Under A Week Before The Aliens Of Mars Attacks Arrive!
September 27, 2013 by brennon
Mars Attacks is now under a week away and as a special surprise we've run away from Mantic with another awesome image of the game. This time it shows off the heroes, the villains and the terrain!
This shows off Buddy and Brandi (albeit the wrong way round!) and some of the aliens storming out of a ruined building. I wonder who is going to win this close encounter of the weird kind?
Some more sketches have arrived as well for their variety of different heroes that will be coming in the boxed game and as stretch goals I imagine. The art for this game is looking pretty awesome and as I have stressed before while it might not be up my alley I think others are going to be very happy with this release.
What do you think of this Mars Attacks news?
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I’m loving the look of some of the people in this game, i just hope there’s a pledge level for backers to have themselves done up as minis and dropped in to the game 🙂
Would that be with or without the Ming the *READCTED*less beard? 😉
I think that will be on the cards Justin, it’s too much of an opportunity to pass up on, hehe 🙂
Mick
Gaaack gaaack
So why are they using Kickstarter? They appear to be doing rather well without the need for backing… or is this simply an early adopter marketing exercise?
My best guess would be as that it has become almost standard for even established companies. Mantic have come a long way in a relatively short period of time and diversified a lot quicker than I, and prolly a lot of others, would have expected. I doubt it would have been totally impossible without crowdfunding but it must have made financing a lot easier New figures don’t come cheap to set up and there is always a risk. I guess that the usual method of funding would have been loans from banks, or maybe floating shares to raise capital. Crowdfunding… Read more »
I agree :).
I think the real benefit of ks is it shortens the time taken to expand the basic game. Eg with dreadball I think you would have seen the basic game anyway but the expansions would have been rolled out over several years rather than 10 months 🙂
I think it helps them set the size of the first print run. It must be a huge guessing game, could end up with 5x as many boxes than you could sell or 5x fewer than you need. A big gamble and lots of money at risk.
Is this going to be 28mm?