A video game based on author Frank Beddor‘s best-selling “The Looking Glass Wars” novels is set to launch this summer as the first push in a plan to further expand the franchise across mediums.
Titled “The Looking Glass Wars: House of Cards,” the deck-building game is releasing tied to the 20th anniversary of Beddor’s trilogy, which reimagines Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” as the suppressed history of Princess Alyss Heart of Wonderland.
Per the description for the new game, “Departing from traditional ‘Alice in Wonderland’ whimsy, ‘The Looking Glass Wars: House of Cards’ invites players back into Beddor’s war-torn vision of the realm. This single-player, strategic deck builder blends the DNA of tabletop classics like Rummikub and Mahjong with modern tactical depth. Players must navigate a darker, high-stakes world where iconic characters are re-imagined as elite operatives and every suit is fighting for the soul of Wonderland.”
As Beddor preps to release the new video game amid the novel trilogy’s 20th anniversary, he’s also plotting a new “Looking Glass Wars” comic book and launching a Kickstarter campaign for “The Looking Glass Wars: Visions of Wonderland,” “a museum-quality artbook” to debut tied to the game.
