﻿{"id":65626,"date":"2019-08-02T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=65626"},"modified":"2020-03-10T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:56:57","slug":"funkoverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/funkoverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Funkoverse Makes Your Dream Gaming Match-Ups Come True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever thought &#8220;He Who Must Not Be Named&#8221; would make a great foe for Batman? (\u201cHoly Horcruxes, Batman!\u201d) Or have you wondered if Blanche Devereaux could\u2019ve softened the cynical heart of mad scientist Rick Sanchez? (\u201cWhy, is that a laser pistol in your pocket, Rick?\u201d \u201cWubba lubba dub dub!\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>If so, does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/s\/funko\/s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funko<\/span><\/a> have a game for you!<\/p>\n<p>The company that\u2019s been bringing us delightfully deformed Pop! vinyl versions of famed movie, TV, comic, and video game characters for nearly a decade is now rolling the dice in the billion-dollar board game space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/s\/?query1=funkoverse\"><i>Funkoverse<\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a collectible tabletop strategy game that not only puts icons from landmark franchises into play within their own \u201cworlds,\u201d but will also let gamers mix and match heroes and villains &#8211; and the occasional sweetheart from St. Olaf &#8211; in wild, weird, wonderful ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Brand-New Smaller Scale Pop!s with Familiar Funko Charm<\/b><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Into the Funkoverse: What We Learned about the Strategy Game from One of the Creators!\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxCDiWPOx-g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Funkoverse<\/i> is the first fruits of Funko\u2019s acquisition of leading game design studio Forrest-Pruzan Creative &#8211; no stranger to working with high-profile licenses from Disney to Bob Ross.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.funko.com\/funkoverse\">Funko Games<\/a> unveiled the <i>Funkoverse <\/i>system and its first six entries during San Diego Comic-Con 2019. According to <em>Funkoverse<\/em> Game Designer Chris Rowlands, &#8220;it&#8217;s a completely universal system, but each game is a standalone experience.&#8221; Meaning that each game has the same engine, but comes with two maps and each character in the game is completely unique with their own abilities and their own special powers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The immediate attractions in each <i>Funkoverse<\/i> game are the 3-inch Funko Pop! Vinyl Figures &#8211; a brand-new scale for the line, smaller in size but with the same signature Funko Pop! appeal:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funkoverse DC<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/dc-comics-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-base-set\/fu42628\">Four-character<i> Batman <\/i><\/a> game &#8211; Batman, Batgirl, The Joker, Harley Quinn)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/dc-comics-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-expandalone\/fu42646\">Two-character <i>Batman <\/i><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/dc-comics-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-expandalone\/fu42646\">\u201cexpandalone\u201d<\/a> (a complete game in itself that can also be used with four-character games) &#8211; Robin, Catwoman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Funkoverse Harry Potter\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/harry-potter-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-base-set\/fu42631\" class=\"broken_link\">Four-character <i>Harry Potter<\/i><\/a> game &#8211; Harry, Hermione, Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/harry-potter-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-expandalone\/fu42644\">Two-character <i>Harry Potter<\/i><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/harry-potter-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-expandalone\/fu42644\"> \u201cexpandalone\u201d<\/a> &#8211; Ron, Draco<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Funkoverse Rick and Morty<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/rick-and-morty-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-expandalone\/fu42634\">Two-character <i>Rick and Morty<\/i><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/rick-and-morty-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-expandalone\/fu42634\"> game &#8220;expandalone&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Rick, Morty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Funkoverse Golden Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/golden-girls-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-expandalone\/fu42633\" class=\"broken_link\">Two-character <i>The Golden Girls<\/i><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/golden-girls-pop-funkoverse-strategy-game-expandalone\/fu42633\" class=\"broken_link\"> game &#8220;expandalone&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Blanche, Rose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And many of these figures have accessories. Ron Weasley can carry a broom and wand. Catwoman can wield her whip and Harley Quinn her mallet. And Rick gets to brandish his dimension-disrupting portal gun (all accessories are also interchangeable between characters).<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Funkoverse &#8211; How to Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_expandalone_golden_girls-640x336.jpg\" alt=\"Funkoverse Expandalone\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_expandalone_golden_girls-640x336.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_expandalone_golden_girls-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_expandalone_golden_girls-660x347.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_expandalone_golden_girls-380x200.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_expandalone_golden_girls-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_expandalone_golden_girls.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the figures aren\u2019t ends in themselves. They\u2019re integral parts of an easy-to-learn yet satisfyingly light strategy game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An original game for licensed products is rare,\u201d says Ben Mitchell, main prototype fabricator and simulation coder for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doublewattgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Double Watt Games<\/a> in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. \u201cOften you get a reskin of an existing popular game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Each box includes a full-color folding playing board on which characters face off against each other in one of four scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Dice, character instruction cards, colorful \u201ccrystal\u201d tokens, and a rule book with both general <i>Funkoverse<\/i> and world-specific regs round out the contents.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell says giving each figure set \u201cits own board and setup,\u201d as <i>Funkoverse <\/i>does, means \u201cway more playtesting and design work, but avoids the power creep of living collectible systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One intriguing <i>Funkoverse<\/i> innovation is the \u201ccooldown\u201d system.<\/p>\n<p>The more resources a character expends to perform a powerful ability &#8211; Batgirl\u2019s Flying Tackle, for instance, or a Hogwarts student\u2019s spell in the Room of Requirement &#8211; the longer that character takes to recover before moving again.<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Get Your Funkoverse Fix from Entertainment Earth!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_rick_and_morty-640x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_rick_and_morty-640x336.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_rick_and_morty-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_rick_and_morty-660x347.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_rick_and_morty-380x200.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_rick_and_morty-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/funkoverse_rick_and_morty.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nAs Deirdre Cross, Director Of Product Development, told The Gaming Gang\u2019s Jeff McAleer, she wants people to <i>play <\/i>the game: \u201cWe don\u2019t want this game to go home and just sit on someone\u2019s shelf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this is <i>not <\/i>a product meant to remain mint-in-box!<\/p>\n<p>With its creative gameplay, impressive expandability, and showcasing of the irresistible Funko Pop! style, <i>Funkoverse<\/i> looks set to become a huge hit that proves Funko\u2019s guiding principle, \u201cEveryone is a fan of something!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Order your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/s\/?query1=funkoverse\">Funkoverse base sets and \u201cexpandalones\u201d<\/a> today, and get stay tuned for even more Funkoverse future sets here on Entertainment Earth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever thought &#8220;He Who Must Not Be Named&#8221; would make a great foe for Batman? (\u201cHoly Horcruxes, Batman!\u201d) Or have you wondered if Blanche Devereaux could\u2019ve softened the cynical heart of mad scientist Rick Sanchez? (\u201cWhy, is that a laser pistol in your pocket, Rick?\u201d \u201cWubba lubba dub dub!\u201d) If so, does Funko have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":65632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[158],"tags":[224,5746,221],"yst_prominent_words":[5950,7848,6240,6475,5924,8391,5927,5928,8372,8376,8381,8492,5877,8479,8379,5897,8384,7020,8374,8388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67036,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65626\/revisions\/67036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65626"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=65626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
