I’ve often thought of doing a Kickstarter myself to raise the money I’d need to collect some of my material and self-publish it at Amazon. Since that would require zero dollars, I think I’d have a good shot at making my goal.
Sandy’s been slightly more ambitious with his board game Kickstarters. Instant classic Cthulhu Wars, of course, racked up over $1,400,000 (the vast majority of which clearly went directly into the game), and resulted in a board game featuring about a billion plastic figures ranging from decently sized to downright gigantic. I dare say the set inspires gasps from everyone who sees it, and the expansions aren’t even out yet.
As the full version of that game is still in the production phase, Sandy went slightly less ambitious with his follow-up, an English-language elaboration of a Polish card game (not a card game like poker, a whole game) wherein you play a demi-god and war against other demi-gods from various pantheons. Nearly a 1,000 backers pledged $123,000 for that one, hitting a lot of the stretch goals. Sadly, I think it fell just short of getting the Lovecraft pantheon added to the game.
Sandy’s current Kickstarter is for another board game, an adaptation (I guess, I know very little about games) of a video game. Actually, this consists of two versions of the game, although if you get both you can play them at the same time. Sandy’s games are definitely luxury items, but man, they are swank. Here’s what the full double game set will look like (with more coming if more stretch goals are hit):
The game(s) just got it’s 1,000th backer, which I know because I am that backer. And yes, I did spend an hour refreshing the page over and over waiting for it to go from 998 backers to 999 backers. Why do you ask? The game has hit the $164,000 mark, and hopefully will continue to rack up even more stretch goals, especially since I will directly benefit from those.
Anyway, if anyone wants to join us for T(ween)-Fest 2015 at Sandy’s house this weekend, you can congratulate him in person.
