Murder at Blood Mansion: An intense murder mystery card game
Created by Braden Barty Media
Blood Mansion is a murder mystery card game for 2-6 players. It's set in 1899 England and Lady Blood has invited a few of her friends over where, of course, a murder takes place. It's your job to solve the crime unless YOU are the killer, then it's your job to escape. 76 Tarot sized cards, 9 wooden character tokens come in the box. Art by Parker Jacobs. Game designed by Braden Barty
Latest Updates from Our Project:
November Manufacturing Update
about 7 years ago
– Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:49:02 PM
Hello Backer,
Your video update is here!
For those of you who need to change your delivery address please do so by sending me an email here and I'll do it manually. [email protected]
Do we have an exact delivery date? No. The video mentions this but who wants to sit through a 5 min video to figure this out. We have been told that the game is now in the manufacturing stage and it will be delivered to our fulfillment center in New Hampshire sometime in December. I wish I can tell you more, but due to circumstances out of our control some missteps by our manufacturing company created some minor delays that all kind of added up. Being a first time game creator I was unaware of how much double checking we had to do on our part. We just assumed everyone else knows what they are doing and not to worry. So there you have it. Next time I will give our backers a 3 month delivery window time instead of a 1 month window time. (Even for a simple card game.)
I'll let you know once we hear from Panda that all 2000 games have been printed. manufactured and ready for exportation from mainland China.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!
-Braden
HAPPY HALLOWEEN VIDEO - From the residence of Blood Mansion
about 7 years ago
– Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:06:29 PM
Hello Backer,
I don't know about you, but a glimpse into the world on the night of Halloween proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
The whole family and I at the Blood Mansion would like to wish you a happy Halloween. That reminds me, has anyone with the Print N Play of Murder at Blood Mansion been able to play it this Halloween season? Let me know.
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SHORT GAME UPDATE
I have been told that the final tokens for inspection will be delivered via DHL on Nov. 2 to our home. Once we take a look at it, and we say all looks good, Panda Games will finally go into manufacturing the card game! I am told Braden will be keeping you posted regarding the final inspection. In the meantime enjoy your evening and happy Trick-Or-Treating.
Sincerely, Lucious, (and the rest)
Caretaker of the Mansion
Game Components Received
about 7 years ago
– Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 12:44:54 AM
Hi there,
Just wanted to confirm that we got all the game components to the game for us to review. Looks fantastic!
Wood Tokens!
Want to make note that the biggest issue is the size of the box. We try very hard to calculate how long, how wide and how tall the box should be before the components are ever made. We used our best judgment and really depended on Panda Games to offer their advice. Turns out the game box is about 15mm too short and we need to modify the sides before it can go into mass duplication.
Here is a 5 minute super exciting high quality, high budgeted video with me and the game. ENJOY!
-Braden Barty
Creator of the game
BackerKit Sent/PrePress COMPLETE!
about 7 years ago
– Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:39:46 AM
Hello Awesome Backer!
I can't think of a worse time to send out an Update when half the backers are finishing up a work week and the other half are asleep.
NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T
After Kickstarter took out their 9%(read the fine print) the funds have made it to our bank now we can make sure Panda gets their deposit, Fulfillment and shipping gets their funds and we can pay off our bank loan! Woo Hoo!
BACKERKIT
Went out on Tuesday, August 22, around morning time USA West Coast. If you feel like you didn't get the email for the backerkit survey, check your spam folder. If you feel like you still didn't get it, send ME an email at [email protected] and we'll get this squared away.
PRE - PRESS HAS CLEARED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Step 1 Making a game is getting all the technical stuff accepted before it goes into print. Like I said in our last email we got all our files uplaoded in the dropbox just as the team at Panda Games was heading out of their office to go to GenCon. While this slowed things down a little bit for a week, Parker just couldn't help himself. He kept going and fine tuned EVERYTHING! The Box, the cards, the "THIS", the "THAT." He worked his butt off making everything look better for the world for this little fun game. IT LOOKS GREAT!! After a little back and forth with Panda this week we got it all delivered and we got the thumbs up. Now it's at the Printers where they might have their question. So that's that. I'll keep you updated with the progression of the game.
THE DELUXE BOX
Don't forget, thanks to you, we have funded what turned out to be a DELUXE version of Murder at Blood Mansion. I think we got it backwards. The standard version is suppose to come out first. But, oh well!
PRINT AND PLAY
Can I just take a break for a moment and enjoy my summer!!!!! "NO!" says Lucius. Once we get final word that the game is getting manufactured and there is no turning back, I will begin to make the blessed PDF Print N Play for you folks. Remember, its 76 Tarot sized cards. Can't wait to see what you guys come up with.
STRATEGICON GATEWAY
If anyone is going to http://www.strategicon.net/ Gateway 2017 in LA, we will be there Saturday, Sept 2nd at 3pm hosting a Murder at Blood Mansion event with the NEW DECK!
FINALY THE FINAL RULES
DOWNLOAD MURDER AT BLOOD MANSION PDF RULES 1.0. If anyone has any questions about the rules PLEASE post in the comments page. And I hope we can clear it up.
Ok, that's about it for now. Its been a busy week. What's next?
Against my wife's wishes I'm going to begin sorting out ANOTHER TABLETOP GAME for you!
Enjoy your weekend, -Braden
Gencon2017, Updated Rules and Artwork
over 7 years ago
– Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:19:51 PM
Hello,
Still getting over my post campaign blues. It was so fun getting to know our backers and updating everyone over that 33 day period. I miss you guys! Here are some updates.
Who is going to GenCon and would like to play Blood Mansion? Let us know. A friend of ours, Eric, will be there with the game and would love to play it with any of our backers. Comment below or send me an email and I'll get you in touch when and where this is going to take place. [email protected]
ARTWORK and MANUFACTURING
Parker and I have been busy finishing up the artwork, putting the rule sheet together and finalizing the box for manufacturing just in time for everyone at the Panda office to head out the door for GenCon! So there you have it. Don't get me wrong, they're working from their laptops lets just say the awesome folks at Panda Game manufacturing have a busy week ahead of them.
ARTWORK and DAME HEATHER
Speaking of art, here is the final artwork for our 3 new characters. Dame Heather inlcuded.
Leave a comment and tell Parker personally how great of a job he's done!
Oh, and here is the Box top Design too!
UPDATED RULES 4.0
With 3 new characters comes 3 new schemes we had to test out. And here they are!
Stella- Read Hand. Can see anyone's card hand
Van Molder - Steal Soul. Can use anyone's used Scheme.
Dame Heather - Take Action. Can take up to 3 Action cards from the draw deck or any player(s)
