If you are a fan of CYBERPUNK or fast paced digital CCG's, then this is the game for you!
Glitch Hunter is the lean, brutal, digital collectible card game for PC & Mac, set in a vast retro-futurist realm where mega-corporations, renegade hackers and street gangs compete for dominance of Hypernet. From the dynamic team of developers, who were involved in the making of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Alan Wake, Gatling Gears and the award winning indie game Last Inua.
“Just WOW! This looks great! I'm a huge Shadowrun nerd so this definitely tickles my fancy!” - Rob Morrow - Destructoid
“I really like the thought of a cyberpunk/Sci-Fi/fantasy/tech-noir collectible card game hybrid.” - Robin “V-Act” Ek - The Gaming Ground
Doomsday Bunnygrenade and Kickstarter Backer-exclusive Wolfygrenade
A short learning curve and a wide selection of strategies to master ensure you can step in easily but will keep you riveted to your seat once you get hooked.
THE GAME
Lean, mean real-time 1on1 multiplayer with 3 game modes (Casual, Ranked and Jacked).
Accessible, evolving game structure – Glitch Hunter is a
free-to-play game with a number of future game expansions already planned.
Backers will receive exclusive items upon launch that will increase in
value over time.
Doomsday switch - usable in all game modes. Once enabled, both
players receive increased resources, but it is game-over for them both if
the timer runs out.
THE CARDS
3 distinctive HERO-ID’s and 165 unique cards ensure players have a diverse playing experience.
Draw 2 cards each turn and use 2 Node resources to play them. Use
balanced crafting and deck-building features to fine-tune your 30-card
decks for the best strategy.
Create killer combos of ally, crony, support and script cards.
DOOMSDAY SWITCH - this highly volatile game accelerator is usable
in all game modes. Once enabled, both players receive increased
resources and the turn duration is shortened. Beware though, it will be
game over for both players if the timer runs out.
Our goal for the initial launch is to release 165 cards, 45 of which are bound to HERO-ID’s. The cornerstone of each 30 card deck (max 2 copies of a card) is a choice between three HERO-ID’s and cards are played using 2 resources called Nodes. Glitch Hunter uses a basic 2 card draw to keep the gameplay fast-paced and lower the impact of drawing bad cards.
HERO-ID'S are the leaders of the factions. Each HERO-ID will have its own set of specific cards (45 HERO-ID specific cards in total).
HERO-ID ABILITIES- Each HERO-ID has its own unique ability which reinforces it’ theme and play style. These permanent abilities can be used once each round.
ALLY CARDS - These cards represent the closest allies of the HERO ID’s, and passively buff or trigger automatically. Allies lose a stamina point every time they are triggered and cards are discarded when exhausted.
CRONY CARDS - Crony cards have a wide variety of passive, active and triggered effects as well as being allowed one attack per turn. Once played, Cronies remain in the conflict zone until they are destroyed.
SUPPORT CARDS - These represent various influences and resources that can be activated or acquired. Typically they have ongoing passive effects or activated effects. Typically one use per turn, until discarded or destroyed.
SCRIPT CARDS - Script cards represent the various skills, tricks and powers that your HERO-ID has at his disposal. Played directly onto a target or the game board, most have an instant effect and are then discarded.
GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE
Compact appearance of cronies on the game board
Detailed appearance of cards as seen while viewing card details
CRAFTING CARDS – As Glitch Hunter is a digital CCG you have the option of disassembling any surplus cards into their raw data, which can be used as a crafting resource to create any card you want.
BOOSTER PACKS - You can buy boosters using in-game currency earned by completing daily missions or by purchasing them at the online shop. Purchasable items and packs will enhance your gaming experience however we take the balance of the game very seriously, believing that the game should be free-to-play but not pay-to-win.
The CEO of the mega-corporation Silverlining Ventures is applying all of its formidable resources to achieve absolute control of Hypernet, the network through which all of the world’s commerce, information and energy is traded. He must first root out the rebel AI leader Hyperlatch, mysterious founder of the Glitcher Crew, a ragtag group of hackers, underground inventors and outlandish warriors. Both factions must also employ or compete with The Spid3rs, the brutal mercenary gang that runs the streets of Hypernet, led by their violent Berserker leader.
The Berserker is an aggressive, fast gun-for-hire who plays by his own rules. Fearless but reckless, he is one of the few HERO-ID’s who gets directly involved in the action. Typical Berserker cronies and scripts are very direct and focus on dealing damage directly or buffing other’s attacks.
