I got my copy of the second edition of the 6d6 RPG by backing a Kickstarter. The campaign came in 330% funded and that’s a feat that even some of the biggest names in the industry would be pleased with. Gamers who missed the Kickstarter will soon get a chance to buy the books at […]
6d6: The Kickstarter catch-up sale
Did you miss the 6d6 Kickstarter last year? It offered a wealth of products in return for pledges. It reached something like %330 of the funding goal. As is sometimes the case when a Kickstarter smashes targets it can also take a bit longer to put together. There’s all those pledges and stretches to […]
Free to Download: 6d6 Free
6d6 are being especially busy as their successful Kickstarter enters its last week. The campaign is into the stretch goals and, at the time of writing, just a few quid short of unlocking The Dungeon of Demon Strata with the bestiary coming up next. As the Kickstarter attracts attention it also generates more questions from […]
Is it getting too hard to Kickstart an RPG project?
There’s little doubt that Kickstarter, the crowd-funding site, has had a profound effect on the RPG industry. What was once impossible is now possible. Despite the successes Kickstarter is rushing towards new challenges. One hovering problem is that of unmet expectations. We’re approaching the point where gamers are starting to expect deliveries on the pledges […]
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 […]
6d6’s Kickstarter offers all products for 5 years
[Back this Campaign] 6d6 are one of the first roleplaying publishers, perhaps the first, to take advantage of Kickstarter’s UK launch. Their campaign opened on the same day Kickstarter UK opened. The campaign is for a new edition of the 6d6 Core rules with new art. Backers get the full game, in PDF form, at […]
The Indie+ RPG convention team in chain reaction interview
An Indie+ chain reaction interview? What is Indie+ in the first place? It’s an online gaming convention, this week, that works over Google Hangouts. What on earth is a ‘chain reaction interview’? Glad you asked. A chain reaction interview is when a whole bunch of people take part in an interview and overlap their questions […]
The Kickstarter launch: UK publishers and authors respond
Kickstarter is the most widely recognised crowdfunding site in the world and, this week, it announced UK launch dates. Publishers can create projects already but cannot begin funding campaigns until Halloween. It’s worth, just briefly, considering why this is so important for gamers. Kickstarter makes possible roleplaying games, books and miniatures that would otherwise have […]
The Indie+ bundle: $94 of RPG for $4
Indie+ is rather like an online gamer expo. It’s here to promote indie game publishers, writers, artists, podcasters and even bloggers. If you’re taking part in Indie+ let Geek Native know. A big part of Indie+ will take part in Google+. It’s the ideal venue, albeit rather untested, for this sort of online experience. Google+ […]
