Dire Wolf Digital, co-designer of the deck building game “Klong!” has announced a new title with a concept somewhere between deck building and worker placement, based on the science fiction classic Dune. There is no release date yet.
Dire Wolf Digital has announced Dune Imperium, a new game set in the world of Frank Herbert's The Desert Planet. The developers confirmed their work on the game via a short teaser via Twitter. So far there isn't much information. What is certain, however, is that Dire Wolf will rely on a mix of deck building and worker placement.
Dune: Imperium relies on a wild mix
The board game appears to be based on Denis Villeneuve's new Dune film, which is slated to hit theaters in December 2020. The short teaser shows the logo of Dire Wolf next to that of the Legendary Pictures, which are behind the remake.
The history of Dune is long. Originally published as a series of novels by Frank Herbert in the 1960s, the basic idea has since been filmed and made into games. The Dire Wolf Digital board game's subtitle "Empire" refers to the different empires that ruled the Dune universe.
Dire Wolf could playfully make use of this. Corresponding questions are asked in the teaser: Who will you influence? Who will be betrayed? It is possible that a traitor mechanism is used in the game; in any case, the interactive component between the parties embodied by the players could probably play a noticeable role.
Plots within plots.https://t.co/GMDQM9BmS5 pic.twitter.com/PY0yljHnbJ
- Dire Wolf Digital (@direwolfdigital) August 6, 2020
It was only in 2019 that the publisher Gale Force Nine brought a board game based on Dune onto the market - after decades of licensing disputes. It is a revised new edition of the board game from 1979. Also available Roleplaying games, which are based on the brand: The British publisher Modiphius Entertainment, among others, is planning corresponding regulations. A tabletop RPG is to be released under the title Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, but there is no release date yet.
Dire Wolf Digital is behind the deck-building game "Klong!" - published in Germany by Verlag Schwerkraft - and was also able to gain experience in the field of digital board games. Among other things, adaptations to Räuber der Nordsee or the digital implementation come from the developers Rootwhich will appear later this year.
When Dune: Imperium should appear and what exactly it is about is still unknown. A release date is also not known, and the game may even be rolled out parallel to the start of the movie.
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