The Crowdfunding Thread

[yashima]

@Marx

I backed the Borderlands massive-piles-o-plastic Kickstarter.

Borderlands has been our group computer game during the pandemic.
I am strangely not tempted by the boardgame. (I did send the link to the KS to my partner who plays a lot more Borderlands than me but he rarely decides which new boardgames are acquired and he already had no interest in several other computer game adaptations of his favorites)

edit:
him just now “you know you opened a can of worms?”
me “what?”
he: “it’s cooperative”
me “you didn’t want the Assassin’s Creed or the Horizon Zero Dawn games.”
he “this is Borderlands.”
me “I didn’t want you to find out from someone else”

Apparently, I have to take a closer look But if I end up backing it for him, I am declaring it “nostalgic” from the get-go (those games don’t always count when I am counting my collection)

edit: clarifications. I shouldn’t post when half-asleep

[bort]

Easy to skip Borderlands, just too much. 120 AUD for the base game, and you don’t get any stretch goals. And you’ve still got shipping to worry about.

[acharlie1377]

I’ve officially found my favorite Kickstarter of the past two years: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/519571305/nine-minutes-kingdom/description

This feels like the kind of project Kickstarter was made for: a small-box tile-laying/card game effectively designed and produced by a single person in Poland. And the game itself looks good, too; I really like the aesthetics, the mechanics look solid (if not particularly innovative), and there are quite a few built-in expansions and variants that will hopefully be interesting. It’s so lovingly under-produced (in the sense that the designer is throwing every single idea they have into a box with no filtering whatsoever) but I’m way into that when it’s a simple game like this, as opposed to a 200-dollar plastic monstrosity.

And it’s so cheap! Even shipping across an ocean, it’ll cost less than 20 dollars. I’ve never backed a project with so much enthusiasm before.

[RogerBW]

9 December 2021: the day Kickstarter stopped being the least sketchy crowdfunding site. Yes, they’re getting into blockchains.
https://www.kickstarter.com/articles/the-future-of-crowdfunding-creative-projects
(Nothing they say they want to do will get any benefit from being “on the blockchain”.)

[lalunaverde]

I think I’m not alone here that we still don’t understand how this is useful to KS. Blockchain is simply a decentralised bookkeeping system. The only thing I can think of is that they want to offload a lot of the data storage to its consumers.

[RogerBW]

The best outcome is that it gets them a lot of money from stupid venture capitalists who still see “blockchain” as a good thing.

[raged_norm]

I’m hardly the most enthusiastic games from the future purchaser but I do agree. For many Blockchain = Crypto = high risk/reward capitalism.

I can’t pretend to know (or care too much) about the underlying structure of the web, so meh,

[Kat]

Delivery!

It really is a dark road if the box cover is anything to go by.

[RogerBW]

“We said it was your turn to bring the lamp oil.”
“No you didn’t.”
“Ow!”
“What was that?”
“Another tree.”
“How far have we come?”
“About half a mile I think. I can still see the lights of town if I look back.”

[Marx]

“Merchants of the Dark Road”, and it’s sequel on the right, Merchants of the Dark Dark Road Road.

[lalunaverde]

Same designer of Kemet

[GeeBizzle]

Something about that art I find really off putting. No idea why.

[Marx]

It reminds me of the old Rifts: Vampire Kingdoms (of Mexico) art. Iconic, but not in a way I like(d).

[yashima]

Somehow the crowdfunding countdown on BGG seems so empty… post-holiday syndrome?
Or does it have to do with KS announcement on the whole blockchain shenanigans?

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In any case, I backed something which I was always going to back. I got the whole of the West Kingdom Trilogy, addons, promos and big boxes (some incoming still) and obviously I had to back the final one: Viscounts expansions and big box. One can be of the opinion that expansions are something to avoid or one can be a completionist.

I find that if I move games on quickly, the expansion does not add much resale value, but the older the games the more the expansions are worth. Not that I have any plans to get rid of the WK trilogy anytime soon. But in this case I am a completionist.

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Update on some of my existing ones:

• the package for my Petrichor CE is shipped–can’t wait to finally play that one
• Planet Unknown is finally on a ship–I can’t quite believe it. When that gets here Frosthaven will be my oldest undelivered KS.
• Tussie Mussie expansions actually arrived already.
• Raid is showing signs that at some point the game will be done

(yes this is three separate posts in one)

[Chewy77]

I just got a parcel from Gamelyn Games, so I am assuming my copy of Tiny Epic Dungeons has been delivered. Look at me collecting KS left, right and centre like a pro… I can’t keep up!

[Chewy77]

Uh, oh. The parcel contained Tiny Epic Galaxies… Did I include that with Dungeons??? I think I did and I forgot all about it… Nice surprise. To myself.

[SteveB_uk]

Final Girl kickstarter 2 is out.

Includes Alien / Ripley and The Thing scenarios.

Core box (required) and 1 film box is £30, which is a lot for just one board but not as terrible as I’d expected.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vanrydergames/final-girl-series-2

[yashima]

Yay, Petrichor arrived. I already unpacked and punched during lunchbreak.

Also:

• Spirits of the Forest has a date for end of production
• Factory Funner et al are on a boat and will ship in EU in February

Things are happening with a few of those much delayed games.

PS: I have a complaint as can be seen in the lower right of the picture: new game with nice insert and somehow the box doesn’t close. And they really might have considered adding a sheet on “how to sort everything into the insert” … ah well there’s probably something online somewhere.

[Captbnut]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matagot/yucatan/rewards

Yucatan, the new game from the designer of Kemet is on KS. £60 plus postage is not crazy but still a bit rich for me.

[lalunaverde]

Considering how Inis, Cyclades, and Kemet were waaaay cheaper. Kemet 2 is expensive, but I feel the production and content is alright.

I’m happy to pass this. I’m even thinking of selling Kemet 2 (any UKers? ) as I prefer to play Cthulhu Wars instead, which has very similar mechanisms.