Hey everyone! January 26th marks our 4th year as Zephyr Workshop, so let’s take a look back on what 2016 has brought us and plan for 2017. If at first you don’t succeed, Run a Kickstarter Again 2016 was the year we finally went to Kickstarter with A.E.G.I.S. We’ve written up multiple articles on this endeavor […]
Zephyr Workshop @ FIGTalks 2017
Hey everyone, this year we again appeared at FIGTalks in Boston with a presentation in conjunction with Copper Frog Games. Our talk was about how to effectively create a good tabletop game prototype and what tools to use to do so – it’s super useful for anyone who wants to create their own board games. […]
New Team, New Stream: December Take 5
Another year has gone by, and it’s time to look back on last month’s goings-ons and see what we’ve been up to! Our number one priority, and the most-asked question we’re getting from fans, is when is A.E.G.I.S. going to Kickstarter again? We’ve compiled all the feedback, done MORE research, started refining our campaign, and will […]
Kickstarter Post Mortem
Like the heroes who pilot giant robots, we never give up On October 4th, we launched a Kickstarter campaign for the retail release of A.E.G.I.S. In case you weren’t following it, here are some facts: It was a 23 Day Campaign launched by our publisher Greenbrier Games It was launched Tuesday, October 4th, and ended on […]
AEGIS Starter Set Box Contents
We’ve put in a lot of hard work this year to update our assets and make sure we’re giving you guys the best game we can! With the Kickstarter approaching, we’re excited to reveal the finalized contents for the A.E.G.I.S. Core Set: Arc Buster and Sky Guard! We’ve been working with several incredibly talented artists to […]
Take 5 August: Rules and Reviews
Summer has come and gone and we move into the final months before our Kickstarter! In this last sunny and warm month we cover Kickstarter updates, exciting new rules, and a review of A.E.G.I.S. from Techraptor! With that, here are the top five news headlines for August 2016! The main event this month was GenCon in Indianapolis! Breeze and Sarah returned […]
Heading to Gen Con!
A.E.G.I.S. is heading back to Gen Con for the second year! Not only that, but with new, near-final game assets – a culmination of months of work. We were initially supposed to launch our Kickstarter campaign at the end of 2015, but the wild success of Folklore: The Affliction pushed us back a bit. In the […]
Take 5 June: AEGIS Resurgence
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! Convention season continues, with both MASSive Comic Con and North East Comic Con! But there’s no rest in the world of giant robots, our next big stops are GenCon and the Boston Festival of Indie Games! On top of that, we have some awesome looking new cards, and some awesome new […]
A.E.G.I.S. as told by Carmen Bellaire
Our first GenCon ever was GenCon 2015, and it blew us away. We met all sorts of great and prolific people, like Carmen Bellaire, designer of Robotech RPG Tactics. We ended up sending him home with one of our prototype copies, and a while later he sent some kind words back to us. A while […]
Take 5 April: Mad PAX, Fury Road
Oh what a month, what a lovely month. April was great for A.E.G.I.S., we put a lot of time into finalizing production assets and preparing for one of our biggest conventions of the year, PAX East. All that hard work paid off and we received a ton of compliments on the new look and feel […]