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Product: Orlog Custom Kit

Manufacturer: Takeoff

Game / IP: Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

Developer: Ubisoft

Released: 2021

Series: 1

Edition: Promotional

Limited Quantity: 2

Description:

Within Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla is a dice-based mini-game called ‘Orlog’. The game has proven so popular that it’s broken free of Valhalla, and has its own feverish fanbase.

The sheer hype around Orlog convinced Ubisoft to release a physical retail version of the dice game in 2021. Ubisoft rolled high and asked us to produce two custom kits – one for them and a kit for France’s biggest Orlog fan, Gotaga.

Commissioning two custom game kits was key to contributing to the hype for Orlog’s physical release; the kits’ exclusivity became a real talking point throughout the Creed community. Our team created Orlog as they would have in Viking times – the whole kit was fashioned from wood including dice, cards, cup and the box, giving the items a sleek finish that even Eivor would appreciate. One kit was pillaged by Ubisoft, for them to keep forever. We packed the other on a longboat and shipped it to one of France’s biggest streamers and Orlog lover, Gotaga. Gotaga had an ‘Odin’s Hootenanny’ of his own when he received the kit; he unboxed it for his fans, posted images of it across social media to his legions of followers, and plays it often.