Factsheet
Designers:
Mary Flanagan and Max Seidman
Release Date:
Q1 2022
Website:
MSRP:
$27.95
Description
Phantom Ink is a 15-minute, party game about renowned mediums competing to prove who has the best connection with the World Beyond. To do this, mediums must correctly identify a secret object that the Spirits are trying to communicate to them.
Players form two teams, each with 1 Spirit and up to 3 Mediums, both competing to identify the same Secret Object. During gameplay, Mediums pass question cards, like “What color is it?” or “If it was a musical instrument, what would it be?” to their Spirit. Spirits know the Secret Object, and answer the questions in order to provide Clues to help their Mediums guess the Secret Object.
There’s a catch: the other team doesn’t see what question you asked, but they do see the answer. Mediums call “Silencio” when they know the Clue their Spirit is writing, to make it hard for the other team to learn anything from the Clue.
If the other team sees the Clue “Y”, that doesn’t help much. But you know the question was “What color is it?” so the Clue must be “Yellow”!
Assets
Photos Below by Eric Yurko of What’s Eric Playing?
These photos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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About Resonym
We make exceptional games that players love.
Resonym is a playful woman-led media company in New Hampshire bringing new voices to tabletop gaming and beyond. Our games are a gateway to nifty new types of play. From award-winning party games like Buffalo: The Name Dropping Game and Awkward Moment, to our strategy games Monarch and VISITOR in Blackwood Grove, we make family friendly fun games that inspire the imagination.
OUR GAMES RESONATE
Resonym develops board games, card games, sports, urban games, and digital games, plus printed matter and ephemera. Many of the games we publish have been researched at Tiltfactor, the interdisciplinary innovation studio dedicated to designing & studying games that help us learn, founded by prolific game designer Dr. Mary Flanagan.
More Information
More information on Resonym, our logo & relevant media are available here.
Team
Game Design: Mary Flanagan and Max Seidman
Writing: The whole Resonym team
Illustration and Graphic Design: Spring Yu
Production & Logistics: Max Seidman, Danielle Taylor, and Sukie Punjasthitkul
Community Management: Rachel Billings
Digital Prototyping: Oliver Akins
In-House Playtesting: Joshua Po and Momoka Schmidt
Videography: Spring Yu, Rachel Billings, and Sukie Punjasthitkul
Special Thanks: Melissa Billings, Game Makers Guild, Remote Playtesting Discord, Sebastian R, Brandon F, Stefanie S, Jason S, Kit H, Kapra O, Erin B, Vicky S, Mike L, Sunshiney, Dirtyberry, Resonym Discord members
Contact
Inquiries
contact@resonym.com
Review Policy
- Review copies. Unless we tell you otherwise before sending, review copies of games we send you are yours. Keep them in your collection, gift them to friends, give them away to followers, or whatever you want.
- Permissions. Mary Flanagan LLC and Resonym LLC allow you to publish the assets listed below through video and audio broadcasting services, and on review websites for commercial or noncommercial purposes, EXCEPT where published content would facilitate reproduction of the game (for example, posting high resolution pictures of a few cards is allowed, and posting low resolution pictures of all of the cards is allowed, but posting high resolution pictures of all of the cards is not allowed). Monetization of videos, audio, and written content that you create using the assets listed below is legally & explicitly allowed by Mary Flanagan LLC and Resonym LLC, EXCEPT where published content would facilitate reproduction of the game.
Allowed assets:
- Assets in the “Assets” and “Logo & Icon” sections of this page
- Photographs, video, and audio captured of the tabletop game by you
- Excerpts of text found in the tabletop game itself