Awaken Realms to Publish Tabletop Wargame
Awaken Realms, the world-famous miniature painting studio from Wrocław, is getting ready to publish a tabletop wargame of its own design. Entitled The Edge, it will take place in a steampunk fantasy world where spectacular battles will be fought with an original playing mode.
A Risky Decision
Marcin Świerkot is a long-time fantasy games aficionado. In college he met fellow enthusiast Adrian Komarski. Determined to work in their field of choice, in 2014 they founded Awaken Realms, a studio painting wargame miniatures. Adrian was still a student, whereas Marcin made the risky decision of leaving a promising job in the financial sector to devote himself entirely to his newly-created business. They set up shop in the basement of a house in a small village near the Polish city of Wrocław and went to work. Sometimes their workday would exceed 12 hours. Adrian, a talented and experienced miniature painter, showed Marcin some tricks so that they could both decorate the figurines. It didn’t take long for their efforts to bring outstanding results. By the end of last year Awaken Realms was one of the biggest miniature painting studios worldwide, with a staff of about twenty people and commissions from many countries, including the US, China and Australia. They are currently based in Wrocław.
Passion and Community
Adrian and Marcin possess a rigorous work ethics, but they also make a point of never shifting away from their core values: passion, inspiration and community, a refererence to the fact that tabletop games are a bonding opportunity for many people. Awaken Realms wants to support and improve the miniature games community. That’s not to say that it doesn’t have its own benefit in mind, of course. Work by the popular Wrocław duo doesn’t come cheap: for the decorating of a model sci-fi war machine over half-a-metre tall, the company charged a whopping two thousand British pounds. The price was determined not only by the scale of the undertaking but also by its meticulousness – the model’s armour was adorned with carefully crafted scenes depicting fictitious battles. Nevertheless, the standard painting of a regularly sized figurine is of course much cheaper.
The Edge
Having established itself on the market, Awaken Realms decided to take things further. They began working on their own miniature war game. Now this partially crowd-funded project is close to completion. The rules have been drafted and several models and starter sets have been produced already. Entitled The Edge, the game is set in a unique steampunk fantasy world of post-apocalyptic desolation, in which there are three sides: humanity, Demons and the mysterious Faceless. In this universe, humans who survived the invasion of the Demons, conquerors of worlds, are confined to seven automated cities. They live in a medieval-inspired society and fight with the hellish invaders in an order called the Chapter, using steampunk technology. As of yet little is known about the Faceless, apart from the entity’s frightening appearance. The game’s world was entirely designed by Awaken Realms, who took great care to make it consistent and compelling. Substantial effort also went into the development of the gameplay system. Additionally, The Edge’s rules will be intuitive and easy to remember, a rarity in the world of miniature war games. The game will be released shortly by Awaken Realms and accompanied by both a storybook and comic book.
Author: Marek Kępa, January 2016
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