022-05-20T15:35:22-05:00
1 LOVE SPELL
2 WIN EX BACK
3 FRUIT OF THE WOMB
4 PROMOTION SPELL
5 PROTECTION SPELL
6 BUSINESS SPELL
7 HIV AIDS
8 LOTTERY SPELL
9 COURT CASES SPELL
10 GOOD JOB SPELL.
Is this the new mage spec?
Honestly Blizzard should be taking notes from these scammers :D.
Jokes aside, I wonder why does no card game want to make their game look like the anime Yu-Gi-Oh and by that I mean when you play your card you get a 3d model of it. Why does everyone goes for the cheap way out.
I mean this game got $30 million investment and the looks are... I mean they aren't bad, but surely for $30 million a card game should be at least 3D.
Still I hope it's a decent game. I won't play it since I don't really play card games, but if there are tournaments I'd watch them.
Comment by
whatsupall
on 2022-05-21T05:44:00-05:00
lol marvel has went to crap
Comment by
baceto
on 2022-05-21T06:24:11-05:00
i like how you argue that
the MCU is not the same as a the real Marvel Universe
when both are fictional and nobody cares. you *!@#ing nerd
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