The Mega Corp CEO has a number of ways to manipulate the game economy, typically by boosting himself or hindering his opponent. This HERO-ID also has some of the most expensive cronies and scripts, requiring economic finesse to employ them successfully.
The AI is an omnipresent influence that has the power to manipulate other player’s decks and the drawing of cards. This HERO-ID has several ways to heal and buff her cronies or take control of rivals. When fighting the AI you will often feel like your own resources are being used against you.
CONCEPT ART
SOUNDTRACK
Our personal favorite rewards per pledge are highlighted below. If you want to see all the reward details please refer to the rewards tab on the right side of the page.
We want to be able to reward backer investment in a way that ensures the best possible game experience and also makes you stand out from the crowd when Glitch Hunter launches. Backer support is greatly appreciated and the benefit of a digital CCG is that we are able to thank you by creating a host of cool digital rewards and exclusive items. We hope you will like them!
One More Rabbit are several months into development already and are committed to delivering a robust and thrilling digital game.
At this stage of the project additional expertise is needed to help bring together the final product. Some of the Kickstarter funding will commission freelance designers for additional pixel art but the majority is to be used for employing programmers to create new functionality and for design costs related to testing the balance of the game. These professional glitch hunters will work with us to make sure that Glitch Hunter CCG is a glitch-free digital experience upon launch!
Below is an approximate overview of how current Kickstarter funding will be used.
One More Rabbit are a dynamic production team of eight, passionate game
developers. Our past experience includes work on Alan Wake, Star Wars:
The Old Republic, Quantum Brake, Gatling Gears and the award-winning
indie game The Last Inua among others.
Zoot Nel - Team Lead / Art Director
Zoot loves creativity, demanding challenges and strong language.
Lennart Hoting - Game Designer
Lennart has an encylopedic knowledge of video games and great industry experience, including work on Gatling Gears and Last Inua.
Maxim Emeliyanov - Artist
Maxim has experience in the Russian game industry and boasts a refined and unique style, combining high quality fantasy art with rigid pixels.
Gor Melkonian - Programmer
A graduate in Game Design and Development, Gor has a wide range of programming skills which he has combined with his technical expertise in AI, physics and GUI.
Sjoerd Leijten - Composer
Sjoerd recently won the “Best Music and Sound Design” award at the Dutch Game Awards for his work on Last Inua. Sjoerd is an experimental composer and an inspired musical creative; he can even create music using a bicycle!
Kristi Ramot - Community Manager
Kristi combines her passion for meeting new people with her love for all things internet and, oddly, Excel spreadsheets. One More Rabbit’s organiser and people person.
Anton Iljin - Producer
Anton is also the founder of Ringtail Studios, who have provided 3D modelling and character design for acclaimed game productions such as Alan Wake, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Quantum Break and many others.
Harri Hanschmidt - Financial Advisor
Harri is a skilled analytic, our primary number cruncher and a passionate veteran player of Trading Card Games (TCG).
DETERMINE START PLAYER
The starting player is randomly determined.
INITIAL DRAW
Player 1 draws 2 cards.
Player 2 draws 3 cards.
Both players may discard any or all of the drawn cards and redraw that number of cards (only once).
After the draws are completed Player 2 gets +1/+1 nodes until the end of his first turn (this extra capacity is removed after the turn ends) and then the game begins with Player 1’s first turn.
PLAYER 1 TURN
Increase purple and blue node capacity by 1 and refill all nodes.
Draw 2 cards.
Any “at the start of your turn” cards that you have in play are resolved.
These steps can be performed in any order:
Play as many cards from your hand as you like after paying their cost.
ALLIES - Played into the ally slot, remain in play until they are replaced, destroyed or if they run out of stamina.
CRONIES - Played into conflict zone, but cannot attack during the turn they are summoned.
SUPPORT - Can be used immediately and usually remain in play until they are destroyed, replaced or discarded.
SCRIPTS - Played onto the board or target, most scripts have an instant effect and are discarded after one use.
Use cronies to attack.
Use HERO-ID ability (once per turn).
Activate support cards.
End your turn by pressing the end turn button.
Any “at the end of your turn” cards that you have in play are resolved.
The next player’s turn begins.
PLAYER 2 TURN
Same as player 1 turn.
Players keep playing like this until one wins the game.
ENDING THE GAME
You win the game by reducing your opponents hero’s health to 0.
You win the game if your opponent concedes.
