Apr 19, 2020

Emma and Gil welcome Anya Combs and Luke Crane from Kickstarter
to discuss how crowdfunding is changing, especially in light of
recent events.

Anya: anya@kickstarter.com, games@kickstarter.com, @anyayna
Luke: @burning_luke, burningwheel.com

Note that this episode was recorded on March 25, 2020, so if we
talk about things happening “a few weeks ago,” we’re referring to
late February/early March. This wouldn’t normally be an important
detail, but things are changing a lot quickly these days.

SHOW NOTES

0m00s: Playtest safely online with Gil and Emma!

1m28s: For those who have never heard it, the MC5’s “Kick Out the
Jams” set a template for punk rock’s sound well before its
time. (Explicit language warning) 

3m52s: More info about the Burning Wheel
roleplaying system. 

8m32s: The original
Alien Frontiers and
Cards Against Humanity  projects. Both were modest
successes.
Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland
2,
Shadowrun Returns, and Shenmue
were much larger successes.

9m48s: The original Kingdom
Death: Monster was a wild success, but
the second edition was one of the largest Kickstarter Games
campaigns ever run.

9m56s: We recorded this episode before Frosthaven
launched. As of the time of this episode’s release, it has raised
over $7 million USD.

10m31s: Gil’s Kickstarter projects are all visible here. 

12m39s: The Dispel
Dice Kickstarter project.

17m23s: The
F*** Yeah Dice Kickstarter project (Explicit language warning,
of course).

16m56s: Itten made the unique game
Stonehenge and the Sun. Oink and Bouken
don’t have any Kickstarter projects, but their games are worth your
attention for their distinctive look and style. Luke also brings up
Bouken’s game Diet &
Friends.

17m17s: W.M. Akers has a series of baseball simulators called
Deadball.

18m23s: You can find Emma’s weekly news show on
Twitch every Friday at 2 pm Pacific.

20m00s: Here’s the
Fantastic Factories Kickstarter project. Here’s the Kickstarter
for Coloma,
designed by Jonny Pac, who was on Ludology
221: The Pac Less Traveled. 

20m36s: Here’s the Gladius
Kickstarter project. 

21m51s: More info about the Skylanders
video game, which discontinued support in 2017. 

24m42s: Here’s the
Multiverse Kickstarter project. (Incidentally, if you’re
interested in a platform similar to Multiverse, check out Roll20).

27m34s: More info about the Jackbox party games. 

28m20s: The
Spaceteam Kickstarter project (Note that this is for the
original video game, not the card game inspired by it).

30m10s: More info about Twine. We go more into detail about this
platform in Ludology 217:
What IF? 

30m43s: More info about
AVOWEL, the mobile version of Wordsy. 

31m05s: The latest
Chronicles of Crime Kickstarter. 

32m46s: Commands
& Colors by Richard Borg is a family of outstanding light
wargames that includes BattleLore
and Memoir
’44. 

34m33s: More information about Kickstarter’s Make100 and ZineQuest
initiatives.

43m16s: More information about the newest God of War game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War_(2018_video_game).

43m36s: Animal
Crossing! Hoo hoo! That’s a link to more info about New
Horizons, the newest game in the series. There’s a lot of
interesting discussion going on about the game and how
timely it is,
how its soothing imagery is perfect for the current times, and

how it offers an escapist fantasy (literally escaping to a
desert island) to people who are stuck at home.

47m13s: Ankh,
the newest CMON game, is at over $1 million USD from about 14,000
backers at the time of this episode release. Tapeworm has not yet
launched at the time of this episode release.

46m45s:
Pax Pamir‘s most recent Kickstarter. It’s from Cole Wehrle (and
his brother Drew), whom you heard two weeks ago on Ludology
222: Johnny Fairplay.

47m06s: The Sea
of Stars Kickstarter project, and the
Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff project.

52m34s: Anya performs in the Hungry March Band, the
Funkrust Brass Band, and the
Brooklyn Wind Symphony.

55m26s: Of course, Team Ludology does not subscribe to Luke’s
spicy hot take here, and we’re pretty sure Rob Daviau has played
D&D more than once. 🙂 Rob was guest on Ludology
70: Risky Business. If you want to hear him GM, check out the
actual play podcast Story Roost and its first
story arc, The Unmarked. (Explicit language warning)

59m17s:
DRUGGIES AND BULLIES BEWARE BULLYPROOF Kickstarter project.

1h00m30s: OLDIE
BINGO Kickstarter project.