godswearhats Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 Hey all, Aaron (aka Kayosiv on most Warhammer forums) and his buddy John have launched a Kickstarter for Space Frontier, a space-themed boardgame. Aaron is part of my regular WHFB gaming group, and as much as I love the guy, he sucks at marketing himself so I thought I'd give the game a shout out on the forum here :-) I've playtested the game in its early days, and it plays easily and quickly - the problems I originally had with it were around win conditions, but those have been addressed. Cheers, ~gwh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generalripphook Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 What is his plan if it doesn't fund? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burk Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 I got the last $100 pledge...Ha! i get to name a planet.....hmmm Im taking suggestions, but leaders so far ar: BURKdom BURKtonia BURK Prime feel free to add. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burk Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 Hmm Primus Burkus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 BurkaMaximus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generalripphook Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 Burklotius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 Burkmanistan Burkantinople Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generalripphook Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 I caved and got theguild master one Or just plain Planet Burk Burkalaburk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkieft Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 Burkistan Burktopia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 Burkidia. Funny she doesn't look Burkish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blustorm Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 Burkopolis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Glacius Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 Burkus Dickus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justjokin Posted June 3, 2014 Report Share Posted June 3, 2014 BurksLamaBad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burk Posted June 3, 2014 Report Share Posted June 3, 2014 Burkus Dickus I only give that to you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcalla Posted June 3, 2014 Report Share Posted June 3, 2014 How bout... "I funded this kickstarter and all I got was this lousy planet 5" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godswearhats Posted June 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 What is his plan if it doesn't fund? I'm not sure. We haven't had time to sit down and talk about that recently. If he doesn't fund, I'd probably recommend he try the more traditional route of going to a publisher and seeing if they will take his game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Dona Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Hello all, 1 of the game's designers here. First off, thank you so much to Burk and Generalripphoo, for supporting the project. If we don't fund our plan is to take a 3 month period to continue improving the game, getting reviews of our prototype, and building up a much more significant fanbase before re-launch. John and I launched a bit earlier than we wanted to due to time constraints. We both start work on a job that will take up virtually all of our free time in July and August, so we decided a campaign that was a little under-built at the start was better than waiting 5 months to launch. This meant that we had a weaker launch than we wanted, but we expected that. Now that we've got positive reviews trickling in, we're gaining momentum and there's been a nice upswing. No guarantees and its going to still take a lot of work, but I think there's still plenty of time left to hit our funding goal. If anyone has any other questions I'd be glad to answer them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justjokin Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 And.... Backed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Dona Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Thanks Justjokin. Easiest question I've ever had to answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generalripphook Posted June 5, 2014 Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 Hello all, 1 of the game's designers here. First off, thank you so much to Burk and Generalripphoo, for supporting the project. If we don't fund our plan is to take a 3 month period to continue improving the game, getting reviews of our prototype, and building up a much more significant fanbase before re-launch. John and I launched a bit earlier than we wanted to due to time constraints. We both start work on a job that will take up virtually all of our free time in July and August, so we decided a campaign that was a little under-built at the start was better than waiting 5 months to launch. This meant that we had a weaker launch than we wanted, but we expected that. Now that we've got positive reviews trickling in, we're gaining momentum and there's been a nice upswing. No guarantees and its going to still take a lot of work, but I think there's still plenty of time left to hit our funding goal. If anyone has any other questions I'd be glad to answer them. I was just curious as to why you choose 35k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Dona Posted June 5, 2014 Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 I think that needs to be expanded upon more in the "why we need you" section of our Kickstarter and is one of our next projects in our quest to continuously facelift our project page. We chose Panda Manufacturing because they have a great reputation for working well with US based game companies and delivering quality results. Panda has a 1,500 unit minimum production run policy. Based on our components, Panda gave us a quote for $13,653 for that production run. Each box is going to cost approximately $8 to ship based on its size and weight, so that adds another $12,000 in money we need. At the total of $25,653, we still need to pay for various things. Freight shipping from China, Shipping fullfillment (not the shipping itself, but putting on all the labels and warehouse storage) barcodes, safety testing, tariff tax etc. all cost money. We estimate this to cost around $3,500. That puts us at needing $29,150 or so and Kickstarter and Amazon take as much as a 10% cut, so we need that too bringing us to about $32,000. We need the remaining $3,000 to pay artists and just have a little bit of extra money if/when things go wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generalripphook Posted June 5, 2014 Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 Makes sense. Well if it fails ill support the second creation, maybe then ill be able to support more too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justjokin Posted June 5, 2014 Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 Beautiful break down. Thank you for sharing. I truly hope that a good portion of my backing goes to you Original Dreamers too, at least in the long run! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Dona Posted June 5, 2014 Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 Well we wanted to keep the funding goal as low as possible and $35,000 is already uncomfortably high for some. If all goes well, we only need about 900 backers to fund the project, which means we will have around 500 games to sell for profit (some are likely to be damage, others are needed for replacement parts) either to retail stores or independently. That will not nearly be enough to offset the tremendous workload, but we're willing to take a hit to establish our reputation and our company for future projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generalripphook Posted June 5, 2014 Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 I dont know if this is coming but I would definitly buy add ons for extra tiles or expansion things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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