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🪐 Game Designer's Journal #1 - Adventure game on Dune 🪐

Dune: House Secrets is an adventure game that takes place on Arrakis. It’s set during the events described in the novel and allows players to play a small part in Dune's history.

The game is inspired by the award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. It’s a card-driven game in which players have three unique Chapters to complete. Each Chapter isa series of Encounters represented by cards that, based on the player's choices, shape the game’s story, just like in RPGs.

Each card in the game represents one Encounter. It might be spying on somebody, talking tomerchants, breaking into a mysterious warehouse, or following a spice transport. Each Encounter pushes the story forward, reveals new choices, and gives access to new Encounters. Players will gain new allies, new enemies, and with each card, they will learn more about the story.

To resolve Encounters, players may need to spend their Resources: Water, Spice, and others. Sometimes they use them to bribe a guard, but they could also use them to fight theirway through. To add to the theme of the game, Resources are limited, just like in the merciless desert of Arrakis. Players start the game with a Pool of Resources, and the supply doesn’t replenish unless they gain Experience Points (XP) at the end of the mission and spend them on training. In Dune: House Secrets, you not only pursue leads to reveal the story, but also manage your Resources to survive another Chapter on the planet. If you spend too many of your Resources, or if you don’t gain enough XP for training, your adventure may end sooner than expected.

Welcome to Arrakis. Are you ready for an adventure? Pre-order Dune: House Secrets to get a special limited edition of the game. https://dune.portalgames.pl/en

Check out tomorrow’s update and see what bonus we’ll be adding to your copy of the game!

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preorders have extra things.
 
🪐 Game Designer's Journal #2 - Life of a rebel 🪐

Dune: House Secrets is an adventure game that takes place on Arrakis. It thrusts players into the midst of conflict between two great houses, and allows players to play a small part in Dune's history.

Dune: House Secrets is inspired by the award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, but unlike its predecessor, it’s an adventure game. Players are not playing as investigators, detectives, or cops — they are rebels, part of the resistance forces fighting against House Harkonnen.

This brand new angle gives a fresh, unique turn to the gameplay. Players won’t have access to files and FBI databases. They won’t be allowed to visit crime scenes or question suspects.The whole game changes into an exciting adventure, where stealth, bribery, and sometimes brute force are the only tools available. It’s reminiscent of a good old-school RPG where a small team of heroes must complete a quest. Players eavesdrop on guards and soldiers, sneak behind their backs, and spend Resources like Water or Spice to get to places normally unavailable to them. Some of the Encounters resemble classic video games like Thief or Dishonored rather than modern crime shows. In some missions players must commit the crime rather than find out who did it.

Do you have the strength to oppose House Harkonnen? Are you ready to join the resistance? Welcome to Arrakis, rebel.

Pre-order Dune: House Secrets to get a special limited edition of the game.
➡️ dune.portalgames.pl/en

Check out tomorrow’s update and see what bonus we’ll be adding to your copy of the game!
 
This is what has been unlocked for pre-orders, apparently they’ve nearly sold most of the pre-order amount:

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Check what we have added so far to each copy purchased from us during the pre-sale:
 
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