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title: "Renowned Anime, Comic and Game Artists Join Alteil: Horizons"
date: 2013-09-05
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description: "Zach Weiner of webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal joins all-star artist lineup for mobile and browser collectible card game, now live on Kickstarter BOSTON — Sept. 5, 2013 — Apocoplay, a…"
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# Renowned Anime, Comic and Game Artists Join Alteil: Horizons

**Zach Weiner of webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal joins all-star artist lineup for mobile and browser collectible card game, now live on Kickstarter**

**BOSTON — Sept. 5, 2013 —**** **Apocoplay, a Boston-based video game start-up founded by anime and collectible card game veterans, is bringing a vision 10 years in the making to life with *Alteil: Horizons,* an all-new, wholly owned sequel to one of Japan’s most popular online card games. The team behind *Horizons* includes veterans from the massively popular *Yu-Gi-Oh!* franchise, as well as artists known around the world for work on properties like *The Legend of Zelda*, *Final Fantasy X* and many more. Featuring deeper gameplay elements inspired by tactical RPGs, such as resource management and a Day and Night cycle that affects the abilities of certain cards in play, *Alteil: Horizons *aims to provide the most full-featured, beautifully imagined CCG available.

Learn more about *Alteil: Horizons* and view exclusive art on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/978065956/alteil-horizions.

Kickstarter backers can receive exclusive avatars and starter decks, beta invitations, alternate artwork, and even commissioned zombiefied art from the Zombie King, Arthur Suydam.

“*Alteil: Horizons* is the game I’ve dreamed of making for almost eight years,” said Apocoplay Head Producer and former *Yu-Gi-Oh!* scriptwriter, Sean Molyneaux. “I’ve been in this industry long enough to see collectible card games grow from a niche interest here in the US to a hugely popular mainstream genre. Fast growth like this means that new CCGs have to be very high-quality to get attention, and with the caliber of artists we’ve signed and our focus on deeper, tactical gameplay, *Horizons *can be the best out there.”

*Alteil: Horizons* provides a deeper CCG experience through turn-based RPG-style tactics and unique features which offer expanded strategic options – and challenges. Special Soul Cards can be used to alter a game’s conditions to better fit a player’s personalized strategy, while an innovative Day and Night cycle vastly changes the in-game tactics for cards such as vampires, werewolves, or undead. With card art from artists including Katsuya Terada, Shunya Yamashita, Hitoshi Yoneda, and recent addition Zach Weiner, from popular webcomic [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal](http://www.smbc-comics.com/), *Alteil: Horizons* will offer players stylish, imaginative visuals as they face off against other gamers or the computer AI in a struggle to control, or save, the world of Lavato.

For more information on *Alteil: Horizons*, and updates as the Apocoplay team partners with more artists, keep a close watch on the game’s Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/978065956/alteil-horizions

 

**About Apocoplay**

Apocoplay is a Boston-based video gaming start-up that is marrying a true passion for board and card games with deep software engineering experience to create digital products in the rapidly expanding mobile and browser-based markets. The company, which owns and operates popular CCG *Alteil* in the United States, is currently using its proprietary platform to create *Alteil: Horizons*, a sequel that features advanced strategic elements and work from artists behind some of the world’s most popular anime franchises, comic books and webcomics.

[Official Website](http://www.apocoplay.com) | [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/apocoplay) | [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/Apocoplay)

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**Media Contact**

Rahat Rashid
TriplePoint for Apocoplay
[rrashid@triplepointpr.com](mailto:rrashid@triplepointpr.com)212-730-9744

**Assets**

Download official art [here](http://www.triplepointpr.com/dl/Apocoplay/AlteilHorizons_conceptart.zip)