Yep, I get that, but unfortunately the KS game is about getting funded asap, and that means incentivising the first 48 hours of backing. The best I can do whilst still doing that is offering the same discount to people who would have backed it then but couldn’t.
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Launched a few days ago, and delighted to say it’s funded and then some! Really pleased, not because of the money but because Bert designed such a high quality game.
Also, I started posting this yesterday at 9:00am and had to stop because a friend came round for a game of Twilight Imperium that was due to start at 10, and by the time it finished it was just straight to bed time.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radical8games/spokes
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Finally received: Bug Council of Backyardia and the Long Live Backyardia expansion (and the promo pack)
I habven’t backed anything since the Ministry of Lost Things. Would like to keep shrinking this list
Update:
- Innovation - it’ll be here somewhere on March
- Oath expansion
- Mindbug no idea when
- Ministry of Lost Things - the instabuy Rita Orlov puzzle game: I was charged by Allplay so it’ll come soon.
- The Old King’s Crown - damn, I forgot how slow these slow kickstarters are like. Just nonsense updates after nonsense updates.
- Bitewing’s triple Knizias
- Pax Illuminaten and Pax Maleficium - im unsure about these now. Only Werhle and Matt Eklund have done top notch work in this series.
- 18Svea - 2 hour 18xx, eh?
- Ur 1830 BC - Wyvern and I tried this and found it cool
- (preorder) Indonesia - when!?
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List
- 18Svea - short 18xx, I think it will be this and 1876:Trinidad for my 18XXs. Still hovering on 18MEX though
- Tricky Time Crisis - niche trick taker
- Merchants of Andromeda - Knizia, Dutch Auction
- Waddle - Looks fun
Possible future Gazebo - Knizia’s Qin reincarnated (edit) and Microverse 4X meets Cosmic Encounter from GMT games…
Also waiting to see if Travel Games gets any copies of Torchlit.
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What?! 
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This was the first I’d heard of Microverse. Looks interesting. I’m a bit surprised it’s only for 1-4 players. I won’t back it because I know it will never get to my table. Plus, now that my Unknown Planet deluxe has arrived, I’m on a game-buying moratorium.
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Backed Tiny Epic Adventures, but might cancel it. Undecided. I mean, it looks fun - but do I need another campaign game?
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https://gamefound.com/en/projects/awaken-realms/agricola-special-edition#/section/project-story
Hmmm one of the factors that makes Uwe’s farming games appeal to me are their wooden components
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That’s torchlit back in stock at travel games in case you have missed it.
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Thanks!
More characters!
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Got a link? Googling “travel games” is…not useful
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little wooden sheep meeple:
charming, delightful, a lil baby
little plastic sheep mini:
artificial, unloveable, designed for combat
I think the abstraction of a meeple has a lot of value that we miss out on with minis. Like, this sheep symbol can take on so much more meaning in my mind if it’s a little silhouette. A fully-realised mini means you can’t project anything onto it, so if it’s not a detailed representation of a cool monster or mech or something then what’s the point?
I wrote half of this and realised I’m talking about the thing from Understanding Comics:
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It sounds like this one might finally actually show up. A bit irritating, but I won’t kid myself that I’ve missed out on loads of opportunities to play it with people in the interim. Given the delay, I’ll just hope there aren’t any missing parts or damage when it arrives.
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Sentinels of the Multiverse Disparation is now “we hope before GenCon”.
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This has already made 50x its goal and is very pretty, but my first thought was “there’s not enough moving parts to make a good game here” and there are no previews/reviews anywhere that I can see.
By the folks who did Botany and La Fleur - anyone have an opinion on either of those?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/duxsomnium/artistry-art-nouveau
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I’ve played Botany and it was much better than I expected. The Victorian plant collector theme works quite well. I managed to collect a bunch of animals that let me manipulate my dice rolls which was fun. Not exceptionally strategic, but a nice game to play with my parents (it’s the first game that my dad has backed on Kickstarter)
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I played Botany once (at BGG@Sea). I would classify it as an experiential game wearing the mask of a logistics game. In my play, I was messed over by bad rolls multiple times (acknowledged by the other players) through no strategic or tactical fault of my own that I just had to accept it as an experience–like playing Talisman. As an experience, it is pleasant enough and I wouldn’t be against playing it again, but it is certainly not something I would ask to play or own.
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The aesthetics is so my thing though…
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Oh wow.
Even the smallest of button shy pledges (Casinopolis and one add-on) now costs 25€ on top with 6 for taxes and the rest for shipping.
They were really nice in helping me out with rerouting to my gamefound email address.
But the international shipping has just exploded from previous campaigns. I suppose they are just handing down their own costs, can’t blame them. But that’s an unexpected amount.
I’ll do it this time.
But wow… I have almost managed to stop crowdfunding anyway… but this maybe the final nail in the coffin.
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