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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Pretty sure it's against KS policy to back your own project, too. Not that I imagine this guy cares in the least. Yeah but no one ever cares or enforces that.
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Last hour and change for Battle for Biternia! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stonecirclegames/battle-for-biternia-the-battle-arena-board-game
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Dream Pod 9 has a new Heavy Gear project up, making new minis for 3 additional forces to add to the Blitz game. The first project took some time to get done, but the resulting minis were technically and aesthetically excellent.
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Just got my Fragged PDFs from the most recent Kickstarter - all the old Fragged Empire stuff plus the three new games. Sounds like the physical books will be going to the printer soon.
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malkav11 posted:Just got my Fragged PDFs from the most recent Kickstarter - all the old Fragged Empire stuff plus the three new games. Sounds like the physical books will be going to the printer soon. To be specific on the timeframe, the emails I got said they're heading to the printer in 2 weeks.
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malkav11 posted:Just got my Fragged PDFs from the most recent Kickstarter - all the old Fragged Empire stuff plus the three new games. Sounds like the physical books will be going to the printer soon. Huh. No sign of any PDFs here yet... e: No emails or anything but I checked DriveThru and the notifications for the PDFs were there. Woohoo! DigitalRaven fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Dec 9, 2017 |
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DigitalRaven posted:Huh. No sign of any PDFs here yet... The emails might have ended up getting marked as Spam, this happened to me. But yeah DTRPG does a weird notification thing as well now.
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I got emails for everything except the core rule book pdf. Waiting a few days to see if that comes through before bothering Wade.
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LongDarkNight posted:I got emails for everything except the core rule book pdf. Waiting a few days to see if that comes through before bothering Wade. I got two emails for that one. Weird.
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LongDarkNight posted:I got emails for everything except the core rule book pdf. Waiting a few days to see if that comes through before bothering Wade. Check your messages on DriveThru. If the email got lost/filtered/whatever, it should still show up there.
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Dec 10, 2017 17:40
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Also the core rulebook actually gave you an option to send it to someone else in backerkit, so you may have done that and forgotten about it if, like me, you already had a copy.
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Anyone interested in odd little card games and good causes? Potlatch looks like an interesting game, it's cheap, and shipping is reasonably priced.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Check your messages on DriveThru. If the email got lost/filtered/whatever, it should still show up there. Got it now. Thanks.
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Some of the One Shot RPG peeps are doing a thing with Invisible Sun game, and it looks ok? ihave confidence the players can make anything look good, but early access to seeing invisible sun played looks interesting.
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Cassa posted:Some of the One Shot RPG peeps are doing a thing with Invisible Sun game, and it looks ok? ihave confidence the players can make anything look good, but early access to seeing invisible sun played looks interesting. Yeah, any game with a good crew of fun roleplayers is going to be a great thing regardless of if the system is good or not. As much as I love One Shot they are not exactly going to push the boundaries of what the system can do. Which is honestly good because expecting a roleplaying game to be something other than what it is designed for is weird. Invisible Sun will have to be loving good for me to entertain the idea of buying it at that price point though. The hand will never not be funny though.
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DRAGON GOLD - WORLD MOGUL was cancelled. Instead of attempting to answer any questions about the game, the creator just kept posting the exact same message over and over.quote:"REFERENCE OUR STATEMENT: Since the December 2nd, 2017 kickstarter launch of the Dragon Gold Board Game, this entire experience has been very troublesome and unexpected.
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Mostly? The game looked weird and kinda bad, and you had to pay 500 to get one copy. And like 3000 to get 3, because math is hard.
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Henker posted:DRAGON GOLD - WORLD MOGUL was cancelled. Instead of attempting to answer any questions about the game, the creator just kept posting the exact same message over and over.
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Honestly I'd play a board game about the Lizard People Jew Banking Illuminati.
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Henker posted:Honestly I'd play a board game about the Lizard People Jew Banking Illuminati. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game)
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Covok posted:What's this scandal about? Guy tried to make a whales-only board game, got mocked for it, and now encourages them to give him money somewhere without Kickstarter's protections.
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Bruceski posted:Guy tried to make a whales-only board game, got mocked for it, and now encourages them to give him money somewhere without Kickstarter's protections. Not only that but he blatantly sockpuppeted in the comments section, blatantly tossed a thousand of his own dollars into the pledge to try and give it a boost, and according to one of the commenters some of the pictures in the 20 individual backers-only updates containing a page of the rulebook were stolen from other sources without any acknowledgement or permission. So at this point it's a straight 50-50 whether this is an example of the phenomenon where someone who has no earthly idea how Kickstarter, game design, or the internet work tries to start a ridiculous Kickstarter and flops, or the phenomenon where someone who has no earthly idea how Kickstarter, game design, or the internet work tries to start a scam and flops.
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Kai Tave posted:Not only that but he blatantly sockpuppeted in the comments section, blatantly tossed a thousand of his own dollars into the pledge to try and give it a boost, and according to one of the commenters some of the pictures in the 20 individual backers-only updates containing a page of the rulebook were stolen from other sources without any acknowledgement or permission. So at this point it's a straight 50-50 whether this is an example of the phenomenon where someone who has no earthly idea how Kickstarter, game design, or the internet work tries to start a ridiculous Kickstarter and flops, or the phenomenon where someone who has no earthly idea how Kickstarter, game design, or the internet work tries to start a scam and flops.
