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Thanks A Million!

Well, thanks 1,057,975 to be exact :) Yes, the Dungeon Saga Kickstarter made over a million dollars all told, which was a pleasant surprise. A huge thanks to everyone who backed it and helped to make...

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Rats In Deadzone

Mantic’s announced a Deadzone expansion Kickstarter, featuring the Veer-myn (among other things). This post is really just to act as a place for you to add any comments on that, if you have any...

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More Crowd Funding Fun

I don’t often look at Indiegigo. It’s not that I don’t like it, simply that it never crosses my mind to, so overpowering is the brilliant marketing of Kickstarter. However, every now and again I bump...

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Fastest Kickstarter In The West

I often hear people bemoaning the lateness of this or that Kickstarter project. Some are over a year behind schedule, and so it’s hardly surprising folk get peeved. In contrast to this trend, I...

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November Is Safe

Those of you who read the Mantic blog will know that November has been declared safe, and that there is no longer a need for Containment Protocol until next year. In other words, no Deadzone for now....

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DS Pledge Manager Questions

I know that the Kickstarter backers have their pledge manager available for Dungeon Saga, and I’ve heard a few questions about the game based on this. As I don’t know what you don’t know (and want to...

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Queries About The DS Pledge Manager

Mantic asked me to pass on the contact for any questions you might have relating to the DS pledge manager itself. It’s luke.watson@manticgames.com If I was clever then I could make that a link that...

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Dungeon Saga Beta Rules Questions

Just had an email from the chaps at Mantic Towers. They’re about ready to release the beta rules to the KS backers, and thought it might be useful to have a thread here for you guys to feed back any...

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New Painting Books

Last week was quite a good one for swag. Among the many things I acquired were two different painting books, both of which look really good. Just had a quick flick through so far, and they seem to be...

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15mil Loveliness – Last Day

It’s not often I’m impressed by 15mm scale foot figures. In fact, it might be never. Until now. Well, until the last Salute, when I first came across these gorgeous little offerings from the guys...

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What I Can Say…

Yesterday’s post was really just to let you know that I’m still doing stuff… just that most of it’s got to remain under my hat for a while. However, that’s not true of everything. One thing I’ve been...

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Twisted Almost Over

I’ve mentioned the Twisted Kickstarter a couple of times before, and I’ll be coming back to them again, I’m sure. Hard to resist such lovely figures. As you can see in the picture, they offer these...

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Oh Balls!

The Farce is strong in this one. As is the innuendo. I’ve been trying to resist mentioning it, but I can’t. It’s just too silly. I’ve mentioned Macrocosm Miniatures a few times, and shown off some of...

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Kickstarter’s Latest Tweaks

Looks like Kickstarter is starting to roll out some of its recent experiments to a wider audience. Yesterday I got a feature I’d seen mentioned on forums as being in test. That’s the pledge levels...

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How is Gaming Weathering the Storm?

When I worked for Games Workshop, the bosses used to say that the toy and game industry was especially robust when it came to surviving recessions; last in, first out. So what about pandemics? With...

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Kickstarter Cogitations

There’s always something interesting going on in Kickstarter. Sometimes it’s a new trend, other times it’s a specific campaign, and there are always fun new games to look at. It’s a revolving shop...

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Kickstarter Cogitations 2

Starting my thoughts on Kickstarter today with an idea that’s related to one of my old jobs: Editor. Years of being professionally picky makes me very aware of typos in anything I read, and whilst I’m...

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Kickstarter Cogitations 3

People use the word unique way too often in marketing blurb. It’s not a complicated word to understand, but it’s often used incorrectly. This makes the people using it look sloppy and careless. If...

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Kickstarter Cogitations 4

This week, I want to talk about just one game: Twilight: 2000. Normally I don’t talk about RPGs much as I haven’t played in years. I still read them though, and back in the day I used to play and run a...

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Kickstarter Cogitations 5

It’s nice to see that after a summer break, the numbers for Kickstarter campaigns are right back where they should be. That, plus the reported rise in overall funding total, says that KS is in a...

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