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Orcs Must Die! The Board Game! is a co-op and vs. tower defense style board game. Buy our game! Orcs MUST die, after all!

Orcs Must Die! The Boardgame

Orcs Must Die! The Board Game! is a co-op and vs. tower defense style board game. Buy our game! Orcs MUST die, after all! If you missed the campaign, click the link below.
Orcs Must Die! The Board Game! is a co-op and vs. tower defense style board game. Buy our game! Orcs MUST die, after all! If you missed the campaign, click the link below.
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full speed ahead. Tooling finished, figures revealed

We are now full steam ahead on production. And I have another treat for you which I admit I promised two weeks ago but at least I have finally delivered... Read more

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Rolling Right Along

Orcs Must Die is on track. We just wanted to show you more stuff. Our artist just completed the last of the 2-D art. Have no fear, this didn't delay... Read more

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Pre-Update Update; production news

I just got in the mail a box full of all the physical plastic figures for Orcs Must Die, straight from China. We are going to be filming them all... Read more

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Production News!

We haven't had an update for while, mainly because we had no real news. We were moving ahead on the art, trying to finish all the hundreds of cards, hero sheets,... Read more

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Pledge Manager Shutting Down At End of Month

Greetings to all our beloved backers. 

We need to completely lock down all pledges for the Orcs Must Die! The Boardgame project. On April 30th, you will no longer be... Read more

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Pledge Manager Shutting Down At End of Month

We have had requests to hold open the Orcs Must Die! pledge manager until the end of April - I imagine these requests are from folks who want to use... Read more

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Status Update!

The lengthiest part of any figure-based game’s creation is always sculpting, tooling, and producing the figures themselves. Literally, at some point, it all comes down to squeezing molten plastic through... Read more

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Final look at the figures!

This is pretty much just figures to eyeball. Hope you like them as much as we do. We have copies in our office right now, and took them by Robot... Read more

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More figures and update on the Print and Play

The Print and Play is now available!

Go to http://petersengames.com/downloads/ and scroll down till you see the Orcs Must Die Print and Play download! It comes out in a zip file that... Read more

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More pictures and answer to an oft-asked question

How has Petersen Games responded to user input? 

We state right on the campaign page that we are sensitive to your input. What do we really mean by that? Well,... Read more

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More figure pics and an upgrade to your games!

The rules until this week stated that when a player uses the Heal action, he rolls the single Heal die once each per game Level (ranging from 1-3). My editor... Read more

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What heroes are coming in Orcs Must Die?

Order box Heroes:

War Mage; Ivy; Master; Sorceress

Unchained box Heroes: 

Ball & Chain; Bloodspike; Midnight; Sir Winston 

The above is what is coming in the retail game boxes. You will of... Read more

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New REAL figure pics!

How we make our figures 

Most of you are probably aware that most of the figure images we've been showing you up to now have been computer-generated images, not "real"... Read more

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The old bait and switch!

Well, it's not really a bait and switch. But what happened  is that Robot Entertainment informed us that six of the heroes we had planned were not yet announced, and... Read more

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Orcs Must Die! progression news

First, the good news. 

It has been awhile since we have done a production update, so I thought I would fill everyone in on what is happening with getting Orcs... Read more

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Merry Christmas!

As a free upgrade to all copies of Orcs Must Die!, Petersen Games is going to add 1 more pose for the human soldier figure (so now he has three... Read more

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Orcs must go on!

It has been overlong since our last update, and it's time for more news. Fear not! Orcs Must Die: the Boardgame has emphatically not been left behind as Petersen Games,... Read more

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Free glow-in-the-dark Cthulhu! Perfect for Cthulhu Must Die! stretch goal!

Hey all, we have a new crowdfunding coming up soon (Oct 19th), and we want to give you all an opportunity to get in on a special deal. From now... Read more

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Wow here it is!

The figures are almost ready for production. Have a look at some of the final poses!

