Kickstarters, good or bad?

[barbarian]

Monopoly is dangerous for all manner of reasons; stifles the creative aspects, limits you to one maker's interpretation, and is very vulnerable to financial abuse.

[Techno]

If your sculptors have spare sculpting capacity, refer them to Andy Kirk at Heroics & Ros, he might have work for them if they can do 6mm. Although he is off on honeymoon until the end of the month...
http://www.heroicsandros.co.uk/contact.html
Mark

Ooooh...Ta Mark.
Always on the lookout for stuff that doesn't give me a conflict on interests....
Haven't done any 6mm properly since Ral Partha, yonks ago.
Cheers - Phil.

[General Bt Sherman]

This is something that I would definitely support depending on the subject. Aztecs don’t do it for me. Who knows this maybe is a good way to bring in new people to the scale.

[barbarian]

I think it could be a good way of introducing a new rule with a starter pack by Pendraken...
Pay for the print...and have 2 armies in the pack.

[O Dinas Powys]

I think it could be a good way of introducing a new rule with a starter pack by Pendraken...
Pay for the print...and have 2 armies in the pack.

This seems to be a very popular way of funding boardgames judging by the number of competitions there are (were?! - haven't been a regular there for a while ) on Boardgamegeek.com.  Indeed, for some companies, it seems to be their modus operandi.

They presumably go through the traditional design and play-test process, do a bit of market research and promotion which helps generate a buzz about a game, then launch a kickstarter to fund the print run.  As I understand it, most boardgames only have a single print run, so this works well.

[FierceKitty]

This is something that I would definitely support depending on the subject. Aztecs don’t do it for me. Who knows this maybe is a good way to bring in new people to the scale.

Aztecs do it to people, not for them. With nasty clumsy knives of volcanic glass. And they stew you in chocolate sauce afterwards.

Ah, the things one posts to make it to the next promotion!

[Techno]

And they stew you in chocolate sauce afterwards.
Ah, the things one posts to make it to the next promotion!

That's another piece of fascinating information...I'd always assumed it was sweet chilli sauce that they used.
Cheers - Phil. (You've only got 17 to go now...Get on with it !)

[FierceKitty]

Like this?

[Techno]

Uh-huh!

[FierceKitty]

OK, I shall.

[Orcs]

And they stew you in chocolate sauce afterwards.

Do they then throw you to lesbians?   

If so I might be more interested in Aztecs than I thought 

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

I've pledged for a couple of Kickstarters that were at fairly different ends of the spectrum. 

One was IIRC US$10 for a pdf RPG companion which was pretty miuch written but the stretch goals added more content and everyone who pledged also got iterative drafts to comment on and use early.  A good experience.

The other is a board game with 28mm SF miniatures (Sedition Wars).  Here I pledged about $145 inc p&p for core box plus add-ons - the stretch goals here added both to the box contents going on sale and specials for those pledging.  In this case the game materials and artwork were in layout and many of the figures were designed.  Presupposing that this happens there'll be a delivery in December and in March or thereabouts with a lot of stuff.   I got in at the end where it was clear that, absent a major problem, the value for money should be very good for those pledging.    In this case the KS total was around $975,000.

Regards

Edward

[Orcs]

Leon,

Would you and Dave be interested in using some of the suggestions here to kickstart a new range ?  I think it might be worth a seeing if you get enough people interested.

[Luddite]

Interesting recent article on the BBC about this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19347120

[Leon]

Leon,

Would you and Dave be interested in using some of the suggestions here to kickstart a new range ?  I think it might be worth a seeing if you get enough people interested.

It's not something we've actively looked at, as the requests area does a similar job.  The only added benefit of the Kickstarter would be to have the funds available earlier in the process, meaning that it wouldn't take anything out of the regular design budget.  It'd be interesting finding a range which would bring in enough interest/pledges to make it worthwhile.

And before he jumps in, Aztecs wouldn't be it...!