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Artifact Foundry is now Generally Available
Although we made Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry free alongside our announcements about those games last week and put them both on the same store page, the button to install or play Artifact Foundry didn't work (i…
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Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry
Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry are two versions of the digital card game originally named Artifact, developed through a collaboration between Valve and renowned designer Richard Garfield. Artifact was designed as…
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The Future of Artifact
Artifact, the Dota 2 card game, shipped in November of 2018. Despite good initial sales, our player count fell off pretty dramatically. This warranted a shift from the service/update development model we'd planned to a…
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Patch Notes 3/4/2021
This patch is a part of a larger update to both Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry (formerly Artifact Beta 2.0). See the full announcement here and an explanation of Artifact Classic vs Artifact Foundry here. Economy…
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The Beta Begins!
We’ve sent out the first round of invites! All invited players should immediately see Artifact Beta 2.0 on their accounts. We will keep you updated on additional invites (no timeline yet!), and will continue to work to…
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Plan Update - Beta 2.0
We are happy to announce that we are moving to the next phase of the Beta! The Beta for the original game started too late and was too short. We’ve decided to approach things a bit differently this time around by gradua…
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Let's Shop! (continued)
Welcome back to another round of shop talk! After our last blog post we received a lot of email which made it clear that people still had questions about the specific functioning of the new shop. A lack of clarity in ou…
Store24 changesGameplayUI/audio - Artifact
Let's Shop!
Before we get into the blog, we wanted to share the results of last week’s poll. Arc Warden was the front-runner right out of the gate – his lead seemed insurmountable. Slow and steady, though, Nyx started to creep up.…
Store23 changesGameplayWorkshop - Artifact
The Heroes We Need
This week we wanted to talk a bit more about the heroes in Artifact. These have been viewed as one of the strengths in the original game, but also as one of the missed opportunities. The most common concerns we hear are…
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Mechanics!
This one came in hot so please forgive any gram badder, who would have guessed that doing all this remotely would be so hard? Anyway, let’s get to it! Initiative The initiative rules haven't changed much, but the implic…
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Deployment Deep Dive
I have some good news, some more good news, and some bad news. The good news is that after our previous post, we received a deluge of emails. More good news - it’s high quality feedback that people have clearly spent a…
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Looking Forward, Looking Back
When the members of the team decided to reboot Artifact we all did it for different reasons. Some of us loved the original game and wanted to see it thrive. Some of us liked the freeing sense of creativity you can have…
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What's the plan - Beta 2.0
This week we wanted to talk about the Artifact Beta 2.0, what it will include, and when it will happen. We’ve been focusing on gameplay changes first. The biggest change is zooming out to allow players access to all thr…
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Under Construction
First off, we wanted to say thanks for all of your tweets, emails and posts. The continued interest in Artifact has been encouraging, and we sincerely appreciate all of the feedback! You might notice some changes soon –…
Announcement - Artifact
Towards A Better Artifact
When we launched Artifact, we expected it would be the beginning of a long journey, that it would lay the foundation for years to come. Our plan was to immediately dive into our normal strategy of shipping a series of u…
Announcement1 changeBalance - Artifact
1/28 Update
Item Card Changes: Blade of the Vigil: Cleave increased from +2 to +4 Keenfolk Plate: Added "Equipped hero's attackers have -1 Armor" Stonehall Pike cost reduced from 6 gold to 5 gold Stonehall Plate cost reduced from 6…
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