Minion Masters News

Get the new $15 Crystal Conquest DLC 100% off this weekend!


Biggest Minion Masters expansion to date, including arrival of Adventures and the new faction Stouthearts!

Go on a daring journey in the new single-player rogue-like mode!
Choose among unique Masters, gather Minions and find unique Relics to fight a multitude of bosses in the Minion Masters world.
Every run is a unique experience with new bosses to beat and rewards to reap!
Play, collect and experience the new Stoutheart faction in both the new adventures and online matches.
Stouthearts introduce many new mechanics like Revelry, Slow, Spin Attacks, Caber and more!

You can read all about the new Expansion on the update site or just jump right into the game! :)

Watch the new Minion Masters 90 sec movie!


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BetaDwarf

Minion Masters!

Compelled by cryptic visions of impending evil, Milloween has ventured deep into the frozen Highlands in search of the reclusive Stoutheart tribes to help her in the search for the ancient Mountainshaper artifact. She can only hope that they find it before it falls into the clutches of evil...


In Adventures you go on bold single-player journeys with unique mechanics, content and story!

The Quest for Mountainshaper
Journey with Milloween on a daring adventure to find the powerful artifact Mountainshaper, an ancient and powerful magical weapon sought by a shadowy threat.
With dangers every step of the way, she will need to enlist the aid of likely and unlikely Masters.

• 3 chapters - Chapters 1 & 2 are available at release. Chapter 3 releases on the 13th of December.
  
• Build your deck as you go. Start with a Master-specific deck and with each victory, you get a choice of cards to add to your deck.
  
• 5 unique masters with completely new perks and with unlockable “Affinity cards”.
  
• Unique Boss fights - Encounter 23 Boss fights in the Frozen Highlands, each with new perks and personalities.
  
• Powerful relics and treasures to empower your deck as you play.
  
• Rewards - Across all the chapters you’ll earn tokens, xp, exclusive avatars and even a Legendary card!
  Completing hard mode awards an exclusive rare and supreme avatar.
  
• Price - Chapter 1 is free, with Chapters 2 & 3 costing 1400 rubies as a package, or 1000 individually. You can play owned chapters as much as you want.
  

Minion Masters!

It's time to get in the holiday spirit with a Frostival Fanart Contest! Our winner will be receiving an amazing prize of 5000 Rubies with two runner-up prizes of 1000 Rubies - Here's how you can enter to have a chance of winning!

1. Make what you think is the best Minion Masters Holiday artwork ever created.
   
2. All entries must be Frostival/Holiday/Winter related.
   
3. Head on over to our Official Discord at http://discord.gg/minionmasters and post your entry in the #frostival-contest channel.
   
4. Once the Contest entry period ends on the 24th of December, a community vote will be held between 3 entries selected by the BetaDwarf staff, running until the 28th of December. The Winner will receive codes worth 5,000 Rubies, while second and third place will win 1,000 Rubies each.
   

As always, all entries need to be original artworks! You can use any medium you like - Sketches, digital, 3D, but they need to be your own work to be eligible for the contest.

The contest runs from the 3rd of December to the 24th of December, 0900 UTC. Good luck, Masters!

Cheers from BetaDwarf!

Minion Masters!

We're changing up our blog schedule to release on the same day as our new E-mail Newsletters - Thursday! Our main reason for doing this is to avoid major content overlaps between them and to align better with future Update days.





The Quest for Mountainshaper is releasing next week, Masters! After the short delay for our Mini-Update in Malshaar's Malicious Malediction, the new release date of the 5th of December is almost upon us. Have you been keeping on top of all of the latest reveals from our Update Site?

We've got a Developer Stream coming up on Monday the 2nd to show off all of the new content you'll be able to play with, including all the new cards and a live demonstration of Adventures. You can find it on our official Twitch Channel at 1900 CET - We hope to see you there!


Thanks for all the submissions we've received regarding your card ideas so far! A lot of them have been really interesting to read through, and today we're highlighting Aymei's set of Accursed cards, including a new mechanic:

New Mechanic - Accursed Bones: Bones are dropped from certain Accursed cards, like the Undying Skeleton. It is used as a resource to cast certain abilities.