The game ends in a draw if both heroes are reduced to 0 health at the same time, in which case both lose and neither gain or lose skill/ranking points.
Both players lose if the Doomsday timer runs out.
Risks and challenges
We are keeping our aims focused. Having spent the first 6 months of development examining the constraints of the project and the expertise at our disposal, we are confident that we can produce the most compact and robust game product possible at launch. And this is where Kickstarter comes in, as for each funding target we meet, the more additional design we can incorporate.
Anyone familiar with the creative process or programming in game development knows that these are fluid processes and contingent on other factors, ranging from twists of fate to human error. Any veteran game developer will advise you to expect the unexpected and we are lucky to have a great network of creative people ready to advise, support and even step in to help keep development on track should setbacks occur. Any indication of delay will be relayed to our community, as well as the measures being taken to solve the issue.
The doomsday timer only counts down at the end of each turn. The only way to make it count down is to end your turn. A turn also has a certain time to make your move - if the time runs out the opponent will get to play.
If the opponent is idle, the turn time runs out and the opponent will get to attack and demolish the idle party.
Each player can pick one HERO-ID they want to play with and gets a HERO-ID STARTER DECK to match - 5 HERO-ID specific common cards (x2), 10 neutral common cards (x2) = 30 cards in total. Additional HERO-ID's and matching Starter Decks will be unlocked with in-game currency you earn by playing. Or if you can take a short-cut and use real money.
We do plan to create expansions to the game in the form of new HERO-ID's and new cards. Obviously we are dependent on how well the game performs to realize those plans.
With a 2 card draw the chances of drawing a useless hand are reduced, especially in the early rounds of the game where you have very limited resources. Granted, luck will still be a factor but that is something we accept as a fun and exciting part of the game. We just want to limit it's impact in this way.
Most cronies are played using purple nodes while the other cards allies, scripts and support cards are played using the blue nodes. Some cards require both resources to play. These cards are typically but not exclusively, very expensive cards to play.
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+ JUMP START! BOOSTER PACK (4 CARDS TOTAL) - Receive 4 random rare cards to bolster your Glitch Hunter deck!
+ 3 RIGGED BOOSTER PACKS (15 CARDS TOTAL) - Each contains 5 cards of which at least 2 are rare or better (regular boosters only have only 1)
--> EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: JACKED <--
All of the above, PLUS:
+ BETA ACCESS - Beat the pack and Jack-in to access our raw BETA code version of Glitch Hunter.
+ SCRIPT PACK (6 CARDS TOTAL) - Receive your choice of a solid set of HERO-ID script cards (these represent the various skills, tricks and powers available to your HERO-ID).
+ 3 HIGH RES DIGITAL WALLPAPERS - Receive 3 backer-only high-res wallpapers featuring all 3 Glitch Hunter game factions.
+ BETA ACCESS - Beat the pack and Jack-in to access our raw BETA code version of Glitch Hunter.
+ SCRIPT PACK (6 CARDS TOTAL) - Receive your choice of a solid set of HERO-ID script cards (these represent the various skills, tricks and powers available to your HERO-ID).
+ 3 HIGH RES DIGITAL WALLPAPERS - Receive 3 backer-only high-res wallpapers featuring all 3 Glitch Hunter game factions.
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All of the above, PLUS:
+ ULTRA VIOLENCE BOOSTER PACK (15 CARDS TOTAL) - Receive a set of Kickstarter-exclusive alternate art cards displaying exclusive, ultra-violent anarchist CYBERPUNK artwork.
+ GLITCH HUNTER DIGITAL OST DRM-FREE SOUNDTRACK (10+ TRACKS) - Receive a digital copy of the awesome music featured in the game.
ULTRA VIOLENCE BOOSTER PACK (15 CARDS TOTAL) - Receive a set of kickstarter-exclusive alternate art cards displaying exclusive, ultra-violent anarchist CYBERPUNK artwork.
+ GLITCH HUNTER DIGITAL OST DRM-FREE SOUNDTRACK (10+ TRACKS) - Receive a digital copy of the awesome music featured in the game.
+ UNLOCK ALL HERO-ID’S - You get all HERO-ID’s and their Starter Decks.
+ ALT ART HERO-ID SKIN - You will look even more impressive with this Kickstarter-exclusive alternate skin for a HERO-ID of your choice.
+ PREMIUM HERO-ID PACK (10 CARDS TOTAL) - You will get a copy of each non-common HERO-ID specific card for the chosen HERO-ID, consisting of 2 legendary, 2 epic and 5 rare.
