Zombicide and Blood Rage maker CMON has revealed Teburu, a futuristic ‘board gaming console’ system loaded with digital technology that it claims will improve the experience of playing physical games.
Teburu – which is Japanese for ‘table’ – has been developed with Xplored, a company that specialises in what it calls ‘phygital’ games. Other games from the studio include Runimalz, an upcoming toys-to-life mobile game played using toy cars on a tablet-connected base, and several games for the browser-based ‘online video game console’ AirConsole.
Teburu is maybe easiest described as a smart playmat. Players can place map tiles, cards and miniatures on the surface, which then relay information to a companion app running on a tablet or PC.
The app can then provide features such as real-time audio (the noise of a door opening when a door piece is turned to its open side, for example), interactive storytelling through cutscenes and branching narrative decisions, and a game master-like control of the game’s rules, events and AI enemy behaviour.
Teburu will be launched on Kickstarter sometime in 2020, with the first announced hybrid game for the system a new instalment in CMON’s Zombiide series, Zombicide Evolution – Las Vegas.
Evolution – Las Vegas is described by its creators as being “the game millions of Zombicide players the world over know and love, but evolved – faster, enhanced, and with a great campaign full of meaningful choices that will carry over a series of gaming sessions”.
Additionally, attendees to Gen Con this August can be among the first to see the ground breaking Teburu system in action.
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