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https://mobile.twitter.com/nibcardgames/status/1043381661042454528/photo/3
This is the Nigerian publisher NIBCard Games. As you can see, their factory is quite limited versus, say, Panda or whatever Chinese company CMON uses to churn out their shit. These dudes are making small games about Nigerian life and culture. 100 percent made in Africa. 100 percent made by these dudes. This is a level of passion and heart this hobby has lost.
I am totally inspired by this picture. This is more like how the hobby should be in 2018 instead of a bunch of Western, middle class/middle age white men dumping expendable income on preordering HP Lovecraft shit.
It makes me want to open a publishing brand focused strictly on small, intrinsically cultural games not at all about the usual hobby genre stuff. It makes me want to find where there are other apartments full of dudes and ladies that are doing this in other countries and other cultures. It makes me want to distribute games 100 percent made in the cultures they come from and give back some of whatever money earned to these folks.
Im looking at these games and I don’t give a shit if they compare with Root or Gloomhaven or Knizia. I don’t care if they are Game of Life variants. There’s all this talk about inclusion and representation in games now, what better way to do that then to let these people express who they are and where they come from for themselves?
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Hi, my name is KC. I am a Boardgame designer and manufacturer. I tell the Nigerian story through boardgames and wor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Nigeria is a place of high piracy. And their economy and politics are shambles.
Their best products are those they produce themselves. Their cinema is laughable, by even their own standards.
We could never do this. We have no appreciation for handmade products, nor for the price it has to produce them in such a way.
That is the result of decadence. BGG is a microcosmic reflection of that mentality.
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www.indiegogo.com/projects/14-board-game...18update&utm_term=#/
We were a group of Danes who pledged for all their games and we'll each get one (decided by lottery) when they show up. I don't know if they're good games, but I love how a lot of them seem to be rooted in stories we aren't used to seeing.
Edit: looking at it again I'm certain they are making some of the games for that campaign. I just saw a photo in an update about them almost being ready that clearly shows the game in the orange box.
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I believe this is the person responsible. He's been posting on Facebook for a few years.
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Michael Barnes wrote: And not just because my man there is wearing a shirt that says "cocaine"
I kid you not, there is another picture of a gamer from Nigeria that says "Board games are dope. Try it" I wonder if that is on the back of the shirt.
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Edit: Looks like he got bought at some point but is probably still designing. Never heard of Kolossal before this though, so the name might be a misnomer.
boardgamegeek.com/thread/1813674/some-ko...news-small-box-games
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Colorcrayons wrote: We could never do this. We have no appreciation for handmade products, nor for the price it has to produce them in such a way.
Yet Cave Evil goes for $250 second hand. The third magazine Halloween game from the Emperors of Eternal Evil drops this month. Warcults is doing fine with the next release in the Corroded Corridor coming out soon.
The expansion for Ferox is coming. Trash Lords has some good word of mouth. Craft Fair Games is finding demand just fine.
Eschaton also did pretty well and had a large print run.
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Jexik wrote: Is John Clowdus still doing his thing?
He's doing yet another fucking area control game with giant minis kickstarter.
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Legomancer wrote:
Jexik wrote: Is John Clowdus still doing his thing?
He's doing yet another fucking area control game with giant minis kickstarter.
I think that got cancelled....
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Space Ghost wrote:
Legomancer wrote:
Jexik wrote: Is John Clowdus still doing his thing?
He's doing yet another fucking area control game with giant minis kickstarter.
I think that got cancelled....
Supposedly it's relaunching with different tiers. Which is good, because what would we do without a $90 kickstarter area control game featuring asymmetric factions and jumbo miniatures?
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