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By Order of the Queen

Created by David Gerrard - Junk Spirit Games

2-4 player cooperative game - Send heroes to complete quests, combat monsters, and fulfill the Queen's orders to save the Kingdom!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

JSG's Next Game - Battle of the Bards is now Live!
about 5 years ago – Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 06:54:36 PM

Hey all!

This morning we launched our 4th game on Kickstarter, Battle of the Bards:

We funded about three hours later and I wanted to make sure to get a note out to our previous backers so you don't miss out on the opportunity to get a great deal through our new pledge tiers. 

Click the image above to be brought to the Kickstarter Page and check it out!

Battle of the Bards continues the saga of the Tessandor Universe that was featured in By Order of the Queen and we're happy to show off another whimsical side of our family-friendly fantasy world. 

Thank you for your support!

David Gerrard

By Order of the Queen - A Year Later - What is next?
over 5 years ago – Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 08:27:30 PM

Hey all!

A final update to everyone, again thanking you all for your support, and I hope that this email finds you at a time when your gaming nights are fun and plentiful. =)

A year later its great to look back at the process of creating By Order of the Queen....look at this early draft for one of our characters lol:

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Getting to a final product was a long road and we definitely appreciate our backers' trust in our team, and the input we've received before and after the game hit people's tables.

The Junk Spirit Games team has just shipped out our 3rd game to the backers and we are looking at our roadmap for future titles. (And we could use your input on where YOU think we should go, at the end of this email). 

We've already announced that our next game will be Battle of the Bards, a dice-rolling strategy game with light elements of deckbuilding where players use bands of bards to capture audiences, winning them over to achieve victory. We've been getting it in front of backers in our area and they love it. Here's our cover art for that project:

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We'll be demoing Battle of the Bards at various conventions and playtesting it with anyone that we can get time with so we can assure that the game will be the best that it can be.

But after that.....

The JSG team has plans for multiple games in the future and we have 4-5 game concepts battling it out for pole position to see what will be our 5th game. We love the world of Tessandor and we're excited at the idea of filling out the world more, but we can't really decide which game people want to see. I'd like to get input from our backers on what your favorite style of game is, and hopefully that can alleviate the battle that is going on in our team lol.

So, shortly after this final update, I will send out a survey through Kickstarter, and I would greatly appreciate it if you can give us a spot of time to answer it. We obviously don't need your address, this is the best way to only survey our backers.  =)  We'll tally everyone's votes together, and consider any additional input about our roadmap and the world of Tessandor that we've created.

We'll post the results on our various social medias and our website junkspiritgames.com. Make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram.

Let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for your continued support of the JSG team! =)

Thank you!

David Gerrard

Tyler Sigman's Crows, ending soon on Kickstarter
over 6 years ago – Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 03:20:38 PM

Hey all,

We are on the final days of the campaign for our next game Tyler Sigman's Crows. We're excited to bring this game out to the community, it's a great family friendly tile-placement strategy game created by the designer of Darkest Dungeon (PC/Steam/PS4).

Click the Image here to be brought to the campaign page:

 

Besides having awesome art and Crow Meeples, its important to note that the easy-to-learn rules make this very accessible for a range of gamers.

I hope you decide to become a backer on our latest project, the Deluxe edition that we are offering will not be available at retail. We've unlocked a lot of Stretch Goals already, so there is a bunch of free content as well. =)

David Gerrard, Junk Spirit Games

Tyler Sigman's Crows is live on Kickstarter
over 6 years ago – Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 09:29:37 PM

We've launched our third game on Kickstarter this morning and wanted to get a note to you all about how excited we are to have the opportunity to bring another great game to your table.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/99575233/tyler-sigmans-crows

Thank you all for making By Order of the Queen a huge success, and thank you for your support!  =)

David Gerrard

By Order of the Queen - Victory Tour and Update
over 6 years ago – Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:46:16 PM

Hey guys!

As the campaign has fully wrapped up and all games have been sent to backers along with getting replacement parts and replacement games to people in some cases, my small team is on a bit of a victory tour as we go from event to event showing off By Order of the Queen.

We had a great time at Gencon 2017 meeting everyone, demoing games and talking about our upcoming game Tyler Sigman's Crows.  The reception we've received from the gaming community has been overwhelming and incredibly encouraging.

We just finished PAX West 2017 this weekend and we were featured in the Indie Megabooth Tabletop.  My daughter and I, along with Zachary Vail, were again overwhelmed at how By Order of the Queen has been received by the community and how excited people are as the game reaches its retail release.

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While at PAX we met with some old friends, made new friends and saw many new tabletop games. I can tell you that I am insanely excited for where boardgaming is heading.  I think the social advantages of board gaming are really starting to become apparent in this community as more and more new gamers are joining our world.

I won't be doing many more updates through this campaign, except to note that our next game has launched on Kickstarter, so if you'd like to continue rolling with us as my small team makes more family friendly strategic games, follow us on Social Media:

Facebook page for Junk Spirit Games

Twitter for David Gerrard (me, the game designer)

Instagram for Justin Hillgrove (our artist)

We are about 4-6 weeks from launching our next game Tyler Sigman's Crows through Kickstarter.  We had an opportunity to demo our prototype at Gencon and get some great feedback from you all and we are very excited to be working with Tyler to bring this classic style game back to life.

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Thank you all so much for your continued support!  As always, reach out if you have any questions or comments, we love to hear from you.  =)

David Gerrard

Junk Spirit Games