Novus Malum Brings Environmental Impression to the Tabletop

An Environmentally Pleasant Skirmish Wargame, Novus Malum has launched from a brand new studio, Enviro Video games LTD.

We love wargames, skirmish video games, passion video games no matter you wish to name them. These (principally) little plastic miniatures video games have seen one other explosion in recognition since COVID-19, and the practice is not stopping. Launching a brand new recreation within the area is not simple, nevertheless. With the mighty Video games Workshop taking on nearly all of the pie, how does one stand out?

Properly, that is the place Enviro Video games is trying to come to the desk (prime) with their environmentally pleasant focus, they’re trying to nook a distinct segment available in the market and carve out a slice of the pie for themselves.

What, and who, are Enviro Video games

Enviro Video games is constructing its firm on 5 pillars from the outset:

• Use paper-based parts derived from sustainably managed forests
• Leveraging printing processes which keep away from oil-based feedstocks
• Eradicating oil-based plastic parts wherever doable and
• Utilizing miniatures produced from much less dangerous printing supplies, moulds with a number of manufacturing cycles and the power to re-use mis-casts and sprues (that are usually in any other case discarded).
• Teaming up with native design, printing and manufacturing companions within the growth of our recreation, not solely supporting the native economic system but additionally decreasing the necessity for journey between websites!

“Roll the cube, however not with our planet”

It is a catchy tagline, however extra importantly, it is simply a good suggestion. Enviro Video games will launch its first recreation, Novus Malum open to pre-orders for anybody trying to become involved. The product might be made in Siocast, an injection moulded system, which signifies that corporations on a a lot smaller scale could make a product on a a lot bigger scale than they may usually. Additionally, as Enviro Video games acknowledged in its five-point plan, Siocast could be reused after, so the unused sprue could be repurposed into the following package to enter manufacturing. The important thing right here is, that whereas Siocast can produce the minies for you, with a well-trained worker you are able to do it your self.

Particularly, one draw back to the product that must be talked about is that Siocast IS the product, it is the corporate’s model, which implies they management the worth. However, for a smaller-scale wargaming firm, Siocast is a unbelievable place to start out.

You will get a greater concept of your entire course of within the video beneath from the ever-wonderful Goobertown Hobbies.

Novus Malum, the corporate’s first recreation

So, what precisely is Novus Malum, that is A New Evil in Latin for many who didn’t brush up on that at College. For now, Novus Malum has one product (which you’ll be able to see on the prime of the submit) for now, however there’s actual potential for it to develop.

We had a short chat with Daniel Phillips, Founder and Innovation Director at Enviro Video games concerning the product and what the longer term holds for Novus Malum:

” We might love to do each (increase Novus Malum and do different merchandise). We perceive that making a model that folks recognise is necessary. What we would love to do is construct on the map that we have created and included within the rulebook. This primary set takes place in only one a part of that world, so we would prefer to increase that with extra armies and to flesh that out throughout the continent (of the sport). Within the meantime, we will give you further campaigns to get extra out of the product for folks.”

So, the sport has scope to develop in future for people who undertake early, or what to return in at a later date. We plan to sit down down with Daniel, and the opposite three founders of Enviro Video games within the new yr when copies of the sport are in folks’s fingers, and, when we have now had an opportunity to play it.

That is all for now, however anticipate extra content material from us over the vacation interval on Novus Malum;

• We’ll check out the sport itself, the techniques and the way it performs.
• A take a look at the fashions within the first launch
• The story and setting for this recreation