Flick, slide, or roll your dice down the ice, and use magic to aid your strategy! Witches with brooms will sweep you to victory.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Pledge Manager, Jerseys, and Production!
about 2 months ago
– Sat, Feb 07, 2026 at 12:36:05 PM
Good Curling, everyone! I've been enjoying some fun Mixed Doubles action at the Olympics so far, and hope you all enjoy our sport's biggest showcase over the next couple weeks.
3D Render of the finished box!
We've finalized all the files with the factory for print production, and so we're ready to enter the Pledge Manager phase. I know a lot of folks who backed this campaign are new to Kickstarter and crowdfunding, so I'm going to explain the process for everyone. Feel free to skip over the next bit if you're experienced.
We use a website called BackerKit to collect your addresses via a "Survey" for shipping, calculate and charge correct shipping, sales tax/VAT costs based on your location, and allow you to manage add-ons, purchase extra items if you want, and generally make our lives easier when we need to ship out hundreds of games in the Spring. You will be receiving an email from BackerKit with a link early next week (a handful of people may see this email sooner, as we test out the survey).
If you don't have your survey by Tuesday, or if you have any questions or issues with the process, feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected] and I'll help you out.
There are two items on the BackerKit page that weren't available during the campaign. Chess Joker, and Mystic Curling Club Jerseys! Chess Joker is another game we're printing concurrently - for folks who want both, it's cheaper to ship them together so we're taking add-on orders. You can learn more about it here - it's Chess but with lots of wild extra cards that allow for interesting tactics. The jerseys are the fancy hockey-style jerseys our demo team wore at PAX Unplugged, and that I've been wearing on the curling ice for the last few months!
Me, with my friend Marcus at PAX Unplugged, with some bubble tea!
The jerseys are $125, available in sizes from S up through 4XL. There's a sizing guide on the website. In general, picking a size equal to your t-shirt size will be a casual loose fit, one size down will be a more tight fit. I've been very happy with the quality of mine, it's been great to wear on the ice!
Production
With all the files submitted, the next step is waiting for the factories to complete printing all the components, making the dice, and packaging it all up. That process will be happening over the next couple months, and I'll keep you all posted once I have a firm schedule.
Final Rulebook
An important part of any game is the rulebook - we spent a lot of time on getting this one right. We want it to be easy to learn and not too overwhelming! You can download the PDF below
We've proofread this, of course - but if you happen to find an error or if something just seems confusing to you - feel free to email us at [email protected] with feedback. Files have been submitted, but we still have a bit of time to make small edits.
Thanks everyone for backing the game and helping make it possible! We're excited to share the fun of Curling with many new people all over the world :)
PAX Report: Board Testing, Jerseys, Campaign Wrapping Up!
4 months ago
– Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 06:25:16 AM
Good curling, everyone!
Last weekend we had a great time at PAX Unplugged showing off Mystic Curling Club, alongside Chess Joker, Innovation, Good Puppers Too, and selling lots of shiny pins. The good news is, everyone had a great time with the game!
A particularly full house of stones!
One of our most important goals at PAX was testing. Since Gen Con, we'd made a number of small game updates to how scoring and spells work in order to streamline learning and fun. We ran around 200 demos of the game over the span of the convention, and it went very well. Explanations were quicker and easier, people understood better how and when they could use their Witch and Familiars to affect things, and most importantly: scoring was easy! We have a couple tweaks to make to individual spells to make them more fun / balanced, but overall we are super confident that the game is complete and ready.
The other part of testing was the boards. Previous convention demos were on temporary boards from our friends at Print and Play, and while they performed admirably, we wanted to see how the game would function (and hold up) with real production boards from our factory. Again, good news! The boards passed the test of hundreds of people interacting with them with flying colors. Dice still slide nicely, no noticeable blemishes, and most importantly, only three people the entire weekend were transformed into frogs by reading the runes on the board incorrectly. That's an extremely low rate!
