The final members of the UCOM team! Thanks again to @zambiesdecays.bsky.social for doing such an incredible job! #zemehomecoming #gamefound #wargaming #warmongers #tabletopgames #miniatures #3dprinting #indiegame #gamedev #3dmodeling #painting

@zambiesdecays.bsky.social Does it again! Alpha Team never looked so good! 😎 #zemehomecoming #gamefound #wargaming #warmongers #tabletopgames #miniatures #3dprinting #indiegame #gamedev #3dmodeling #painting

In case you missed it, @zambiesdecays.bsky.social has been absolutely killing it this week painting the UCOM team. Can't wait to see what she cooks up next! #zemehomecoming #gamefound #wargaming #warmongers #tabletopgames #miniatures #3dprinting #indiegame #gamedev #3dmodeling #painting

Next Arcadia team to highlight: The Anansi Squad! Much like the Vanara, these are the alternate troop units that Arcadia has access to. This time they are equipped with carbine rifles and excel at reconnaissance...

Q&A live stream for the new upcoming indie wargame-boardgame hybrid, ZEME: homecoming. @zemehomecoming.bsky.social Dan the director/ CDO for the game will be joining me on my Twitch channel to answer all your questions. Hope to see you tomorrow! Twitch.tv/zambies

I’m live! Twitch.tv/zambies Painting the box art for the new indie skirmish game @zemehomecoming.bsky.social

Introducing the more common foot soldiers of the Arcadia scout team: The Vanara! It is hard to pinpoint the exact inspiration of designing these but we really wanted a regal vibe that can also be quite menacing while in combat.

The Zeme team is making a youtube doc in collaboration with @brickyo8.bsky.social! First stop on this Warhammer 40k doc was in Florida. Shooting with Bricky and MoistCr1TiKaL was a wild time and just the start to a 20 day campaign of filming all around the globe!

Introducing our first major partnership with Zeme: @zambiesdecays.bsky.social !!! Zambies will be professionally painting both scout teams from our core box set. Her work will be featured on all the boxes, as well as in our studio commercial coming out this summer...

Here is the operator for the Arcadia Scout Team: Siren! We first started off with a generic flying drone proxy model, which started to influence the design for our own miniature. Thankfully, as we went down the rabbit hole of design, we landed with something completely different.

Introducing the commander of the next faction, Pharaoh! The Arcadia faction pilot robotic soldiers through VR up-linking (from Earth's moon). Each scout team has a handler, or how they call them, Pharaohs...

Turns out Dan was doing some recon at Adepticon last week! After meeting some great people and playing some awesome games, it seems like a no brainer to have Zeme at Adepticon 2026. We hope to see you all then! #zemehomecoming #adepticon #wargaming #warmongers

Meet Roman One’s Strider, The Justinian Class! Be sure to follow us on Gamefound for future project updates! (link in bio) #zemehomecoming #gamefound #wargaming #warmongers #tabletopgames #miniatures #3dprinting #indiegame #gamedev #3dmodeling #mecha #conceptart

Dan disappeared earlier this week and then today sent this cryptic pic. Hmm, I wonder what he’s doing in Milwaukee?….. 👀👀👀

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Be sure to follow us on Gamefound for future project updates! (link in bio) #zemehomecoming #gamefound #wargaming #warmongers #tabletopgames #miniatures #3dprinting #indiegame #gamedev #3dmodeling

Rook, he's essentially our main character in Zeme (despite King always being the center of attention). While he rocks the UCOM colors and gear, his origin is much much more!...

When designing the AUGs, we wanted to go with an armor design that you could really imagine how it works...

Next unit up for UCOM’s scout team, Pilot! While her main job is getting teams down to Earth, she has somehow found herself permanently attached to this particular scout team with direct orders to supervise the young recruits...

Meet Patch, the medic and all around engineer for the UCOM scout team! You can really feel the Metal Slug inspiration with Patch’s design. We wanted her to feel like the rest of the squad and went to great lengths to find a pose that’s striking and stands out for painters.

The AUGS! We have our very own “Space Marines” in Zeme! Not many of Mars or UCOM’s citizens are selected to undergo AUG training. It starts with being recruited based on height, size, and athleticism. If a candidate passes the tests, they are rewarded with performance enhancing augmentation...

When it comes to units, Zeme takes a different approach than the standard wargame way of things. Instead of 10 (or hell, 20) miniatures, we wanted to keep the feel of a squad but scale it down to three models...

Wanna hear some insight into the development process of Zeme? Dan talks game design and philosophy in our latest dev diary series! Subscribe to our Youtube channel (link below) to get the scoop! #zemehomecoming #gamefound #wargaming #tabletopgames #miniatures #3dprinting #indiegame #gamedev

Meet the medic, Patch! Roman One’s support is not only a talented tech wiz, but an amazing field medic as well. In Zeme, healing can be a make or break moment on the battlefield! #zemehomecoming #gamefound #wargaming #tabletopgames #miniatures #3dprinting #indiegame #gamedev #3dmodeling

Patch’s sneak peek photos! 3d Artist : Ethan Savage #zemehomecoming #gamefound #wargaming #tabletopgames #miniatures #3dprinting #indiegame #gamedev #3dmodeling

Let's talk about character design! Believe it or not but our first character took about a year to fully design and concept.. We took some inspiration from all sorts of media. From anime to real world weapons and gear...

Alpha Team Ready for the fight! These three models make up the first of two teams for the “Roman One” scout squad. Each scout squad comprises 6 units, and in most cases will have two teams of three models...

Here’s a sneak peek at our alpha team miniatures for the UCOM faction. 3d Artist : Ethan Savage #zemehomecoming #gamefound #wargaming #tabletopgames #miniatures #3dprinting #indiegame #gamedev #3dmodeling

At the heart of Cinecore Games, we are all about the cinematic approach. We will be bringing the entire board game landscape up to a cinema level in terms of quality and aesthetics. This company is fueled purely by creatives and artists...

How would you like your rules? (photos are old prototypes) From its conception, one ideal remained constant: Make a wargame with no books. No codex to painfully syphon through, no big expensive rule book, and lastly, not having to pay for the core rules at all!...

Let's talk Proxies, and how amazing it is to design a game in the age of 3d printing. We’re not sure how we could have embarked on this project without the help of 3d printers and the use of proxy models...

Exciting events in the works for Zeme: Homecoming! This year, Casper Van Dien and @goobertownhobbies.bsky.social will be joining us in the Philadelphia area for one epic battle report for a brand new wargame Zeme: Homecoming...

THE BOARD!!! (Early development photos Circa 2023) A big part of development with #zemehomecoming was to try and take extraneous ambiguity out of the wargame. The idea of the hex board was born. With this the rest of the game started to fall in place and feel like a unique experience...

Once we wrapped on OPR and Ravaged Star, Dan sat down with his soon to be wife and tried toying around with some ideas of a game. He started with a handful of warhammer minis and a deck of playing cards...

The next day after filming the battle report we went right into shooting a commercial spot for Ravaged Star. This would mark the first game to be fully shot with the cinematic robot arm...

After half a year of planning a pre-production, we locked in our dates and began filming the @onepagerules.bsky.social battle report. WE LEARNED A LOT! We had two days to make this shoot happen, and with planned robot arm shots it was no easy task...

Leading up to our battle report for @onepagerules.bsky.social we set out to capture our two influencers in their natural habitat and try to cinematically paint a picture of these guys...

November 2021 is really where it all started, Cinecore Media has been working as a high-end commercial production house for the last decade. This marked the first time the director Dan Mendenhall combined his love for table top games and his day job...