AOB Presskit EN – The Game Kitchen

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About All On Board!

Designed from the ground up for VR, All On Board! offers seamless board game experiences. Join this ever-evolving platform and connect with fellow board game enthusiasts! Choose your avatar and enjoy playing solo or with friends, diving into some of the most popular board game franchises.

Yout Intuitive and ever-growing portal to tabletop community

All On Board! is a revolutionary tabletop platform built from the ground up specifically for VR, created by and for board game enthusiasts. As the only platform natively built for VR, All On Board! fully exploits the capabilities of virtual reality to deliver an unmatched board gaming experience. This includes predictive selection and positioning of board elements while enjoying realistic physical interactions close to real life. A unique platform that is constantly evolving, both functionally and in its game catalog, packed with beloved franchises among board game enthusiasts.

Experience the joy of discovering new games, just like browsing the latest releases at your favorite store. All On Board! brings you shared moments of discussion, laughter, and nostalgia reminiscent of past adventures and unforgettable games. Now, thanks to the immersive power of virtual reality, you can relive these experiences and continue doing what you love most—without the hassle of travel or game setup.

Join our community of tabletop aficionados and contribute with your feedback to improve the platform every day!

Key Features

Only one player is required to purchase game titles: If you own a game, you can invite your friends to play for free, just like in real life.
Experience interactions that are intuitive and naturally immersive.
Top-tier games meticulously adapted for VR, ensuring exceptional gameplay and smooth interactions.
Quickly learn the rules with in-game tutorials and contextual help that provides more information about any component.
Tailored gameplay for 1 to multiple players, including solo and co-op modes. You can even tackle cooperative games on your own!
Cross-platform support.
Play in your preferred language, with ongoing additions to our language support.

Available Official Licensed board games

With many more to come!

Black Rose Wars
Hamlet
Infinity Defiance
Sword & Sorcery
The Breach
And others yet to be unveiled…

In addition to our board game titles, we also offer classic, free-to-play games that everyone knows and loves, including Chess, Checkers, and more to come!

Share the fun

Just like in real life, with a single copy of any of the licensed games, you can invite your friends to join in the fun. No hassles or complications, just straight to playing!

Authentic Board Game Feel

At All On Board!, we want to bring you the board game culture in the most authentic way, and that includes the way you play. We understand the importance of interacting with the game elements, so we’ve paid special attention to making it as natural and intuitive as possible. A VR board game simulator experience that’s almost like playing in real life!

Play solo or with friends

Our platform supports games for one to multiple players, offering rich experiences for solo adventurers, cooperative teams, and competitive groups alike. Our impersonation system allows you to switch roles seamlessly, enabling epic coop sessions, even if you are the only one playing!

Easy and Quick to learn

Learning to play in All On Board! is very easy, thanks to the video tutorials available for each board game. Combined with the platform’s very user-friendly interface and natural interactions, this makes starting any game quick and simple.

Additionally, you will find contextual descriptions of each game component, ensuring you always have a reference at hand, making it even easier to dive into new games with confidence.

No boundaries

We aim to make all licensed board games on the platform available in a variety of languages, reflecting our commitment to inclusivity. All On Board! is designed to welcome players from around the world, and we are working towards expanding our language options to reach even more of you.

Crossplay

No matter which platform you play All On Board! on, playing with your friends will never be an issue, thanks to the crossplay feature!

Express yourself with avatars

Elevate your gaming interactions with unique avatars, making every session feel more connected and personal. Bridge the gap between virtual and real-life play and enjoy an experience far beyond what a simple voice call can offer!

Maximize your playtime

Leveraging VR technology, we’ve adapted each game to preserve the essence of board gaming while streamlining tasks such as setting up the game, managing components, and tallying scores. Every title has been meticulously adapted for VR, maintaining the original game experience while enhancing usability.

Maximize your gaming time and make the most of your leisure moments!

This is only the Beginning

Exciting new games are on the horizon, featuring top-tier licenses that board game enthusiasts love. Each addition to our platform promises to be a must-play experience as we continue to bring beloved titles to life at an ever-increasing pace.

In addition to the growing catalog of games, All On Board! has many exciting features already in the works. Some of these, like the avatar editor and user-created content, are just a few of the updates set to arrive in the near future!

About All On Board!

