Hi folks! 

This is the beginning of a new project. HUMAN. It's Alora's origin story told through mancala card play. 
(Alora is the AI god antagonist in the MIRU series)

Back in 2018, i wrote her back story with hopes to make a graphic novel. But I never really found the time to work on those skills at a level and speed required to make a graphic novel a reasonable project for one to take on. 

Fast forward a few years, and I think a thematic experience could be had with a small deck of cards, a puzzly mancala action mechanic, and a bunch of Alora's memories over 6 chapters. We wake up in the factory and go through her journey all the way up to the moment she becomes a god.  How did everything go so wrong... or right? (A big part of her philosophy is perspectivism)

Anyways, this print and playtest file is the tutorial/introduction as Alora (named Eve here) wakes up in the factory for the first time as the staff prepare here for her duties to be a house maid for a wealthy family. The goal of this introduction is to get feedback on the base core game loop and to see if there's interest here before i spend a year illustrating, along with experimenting with a different way to crowdfund a project outside of kickstarter. It feels like there's a lot of sentiment to move away from kickstarter, and I'm curious if it can be done on a smaller scale through itch and our own website. Let me know what you think!

May Alora Be With You.