Weekender XLBS: Kickstarter Making Better Games; Your Feedback & Comments!
June 17, 2018 by crew
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Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday!!!
Happy Sunday Everyone 🙂 it looks like we are having some technical difficulties this morning with a video conversion.
With it being fathers day I’m going to have to find one of the other chaps to try and fix this (or 4 little ones will kick my ass) so bear with me! 🙂
LOL! I feel your pain…I have 3 of my own that I need to be with or I’m in dog doodoo! Happy Father’s Day!
Just an update I’ve come into the studio and have reset the upload to start again. Could take a couple of hours to upload and process (some of you might remember the last time this happened lol)
So I recommend…
1) If your a father go have a lie in
2) If you know a father go and spoil him by telling him to have a lie in
3) If your working on becoming a father, the show could wait any way … have fun! 😉
Ha ha 😀 well them i will, just watch the Soul Wars unboxing again 😉 I already spoiled my old man, but thats a couple of weeks ago, we have fathers day the 5 of June in Denmark (I bought him a new model train)
I hope you will have nice fathersday, and….. Happy sunday 😀
you can rewatch the Peru game then 😉
But I know that we won 😀
You call that a win?!?
I know technically it was but… 😉
We take what we can get ;D
So everything is uploading, I’m now going to sneak back home for a much over-engineered breakfast in bed 😉 and hand you guys over to the very capable carpenter hands of @dignity, who has drafted in a lorry load of timber and a team of ten men to fix this for us all.
@warzan @dignity So the cathedral will be ready by lunch time then?
Happy Sunday from Saturday here in the states!
Aww, now I have to go to work today without a dose of BoW BS to make the work BS tolerable. Please give the computer a Basil Fawlty style ‘damn good thrashing’.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mv0onXhyLlE
Happy Sunday and happy father’s day. I’ll just have to be patient and get on with some painting instead 🙂
My son just brought me a mug of tea and a bacon sarnie, so at least I’ll have some sustenance whilst we wait for the upload
Bacon sounds great!
Happy Sunday folks
Happy Sunday!
Also, if you are interested in getting more folks into Wrath of Kings you should be able to pick it up from Leodis Games 🙂
https://www.leodisgames.com/product-category/wrath-of-kings/
thanks Dave, I’ll look into them when I get round to digging out my WoK later this year.
@dignity so if you are a carpenter. Can you answer this. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck. If a woodchuck could chuck wood
I don’t have kids but one of the cats just brought me a dead mouse which was lovely
So what are you doing while the video uploads.
I have started to watch the Manhunt Unabomber series. Heard good things about it but hadn’t got round to watching it.
it’s fantastic, Paul Bettany plays a really compelling character and the writing is excellent.
Agreed really enjoying it. Reminds me of Mindhunter
Happy sunday
Do you think if I got out of bed. And turn on my PC to watch XLBS it would make it upload faster. My dad shuffled of this mortal coil about 9 years ago. It miss him on days like today
It’s live now 🙂
And i didn’t even need to get out of bed lol
Ah well these things happen. I’m off out, will catch up when I get back. Happy Sunday, Beasts!
they’re OTTers now, not Beasts 😉
Oh blimey you’re right. I don’t adapt well to change. Still otters are cool.
Seemingly Otters are not very nice, read an article that they can be quite vicious and indulge in necrophilia, cheery stuff 🙂
And next time the sites in maintenance mode and we return it stands to reason we would be rotters…..
When Im on this site I love learning all the new painting and modelling techniques. I soak it all up…Does this make me a blotter?
Indeed, as would anyone consuming porcine products be a trotter
Justins project name is interesting lol
Happy Sunday one n all 😀
Happy Father’s Sunday all!
A cup of tea, Necromunda Gang War 1, Van Saar crew box and dice… not a bad stash. Certainly better than socks or useless crap.
Happy Fathers day and happy Sunday, being spoilt by my four kids this morning given the all clear to order all the new Soul Wars releases, so will be looking forward to that.
RoboBen lets just get a gofundme page for one of these https://telepresencerobots.com/
It’s more fun to make one old monitor broom handle, PS3 joypad a couple of cordless drills, a rasp pi and gaffer tape just need angry Ben face to flash up on collision…
I plan to have a light on the front akin to a PS4 controller which shows when I’m angry and when I’m happy…and when my character’s health is low.
Millions from Millions?. I vote for Warren being the GM with the best character voices
Thanks for the comments @warzan for me at the moment, yes it is changes that I need time to get used to but also whilst I am doing a lot of hobby at the moment it feels a bit mechanical just churning out miniatures. I have yet to jump into projects probably because it feels quite formal rather than the ad-hoc-ness of just WAYPN and I don’t believe I am at the level where it warrants or is worthy of a project thread. I know that is my hangup and I am sure I will get over it. I continue… Read more »
Unless it’s a miniature only KS I do agree with @brennon especially with historical games and it would be equally true I think with a lot of sci-fi and fantasy Kickstarters why companies feel the need to produce what I am sure is an expensive process miniatures ranges as well. There are hundreds of companies producing miniature out there already that are more than up to the job
It was brought up that a lot of the bigger companies are coming to Kickstarter almost ready to go with artwork and digital sculpts. I wonder if this is making it harder for the truly small companies that can’t do this to get funded? They may have a great idea but people may be getting turned off by this as they have become more used to seeing a more ready to go product. I agree that the cult of more is a bad thing in Kickstarter. I would rather receive a compact and polished product than an overwhelming amount of… Read more »
No doubt smaller creators are being overshadowed. But it’s all about what equates as success too. We see so many first time creators come to us expecting to make a million on KS. The expectations of both creators and backers really needs to come back into line. My advise to creators is start small and fail fast, if you want to go all in then by all means do that but understand it’s an all or nothing gamble and be prepared to lose big time. Ie you need to roll a 9+ on a d10 kind of gamble. I still… Read more »
I agree with you both. Every month there is a big project on KS (like Myhtic battles pantheon 1.5 and Solomon Kane) and others are already announced for this year and next year. These come fully prepared with minis, art, boards, … and people already know that they will get a lot of free stuff. A small creator his best change is going to KS but then they have to compete with these big boys it will be hard and they can’t ask for too much as there will be a big change that they won’t make it. But the… Read more »
Happy Sunday! I’ve now sworn myself off Kickstarter. I only backed 4 in my short KS career, but I realised that the system just didn’t work for me. Exploding Kittens: Small buy-in, arrived on time, easy to pic and up play with my wife, nieces and nephews whenever. Probably my one success out of it all WWX Unfinished Business / Shattered Earth: Whilst they achieved their goals and arrived on time, the retail industry was giving me other shiny things to buy whilst these were being produced. The end result, months later after backing them, I have no real interest… Read more »
To start off with Yes I also agree with @warzan ! But believe it or not I feel no need to go and shower! There is no doubt that Kickstarter has brought innovation to the hobby for sure and yes that may not equate to quality improvement in every aspect of the hobby. One thing it has done for me I think may be unique or maybe not: I have never backed a Kickstarter as there has been nothing that really interested me. (Although I do agree with Ben that the map kickstarter campaign idea is VERY interesting to me).… Read more »