All On Board! is a VR platform powered by user-generated content where players will be able to create, share and play board games with friends. Getting together to play board games with your friends is great, and when that’s not possible All On Board! makes it easy. All On Board! offers a new way to experience board games, recreating online the experience of being in the same room with your friends, around the playing table, and interacting with each other. The platform defines a new way to create, share and play board games in a natural and intuitive way.
During the development, we will share exclusive betas with our backers (the next one is scheduled for July 2024).

Create, share and Play

All On Board! will give you access to a wide library of board games, including officially licensed board games. Players will only need to purchase one copy of a licensed game to play with their friends. The platform also aims to help budding board game creators design and share their own board games using a set of free modding tools that will be available for PC (Windows). The modding tool is designed to allow anyone to create games without writing a single line of code in an easy and accessible way.

Your Favorite Board Games

The Game Kitchen has partnered with acclaimed board game creators and publishers to bring their catalog of games into the platform, as officially licensed board games add-ons will be available for purchase once All On Board! launches.

Titles will include a variety of well-known franchises, including different gameplay styles. Each game will take advantage of All On Board! features to offer an interactive and engaging experience to the players.

These are the licensed games that have been already announced:

Black Rose Wars, by Ludus Magnus
Rallyman GT, by Holygrail-Games
Escape the Dark Castle, by Themeborne
Sword and Sorcery, by Ares
Infinity: Defiance, by Corvus Belli
Istanbul, by Pegasus Spiele
Steam Watchers, by Mythic Games
Hamlet, by Mighty Boards
The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, by Maestro Media
Wild Assent, by Lazy Squire Games
The Breach, by Ludus Magnus
The Hunger, by Ori Games

Where to Play All On Board!

All On Board! will be compatible at launch with the following platforms:

Meta Quest 2 & 3
Steam VR

The Game Kitchen will remain committed to supporting future technologies, features, and devices in All On Board!, as they become relevant in the VR ecosystem.

All On Board! Features

An ever-expanding collection of board games: Free mods created by users, as well as officially licensed board games created by developers, will be released frequently, offering a virtually endless library of experiences to enjoy with your friends.

An extensive library of officially licensed board games including Black Rose Wars, Escape the Dark Castle, Rallyman GT, Sword & Sorcery, Infinity Defiance, and Istanbul. No need to buy multiple copies of a game. Have one member of the party get one, and share the experience with the rest.

Interact with board games in the same way you would in real life: With All On Board! comes the end to unfulfilling chats or voice calls. It’s time to hang out with your friend like in real life, all around the playing table. Touch, grab, spin and drag with natural gestures. Just like the real deal!

More Playtime: Play board games without all the hassle: don’t waste time counting, setting up, or storing games. With the “save and restore” function, you can save your game and pick up from there any time so that you can enjoy longer play sessions all over again! Playing board games with your friends was never so convenient!

The most immersive board game experience ever: Customize everything! Choose the appropriate environment, dress with your favorite accessories and create the perfect mood for your game session!

Personalize your games: Use the All On Board! editing tool to create your own version of popular board games. Modify existing games or create new ones from scratch. Add new tables, playing environments and of course, avatar accessories!

KickStarter Campaign and Early Access

The next beta version of All On Board! is coming next July 2024, exclusively for Kickstarter backers.

Supporting the Kickstarter campaign was the only way to try the platform before its public release. Backers will also get a bunch of freebies, including exclusive gear for their avatars and a “Backers Pass” with a curated selection of officially licensed board games.

You can find more detailed information about the Kickstarter campaign here.

About The Game kitchen

The Game Kitchen is an indie video game studio based in Sevilla, Spain. Their motto is “We make meaningful indie games”. The studio was Funded in 2010. They are well known for both their terror point-and-click adventure The Last Door (2013) and more recently for the best-selling indie game Blasphemous (2019) and Blasphemous 2 (2023). Both titles were successfully funded through Kickstarter campaigns.

The studio also has a VR department funded in early 2022 that sice then has been working on All On Board!

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The Last Door (2013) is a point-and-click adventure inspired by psychological terror literature in the style of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe.

Blasphemous (2019) is an action platformer based on the culture and the folklore of southern Spain. It’s recognized as one of the top 10 Metroidvania of all times by gaming media sites and has been awarded the “Best Indie Game” award at GameLab 2020 and “Game Of the Year” at the Fun & Serious Festival in 2019.

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