Chaos Agents, the latest title from Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield, is entering its public alpha phase. Players can test their skills in the new title that blends tabletop games with auto-battlers and battle royales this weekend at GenCon.
In Chaos Agents, players will coach and power up their globally unique superhero to victory against other foes. The game should feel familiar to tabletop enthusiasts as well as gamers. It takes concepts Garfield developed through his career — particularly Magic: The Gathering and Keyforge — and blends them with a free-for-all auto-battler format.
For a nominal entry fee, attendees can enter the Chaos Agents multi-day tournament to earn exclusive in-game rewards. The event will have three qualifying 30-minute rounds followed by a winners and a runners up match. Competitors will earn a unique agent for entering the tournament, while heat winners will earn another alongside their chance to compete in the Gold World Invitational on Sunday.
This tournament will also usher in the next phase of Chaos Agents’ development, a broader public alpha test. Prior to this, the game was only available in private pre-alpha playtests.
Lil Snack & GamesBeat
GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games now!
Chaos Agents is the debut title from Popularium. In addition to Garfield, the startup was cofounded by Arka Ray and Jon Bankard in 2022.
The company announced a $2 million seed funding round in March with prominent backers including Palm Drive Capital, The Data Economics Company, Eden Chen via the a16z Scout Fund, Reverb Ventures and Dave Nemetz, Pareto, Exit Capital, The Society of Entertainment, Bustle Digital Group’s Bryan Goldberg, Gearbox’s Dan Black, ex-NFL footballer Dhani Jones, and Ori and the Blind Forest executive producer Avi Ben-Menahem.
Popularium plans to fully launch Chaos Agents in 2025.
Source link
