Kickstarter Board Games
2I recently got a board game that I backed on Kickstarter, called Antimatter Matters. It's a game about quantum physics created by a father/daughter team.
Be the first to build an atom out of the very building blocks of the universe.
Antimatter Matters is a science-based, futuristic, set-collection & pattern-building game for 2-6 players. It balances deliberate strategic choices, surprising interactions with other players and the unpredictable nature of the universe.
I just backed another game by them, called Jux, where players work together to create a story. Maybe it will make me more creative?
What board games have you backed?
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Coup Reformation
I missed the first Coup kickstarter. I've played enough Coup to know I like (but not love) it. This was an easy way for me to get a copy of a game that is currently hard-to-find / over-priced
Same for me with Tuscany. That's a funny Kickstarter model - "get that thing we made but didn't distribute well."
The Kickstarter embeds don't seem to be working right now. Here are the links:
Jux: http://kck.st/1gmWfuo
Antimatter Matters: http://kck.st/12ujqAD
If only there were some website developers that could fix that...
I looked into it, but it seems to be on their end.
This page is going to be awesome once Kickstarter fixes their embeds
Tuscany Expansion (and pledged so I'll get the original, too, since it's stupidly expensive elsewhere).
Robot Turtles (teach programming to little kids via a board game)
and not sure this counts but:
Fancy typographic cards (though not as cool as a new fancy typographic card project I saw but decided not to back because I never play cards).
I'm still, uh, kicking myself for not jumping in on the Dungeon Roll Kickstarter:
I picked it up from Amazon, but, of course, without the cool bonus Kickstarter box. (And met the creator at XOXO fest and he lives not all that far from me.)
Some of these amounts pledged seem insanely high to me. I admit I don't know much about board game production (or anything at all about it), but it's hard not to wonder if adding Meeples really costs $50k.
I'm a sucker for deckbuilding games and if you add in some classic Final Fantasy aesthetics, I'm interested.
Pretty tempted by what's essentially tabletop Mario Kart, but the visual design is not to my liking:
@dave I did nothing more than look at the pictures, but it reminds me of "Hurry Cup!". That game is fun with young ones, but it's not much more than a roll-and-go - even with the various power-ups. I paid $9 for Hurry Cup, which is about what it's worth. It's the only "dud" I've played from Antoine Bauza.