KeyforgeCollectible card game designed by Magic: Gathering creator Richard Garfield, changing hands. Fantasy Flight Games sold the assets to Ghost Galaxy, a new company founded by FFG founder Christian T. Peterson. Ghost Galaxy makes the announcement in a blog post June 22 was made public on Tuesday.
First published in 2018, Keyforge: Call of Archons made a big splash when it debuted at Gen Con in Indianapolis. The world’s first Unique Deck game, each deck is completely different – depending on its art and per-card stats. The secret sauce is a Powerful computer algorithm created by a team at FFG capable of manufacturing 32 billion different decks of cards. However, that algorithm broke for some time in 2021. Its failure, never fully explained, brought the game into indefinite hiatus starting from September.
“We simply do not currently have the capacity to create new decks,” the FFG wrote at the time. “Deck construction algorithm for KeyForge is broken and needs to be rebuilt from scratch. This is not an easy process nor is it a quick one, that’s why the game will be interrupted for a while. […] We ask that you continue to be patient as we work to rebuild the unique deck engine in preparation for the game’s relaunch. “
Reached for comment, Ghost Galaxy told Polygon that their approach to procedural deck generation would be as robust as the original implementation.
“Ghost Galaxy is making its own software suite so it can create KeyForge deck of cards. Our team of software engineers is working on this project, but we expect it to take several months to complete,” Ghost Galaxy’s Michael Hurley said in an email. “Our new software will be able to do everything that FFG software can do. Number of unique decks possible in KeyForge depends entirely on the size of the tag group in a given set. As we plan to keep making new cards, the theoretical number of unique decks will always increase. “
Ghost Galaxy is part of a small group of organizations funded in part by Strange starsa venture capital firm with investments in virtual reality, manufacturing, and software.
