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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:BITBOX claims to be the future of board game storage, with a simplistic design that can hold up to 16 games per box. As much as I like my game boxes, nothing irks me more than trying to painstakingly balance them on top of each other. Plus trying to carry a crap-ton of boxes to friend's houses is always a recipe for disaster. Hey, this looks pretty cool. I could probably use it for more than just games, maybe a place to store some of my hobby tools, and... SilverMike posted:It has all those X-friendly shipping badges, but I can't exactly call $25 + $23 or $29 + $52 for basic pledges shipped to Canada 'friendly'. If you're not in the US you'll probably skip it on the S&H alone. Base level pledge: $29 Shipping to Taiwan: $70 And yet, somehow, despite being "EU Friendly", it's $72 to ship there (and Norway, Mainland China) and $75 to ship to the Kiwis. I guess for once I'm not getting the worst end of the deal here! But I think maybe I'll stick to having boxes, or possibly raiding an IKEA one of these days. e: apparently the problem is they're shipping everything fully assembled, so the dimensional weight is killing things. CovfefeCatCafe fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Jul 28, 2016 |
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YF19pilot posted:e: apparently the problem is they're shipping everything fully assembled, so the dimensional weight is killing things. They did say they're looking into better shipping rates outside the US in their first update. But I think they're going to have to figure out some way to make the base disassemble for shipping.
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Looks like now there's an official Evil Dead 2 board game. I'm guessing this one's going to do well solely because of the official Ash minis and dice bag if nothing else.
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New Barrowmaze Kickstarter. Killer deal on both campaigns since its Canadian dollars. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/843284272/barrowmaze-the-forbidden-caverns-of-the-archaia Cross posted from OSR thread.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:They did say they're looking into better shipping rates outside the US in their first update. But I think they're going to have to figure out some way to make the base disassemble for shipping. I can understand the reasoning for shipping assembled - it ensures the completed product is at the level of quality that you want your customers to experience. Otherwise, if end-users have to assemble the product, there might be complaints about the finished product not being as good as promised (because the end-user was an idiot with two left hands and all thumbs). I know that if I want one, assembled or disassembled or even with lowered shipping, that I'll probably have to pay at least the cost of the product to have it shipped here. It's just the nature of the beast for living on this island and a reality I have to live with (so I'd be fine with $30 base + $30 shipping because I'm not getting it cheaper without building it myself). Otherwise, I wonder if they're trying to ship things too quickly (like USPS Priority or something), maybe if they looked into slower shipping options, then shipping to the EU and Canada would become cheaper. I've worked for a company shipping things into Canada, and I know you can get comparable rates if you know who to ship through. But, perhaps these guys are a bit too new and too small to know that consumer-front UPS, FedEx, and USPS aren't the only options for shipping...
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Evil Mastermind posted:Looks like now there's an official Evil Dead 2 board game. I'm guessing this one's going to do well solely because of the official Ash minis and dice bag if nothing else. Jesus Christ, it seems like everyone can grab a hold of an old movie license and make it into a boardgame these days. The Warriors: Turf War is a new campaign based on the 1979 cult classic, The Warriors. Players pick a gang to play as (currently the Warriors, the Rogues, the Furies, and the Lizzies) and try to win turf from their opponents in a "best of 3". Each gang has five members with five roles, all based off of characters from the movie. Their pledge tiers are kinda weird; the early bird tier is the same price as the base game tier, but you get the stretch goals included. $110 gets you the game with stretch goals included normally. I'm a fan of both Evil Dead and The Warriors, but I'm not sure I have enough friends who'd want to play these. Now excuse me while I go and try to convert the Neverending Story to a CCG.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Jesus Christ, it seems like everyone can grab a hold of an old movie license and make it into a boardgame these days. i like the Warriors but yeah, nah.
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I just got around to watching the video for Evil Dead 2; looks like there's player elimination. So that sucks.
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I'd be down with getting some Baseball Furies minis but those renders don't look very good.
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 Looks like Chaosium is putting out a new edition of the Prince Valiant RPG. quote:Outstanding for both beginners and experienced players, Prince Valiant® The Storytelling Game is a roleplaying game set in the Arthurian world of Hal Foster’s masterpiece comic strip. The game is by world-renowned game designer Greg Stafford (Runequest, King Arthur Pendragon). Like the majority of Greg’s games, the original edition of this game released in 1989 was published by Chaosium, Inc. It's already funded. Stretch goals are additional in-book adventures written by famous game designers.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Jesus Christ, it seems like everyone can grab a hold of an old movie license and make it into a boardgame these days. Lost me at "movement dice"
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Good news and bad news regarding international shipping rates with Bitbox:International Shipping Update posted:We have been overwhelmed by the support from the international community during the launch of BITBOX. Your feedback on how to make the product better, more affordable, and more functional has been tremendous! Since launch, we have been working around the clock to try to incorporate your feedback into this campaign – specifically, to find better shipping rates. So now they are no longer accepting international orders. US and Canada only.
