Monthly milestones - May 2026

It’s been a busy month for the Re:Union team, taking over management of Altered on Board Game Arena, running our community-focused new Format Contest and bringing new website functions online! We want to take a moment to provide a few notes about things we’ve accomplished and where we’re going next.

This monthly update is meant to recognize our accomplishments and provide transparency in our processes. As Re:Union is a fully volunteer-staffed, community-organized platform, this keeps us connected to other players and highlights new projects that can get people more involved! If you see something that looks interesting or matches up with your skillset, please reach out to the Team Representatives or join the relevant team chat in Discord!

• Added several news posts to announce Re:Union projects/next steps.

• Developed overall Communication plan to be presented to the board, as well as news release processes and other Comms structures.

Upcoming projects:

• Rolling out Social Media plan.

• Recruiting more volunteers for Communications outreach.

• Looking into newsletter options.

• Established SmartCat account, which should make translation easier across the team.

• Translated news posts.

Upcoming projects:

• Working on Set 7 (Never-Ending Journey) translations.

• Establishing stylebook on common phrases/constructions.

• Connected with Equinox to discuss planned lore.

• Working on gathering the existing lore in an easier place to read.

• First brainstormings about what the future lore could look like.

Upcoming projects:

• Working on gathering existing lore in an easier place to read.

• Brainstorming about what the future lore could look like.

• Set up financial tracking for expenses and operational expense report.

• Led and ran Community Calls with the Format and Starter Deck contests.

• Incorporated as an Association 1901, along with bylaws, initial governance structure and administrative work.

• Connected with several Altered artists and those involved with set design including:

• Sweorkie

• Tristan Bideau

• Nathan Maneval

• Ba Vo

• irof_0211 (Ting-Yun) -under contract with Equinox still but got authorization to consult with us for art director role

• Artist rates confirmed and broken down based on which type of card.

• Multiple website QOL and upgrade: sidebar statistic pages / Started Deck quick access / upvotes deck system / BGA tournament calendar / Hero header pop up in deckview

• Organize and lead Team Management Meetings

Upcoming projects:

• Building strategic plan (Re:Union Roadmap) with Operations Team.

• Developing Re:Union Fundraiser Launch.

• Planning Set 8 development.

• Formats organization (Ownership, Arena etc…)

• Set 6 and 7 heroes starter decks

• Built out Discord structures and developed member experience (such as adding custom emojis to channel names for easier navigation, adding custom role icons for faction/server roles).

• Developed shared team Drive infrastructure for improved organization and long-term file management.

• Centralized organizational documents to reduce reliance on individual users/accounts.

• Researched various NGO models.

• Decided on developing a collaborative/consultative Governance model.

• Included an Ethics committee to the proposed Governance model.

Upcoming projects:

• Present first lens of Governance model to Board and Management Team.

• Organized Play plan presented to board, brought on Marc and Cernunnos as the Europe/France OP representatives, respectively.

• Established weekly standard ongoing tournaments.

Upcoming projects:

• Setting up SDU end-of-season tournament (BGA).

• Developing and communicating ROC OP program.

• [auth] Created authentication and Discord login integration for auth.altered.re

• [altered.re] Created card search plugin, initial deckbuilder platform, implementation of plugin system to open community contributions for altered.re website.

• [alteredcore - deck api] Created deck saving/editing, validation for four existing formats for deck API.

• [alteredcore - card api] Developed card search API.

• [alteredcore - collection api] Built tool for importing physical collection from Equinox exports, created tools to add/remove cards and adjust quantities for physical collection API.

• [BGA] Created starter decks and new formats: Standard All Uniques, Singleton NUC and Sandbox

• [Altered tournament tools] Add and search for physical tournaments within altered.re

• Built a tool to allow contributors to run most projects locally, making it easier to contribute.

Upcoming projects:

• [search api] Implementing an advanced unique-card search component that can be integrated with the card search API, physical and digital collections and new formats.

• [deck api/ BGA] Implementing the new formats: Frontier and Living Legends.

• [game history api] Establishing a new connection with BGA to retrieve match history, enabling many new features (automatic Living Legend format bans, player statistics, Adventure Pass integration, etc.)

• [BGA] Fixing additional BGA bugs.

• [BGA] Displaying owned alt arts in BGA.

• [auth] Developing profile page tools, including standardization of language preferences and profile editing page.

• [BGA] Implementing Set 6.

Thanks again to all contributors: toxicity, Pollux, Shnk, Darigaaz, Taum, Nyleirel, Benhol, Blazboy, noobiwow, Sparky (I hope I didn’t forget anyone)!

• Received backup graphic bible from Equinox.

• Created images for lore team.

Upcoming projects:

• Creating first player tokens for Sets 6 and 7.

• Creating icons for BGA formats.

• Created alteredtcg.wiki.gg and built templates for card and character pages. 

• Launched site publicly, it’s now live with more than 120 current pages.

Upcoming projects:

• Working on completing more pages.

• Bringing on more collaborators to continue building out lore and card info.