Published May 13, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT

After raising $28 million, what's next for the Kickstarter hit?

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What do the makers of a record-breaking game do after it raises more than $28 million on Kickstarter? For Luohan Wei and Elliot Cook, the co-founders of WeirdCo and creators of The Official Cyberpunk TCG , this is when the real work starts. In many ways, what was once a theoretical and conceptual tabletop game focused on a post-apocalyptic sci-fi franchise has now become tangible. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of players have gotten hands-on with Alpha decks for the TCG and offered feedback through rounds of playtesting. Beta products are slated for shipment to backers sometime in Q3 2026.

Now comes the difficult part: turning more than 50,000 Kickstarter backers into a long-term trading card game community.

Polygon reached out to Wei and Cook shortly after the Kickstarter campaign wrapped on April 26.…