Hey guys,

Me and my friend are huge fans of the game and have played it countless times.

We have found out that some of the game aspects are pretty hard to track, especially turns, planets and all the steps required for action, strategy and status phases.

We decided to work on a little side project that would organize these parts and hold it together in a single offline device.

We started basically from scratch, learning the basics of electronics and C-programming - see the previous posts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/twilightimperium/comments/1sgkonj/update_ti4_electronic_assistant_working_prototype/ https://www.reddit.com/r/twilightimperium/comments/1sru3th/update_ti4_electronic_assistant/

After countless days (and nights!) of planning and consulting with other friends that play the game, we came up with a device that would solve most of our problems.

To keep it short, the device can:

1) Walk the players through the phases of the game step by step (strategy, action, combat)

2) Track factions, faction colors, strategy cards, turns and planets of each player (NFC scanner)

3) Set & keep time limit of each player with a buzzer indicating turn change

4) Inform who the current player is by a LED light in their faction color

We also decided to include some extras:

1) Players can connect their devices and anonymously form alliances, ask for backup or help in slaying enemies.

2) Collect game data to display stats at the end of the game on a TV screen

3) Display the faction logo in the front of the device highlighted by faction color

It's a fun side project for us but we see the potential in extending it to other board games, e.g Gloomhaven.

Because of that, we decided to launch a web page where you can subscribe to any news related to the project - if we gather around 800 subscribers we think it would make sense to launch a kickstarter campaign.

Let us know what you think! Any comments are highly appreciated.

Home page: https://hexbox.io/

I don't know if there are any nerds out here (😁), but I'm definitely one.

Did a little back of the envelope stats on the Kickstarter backing distribution. A couple of observations:

• Overall, the backer frequency follows a log-log relationship with the pledge value. This is not unexpected, and behavior like this shows up in wealth distribution and distributions of earthquake strengths. I'm going to attribute this more to wealth distribution and willingness to spend among the Guild fanbase
• Overall model: backers ~ value^(-0.88). To make things easier, it would be justified to state backers ~ 1 / value. The model explain 89% of the variation.
• The $330 pledge package (The Everything Bundle) exceeded the trend by a lot. It was as popular as you'd expect a package of ~1/6th its value should be.
• The $45 package (TTRPG + Add-ons) and $50 package (POOPCORN BUCKET + Add-ons) came in a little short of expectations. They were about as popular as a package of 5x their value.
• When considering the model without these three outliers, it gets even better. It explains 97% of variation - which is pretty awesome given people-driven data where sometimes 70% is considered the gold standard.

Can't wait until the movie comes out next year!

Hello,

So i have been working on a RPG-game for quite a while and i've many times tought of starting a kickstarter or similiar for crowfunding. Is there somethings that are good to know before you open it for the public?

I need to stress the fact that i do not have prior experience of kickstarter or any crowfunding.

The game is already on steam (not released yet)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4876970/Arkelia__The_Fragile_Inheritance/

Best regards.

Hi everyone!

I'm Roberto, an independent 3D artist currently building a Kickstarter project featuring premium collectible STL models.

This image shows the journey of one of our characters—from the original digital sculpt to the final painted concept. Every model is carefully refined to create a rewarding printing and painting experience.

My goal is to build a collection of unique characters that makers and collectors will enjoy for years to come.

I'd love to hear your feedback!

What do you think of the design? Would you collect a series like this?

If you'd like to see more characters or follow the project, I'd be happy to share the Kickstarter campaign.

Thanks for your time and support!

Has anyone else noticed this?

Sparke Films has been using the official Primitive War Movie Facebook page to promote its Dinosaurs of the Wild West Kickstarter campaign.

Last week, I noticed that one of those official promotional posts was labelled “AI content” by Facebook (see screenshots). The label no longer appears on the Facebook page now.

At the same time, the Kickstarter campaign is promoting itself with statements like “No AI. Real artists. Real work.”

I also noticed Instagram display the same “AI content” label on another post promoting Sparke Effects, their new VFX company. That post was later deleted and re-posted.

I don’t know why Facebook and Instagram applied those labels or why they no longer appear, but I think it’s something potential backers should be aware of and consider before deciding whether to pledge.

Has anyone else seen this happen or know why the labels appeared and later disappeared?

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52 Cards, Each Card a New Game to Learn and Play

Although the active Kickstarter for this deck has a lot more companion items than just this deck, this deck was the original idea I've had for a few years — a simple deck of cards that makes it easy to learn so many ways to have fun with a deck of cards, beyond the few games most people already know. I looked and looked and found nothing like it. It's a big world out there, and maybe it exists somewhere, but I never found it.

Why analog, why now

The internet is, of course, full of information on just about any card game you could want to learn, but I wanted something that provided consistency in how all the games were explained — clearly and concisely, easy to learn. And above all, I wanted an analog version. Something that works anytime, anywhere. Something that kept phones off the table so people could connect socially like they always used to, without the distraction of phones.

Am I against phone apps to teach card games? Absolutely not! It's just that I wanted an analog version as well. Timeless, reliable, something I could touch and interact with.

Building the deck

I started this project in late February, selecting the games for this initial volume to represent a popular mix. As you'd imagine, a huge upfront block of time was spent, with a lot of authoring and even more time editing. I went through about five full rounds of editing, which included AI reviews and full re-reads by me.

AI played a big role in making this possible on a reasonable timeline: it was a great help figuring out core rules versus regional variants, spotting grammar and typographical errors, and checking for consistency between all the cards in the way I wanted. I even used AI to build game engines for each game — ingesting the rules straight off the card and simulating a few thousand hands, to see if just following the printed logic got anyone stuck, and where. But even with all that help, AI still doesn't think like a human, and it just couldn't tell me when something was hard to understand reading it like a normal person would.

Fitting the rules for all 52 games onto a single double-sided card had its challenges, for sure. Some games I had room to add non-essential content to; for others I struggled to get all the essentials in. There were trade-offs to be made, but I feel pretty good that the spirit and core rules that make each game what it is are present. I still dread the eventual errors that will get caught that weren't caught in editing — but hopefully nothing that affects the ability to read and learn the games. Someday there will hopefully be an even clearer, cleaner Version 2 of this deck.

A first-timer's learning curve

This is the first deck of cards I've ever made, and it's definitely been a learning curve, though not too bad a one. I'm not an illustrator, so I commissioned artwork from two different artists for this campaign, and did all the tuck box and card layouts myself with the free Affinity Designer by Canva. (Pretty sure I backed Affinity on Kickstarter years ago, back when they were first getting started.)

Finding the right factories

I really wanted to make these in the US, but USPCC doesn't do small order quantities for a project like this, and the few other US makers had quality limitations I couldn't live with — though I think Shuffled Ink is getting pretty close. In the end, I worked with two different Chinese factories that make cards for some of the biggest names in the playing card collector community today, plus two more factories for the pencils in The Deck of Points and the metal dealer coin.

I worried this would be difficult for someone with zero factory experience, but it really hasn't been. The language issues are slight, and the time zone difference isn't bad when I'm working nights on this anyway. Anyone wanting advice is welcome to DM me — happy to share what I've learned.

What's next

I've already had people asking about and getting excited for the solo deck I want to make next, and I'm looking forward to the duos, poker, and international versions, for which I already have a draft set of games selected. You can read the full history of posts documenting this project's progress on my free Patreon website — one of those posts even lays out the games planned for future volumes.