What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?

Alea and Awaken Realms are teaming up to release a new version of Castles of Burgundy on Gamefound. Comes in a huge box, miniatures, probably exorbitantly expensive... I feel like this should be the punchline to a joke but here we are.

I'm curious about where the wooden parts are being produced, and how much cheaper they are. With China's workforce in lockdown something that can be produced somewhere else may look attractive.

Sagrilarus wrote: I'm curious about where the wooden parts are being produced, and how much cheaper they are. With China's workforce in lockdown something that can be produced somewhere else may look attractive.

Chinese wood costs have risen enough that I’ve been told GMT will not use wood in new designs going forward unless it’s an expansion of an existing game like say CC Ancients.

depending on cost i'll probably back this new Uwe Rosenberg game launching on gamefound tomorrow. it appears to be a heavy 2p only sequel to Le Havre/Ora Et Labora? The resource wheel is back. im curious to see what makes it 2p only.

gamefound.com/projects/draft/75h7foo5eg0in5j0ywh2stv91gf

I'd be tempted. That sort of game gets a lot of play around here, especially when it's tuned for 2.

This sort of game is a tough sell for kickstarter though, it definitley reeks of "why wouldn't I just buy this in retail?"

its published through Spielworxx, and this is their first crowdfunding campaign. They usually do a flat 1000 copies of every game they publish and thats that, but this being an Uwe game they want to print enough to cover demand. appears to be ~60$, which isnt too bad.

I am not kickstarting anything at the moment, but one of my friends showed me his recently-received Foundations of Rome kickstarter game. It appears to be a generic builder euro game, except with a lavish volume of plastic miniature Roman buildings in various light, neutral colors with just enough inkwash to bring out the details. I told him that it wasn't my kind of game, but it was very pretty. The game box was roughly a cubic foot in size and shape, and the miniature buildings were stored in stackable trays within the box.

Centuries from now, archaeologists will be perplexed by a layer of unpainted miniatures dating back to the early 21st century. Perhaps it was some form of polytheism involving the veneration of tiny statues.

In, for now, on BRINDLEWOOD BAY, a PBTA RPG that’s kind of Murder She Wrote with a bit of dark cult of an elder god stuff.

I am conflicted in that the mysteries don’t have a set solution. They present suspects and clues. Once the players uncover enough clues, they theorize about the murder and make a skill check. If they succeed, then their theory about whodunit and why is the correct solution.

So it’s much more about the experience of being in a mystery story, then of pretending to be a detective and actually solving a mystery. I feel a little conflicted about this.

Sounds like the Android board game.

I'm currently backing the Table Golf Association dexterity game on KS. It's pricey, and the base game seems sufficient, but I'm kind of attracted to sports games.

I'm also backing Master Dater--not that I can intellectually defend that, but we've enjoyed Joking Hazard fairly well.

Ah_Pook wrote: its published through Spielworxx, and this is their first crowdfunding campaign. They usually do a flat 1000 copies of every game they publish and thats that, but this being an Uwe game they want to print enough to cover demand. appears to be ~60$, which isnt too bad.

This is live, 25EUR0 shipping to the US isn't great. If you do 2x game and expansions and split the pledge with someone it comes to $62 shipped which is pretty okay.

jpat wrote: I'm currently backing the Table Golf Association dexterity game on KS. It's pricey, and the base game seems sufficient, but I'm kind of attracted to sports games.

I'm also backing Master Dater--not that I can intellectually defend that, but we've enjoyed Joking Hazard fairly well.

I was really, really tempted to go in for the TGA game. It looks like a blast.

dysjunct wrote: So it’s much more about the experience of being in a mystery story, then of pretending to be a detective and actually solving a mystery. I feel a little conflicted about this.

You're leaping to the conclusion that detectives ever think they actually solve the mystery. Short of someone confessing they're more or less assembling evidence until it paints a plausible picture. They don't get to know the complete facts, at least not with confidence.

That's why murder mystery fiction is so popular, the mystery usually gets solved and the reader feels satisfaction about the tidy revelation and resolution.