What is Once Upon a Galaxy?
Hey everyone! We are so excited to be building Once Upon a Galaxy, so let’s talk about what our vision entails and what you can expect in the coming months.
In Galaxy, you will assemble a crew as you sail across a diverse and spectacular galaxy of your favorite storybook characters, legends of myth and other cosmic entities in a mobile first card battler that is destined to be your favorite game.
Our Vision
Our desire is to make a game that is fun to play, amazing to look at, and enchants our players to inspire them to join us on our journey. To do this, we know that several key elements are important to our success.
Art
We are seeking to flood our game with amazing, high quality art by skilled artists. We want our world to be overflowing with dynamic and passionate art to bring life and soul to our game.
Art is magic and we believe that magic is best captured through the talented artists who we work with. We take great pride that every piece we have made and put into Once Upon a Galaxy maintains the soul and spirit of the dreams we hope to create.
Design
In order to design the best game possible, we have stacked our roster with game designers with decades of experience with card game development. Helmed by Matthew Place and operated by Sam Pardee, Josh Utter-Leyton and others, our Play Design team creates fun and dynamic gameplay that you simply cannot put down.
Community
A game is nothing without its players. Everyone working on Once Upon a Galaxy is extremely excited to get our game into the hands of the community. We hope to inspire and create a welcoming community of like minded gamers that we can share our passion for the game we have created.
We intend to both cultivate a competitive scene for Galaxy through Live Competitive Lobbies as well as a more casual Asynchronous Mode where everyone will have an enjoyable gameplay experience.
How the Game Works
Now for what I know you have all been waiting for. Here are the basics:
Once Upon a Galaxy is a game of choices.
Captain Select
Your first crucial decision will be your Captain Selection. Your selected Captain will grant your crew a bonus for the entirety of your run. Keep this bonus in mind when recruiting members to your crew.
Shop Phase
Initial shop phase will present you with 3 common characters to choose from to recruit to your crew. After your selection, you will be presented with 3 more common characters to make an additional selection.
Battle Phase
After 2 shop selections, you will be ready to battle one of 5 opponents in your lobby.
Rarity
Every 2 turns, the rarity of your shop will increase and grant you the chance of finding more and more powerful crewmates to recruit.
Spells
Starting on turn 3, powerful spells will begin to be added to your shops. Use these spells to buff your crew, improve the quality of characters in the shop, find treasures and transform your crew!
Some friends are Silver, others are Gold…
In other card battlers, you upgrade characters by taking the same character 3 times. In Galaxy, after you have recruited the Bronze version of a character, the next time you see them in the shop they will be Silver.
Taking a Silver character is FREE as it will grant you a bonus shop after. The next time you see the Silver character after you take it, it’ll be Gold instead. When taken, Gold characters grant you a treasure of their same rarity.
Treasures
You can acquire treasures by upgrading characters to Gold, getting them from certain spells, as rewards for completing character quests and sometimes through other various character effects.
Treasures are powerful objects that will grant you a bonus effect for the rest of your run. Try to gather all you can!
Deck Building
Our goal with Galaxy will be to combine the action packed card battling with deck building to allow every player the customization to play the way they want to play. We are very excited to explore this design space and will discuss these elements in the near future, so stay tuned.
Coming up…
We have many amazing things coming down the pipeline for Once Upon a Galaxy that you will not want to miss. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter below and follow us on our social media platforms to keep up with the amazing updates to come.