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All of the above, PLUS:
+ ALPHA ACCESS - Be a pioneer adventurer in this new CYBERPUNK universe.
+ BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR (7 CARDS TOTAL) - Receive your personal kickstarter Exclusive Serial Killer card. This card is not playable in-game but claims 1 victim each month which is added to your card collection. These corpsicle cards, collected over 6 months, are unique, Kickstarter-exclusive crony cards with devastating death spasm effects.
+ CUSTOM DOOMSDAY BUNNYGRENADE SKIN - Your Bunnygrenade is transformed into the Kickstarter-exclusive Wolfygrenade, Alpha access and Alpha wolfy combined, you will become ALPHA!
+ ALPHA ACCESS - Be a pioneer adventurer in this new CYBERPUNK universe.
+ BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR (7 CARDS TOTAL) - Receive your personal Kickstarter-exclusive Serial Killer card. This card is not playable in-game but claims 1 victim each month which is added to your card collection. These corpsicle cards, collected over 6 months, are unique, kickstarter-exclusive crony cards with devastating death spasm effects.
+ CUSTOM DOOMSDAY BUNNYGRENADE SKIN - Your bunnygrenade is transformed into the kickstarter-exclusive Wolfygrenade, Alpha access and Alpha wolfy combined, you will become ALPHA!
+ GLITCH HUNTER CARD - You receive a Kickstarter-exclusive Glitch Hunter card. Play this unique support card and victory will be rewarded with a free rigged booster pack. Only playable in ranked mode.
+ MISSION SCRAMBLER - Receive the ability to “re-roll” your daily missions as often as you want.
+ JACKED UP FRIENDS - Receive 3 codes that you can share with friends allowing them to receive all the rewards from the jacked tier.
+ EXCLUSIVE ART BOOK - One More Rabbit will send you a kickstarter-exclusive digital art book (pdf format).
+ UNIQUE CARD BACK - Receive a kickstarter-exclusive Gearhead cardback for all your cards.
+ COMPLETE HERO-ID CARD COLLECTION - Receive 2 copies of all the HERO-ID cards in the core game consisting of 6 legendary, 12 rare and 24 common cards.
+ ELITE HACKER ABILITY - All future booster packs will have 2x higher chance of containing rare or better cards.
+ CLASSIC CARD BOX (1 COPY OF ALL 165 CORE GAME CARDS) - Receive 1 copy of each card from the core game.
+ LEAGUE OF ASSASSINS - Receive 2 copies of a Kickstarter-exclusive neutral crony card which ignores Taunt and has the unique ability to attack and insta-kill opposing allies.
+ HERO-ID WITH YOUR CYBERPUNK LIKENESS - Send us a pic and we’ll Cyberpunk you! (you exclusively own this card design)
+ CUSTOM BOARD DESIGN - One More Rabbit will design a custom board for your side of the game using a theme of your choice (you exclusively own this board design)
+ ALT ART ALLY SET - Receive a Kickstarter-exclusive alternate art ally set, containing 2 copies of each ally in the core game.
+ GET 20 RIGGED BOOSTER PACKS WITH EACH FUTURE EXPANSION - Receive at least 2 rare cards or better in your rigged booster packs, instead of the 1 supplied with regular boosters.
+ PRINTED & SIGNED ART BOOK - Receive a Kickstarter-exclusive, printed & signed art book featuring the most memorable artwork from Glitch Hunter.
+ 2 CLASSIC CARD BOXES (2 COPIES OF ALL 165 CORE GAME CARDS) - Receive 2 copies of each card in the core game.
+ ALL ALT ART HERO-ID SKINS - Receive the Kickstarter-exclusive alternate skins for all the HERO-ID’s (no difficult choices needed!).
+ CUSTOM DOOMSDAY BUNNYGRENADE CODES - Receive 10 Kickstarter-exclusive Wolfygrenade skin codes to share with your friends.
+ RIGGED FOR LIFE - All future boosters will be rigged so you receive at least 2 rare cards or better in your rigged boosters packs (regular boosters only have 1).
+ FREE JACKED MODE - Play in jacked mode without EVER paying an entrance fee.
+ ADDED TO GAME CREDITS - Have your name appear on the game credits as Executive Producer.
+ UNIQUE CARD BACK - Receive a Kickstarter-exclusive Exec cardback for all your cards.
+ DESIGN A CARD - Help us design a new, rare or epic card for the game and receive an exclusive alternate art version which you will own exclusively!