Corpse Explosion - 3 Mana Spell. Destroy bones in the target area, dealing 100 damage to ALL units. Can only be used in your arena.

Ghoul - 5 Mana Minion. Consumes all bones on the map, getting bigger and stronger. Gains 75 HP and 10 damage per bone consumed. Base 150 HP and 20 Damage.

What we like most about this set of suggestions is the idea of creating a long term win condition through the new Bones mechanic and creating powerful cards that take advantage of them, but with major drawbacks to including them in your deck to offset their lategame potential. Corpse Explosion for instance would do nothing without any Bones in your field, requiring you to set it up first, while Ghoul only becomes valuable when there's a large number of Bones on the field, making your strategy predictable to your opponent in exchange for the raw potential.

Want your card suggestions featured on our blog? Send your ideas to [email protected] !



Lastly, we've got a little bit more to show off regarding that Crossbow Dude and the Priestess from a few weeks ago. 10 seconds more, in fact:



The keen eye will notice this Priestess looks a little different to what we currently have in game. What could it all mean? You'll find out soon!

Cheers from BetaDwarf!

Minion Masters!

The Mini-Update has just dropped containing the balance changes from Version 1.7 as well as the new Mal'Shaar's Malicious Malediction Mayhem. Are you having fun with them? Let us know! In the meantime, there's two weeks until The Quest for Mountainshaper releases, and this week we'd like to look back at the past.



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Long time Minion Masters player Ecke brought this video to our attention from the BetaDwarf Archives. What you see is one of the first Minion Masters prototypes from its early infancy back in Summer 2016, using lots of early graphics and models from our previous project Forced Showdown. Lots of weird animations back then, too - Check out that sway on Ratbo, and how Sniper Scrat doesn't even take aim. It even features Ratbo's old second perk where he could attack at global range if he had more than 10 minions summoned at a time.

It's great to look back at old footage like this and see how far Minion Masters has come since then. Thanks again to Ecke for pointing us to this!





Forced was the first game BetaDwarf made out of university, for which you can read our incredible startup story here. Forced was acclaimed for its great co-op gameplay in a time where games had begun to focus on more solitary, less social experiences. With our next project having that same focus of connecting people together with Friendshipping, it's great to look back at where it all started for inspiration.

Steam Remote Play Together allows you to play local multiplayer games with your friends online across the world, as if they were sitting next to you with their controller plugged in. For Forced, this could mean you'll have less connection issues when trying to play with your friends as you're using Steam's new and improved feature rather than our old and non-optimized multiplayer setup.

To celebrate the release of Remote Play Together, [https://store.steampowered.com/app/249990/FORCED_Slightly_Better_Edition/]Forced is currently on sale until November 25th on Steam. We hope you'll take this opportunity to play through BetaDwarf's first adventure into the games industry as we prepare to expand in new and exciting directions!



We decided we'd like to get ahead on communicating upcoming content around the Christmas period, so we have some information for you about what we'll be up to. Version 1.8 is currently scheduled for the 18th of December and will include a Christmas Event, Balance changes and a couple of things that didn't make it into Version 1.7.

Additionally, the first ranked season for The Quest for Mountainshaper will have a longer duration than normal. The current season has been extended to the 5th to coincide with the release of our new expansion, and because Version 1.9 won't be until the 16th of January (as currently planned) the next ranked season will end there.



Following a recent string of tournaments he's hosted, BadAsAFish80 is back and venturing into the relatively untapped realm of 2v2 Tournaments. Here's what he had to say on Reddit:

Many of you have asked for me to provide a 2v2 tournament therefore I'm excited to announce that we are doing it! Since this is the first of our 2v2 tournaments it will be designated as a test event so that we can see how the scheduling and rules are applied to this game mode, therefore I need your help to get as many people into the tournament as possible. There is no cash prize pool for this event but the first "proper" 2v2 tournament will be supported by BetaDwarf providing a $200 prize pool with registration starting for that event on the 1st of December.

https://www.toornament.com/en_GB/tournaments/3055972701168066560/information

I'm really excited to get the 2v2 tournament scene up and running and I hope that you all can join me in this and future events to have a lot of fun, to support the community and of course win some prizes!

Many thanks

Fish

Cheers from BetaDwarf!