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New CoraQuest Book!

Dan Hughes — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:34:31 +0000

Annabelle and the Sorcerer’s Spoon

We have published a CoraQuest kid’s book on Amazon!!

Annabelle and the Sorcerer’s Spoon is a children’s chapter book for families to read together, or for kids of 7-12 to read independently. It’s written by me (Dan Hughes) and illustrated both inside and out by CoraQuest’s chief-colourer-in, Gary King

Here are the direct links to the paperback on the various Amazon stores. The book is only available in English:

Amazon.com	Amazon.co.uk	Amazon.ca
Amazon.com.au	Amazon.de	Amazon.es
Amazon.fr	Amazon.it	Amazon.co.jp
Amazon.nl	Amazon.pl	Amazon.se

Here’s the burb from the back cover:

Wizard Pebbledash is in trouble.

It’s the village Shiniest Spoon Competition today, and his arch-rival, Wizard Bandicoot, is plotting to cheat him out of first place! And if that’s not stressful enough, his assistant has accidentally washed his best wizarding cloak in custard!

Luckily, trainee adventurer Annabelle is on the case. She’ll go into the dark and dangerous dungeon on a quest to make Pebbledash’s spoon shine more brightly than a dragon’s hoard. She’ll battle mischievous orcs, and solve fiendish problems – but will she get back in time to spoil Bandicoot’s plans to cheat in the competition? You’ll have to read this book to find out!

Contains a free new adventure for the CoraQuest board game so players can take part in the story too!

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CoraQuest: Keep on Questing expansion announced

Dan Hughes — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 20:32:00 +0000

Cora, Gary, and I are very excited to announce that the new expansion for the game: Coraquest: Keep on Questing will be coming to Kickstarter towards the end of October 2022. Here’s the highly professional announcement video we made about it.

CoraQuest: Keep on Questing is an expansion that adds campaign rules to the game. You’ll be able to level up your heroes between quests, and also keep treasure from one adventure to another. There are two full campaigns included – “The Curse of Hoodez” and “A Spotter’s Guide to the Dungeon”. Each campaign contains five brand-new adventures to play through – so that’s a total of ten new adventures! There is also very simple guidance on how to turn the base game adventures into a campaign, as well as write your own campaigns yourself.

And of course there will be tons more heroes, enemies, treasure cards, and dungeon cards for you to play with too.

There’s even a rumor some legendary “super-cool black dice” making an appearance.

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New Free Quest: A Recipe for Adventure

Dan Hughes — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:16:01 +0000

We have released another free quest for the CoraQuest base game!

That rotten blighter Wizard Bandicoot is up to his old tricks. He’s cast a spell and turned poor Kevin’s pet cats, Remy and Luna, into a two-headed monster again.

Wizard Pebbledash needs you to go down into the dungeon and find the missing pages of his Potion Recipe book so he can cure them.

You can download the adventure here

The quest has been playtested, however being digital we are able to tweak it even after release so if you have any feedback or suggestions then let me know at either by email (dan@coraquest.com) or by posting in our Facebook group.

Good luck adventurers!

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New Free Quest: The Heat is On

Dan Hughes — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:48:04 +0000

The first of our free CoraQuest adventures is now available!

There’s trouble in the dungeon!

Kevin and Annabelle have been messing about with the thermostat in the dungeon and have turned the heating up too high. Now it’s so warm down there that all the dormant spider eggs are starting to hatch out! A brave band of heroes need to go on an adventure to turn the heating dial back to its regular setting.

You can download the new adventure here

Good luck adventurers!

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The CoraQuest App!

Dan Hughes — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:34:02 +0000

Making CoraQuest has been such a wonderful creative adventure for Cora and I, and we decided we didn’t want to keep that experience just to ourselves – we wanted to help others have that creative adventure too.

CoraQuest a complete family dungeon crawling game straight out of the box, and has enough heroes, monsters and quests to keep you adventuring for a very long time. However, should you want to get a bit creative and come up with your own heroes, monsters, and quests, then theres information and guidance in the rulebook to help you do that.

And because we know that kids (and grown ups) like to have things look “official” we have worked with our fantastic friend Bob Haigh to come up with this awesome CoraQuest Character Creator App in order to let you use your own computer and printer to produce fabulous looking Hero Cards and Standees.

You can find the app in the menu at the top of this page, or you can just click here

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The Prototypes Are Here!

Dan Hughes — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 13:29:01 +0000

The CoraQuest prototypes have arrived from the printer and they are absolutely amazing!

We have sent 10 of these prototypes out to a variety of previewers and reviewers to take a look at, and have had nothing but positive feedback from them so far.

Cora and I kept a copy back for ourselves of course, and there isn’t a day goes by that I don’t get them out to admire them and marvel at how far CoraQuest has come.

And if all that wasn’t enough, there are even more exciting things on the horizon! We have a special secret project lined up to reveal in just a couple of weeks that I feel takes CoraQuest to an entirely new level of awesomeness.

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New Box Cover Art!

Dan Hughes — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 13:17:56 +0000

Our box art is done!

Gary has pulled together drawings from kids from all over the world to make this amazing art for the CoraQuest box.

And here is what it looked like as Gary was putting it together:

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Calling all artists!

Dan Hughes — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:28:32 +0000

Would your kids like to have their drawings in a board game? What about on the box cover? Cora, Gary, and I are putting a call out for people to help to illustrate CoraQuest and show the world that everyone can be an artist if they want to be!

If you know a young creative CoraQuestor, we need their help to stock our Dungeon with all kinds of monsters.

Whilst we can’t make any promises, we hope to include as many as possible in the final game. Things that will help improve the chance of seeing your terrifying enemy appear in the dungeon are:

1. Stick to a line drawing if possible (no shading or colouring, just so we can apply the same colouring to all the designs we use).

2. Make it big and clear. Scans of drawings are best but photographs can work too, especially if they’re in focus and fill the frame.

3. Gremlins, Goblins and Orcs are the dominant races in CoraQuest and because of those pesky heroes, with their shining swords and semi-automatic crossbows, the dungeon always needs reinforcements! Versions of these evil enemies, that draw inspiration from Cora’s original designs, will be put on the dungeon’s recruitment fast-track. You can see some of the art Cora has done already over in the print and play section.

We are also going to add all the submissions to a special Monster Gallery on CoraQuest.com opening on the 31st October.

Submissions should be in by 21st October. So send us your ideas as illustrations to: gary@coraquest.com

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Customising CoraQuest

Dan Hughes — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:54:17 +0000

A big part of what is exciting us about CoraQuest is that players will be able to create their own heroes, enemies and quests for the game using our customisation rules.

And now those rules are ready for people to use! You can find them here!

We have also released some templates and fonts that you can use if you want to put your heroes on one of our character cards. You can find those files here

We will soon be adding a section to the website where we will share people’s CoraQuest creations for everyone to use. We already have a few submissions that we are preparing – but if you make your own then make sure to tell us about them!

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CoraQuest Designer Diaries #4

Dan Hughes — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:53:20 +0000

In this instalment of our designer diaries Cora and I talk about some of the artwork and the creative writing she has done for the game.

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