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Eloy Lasanta is kickstarting a supplement for Ninja Crusader about playing the Empire. Stretch goals include a lot of other miscellaneous supplements. If you liked Ninja Crusade, you should give it a look.
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Eloy Lasanta is one of the kindest and friendliest voices I've seen in gaming and I can say, having backed several of his previous kickstarters, is an absolute pro at nailing delivery really close to where he estimates he'll be delivering.
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Got my copy of Vast today: Apparently they'd changed the name from Trove, which is disappointing because Trove is a much better name. Anyway I am pretty hyped to play some knight vs. goblins vs. dragon vs. cave asymmetric free for all!
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abardam posted:Apparently they'd changed the name from Trove, which is disappointing because Trove is a much better name. Anyway I am pretty hyped to play some knight vs. goblins vs. dragon vs. cave asymmetric free for all! Yes, but it's a better name that's associated with a Trion free-to-play MMO and Patrick didn't want to have to worry about possible legal action or confusion. I think Vast still works pretty well.
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abardam posted:Got my copy of Vast today: I'd really like to hear how this game is. It sounded pretty interesting, but I didn't want to take the risk on Kickstarter. Good to hear that it actually pulled through!
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GrandpaPants posted:I'd really like to hear how this game is. It sounded pretty interesting, but I didn't want to take the risk on Kickstarter. Good to hear that it actually pulled through! From an initial reading of the rules, there's 5 different roles with 5 different goals and 5 different sets of mechanics. It sure looks like a headache to learn, not to mention teach. It's stuffed with variants for what seems like every combination of players from solo to 5 player. This is gonna trip me up, I know it e: The thief is this mega-jobber who dies whenever anyone else gets a good look at him, which is hilarious abardam fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Jul 30, 2016 |
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The mechanics have probably been tweaked since I playtested it but I found it pretty straightforward, honestly. That said, I had the benefit of the designer being the one explaining the rules. And the -strategy- takes a little while to figure out. For each role.
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abardam posted:Apparently they'd changed the name from Trove, which is disappointing because Trove is a much better name. Anyway I am pretty hyped to play some knight vs. goblins vs. dragon vs. cave asymmetric free for all! Yeah, they were worried about infringing on an MMO's name, so they changed it to be safe. http://www.trionworlds.com/trove/ Edit: Duplicate info. Hurray!
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Inkwell ideas is kickstarting A new version of Hexographer. The pledge levels seem kinda weird, though; You can get Hexographer 2 for $35 as a pledge level, or go get a Hexographer license now and pledge for the upgrade. It's worth pointing out that Hexographer is currently half off at their webstore, so even if you don't want to pledge it's probably worth getting the base software at $16. http://inkwellideas.com/store/hexographer/
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Evil Mastermind posted:Inkwell ideas is kickstarting A new version of Hexographer. The pledge levels seem kinda weird, though; You can get Hexographer 2 for $35 as a pledge level, or go get a Hexographer license now and pledge for the upgrade. 16 dollars for an icon set, jeez. I'm pledged for the 19 dollar level because I like Hexographer but their DLC prices are absurd.
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So last week I mentioned a couple of Kickstarters that were going on. Some, like Super Powered Smash Masters, ended prematurely, a couple finished, while most are just chugging along. Creative Differences: A Game Dev Story is close to getting funded, with £2,507 of their £2,660 goal ($3,312 of $3,539) and only 3 days to go. Roots of Mali is almost halfway to their goal, with Fr 11,211 of their Fr 25,000 goal ($11,402 of $25,426) and 14 days to go. Fire of Eidolon has doubled its funding, with $25,020 of their $12,500 goal and still have 12 days to go. The Bitbox may have lost a bunch of potential backers with the elimination of EU-shipping, but they are still going strong, with $58,354 of their $25,000 goal and still have 24 days to go. There's also the The Warriors: Turf War that just started a few days ago and has got $24,397 of their $100,000 goal, but that can be easily summed up with:signalnoise posted:Lost me at "movement dice" CHOPS is a board game based around Rock and Roll music. Players form bands and try to earn cash and fame to make it to the top. Sounds simple, but looks complicated. It has a lot of cards, and lot of things you can do during your turn. This isn't the devs first rodeo; with at least three other games released. They're US-based and have $2,391 of their $1,000 goal, with 24 days to go. Madhouse Pandemonium is a game that is based around collecting mental disorders through matching dice. So I guess it's like Yahtzee? Maybe if the devs talked more about their game (instead of showing it without explanation) it wouldn't be as confusing, but then again, maybe that's the point. The devs are US-based and have $375 of their $4,000 goal, with 39 days to go. Coldwater Crown is a "strategic game of tournament fishing in the North Atlantic for 1-4 players, ages 13+", and "a mid-weight euro-style game featuring a unique take on worker placement with a puzzle-solving twist". That's a lot of words to say "we're a fishing board game". Also just ends up sounding pretentious as gently caress. Game looks interesting, but even the "how to play" section is just as confusing. The devs are US-based, with $8,684 of their $10,000 goal and 9 days left.
