Danial Rashidi is a Swedish computer game designer who’s worked in DICE and on projects like Battlefield and Battlefront. Danial is now on Kickstarter with a “creative world-building” game that’s intended to be a cathartic art project.
Magpie Games’ Urban Shadows 2e smashes $100,000 on Kickstarter
Magpie says they’ve redefined what’s possible with Powered by the Apocalypse games in the last few years and want to bring those learnings to Urban Shadows.
The Mariana Trench: A 1 or 2 player pocket board game
Players descent into the Mariana Trench, encountering creatures as they race to complete their research mission.
The Dungenerator: Nigh-Infinite Dungeons
Random dungeons with a twistier and more organic feel than you’d get from all those carefully aligned square tiles.
A channelling board and music for Xenolanguage: A Game about First Contact
Thorny Games won awards for Dialect a game communication and language. Their latest game Xenolanguage takes that up a notch and Kickstarter is in love with the original concept.
The Wildsea RPG takes its chainsaw ships to Kickstarter
The Wildsea is a magical forest that overran an entire planet within a day, filling it with exotic monsters and danger. Characters are wild sailors, those who travel on chainsaw powered ships in the canopy above, to trade for food.
Eldritch: The Book of Madness re-writes horror rules for D&D 5e
Starting at 96 pages, growing with stretch goals, the book includes ancient entities, dangerous monsters, spells and rules for dread.
Buzzard: Deadpool Kingsman versus Nazis
Andrea Wolf is in the writer’s seat again with Buzzard 2, with Ezequiel Assis as the artist. It’s a comic book series about an unlikely super-assassin.
Family RPG adventures with WanderSquares: The Underwood Tunnels
The print-and-play option for WanderSquares takes a pledge of $24 and has an expected delivery date of February 2021. Sadly, while the game looks like a great Christmas gift, it won’t be ready in time.
RPG Cinematic: Animate your D&D character, even your whole world, in Unreal Engine
The Unreal Engine is used to make computer games, and now programmer and animator Luke Cosgrove is using it to create a 3d-virtual tabletop for RPGs like D&D. The project is called RPG Cinematic.
