A few weeks ago, we experimented with something brand new in Steamforged Games’ community engagement, the Pitch Formations preview. In the weeks that followed we saw an enormous reaction as hundreds of feedback posts were left on our forums, we saw a lot of Twitter and Facebook conversations happening and even some podcast discussions. As Developers, it was a joy to watch and the process has ensured that Pitch Formations will appear in a future Organised Play update.

Here at Steamforged we see the Pitch Formations preview as a huge success… so we’re back to do it all again with something completely different!

Guild Identities



Guild Identities, or Guild Identity cards (GICs), have been knocking around the Steamforged Development team as an idea for a while. We have been exploring our options for how to deploy these into the world of Guild Ball and two things happened that made us pause for thought. Firstly, the huge success of the Pitch Formations preview in both community engagement and the responses we received from you. Secondly, that we don’t want to wait until Guild Ball Season 4 at the end of 2018 before we reveal Guild Identities to you, because we think they’re such an awesome idea! So, just what are Guild Identities?

Guild Identities represent the team coach (you!) having done some research into the opposing team to analyse their strengths and weaknesses. The coach then trains their own team to play slightly differently to gain the upper hand and hopefully increase their own chances of winning the match. This is something that happens regularly in a number of real-life sports such as Football (Soccer) and American Football.

To represent this type of training in Guild Ball, we decided to explore the idea of each Guild having access to a small hand of cards, each one detailing an extra ability that will affect your team for the duration of the match. This represents you as the Coach selecting a particular strategy and telling your team what to do when they go out onto the Pitch. We intend for each Guild to have access to around three Guild Identities. If being used at an event, a different Guild Identity can be chosen for use in each match to represent the Coach training their team differently for each opponent.

Anatomy of a Guild Identity Card