In order from left to right, the top row shows the Goblin Sappers, Gnome... Read more

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Figure Pics!

Orcs Must Die! makes steady progress. We have been slightly delayed, but not halted, by a combination of things (none of them Petersen Games' doing, I swear!), including Robot Entertainment's... Read more

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Update about the plastic gates

Some of y'all ordered the Cthulhu Wars plastic gates as an add-on for Orcs Must Die! 

Our original plan as stated was to ship these plastic gates at the same... Read more

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Skins Skins Skins Skins

Skin Codes

After a bit of a delay everyone should be getting their skin codes today and tomorrow.  Now you can play as a figure from the board game in ... Read more

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The game is progressing

.. and, as proof, here is a whole passel of images ready for us to send to the factory!

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Ask Sandy about to return! Plus more!

Many of you may remember the epic Ask Sandy thread that once appeared on the Heaven Games forums. It is about to return! Watch for news of it here! 

How... Read more

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Progress is made!

We are moving along with the figure posing for the game, and I have completed more of the Cthulhu Must Die free pdf rules. 

Some people have had trouble getting... Read more

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Petersen Games Support

Issues with Keys

If you are having issues with your keys still, contact us via our PetersenGames.com website.  You can also email Support@PetersenGames.com.  If you contact us via Facebook or via... Read more

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Beta Keys, Important Acolyte Information! plus a Sneak Peek

Robot is still finalizing the beta keys for Europeans. They are not quite done with the skins. We expect to be sending out the correct beta keys by the middle... Read more

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EU Beta Keys Update

EU Beta Keys Update

Some backers have had problems with the keys to unlock the beta.  Robot  tracked down the issue and it appears that US keys where generated for... Read more

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Pledge Manager and Beta Codes

Hey everyone, this is Sandy's Helper Bot \ Cultist with a few quick updates. 

Beta Codes Update

The Pledge Manager from CrowdOx is nearly complete and we are making changes... Read more

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Sandy's Design Corner: Army cards

A tiny little update to let you know about a few small, but nice, improvements in the game. If you've read the rules, you know that each monster army has... Read more

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Session Report

I took my latest version of Orcs Must Die! down to Robot Entertainment yesterday and we played a game. They wanted a Hard Map (we used Zigzag 2), started in... Read more

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Sandy's Design Corner - Hero Bosses

A lot of you have asked for rules to use Heroes as Bosses, and I spent the weekend constructing rules for this (among other tasks). For a while I felt... Read more

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Miss the Kickstarter?

Did you miss the Kickstarter? Or do you have a friend who is sad because he or she did? Well, Petersen Games has the solution!

Go to the main page... Read more

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Successfully raised $278,623 with 1,556 backers

Sandy's Corner: The Army Cards

How do the Army cards work, from which waves of enemies are chosen? Well each orc army consists of 3 Orc cards and 3 Creature cards. Each human army consists... Read more

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Pipe dream?

A lot of you have asked about a stretch goal for the semi-mythical $300,000 level. Well, I don't know if we can hit $300,000 at this point, BUT here is... Read more

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Your feed desired!

Petersen Games is far from perfect, but we absolutely pay attention to our comments & messages. One thing that has been discussed before is having some kind of border motif... Read more

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Sandy's Design Corner - the Science of Traps

Two types of traps exist - normal traps & "support" traps. 

A normal trap exists inside a tile, and fires just after minion movement. A support trap actually exists on... Read more

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Why are they posting updates? All stretch goals are already unlocked.

Sandy's Design Corner

We're adding some new map tiles to the game, really just because they're fun to play with, and I thought I'd describe how all the special tiles... Read more

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Hero Sheets Now Available!

We have our current version of the hero sheets available for download on the main campaign page - look for it just under the rules download. You can see all... Read more

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ALL STRETCH GOALS UNLOCKED!