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FMguru posted:There's something specific about boardgaming that really attracts kooks who are convinced they have a can't-miss zillion dollar smash blockbuster idea rattling around in their skulls, and I'm not sure what it is. Idea guys are in every industry/hobby/etc. But most things have a higher barrier to entry. Videogames require coding, your great idea for a perpetual motion machine requires rigging something together that at least moves on its own, and your new groundbreaking business requires a storefront or a bunch of paperwork. If you're a boardgame ideas guy you have to know how to cut up and scribble on cardboard. Boom I just prototyped the next great tabletop game about fighting dragons with seven types of dice.
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Wicked Them Beats posted:Idea guys are in every industry/hobby/etc. But most things have a higher barrier to entry. Videogames require coding, your great idea for a perpetual motion machine requires rigging something together that at least moves on its own, and your new groundbreaking business requires a storefront or a bunch of paperwork. And then there are the people who try to cash in on a passing pop culture thing, like this from eariler in the thread: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/116597536/build-the-wall-the-politically-incorrect-board-gam/description FMguru fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Dec 12, 2017 |
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I still want this to be real life, though: https://politics.theonion.com/obama-sinks-family-savings-into-developing-presidential-1820303326
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FMguru posted:There's something specific about boardgaming that really attracts kooks who are convinced they have a can't-miss zillion dollar smash blockbuster idea rattling around in their skulls, and I'm not sure what it is. I get what you mean, there's definitely a certain style of crazy rambling Kickstarter with RANDOMLY CAPITALIZED WORDS that you see a lot in boardgames, it's more than just people who don't know what they're doing but something that gives off a definite vibe of detachment from reality.
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I think constructing a board game superficially feels easier because crafting a few tiny houses and putting art on a piece of cardboard appears easier than writing 100+ pages of text, even though the people dumb enough to slap together a ~politically incorrect~ board game over a month (if that) and then launch a wet fart of a Kickstarter never seem to fail to find the time to write 50k words about what they're doing anyway. Maybe it has to do with direct, textual communication. People seem to view that as very daunting. It's easier to obfuscate the complexity and difficulty of explaining yourself and your ideas behind the metaphors of art direction and component fabrication, even though they tend to be really bad at those too.
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Boardgames that are just bullet-point lists of racist email forwards from your grandma is my favorite subgenre of failed boardgame kickstarter.
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FMguru posted:There's something specific about boardgaming that really attracts kooks who are convinced they have a can't-miss zillion dollar smash blockbuster idea rattling around in their skulls, and I'm not sure what it is. It's really bizarre to think that board game design is your big ticket to riches.
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The Moon Monster posted:It's really bizarre to think that board game design is your big ticket to riches. Those idiot millennials will throw their piles of disposable income at anything
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Finally got my Dragon Empire KS! They put it in a surprisably small box (like, probably the same volume as a large tissue box small) for so many minis. Now I have to clean them up &straighten them out - but then they're resin, so it's to be expected. Onto the to-do pile!
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The Moon Monster posted:It's really bizarre to think that board game design is your big ticket to riches. Not that bizarre, really. There have been some extremely profitable boardgames. I mean I don't know how much the Kingdom Death guy actually took home given that production costs on that are no doubt high, but even like 20% of 15+ million bucks would still be a shitload of cash. And it looks easy, from the outside. The idea that whatever incoherent nonsense they're spewing will make that kind of money is pretty insane, though.
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malkav11 posted:Not that bizarre, really. There have been some extremely profitable boardgames. I mean I don't know how much the Kingdom Death guy actually took home given that production costs on that are no doubt high, but even like 20% of 15+ million bucks would still be a shitload of cash. And it looks easy, from the outside. There are definitely success stories, but it's like looking at JK Rowling and saying "Woah, writers make bank". Except the Kingdom Death guy is the JK Rowling of boardgame kickstarters and his profits must be in the single digit millions at best.
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There is a history of little homemade boardgame designs paying off big once in a while - Trivial Pursuit is the best modern example, but there's also things like Magic:the Gathering, original Dungeons & Dragons, and Monopoly.
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FMguru posted:There is a history of little homemade boardgame designs paying off big once in a while - Trivial Pursuit is the best modern example, but there's also things like Magic:the Gathering, original Dungeons & Dragons, and Monopoly. I think the Monopoly lady didn't get anything from it
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Given the ease with which people make unlicensed knockoffs of Monopoly (the secret is that while Animal Monopoly is copyright infringement, Animal-opoly isn't), I wouldn't be especially surprised.
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Guy Goodbody posted:I think the Monopoly lady didn't get anything from it quote:Early history Mors Rattus posted:Given the ease with which people make unlicensed knockoffs of Monopoly (the secret is that while Animal Monopoly is copyright infringement, Animal-opoly isn't), I wouldn't be especially surprised. quote:Also in 2003, Hasbro sued the maker of Ghetto-opoly and won. In 2005, the company sued RADGames over their Super Add-On accessory board game that fit in the center of the board.  Also, this is cool: quote:In 1941, the British Secret Intelligence Service had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game in the United Kingdom, create a special edition for World War II prisoners of war held by the Nazis.[12] Hidden inside these games were maps, compasses, real money, and other objects useful for escaping. They were distributed to prisoners by British secret service-created fake charity groups.
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