{"id":36852,"date":"2012-04-27T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36852"},"modified":"2012-04-30T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:12:26","slug":"magic-the-gathering-creator-puts-mobile-game-project-on-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36852-magic-the-gathering-creator-puts-mobile-game-project-on-kickstarter","title":{"rendered":"Magic: The Gathering creator puts mobile game project on Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is getting in on the <a title=\"Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/23526-Kickstarter\">Kickstarter<\/a> gold rush; one of the latest interesting projects to show up is a new mobile game designed by the creator of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, <a title=\"Richard Garfield\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24433-Richard-Garfield\">Richard Garfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kickstarter ends on May 5<sup>th<\/sup> and is aiming to raise $40,000 \u2013 it\u2019s currently about a quarter of the way there with $10,000. The free-to-play game goes by the name Map Monsters, a location-based adventure which will release initially on iOS with a port to Android at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>The game will involve capturing various monsters that can be found in different areas. To create the game, Garfield is collaborating with an independent US studio called BodSix which specializes in this type of game. The team are no slouches, including veterans from <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20713-Apple-Inc\">Apple<\/a>, <a title=\"Pixar\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24434-Pixar\">Pixar<\/a>, <a title=\"Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/356046-Amazon\">Amazon<\/a> and Wizards of the Coast (the company that produces Magic: The Gathering).<\/p>\n<p>Rewards for Kickstarter pledges include virtual goods, signed posters, <em>Map Monsters<\/em> shirt and a &#8220;game night&#8221; with Garfield.<\/p>\n<p>This wouldn\u2019t be Garfield\u2019s first video game project, he\u2019s also helped design games such as Schizoid, Mind Twist and Kard Combat.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Gamasutra\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/169270\/Magic_the_Gathering_creator_seeks_Kickstarter_funding_for_mobile_game.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Leisure Suit Larry Kickstarter campaign uses breath spray, scores $500,000\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36728-leisure-suit-larry-kickstarter-campaign-uses-breath-spray-scores-500000.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leisure Suit Larry Kickstarter campaign uses breath spray, scores $500,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Kickstarter project for a Shadowrun sequel goes live\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35541-kickstarter-project-for-a-shadowrun-sequel-goes-live.html\">Kickstarter project for a Shadowrun sequel goes live<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Gaming-focused Kickstarter alternative launching at E3\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36451-gaming-focused-kickstarter-alternative-launching-at-e3.html\">Gaming-focused Kickstarter alternative launching at E3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Surreal adventure game Inner Dream launches on Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36455-surreal-adventure-game-inner-dream-launches-on-kickstarter.html\">Surreal adventure game Inner Dream launches on Kickstarter <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wasteland 2 Kickstarter closes, banks over triple its target\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36150-wasteland-2-kickstarter-closes-banks-over-triple-its-target.html\">Wasteland 2 Kickstarter closes, banks over triple its target <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams up with indie studio for location-based adventure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":36853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[31,947,531,1313,1462,3881,3880],"class_list":["post-36852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-android","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-magic-the-gathering","tag-richard-garfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36854,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852\/revisions\/36854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}