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Big announcement from the makers of the quote:First, we have decided to change the name of the game to “Mech Command RTS”. Here is why: So yeah, you should probably bail out now.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Big announcement from the makers of the
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Big announcement from the makers of the Kicktraq has it dropping pretty precipitously now.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Big announcement from the makers of the So basically they gave up the thing that lets them make the fancy miniatures that are the main selling point to a game like this in the first place.
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Wow, way to negotiate in bad faith with your backers and the license holders. After doing something like that I'll never give those guys any money. Edit: That also raises the question of whether they legally can even continue the campaign since all their promo material up until the announcement has been branded.
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Wouldn't they have to redo all the designs, molds, logos, etc.? Or are they not even there yet?
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Wouldn't they have to redo all the designs, molds, logos, etc.? Or are they not even there yet? Depends on the terms of their license and whether or not they completely dropped it or are just not using the name/branding. If they got the designs in a separate deal they can still use the figs... but judging from how these idiots are operating (never EVER work in a foreign language through an interpreter on a deal like this, get a bilingual on staff) I'm betting this is going to crash and burn even if they do keep enough money for their funding goal.
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That's what I wondered - as I see it, they don't have a single miniature design to call their own at this point despite still showing it on their campaign page. All they have is some board game mechanics for representing robot combat. I don't think these guys are done making unforced errors just yet.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Wouldn't they have to redo all the designs, molds, logos, etc.? Or are they not even there yet? They've posted redone box art and I think some of the models they're showing have been tweaked since last time? But yes, they absolutely have to go back and change pretty much every iconic or branded Armored Core Thing now. What's really amazing in all of this isn't that they lost the license somehow, which would be regrettable but understandable...Marvel suddenly pulled their license from Margaret Weiss Productions in the middle of several Marvel Heroic Roleplaying projects for instance, giving them all of a week to shut everything down, license holders can do weird things...but instead they voluntarily dropped the license because they underestimated how hard it would be working with a license holder that spoke a different language than they did. Yeah. In other news, the chat thread pointed out the existence of yet another game attempting to cash in on the Cards Against Humanity craze of "ironic shitposting, but in real life" games with A Jew, A Black, A Christian, and A Gay Walk Into a Bar, a game about stereotypes and how the world has become too politically correct these days. I'm only bringing it up again here because in the time since it went live it's acquired a whole three comments, and let's see what they have to say: Fotios Zemenides. Superbacker posted:Is absolutely hysterical, can't wait for expansion decks! Robert Balick & Randy Karey, Creator posted:Ha! Thanks. Yes, we've got several in the works. Got any recommendations you'd start with? Jan Franco posted:Regarding expansions, S J Ws, BLM, and 3rd wave feminism. Hot stuff!
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I wish Cryptozoic wouldn't use their updates to advertise their other KIckstarters. I backed the Ghostbusters board game, I don't want to hear that your Walking Dead KS is ending soon.
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The_Doctor posted:I wish Cryptozoic wouldn't use their updates to advertise their other KIckstarters. I backed the Ghostbusters board game, I don't want to hear that your Walking Dead KS is ending soon. I can understand an update alerting you to an upcoming (or just started) project, but not when the project has been going on for weeks now.  They must be really desperate.VVV EDIT: Wow, that's really pathetic. VVV GenderSelectScreen fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:I can understand an update alerting you to an upcoming (or just started) project, but not when the project has been going on for weeks now. They've posted three updates in the Hex kickstarter about the Walking Dead project and only two of their past seven updates have had anything to do with Hex--the other two were for Ghostbusters II. Thanks Cryptozoic!
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Just unsubscribe from notifications for Kickstarters you've backed that have been completely filled. I did that for Hex a few months ago and don't really feel the loss at all.
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The Journey Fraternity posted:Just unsubscribe from notifications for Kickstarters you've backed that have been completely filled. I did that for Hex a few months ago and don't really feel the loss at all. Could you please take a screen snip of where this option is
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signalnoise posted:Could you please take a screen snip of where this option is https://www.kickstarter.com/settings/notifications, and scroll down to "Account Notifications". Uncheck what you're no longer interested in. The "Don't want to receive updates from this project? That's okay, you can unsubscribe." blurb at the bottom of Kickstarter project emails does the same thing on a per-project basis if you don't want to go into your account settings every time.
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The Journey Fraternity posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/settings/notifications, and scroll down to "Account Notifications". Uncheck what you're no longer interested in. Thanks for this
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The_Doctor posted:I wish Cryptozoic wouldn't use their updates to advertise their other KIckstarters. I backed the Ghostbusters board game, I don't want to hear that your Walking Dead KS is ending soon. I ended up unsubscribing from a different KS I backed precisely because of this. When you spend more time shilling out for another product I have no interest in rather than offering any information about the thing I gave you money for, we have an issue.
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