This is a new direction for a geeky convention. In this case the anime con, Otakon, is creating a computer game in order to promote the gathering. How can they afford to do this? Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2080650728/the-official-otakon-super-beat-em-up-video-game/ [Support this campaign] The multi-player game, is a side-scrolling, beat’em up. I thought it slightly odd that the game […]
Did Kickstarter cut roleplayers out of their gamer thank you?
It’s good of Kickstarter to recognise the roll of gaming in that too. Here’s how important gaming is to them; these stats come from Kickstarter, noting how games leap from 8th to 1st. 1. Games — $50 million 2. Film — $42 million 3. Design — $40 million 4. Music — $25 million 5. Technology […]
Mongoose Publishing crowdfund Judge Dredd: Block War
Mongoose Publishing have the license to the Judge Dredd RPG and the Judge Dredd Miniatures Game. The Judge Dredd Miniatures Game as been taking off, with a community buillding around it and additional model sets being produced. Today, Matthew Sprange, the owner of Mongoose, turned to Kickstarter to attempt to crowdfund the Block War supplement […]
Lovecraft horror RPG tremulus slaughters goals
[Pledge here] Tremulus (actually, I think the branding demands lower case t – tremulus) has a storytelling RPG Kickstarter project. We’ve seen some large projects in recent days but tremulus is at the other end of the evolutionary scale – asking for only $5,000. The result? At the time of posting, tremulus has slaughtered its […]
Who actually created D&D? A Dungeons and Dragons documentary
This video is a trailer for a Dungeons & Dragons documentary. I think it looks pretty good. It’s a complex story – even around apparently simple questions like; “Who actually created D&D?” https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewpascal/dungeons-and-dragons-a-documentary This is not a completed documentary though. It may never be finished. There’s a Kickstarter project for it with pledges beginning at […]
Reaper Miniatures’ Bones becomes the 10th $1,000,000+ Kickstarter
The gaming companies are doing so well at Kickstarter. Successes are coming from places that, I safely predict, mainstream press would not have expected and show the size of the RPG community. Reaper Miniatures have just become the 10th company to hit $1,000,000 on Kickstarter. Their campaign, to fun a range of Bones minis has […]
Matt Forbeck’s Monster Academy
The game designer Matt Forbeck is trying to write 12 books this year. That’s one book a month. He calls the project 12 for Twelve. As I imagine any author would do this year he’s doing a Kickstarter for each project. If you want to back Monster Academy you can do so here. Here’s the […]
Monte Cook’s Numenera art teaser and update
It’ll come as little surprise to many gamers to discover that Monte Cook’s Numenera Kickstarter (pledge) stormed through its funding goals. At the time of posting the project has nearly $75,000 in backing, 900 backers and 36 days to go. Cook has been sharing more teasers and adding stretch goals. The picture above is from […]
Numenera: Monte Cook announces his new RPG
Popular RPG game designer Monte Cook has announced his new RPG. Back in April, Cook made gamer headlines when he quit the D&D Next project, blaming differences of opinion with the company, but backig the #DNDNext team. His new project, Numenera, is being funded by a Kickstarter campaign and may suggest Cook prefers to push […]
Infinite X Studio release Quantum RPG beta as a free download
After a successful Kickstarter project, Joshua Frost’s Infinite X Studio, based in Seattle, has released the Quantum Roleplaying Game beta as a free download. Frost said; “We topped 500 downloads over the soft-launch weekend,” “Now that we’ve crushed the PDF download servers at our host, it’s time for the world to know the Quantum RPG […]
