SYNCANITE FOUNDATION: Reprint + CRIMSON PROTOCOL Gameplay Expansion

  

  

No one needs to back this project blindly. Join our community discord and ask for a playtest in Tabletop Simulator. Either me or one of my friends will setup a group of everyone asking for the demo and play a full game with you in either German or English. You can ask for demos for the core game or the expansion, whatever you prefer. While playing, we will also give you insights on the project, tell you about the story of the SYNCANITE world and (hopefully) make some friends in the process - we're looking forward to meeting you! :)

 

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I uploaded the newest draft of our CRIMSON PROTOCOL Rulebook in our rulebook cloud. You can access it by clicking on "Rulebook Draft."

LETS PLAY (Coming soon)

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As fulfillment of these files can be automated via our online shop, these are not available anymore on gamefound.

If you want the STL files for one of these 3D organizers, you can get them at syncanite.shop – let me know when you need assistance :)

 

  

 

  

More might be coming soon :)

 

Clarification: We're showing 2 plates here because the plate will have two sides full with tracks. We aim on producing a 12`180 gram plate and pack a maximum of 44 mins runtime on it as we want to ensure the quality of the production which means that each side of the plate will offer up to 22 minutes of epic music.

(BGG 8.2 was the rating after release at Essen Spiel. Naturally it decreased a bit in time which is totally normal on BGG. I think our rating is still pretty good and the comments show that a lot of the high ratings are heartfelt as these are from gamers that truly love the game. It's unique and certainly does not appeal to anyone so the most important thing for me is to get the right people on board and not everyone. Better sell one less than one too much, thats my philosophy.)

Hey there, Timon here! :)

Iam glad your here and if you dont mind I want to quickly tell you the story of SYNCANITE FOUNDATION:

I began to develop SYNCANITE FOUNDATION in Winter 2022 based on the world of the novel and the ideas I always had in mind that were initially for a digital game. I presented the 1st physical prototype at BerlinCon 2023. It worked but was huge and ugly. You actually needed 3 tables to set it up. It was totally impractical but we got great feedback to improve it and then started streamlining the project.

The 1st prototype in the design you know was finished Christmas 2023. Thats when I started to plan my big Playtesting tour that lead me to do promo and testing on +90 events in Germany and Austria + all over the world via TableTop Simulator. January 31st 2025 we started our 1st crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter and I got blown away. More than 800 backers brought together more than 88.000 EUR to make SYNCANITE FOUNDATION a reality.

This motivated me to go further and expand playtesting into the US where I visited the Long Island Tabletop Gaming Expo to hear the opinion of US gamers that play a bit different than us germans. This lead to great final improvements after the campaign, for example to the "handshake deal" the game is known for today! Also, the crisis "War" got heavily improved by countless playtest with full fleshed wargamers what ... might have made this crisis the most complex one but also the heart of SYNCANITE FOUNDATION :D

We aimed on delivering for Essen SPIEL and did but when I finally had more than two prototypes for blind testing available I learned: The rulebook is not sufficient for this complex game. Not at all! Which is why I reacted and gladly got some help from the awesome syncanite community. Less than 3 weeks before Essen SPIEL we wrote a totally new rulebook. The Council Member Edition! This version got published with the Essen SPIEL Edition I brought to this event via plane. Selling there saved the whole company as it financed doing 2 more iterations of the new rulebook, together with the biggest community blind test of the game ever. This lead to the V3.2 rulebook that you know today and that was delivered to every backert willing to wait for it for free if they delay their pledge voluntarily. Everyone that was satisfied with a digital or self print version got their game in Fall 2025. Everyone else got it in Q1 2026. (US Q2 2026)

Based on that community effort, we also created the digital glossary where we offer tips, tricks and FAQ for all materials available in the game. And based on all that and all further expirience we had we will write the 4.0 version of the rulebook for the 2nd edition of SYNCANITE FOUNDATION that we want to crowdfund with this campaign. With a part of the revenue from the expansion CRIMSON PROTOCOL we will also finance an errata pack to exchange some materials that were not perfect in the 1st print run.

As you can see ... SYNCANITE FOUNDATION is a community driven passion project that evolves at a rapid rate. Developing a complex game like this (which is basically 6 games in one) is a big challange so naturally we wont to everything perfect in the 1st run. But this is the 2nd Run and we hope that you´re with us. Its also important to note that 85% of all backers were german speaking people so ... I think with this 2nd edition its time to hit the international market and with it introduce a bunch of new stuff to expand on the Syncanite World: A) the CRIMSON PROTOCOL Expansion, B) the 1st of 3 novels and C) a music album. All of that is totally AI free as we were able to expand the team through our initial success. Iam looking forward to continue this journey with you so ... thanks for considering backing this dream!

Kind regards & feel free to ask questions anytime!

Timon Thöne, Founder SYNCANITE GAMES