Gary M. Sarli’s Game Design: “e20 System Evolved” Roleplaying Game successfully closed with $14,605 (asking $10,000) in March 2010. One backer pledged $1,500 and 27 others pledged $200 each out of a total of 148 backers. Kickstarter has been vitally important to the RPG landscape in recently months and there have been many successes. However, […]
10 Pinterest accounts for geek gamers to follow
Geek Native launched on Pinterest in the middle of November. You can follow Geek Native on Pinterest here which lets you keep track of the more visual of the site’s posts – not everything, just some of them, and sorted by art category rather than subject matter. Who else should you follow? In no particular […]
10 new tabletop RPG communities on Google+ to join
Yesterday Google rolled out a new feature on Google+ – communities. Communities let people chat and share around common interests. As you can expect there’s already a wealth of RPG communities as gamers tend to be early adopters. Here’s Google’s video that explains the concept. It’s early days, so some communities might take off yet […]
Malware warnings on EN World – what’s going on?
Popular RPG site EN World is currently down, offline due to malware, but closed on purpose. Malware warnings happen to blogs and forums all the time. It’s a sad fact of the internet. Sometimes they’re false positives too. In this case, Morrus and team have done the very safe thing and taken the site offline […]
Will Berserkon see life?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947923695/berserkon/ [Pledge Support] A Kickstarter pitch to bring a gaming and geek convention to Duluth in Minnesota. Wikipedia tells me Duluth is the fourth largest city in Minnesota with a population of about 87,000. Kevin Michelson has turned to Kickstarter to try and raise the small fortune necessary to run the convention (named Berserkon). The […]
Geek Native launches on Pinterest
Last Wednesday Pinterest opened for businesses and blogs. Technically, although few followed the rules, before last week all Pinterest accounts should have been personal ones. You can now follow Geek Native on Pinterest here. Why should you? Pinterest will be unlike Geek Native’s presence on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ in two important ways. The Pinterest […]
Kicktraq insights on 6d6’s successful UK Kickstarter
One of the first UK based RPG Kickstarter projects has made its funding goals in days. This chart from Kicktraq shows how the funding progress for the 6d6 RPG Core & Adventure books very quickly reached its goals. Attention now moves to the stretch goals. Stretch goals, sometimes a challenge for Kickstarter funders, describe the […]
The first 24 hours on Kickstarter: UK gamers insight
On Halloween and despite the superstorm Sandy, Kickstarter launched in the UK and quite a few gaming companies took their campaigns live. One of the British gaming pioneers are 6d6 who are on the way to earning £2,000 for a revised core rulebook. Their Kickstarter campaign even offers five years worth of future products for […]
The Lord of the Rings Project
Tolkien’s characters had a rich history. Aragorn could trace his family tree back generations. Meet a dwarf and you would stand a good chance of discovering who is father and grandfather were then and there. In an incredible project, Swedish engineering student Emil Johansson is attempting to map all these relationships and family connections. The […]
Kickstarter launches in the UK
Today, Kickstarter named a launch date for the UK and this can only be great news for gamers. This Geek Native blogger is aware of a handful of British based gaming companies that had been waiting for the crowdfunding power-house to hop over the pond before launching projects. Chris Tregenza of 6d6 Fireball said; “This […]
