A Gaming Life
Sometimes it’s a good thing to be subscribed to the various boardgame company emails. I would normally say “especially as a reviewer,” but that hasn’t really paid out much. Instead, I’m saying this as a consumer who was alerted to the Kickstarter campaign for… Continue Reading “Kickstarter Backing – Arcana Rising”
Usual readers of this blog (Hi Bob!) might remember that I’m a big fan of the Ascension franchise. I love this deckbuilding game to death, though I’m more of a fan of it on the iPad than I am on the table (all of that… Continue Reading “Ascension Tactics on Kickstarter”
A really quick post today because it’s a busy day. Dead Reckoning, the pirate exploration and fighting game designed by John D. Clair with art by Ian O’Toole and published by Alderac Entertainment Group, is now on Kickstarter! I got to play this at… Continue Reading “Dead Reckoning from AEG now on Kickstarter”
After much hullabaloo, and a really nice chat with Stronghold Games President Stephen Buonocore, the Terraforming Mars Big Box Kickstarter is now live! And wow, is there some cool-looking stuff in there. First, I’m very glad to see that there is a pledge level… Continue Reading “Terraforming Mars Big Box Kickstarter is Live!”
I love it when game publishers listen to their fans. When I heard that Fireside Games was doing a Deluxe version of Castle Panic, with plastic miniatures, retooled artwork and cool wooden tokens to be placed in the bag to draw, I was kind of… Continue Reading “Fireside Games Listens to Their Fans – Cancels Castle Panic Deluxe Edition Kickstarter”
(Edit: This campaign has been cancelled. Hopefully they’ll come up with something cool, though! Due to feedback from dedicated fans, we have decided to cancel the current Kickstarter campaign and work on a new campaign with deluxe versions of the expansions included. We’ll provide… Continue Reading “Castle Panic Deluxe Coming to Kickstarter Tomorrow!”
(Edit: And it’s live! Let me know what you think now that it’s up and running in the comments. I also did a post about it.) (Edit: Apparently this has now been pushed back to June 16) You may have heard something last week,… Continue Reading “Q&A – Stephen Buonocore (President of Stronghold Games)”
Gamelyn Games is the king of tiny yet epic games (hence the titles of many of their games, I guess!). I’m a big fan of Tiny Epic Galaxies, but so far haven’t really had the chance to try any of their other ones. However, the… Continue Reading “Tiny Epic Pirates on Kickstarter”
I should have posted this yesterday, but wanted to get the Dice Tower Con post out and I don’t like to do two major posts in one day. Yesterday morning, the Kickstarter for one of my most anticipated games went live. Viscounts of the… Continue Reading “Viscounts of the West Kingdom now on Kickstarter”
I was really excited to see the news that a 2-player version of the wonderful Gil Hova design The Networks was going to be released and be on Kickstarter in January. I was so excited that I announced the news as soon as I… Continue Reading “Rival Networks Now on Kickstarter”