Popularium launches alpha for Chaos Agents from Magic developer Richard Garfield

Agents of Chaosthe new autobattler royale game from Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield, is starting its secret alpha test today.

Game from the original studio Popular has received a lot of attention since its announcement at Gen Con 2024. More than 20,000 players have registered for 1,000 seats in the alpha test. To meet the target, Popularium will increase the number of alpha seats to 5,000 during the initial alpha launch, and plans to expand the Alpha to over 10,000 players by early 2025.

“We have been very impressed with the response to the Alpha announcement,” said Arka Ray, President and CTO at Popularium, in a statement. “The number of players who want to join the alpha and see Richard’s vision is 20 more than we expected. And we continue to receive hundreds of new applications every week. We expect more than 30,000 subscribers by the end of the year. The team is working during the holidays to welcome as many players as possible. starting Alpha. We want every applicant to have a chance to meet Chaos Agents soon.”

In preparation for this rapid growth, Popularium launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Republic platform. The campaign was fully committed and subsequently oversubscribed within six hours of its public launch.

The Popularium campaign on Republic helps people to invest in Popularium. Ray said that the quick closure of the campaign and the players and fans of the co-founders of Popularium Garfield and Jonathan Bankard (co-creator of Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Command and Conquer) want to directly support the development of their first game.

“This is an exciting time for Chaos Agents,” said Mr. Garfield during a Q&A at the event to launch the Chaos Agents campaign and mobilize more people in the Republic. “The game is being well received by the players, more than I expected at the beginning. There are different types of games that we want to make as Chaos Agents, and thanks to the community and the technology that we have created, it is clear what we can make and what we should make. There has never been a better time to make a game. the players are enjoying it, but at the same time the opportunities for improvement seem endless.”

Forever multiplayer game

The Alpha Launch follows the announcement that Popularium has committed to a “multiplayer game” for Chaos Agents. Using dedicated servers and its Chaos cloud game engine, Popularium plans to ensure that Chaos Agents will be a multiplayer game that cannot be “killed” or taken offline.

Players are expected to always have a way to play the game with the world-class experts they have recruited to their team. Garfield and Ray said the positive response from the announcement has helped generate more interest in the Chaos Agents Alpha and crowdfunding campaign.

In Chaos Agents, the first autobattler-royale game, players train and guide the world’s most unique hero – the Agent of Chaos – to victory in a massive battle against dozens of other Agents.

These players train and inspire their hero through deep, clever card games similar to Garfield’s popular games, such as Magic and Keyforge, then sit back and watch their hero go into battle, preparing for the next upgrade. Each Agent is unique worldwide – which means that only one player in the world will play with an Agent at a given time and become the world master of that agent.

“Evolving and creating new models is just so much fun,” said Bankard, Chaos Agents game director, in a statement. “All of us at Popularium have been working on projects like Magic and Hearthstone that started as small dreams that reached more players than we originally expected. We are also trying something similar with Chaos Agents—bringing the autobattler style of gaming to the masses through authentic battle modes. The benefits that we have them now participating in the beginning of our community by helping us polish this rough stone into a bright, shiny diamond through their games and the businesses that make them part of Popularium.”

Chaos Agents plans to expand its alpha at the end of January in conjunction with the Second Chaos World Championship, and plans to expand the alpha capacity every month before entering Early Access at the end of 2025. Players can register for the alpha at popularium.com and request early access. upon joining
Chaos Agents Discord server.