Augmented Reality Tabletop System Teburu Announces Sword & Sorcery Partnership With Ares Games

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Xplored, the creators of the augmented reality board game system Teburu, has announced a new partnership with Ares Games for a new Sword & Sorcery game on the platform.

Sword & Sorcery is a miniature-driven fantasy cooperative boardgame that sees up to five players control "legendary characters brought back to life by powerful sorcery" as they attempt to defeat an enemy. It's proved popular with tabletop players since its launch in 2017, achieving an 8.0 rating on Boardgamegeek, and has been followed up with a series of expansions and "hero packs" to add new characters to the game.

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Much like Teburu's World of Darkness partnership with Paradox, these likely won't be straight adaptations of the game. Instead, it's a completely new entry specifically for Teburu, which Xplored CEO Davide Garofalo describes as an "evolution of such a beloved title". Meanwhile, Ares Games' director of production Roberto Di Meglio says using Teburu will allow Ares to "bring the [game] system to its full potential, allowing us to enhance gameplay beyond the limits of a purely physical game".

Teburu is a 'phygital' (physical and digital, if you're a fan of awful portmanteaus) that uses a smart a smartboard, RFID chipped miniatures, and a smart dice to relay physical game information to a smartphone or tablet that processes the game systems for you. In our interview with Garofalo, he described it as system "without AR glasses, magic wands, or big and expensive tables".

Although Garofalo has said Ares was one of the first companies to approach Xplored about Teburu, it isn't the first partnership already lined up for the platform. As mentioned, a