Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
DreadBall – The Futuristic Sports Game, is Mantic Games’ latest Kickstarter project. I’ve written about it previously. Before the Kickstarter launched, I was very excited about this upcoming new ball-sport game. Whether or not the comparison is fair or misplaced, I was getting strong vibes of Blood Bowl from the early pictures (read the game-designers […]
CoolMiniOrNot are the serial offenders of miniature Kickstarters. Their third project, Relic Knights with miniatures from Soda Pop, is just gathering a bit of steam in its challenge to the hugely popular predecessors of Zombicide and Sedition War. Their next offering is already in the making. The 32mm fantasy game Wrath of Kings.
The Reaper Bones Kickstarter is official over. In its closing hours it pushed the hype surrounding this record-breaking fundraiser to unprecedented heights. Writers and editors in places like MTV or Wired.com took notice (though Matt Forbeck at Wired is personally involved). In the end, “Bones” closed with a record finish of US$ 3.429.236,-
It is plain that pledging to a Kickstarter to fund a new line of miniatures or a new table-top game is rapidly becoming a very popular way for people to add to their miniature and games collection. But beware. If the campaign you pledge on is in the US (as many of them are, and […]
I posted some early pictures from Gen Con on Mantic’s upcoming DreadBall game. Since midday today (UK time), Mantic’s DreadBall Kickstarter is live. Perhaps unsurprisingly – as Mantic Games already teased this game at Gen Con, via newsletters and across the web – the Kickstarter hit its (comparatively modest US$ 20.000) funding goal within hours.
A week ago I wrote a short brief about Reaper Miniature‘s Bones Kickstarter in my post about ‘Five Current Crowd-Fund Miniature Projects You Could Back Today‘. It’s “only” the third project down this list of mine. Perhaps it did not get the attention it deserves. Now is the time to take a second look. Why? […]
Mantic Games unveils the Dread Ball site with a countdown to an unknown event in a week’s time. My guess, it’ll be another Kickstarter. Check out the preview pictures inside.
If you visited in the last week or so you will have noticed that I wrote a bit about crowd-funded miniature projects and about the business practice of free giveaways. The guys (and girls?) of DreamForge Games in California were already wiser. They have now launched a Kickstarter to start producing plastic Titans - or […]
Crowd-funding through Kickstarter or Indiegogo (though other sites exist too) has fired up many dreamers and entrepreneurs from all walks of the miniature hobby. I wrote a post yesterday about Last Days of The Angels, an Indiegogo campaign that hit a lot of the right buttons for me. But this is obviously not all there is […]
Few things have enlivened the Miniature Wargaming Hobby as much as the recent emergence of crowd-funding sites like Kickstarter or Indiegogo. One particularly fascinating, creative and daring project on Indiegogo in particular stood out for me: Last Days of The Angels by Spanish painting studio BallisticSkill4.
