What’s more, in March, 2014 the company got hit by a lawsuit from Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: The Gathering. Apparently, there were some severe problems with their latest build of the game when it was presented on Kickstarter, so they had to switch programmers which delayed and limited the game. It just seemed like they had bitten way more than they could chew. HEX became the 11th highest-backed video game on Kickstarter at the time. The promises were astounding: frequent card sets, fully supported player versus environment (PVE) modes, scenario campaign, and even a possibility of completing scenarios together with friends for additional rare items. Cory Jones seemed to have put all his heart and soul into what could be the next big thing in a vast world of computer games. HEX, on the other hand, led by Cory Jones from Cryptozoic, had gathered quite an attention from fellow lovers of card games in general and of popular TCG Magic: The Gathering in particular.Īt the time HEX was clearly a project of passion. For reference: the current CCG headliner “Hearthstone” from Blizzard Entertainment was announced in the same year but didn’t quite get traction until March, 2014.
It may not seem like much in 2020, but at the time it was quite an achievement because the genre of computer card games was not as prominent as it is now. The HEX Kickstarter launched in May, 2013 and gathered over 2 million dollars from 17,765 backers. We will look into the history of HEX and try to put into retrospective what went wrong and which lessons we can take out of it. The end of 2020 was signified by what may seem a rather insignificant event: closing of servers and services of HEX: Shards of Fate – a rather small computer trading card game (TCG) that over the course of its years slowly faded into obscurity after getting millions of dollars of support on Kickstarter in 2013.
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