The A.E.G.I.S. Kickstarter has gone from very close to slightly further away, but things are still extremely busy here at Zephyr Workshop! We’ve done a lot of rebalancing across our suite of robots, and now we’re onto planning expansion content and getting some great art commissioned. With that, here are the top five news bits for September […]
Robot Stories #2: Bots of a Feather
We here are Zephyr Workshop are hard at work preparing for our upcoming Kickstarter for A.E.G.I.S. While we’re currently doing constant playtests and balancing to make sure we’re releasing the coolest robots we can, we also want to take a chance to look back at some of our original robot designs and what we’ve learned […]
Take 5: August News
With less than 2 months to go until the A.E.G.I.S. Kickstarter launches, things are extremely busy here at Zephyr Workshop! We’ve been hard at work tweaking robot designs, developing new play modes, and making sure you the players get the most high-quality combining robots we can pack into each box! (And no, pre-combining them sadly does not make […]
Take 5: July News – GEN CON Edition!
We’re back from lovely Indianapolis and, of course, Gen Con! Gen Con is basically E3 for tabletop games, it’s the end-all, be-all of physical gaming cons in North America. We had the best time meeting fans from around the world, demoing A.E.G.I.S. for tons of new people, and showing off our new prototypes with our publisher, Greenbrier Games! […]
Off to Gen Con 2015!
It’s time! After much hype on our Facebook page, and much hard work on all our parts, A.E.G.I.S. is heading to Gen Con 2015! Breeze and Sarah are on the road now to assist our publisher, Greenbrier Games, at their booth, as well as to show off the newest A.E.G.I.S. boxes. Yes, you read that right: We’ve got new […]
June 2015 – Take 5
Another month, another five news items to keep you apprised of! A.E.G.I.S. production is continuing its strong surge, and we’re bursting at the seams to talk about it with you, along with other news and events that continue to keep us on our toes! Here’s this month’s update! Zephyr Workshop, in association with the Worcester […]
Robot Stories #1
Every Card a Painting In this series of blog posts we’d like to talk about the design and development of the cards in our original, self-published Core Set. It’s been well over a year since we’ve been printing A.E.G.I.S. on our own, and we’ve seen these cards be used by many, many players at all sorts […]
May 2015 – Take 5
Here at Zephyr Workshop, things have been heating up this summer! Since PAX East ended, we’ve been hard at work on both A.E.G.I.S. and other projects, and have so much we want to tell you about. In the spirit of our having five main robot types, we’re going to keep this first list down to […]
What’s with the Robot Names?
If you’ve known or played A.E.G.I.S. for any amount of time, you’ve noticed our robots’ names (ARK-100, ARM-777, ESPR-4000…) below their images, and probably wondered whether the numbers and abbreviations were completely arbitrary to just sound more robot-y. Well, you’d be correct if you were looking at our early prototypes, where names like “GCL-100” were prevalent […]
Official
We Have an Office! Exciting news from the front! Zephyr Workshop has moved into a coworking space after winning StartUp Worcester, an initiative to foster new and exciting tech start-ups in Central MA. We’ll be working from there from May this year to May 2016. We found the StartUp Worcester competition through some friends in […]