This campaign has been an emotional roller coaster for Sandy. (Welcome to my life.) We have done some soul searching, and have concluded that the best way to serve you,... Read more

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Two MORE heroes are dug up!

Dobbin, the Prospector (Order)

Dobbin has the ability to tunnel himself or another hero in his tile to any tile on the map. He has pretty good health, is a... Read more

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Update for $170,000 and clarifications

Are all Hero Pledge Stretch Goals included in an Acolyte Pledge?

Yes. 

Skulls Skulls Skulls

So here is the deal. The 100 FREE skulls are white. The $10 add-on Skull... Read more

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Madness, Heroes, Boss Pack!

Gate Madness!

 A lot of folks have asked about getting the Gates as a separate add-on, because you already own Cthulhu Wars. So as a service to you, we... Read more

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Acolyte 2 Pledge now available!

We are so grateful and pleased by the success of the Acolyte pledge, we have been scrabbling to scrape together enough copies of Cthulhu Warsto put together an Acolyte... Read more

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$150,000 reached! CTHULHU IS UPON US

Two exciting (in my opinion) updates are now released, thanks to stellar performance this weekend, for which we are grateful to you all. 

New Figures!

Two Satyr minions are added... Read more

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MORE important news about the Acolyte pledge!

Hey all - we are pleased to announce that we are adding 22 plastic Gate figures to the Acolyte pledge absolutely free! These gates are the same as will be... Read more

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$140,000 stretch goals and IMPORTANT INFORMATION about the Acolyte Pledge!

Acolyte Pledge Shipping

Our new Acolyte Pledge, which includes Cthulhu Wars, has been surprisingly successful, and we are grateful to all who have supported us with this. We have... Read more

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THE NEW PLEDGE IS UP

The Acolyte Pledge is upon us!

Hey a lot of people have asked about us adding Cthulhu Warsto our pledge system, particularly in light of the fact that one... Read more

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$125,000 along our path

For this result, we are unlocking two new results. First is a new sculpt (and pose) for the Orc warriors and Human Soldiers. Remember that these are not just the... Read more

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A hundred exclusive skulls!

The new Skull Pack has been unlocked! While we call it a "pack" it is actually a Kickstarter Exclusive, and contains 100 skulls which you can use to replace the... Read more

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New poses and Shamans (and a bonus spider)

The latest unlock, at $115,000, gives new poses for about a third of the Orcs and Human Soldiers. These are not just new poses however – they are actually completely... Read more

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$110,000 - spooky stuff

I'm going to talk about the new heroes you have unlocked! At the end of the file are some of the cards that will be in the game!

The Ancestor... Read more

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One Hundred Thousand!

We have unlocked the new map tiles. This consists of three more map tiles added to all game boxes. It includes the Acid Bath tile, plus two more tiles. The... Read more

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Stretch Goals Heat Up

We have now unlocked Temper, a minotaur hero for the Order, along with Smolder the Fireborn, a hero for the Unchained. Both of these new heroes are somewhat fire-based, though... Read more

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The Guardian!

For our second stretch goal of the day, we get the exclusive Guardian figure. He is quite a large figure, and is actually used to mark which player is the... Read more

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Another Goal Downed!

$80,000 met!

This time it is four more Orc warriors added to each copy of the Order Edition, and four more Human Soldiers added to each copy of the ... Read more

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Surprise Stretch Goals!

In our world, it's nice every once in a while to get news about how money is NOT being mismanaged - read on!

It's like this. We have just unlocked... Read more

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What do these figures look like, close up?

This is a SUPER quick update, just to share some of the figures with you guys so you can see what we are doing, and where we are going. This... Read more

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NEW EXCLUSIVE!

So ... we originally planned for our first stretch goal to be the two new heroes, as announced in the first update.

Our intent was to add Mr. Moneybags down... Read more

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We're Funded!

We made it overnight! Our humble thanks to you all! We are excited and amped up for the next stages of this project. We have a lot of things planned!... Read more

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