The Calamus would like be a hugely valuable companion app for your tabletop experience. It’s being designed for smartphones and desktop. The goal is to take some of the mess out of the tabletop experience and therefore to make it more convenient and easy to do. Whether it’s creating hundreds of different maps, designing PCs […]
GMOD offers a client to manage your mods
Are you a fan of modding? That’s either the creation of new bits of software for your favourite game or simply grabbing someone else’s published creation and adding it to your game. One of the first mods I saw that caught my attention was one that changed zombies to Teletubbies in Left4Dead. I’ve never applied […]
Code Monkey Save World comic book Kickstarter
I’m a great big fan of Jonathan Coulton’s Code Monkey. In fact, it may now be banned from the work Spotify list due to overplay. So when news of a Kickstarter to turn Code Monkey into a comic book came to me I had to track the details down. It’s a partnership between writer Greg […]
Soaring to success: Robotech RPG Tactics
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rrpgt/robotech-rpg-tacticstm/ [Back this Campaign] Palladium Books have a success on their hands with the Kickstarter for Robotech RPG Tactics. The pitch asked for $70,000. At the time of posting, there are 23 days left on the clock and the project has attracted over 2,100 backers and raised $385,820. That’s a pile of money for the […]
Clever Kickstarter: music for RPG background loops
[Back this Campaign] Some of my roleplaying game sessions make heavy use of music. I like to use it when I GM. It’s a challenge to find it though – first I look for movie or game scores as any singing tends to disrupt the game. The advantage computer game scores have over movie scores […]
8 tips for promoting your Kickstarter on Google+ RPG Communities
Geek Native co-moderates one of my favourite RPG communities; the Roleplaying Games community on Google+. Every week we see plenty of people popping in to promote their RPG or related Kickstarter. Some do it well. Some do it badly. I want everyone to do well so scribbled down this little guide to help. 1. Don’t […]
Larry Elmore’s Sovereign Stone comes to Pathfinder
[Back this Campaign] This is a Kickstarter that’s on track to making x2 of its campaign goal within the first day of release. Here was I wondering whether there were any Kickstarters left that could excite the RPG crowd. Larry Elmore, of course, is famous. He’s the artist behind D&D’s Red Box (and SnarfQuest) as […]
Support women in gaming: GTFO’s pitch
[Back the Campaign] Another day. Another Kickstarter. Right? Perhaps – but GTFO: A Film About Women in Gaming has the promise of being both interesting and worthwhile. This is a project to raise money for a film exploring the harassment of women in video games. I’m sure you’ve seen it; especially online. At the time […]
On how to adapt your game for gamers and Jim Pinto’s latest Kickstarter
Jim Pinto of Post World Games is on a roll. King for a Day is now available after a successful Kickstarter and A Gallery of Rogues is underway after funding. Jim’s current Kickstarter is already past x3 times funding and so Toolcards: Fantasy GM Cards looks to complete the hat trick. Geek Native wanted Jim […]
Challenging conventions on steampunk and dice: The Edara RPG pitch
Carl Harrison is the Lead Deigner for Caelestis Designs and Ryan Schoon is the Lead Writer. The team has a Kickstarter pitch for a steampunk RPG that proposes a “Renaissance” view to steampunk and a close look at the use of dice and luck in RPGs. Geek Native was able to ask Ryan and Carl […]
