Witch and Council: The Card celebrates its launch with a discount and free DLC event. | Image by Smilegate
Smilegate’s global social platform, Stove, has officially launched the deck-building rogue-lite game Witch and Council: The Card (developed by G1 Playground(CEO Sangbin Han)). To celebrate the release, Stove announced a limited-time discount event.
Witch and Council: The Card combines the random elements of roguelites, the strategic depth of RPGs, and an engaging story in a card battle format. Players assume the role of the witch, Lulu, battling against the student council president, Sibylla. Along the way, players collect character cards with unique abilities and freely build decks to overcome various stages. Each character has a unique deck of over 30 cards, enabling highly strategic combat. The game also includes a “Story Mode” for those who wish to enjoy a narrative-driven experience.
The game’s developer, G1 Playground, is a renowned Korean indie game studio known for Zelter, a zombie survival action game praised as “Korea’s Project Zomboid.” The studio also won Google Play’s Innovative Game of the Year Award in 2019 for their puzzle game Trick Art Dungeon.
Pangyo Techno Valley is a global integrated R&D hub focused on IT, BT, CT, and NT, integrating Research (R), People (P), Information (I), and Trade (T). As Gyeonggi-do’s representative innovation cluster, Pangyo Techno Valley was established to secure national new growth drivers such as technological innovation, human resource development, job creation, and enhancing international business competitiveness. As of 2023, 1,666 companies employ 78,751 people, and it has positioned itself as the most innovative hub in South Korea, with sales amounting to 167.7 trillion KRW (125.5 billion USD).
Furthermore, the Techno Valley Innovation Division of the Gyeonggi-do Business & Science Accelerator (GBSA) holds monthly events such as the Pangyo Evening Meet-Up, Pan-Pan Day, and the Pangyo Startup Investment Exchange “In-Best Pangyo” to maximize the value of Pangyo Techno Valley. They also support the Pangyo Overseas Promotion Program, which publicizes information about Pangyo’s companies, products, and services to domestic and foreign investors and the media, thereby facilitating foreign investment.
