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Escape the Dark Castle

Created by Themeborne

A simple, co-operative tabletop game for 1-4 players, with a stylish design inspired by 80s fantasy nostalgia. Funded on Kickstarter in June 2017, now available for pre-order!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Our new website is live!
over 6 years ago – Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:34:06 PM

It's time to cut the cord. 

As we make the move away from Kickstarter and Backerkit and out into the wild, we're proud to unveil our snazzy new site, complete with webstore. 

You can browse our games, read our rulebooks, and of course keep up to date with the latest news via our FB feed on the homepage. 

We'd love to get your comments and feedback on it. As is our way, we've kept it simple to begin with. We plan to add more to the site as time goes on, including a forum where we can discuss all things Themeborne with you, but for now we want to keep the chat centered around this KS page.

Enjoy!    

Sneak Peak!
over 6 years ago – Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 01:27:59 AM

I am delighted to say that power has now been restored to our factory in China, and the sampling process is up and running again!

We've lost quite a bit of time, but we're working as fast as we can to get everything finished off. 

At the moment we are working on tray designs. It's already looking very nice as you can see, but there are a still a few improvements we want to make...


We have also now settled on the engraving process for our dice. Here is a sneak peak at some early tests for those. This is of course before any paint is added, but they are still rather lovely! 

 
We hope you're enjoying these updates, we are finding the manufacturing process fun and fascinating in equal measure! 

Become a Prisoner - Urgent Reminder
over 6 years ago – Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 10:02:28 PM


Dear Boss-level backers, 

Did you purchase the Become a Prisoner add-on? 

If so, don't forget the deadline for your photo submission is fast approaching - September 11th 2017.

Submitting is quick and easy, and you can find the submission guidelines in update #23.

We cannot guarantee when your portrait card will be delivered if your photo is received after the deadline. 

Thanks for understanding, and we can't wait to see the finished portraits! 

Visual Design Update
over 6 years ago – Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:59:54 PM


While we wait for news from China, feast your eyes on our latest pack shot:


Notice all cards now have the rounded corners you asked for. We've also updated the shape of the scorepads to perfectly tessellate with your character and item cards. And check out the amazing new design for the back of the item cards. Here's a close up: 

(the card-backs for chapter cards remain flat black - there is nothing but darkness ahead...) 

Thank you all for helping us to make such a thing of beauty!

Typhoon Haikui
over 6 years ago – Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 04:43:38 PM


Bit of bad news to report. 

A typhoon has recently slammed into the eastern coast of China causing flooding, power outages, and the evacuation of 1.8m people. 

This has affected our factory in Shanghai. Everyone there is ok, but power is down and it will obviously mean a delay in our production. 


Hopefully it will only mean a delay of week or so, but if this results in us missing a production slot or shipping window, we can't say for certain what the knock-on effects will be. 

For now we're just sending our best wishes to everyone affected, but we'll keep you posted as soon as things are back on track.