Jerseys
Also, if you visited, you noticed our team was wearing cool custom jerseys all weekend long:
Chris and fellow curler and friend Marcus
Rob and J dazzling the hotel lobby
The jerseys were a smash hit at the show, both with our team, and with everyone who came to visit our booth. A lot of people asked if we'd be selling jerseys - and the answer is now...probably yes! This won't happen during the Kickstarter, but we're likely to have them available during the pledge manager, we just need to sort out a few questions with our printing partner. Our cost estimate right now is $125 - they're real embroidered hockey-style jerseys.
End of Campaign
Our campaign wraps up Tuesday. We've had a nice chill campaign and we hope to see a few more backers sneak in on the last days. After the campaign, we'll be moving very quickly to production. With all the testing going so well at PAX, we're just about ready to go! We just have to wrap up the rulebook, some graphic design on the scoreboard reference mat, and the game box back (bar codes, etc).
Hope you all have a great Sunday and start of December!
PAX Unplugged Demos: Come Visit!
4 months ago
– Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 11:26:34 AM
We will be at PAX Unplugged this weekend, in booth #3233 with demos of Mystic Curling Club, Chess Joker, Good Puppers Too, and more!
We're the CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE! Well, at least the Expo Hall Universe.
Come visit! We'll have daily Draw to the Button contests at 12 and 4PM with chances to win fabulous prizes, plus you can see our production samples up close, including our delicious dice. Do not eat the dice, though.
Thank you all for backing our fun campaign, we're super excited to get it printed and off to you all :)
500 Backers! Other Witchstarter Games, More Streams, PAX Adventures!
5 months ago
– Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 09:27:26 AM
Good Curling everyone! We are here with an update.
We've continued sweeping hard and are up to over 500 backers and 120% funding. That's great! Thanks to everyone who's joined so far, and we hope many more will come in for some curling fun :)
We're running a chill campaign (ha ha, ice is cold)- we won't bombard you with daily updates, just a reasonable amount scattered throughout the run. I know you all love curling and magic and adorable art - but you probably don't need me to remind you of that every day!
More Streams
Streams will resume tomorrow - I'll have a live stream on our Twitch channel of my Friday night league game (real curling! Not so much magic.) at 6:15 eastern. You can watch at twitch.tv/asmadigames.
Next week we'll be resuming our Thursday afternoon streams, with a development stream combined on Curling, Dungeon, and Chess work. You can see allll the development!
PAX Unplugged
We shall be at PAX Unplugged, booth #3233 in just a few weeks. We'll be showing off Mystic Curling Club, along with the freshly released Good Puppers Too, Innovation Ultimate, and Chess Joker. We're even having daily Draw to the Button contests at our booth for fabulous prizes!
Other Witchstarter Projects!
Kickstarter did an open call for magical and otherwise witchy projects for the month of October, of which we're a part. I peeked around the site to find some other projects I thought are fun, and here they are:
Wizard Community College - a little RPG card game of magic-gone-awry designed to last 20 minutes. This looks like a great little one-shot experience for your table/group of friends:
Hocus Pocus Hyperfocus: The ADHD Oracle Game - come on, the title alone is fantasitc. A storytelling game about absent-minded Witches. It's already funded, but you can late-back it.
Dreadful Meadows: Candy Cove - A magical game of farming...candy! If you could plant seeds that grow delicious treats, wouldn't you do it? Very adorable art, too.
Take a peek at them...if you dare! muahahhaha *additional witchy cackles*
Happy Halloween tomorrow!
Day 3: 90%! VODS, and Real Curling Tonight
6 months ago
– Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 01:50:03 PM
Happy Friday and Good Curling everyone! A quick update as we close out our first week.
First off, 90% funding, hurray! We're closing in on our goal, thanks everyone :)
If you missed our stream yesterday, the VOD is here, or embedded below. We discussed lots of design things about Mystic Curling Club, and showed some of the older ideas that didn't make it in. Designing a good game is a long process, and sometimes it takes a lot of iterations to get it just right!
Finally, tonight we'll be streaming one of my real curling games, from my club here in Mass (Broomstones). 8:30PM Eastern, at https://twitch.tv/asmadigames. Joe and Lizz will be doing commentary, with possible other guest appearances.
Hope to see you there, and regardless, have a great weekend :)
