Listened to audiobook on Thucydides’ History of Peloponnesian War. Has anyone played board game titled Hellenes: Campaigns of the Peloponnesian War? Would make a great multiplayer game. A&A has WWI, Napoleon, Punic 270 BC, variants, but not Peloponnesian Wars (Athens vs Sparta). Would be interested in working together with anyone willing to develop a Greek city state variant for this website.
Into the Black, a game from I Will Never Grow Up Games launches June 2nd!
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Kickstarter Launch day is set : May 3rd, 2016!
We will update this thread with the link when it goes live, however in the meantime you can check out www.iwillnevergrowup.com/publishing/intotheblack for details (<– this link will also redirect to Kickstarter when we go live, just in case we don’t get it here for some unspeakable reason).
Come one, Come all, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your coworkers, tell your dogs and cats!
We would love to have a huge first day on Kickstarter to get the momentum going right from the get go.$49 CAD (That’s about $37 USD for you Yanks!) will get you a copy of the game, shipped anywhere in North America. +$5 shipping to the UK, +$15 shipping to the rest of the EU.
$59 CAD will get you a signed copy (limited to 50 backers)MSRP for Into the Black has been set at $49 CAD (plus shipping and taxes) so backing on Kickstarter translates to roughly a 30% discount off retail!
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“What about stretch goals?” - We have several stretch goals and social achievements planned to increase quality/quantity/size of the components
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“But I will just wait to get it from (insert-name-of-online-discount-game-store-here) cheaper” - Aha! We have no retail distribution in place at this time. Any copies (assuming there are any) left after the Kickstarter campaign has been shipped will be sold exclusively through I Will Never Grow Up Games for full retail price!
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“Why do I have to pay shipping in the UK and even more in the rest of the EU??” - Increased cost of importing the game to the European Union, however, all EU games will be shipped from within the EU so you will have no extra VAT or import costs to pay. What you pay to back us on Kickstarter is all you have to pay!
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“What happens if (/shudder) the KS does not fund?” - Your credit card will not be billed unless the kickstarter reaches it’s full funding goal at the end of the campaign. IF this does happen, we will re-group and try again. This may mean cutting some components in order to reduce the overall costs, but we will get this thing published one way or another!
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“How big is the game box?” - 10 inches x 10 inches x 2.25 inches and weights in at 2.6 pounds of gaming goodness
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“What do I get for my $49 CAD?” - See the image below for a breakdown of the contents of the box
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Kickstarter launch delayed until June, but I just got the pre release prototype copy from printplaygames.com and it’s nice! Some printing fixes to address, but nothing too difficult to deal with. Some bleed issues (as you can see, white space on some of the large cards), a couple of card backs in the wrong order and lightening up some of the artwork.
All this can be yours for approximately $35 US ($49 CAD) when we launch!
Pre release rules available for download at http://www.iwillnevergrowup.com/publishing/intotheblack
Limited Print and Play coming soon (fewer components, just a preview to try out, greyscale/black and white).
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Launches on Kickstarter Thursday, June 2nd, 2016 at approximately 6pm Eastern.
Preview page : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iwillnevergrowup/1534167851?token=66ea951c
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I will be supporting on kickstarter, and I can’t wait to try it at the FMGCon in August.
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@Young:
I will be supporting on kickstarter, and I can’t wait to try it at the FMGCon in August.
You should come try it before then. lol. :P
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@Young:
I will be supporting on kickstarter, and I can’t wait to try it at the FMGCon in August.
You should come try it before then. lol. :P
Sure, when’s the next playtest?
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@Young:
@Young:
I will be supporting on kickstarter, and I can’t wait to try it at the FMGCon in August.
You should come try it before then. lol. :P
Sure, when’s the next playtest?
Saturday the 11th sound good?
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TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES!
Today was supposed to be the day! Everything was ready, everything was lined up to go … I went to hit the big green “LAUNCH YOUR CAMPAIGN NOW” button that has been sitting there like a temptress since getting approval from Kickstarter on April 20th and, lo and behold, it appears they have to do MORE VERIFICATION!Needless to say, a slew of words flew from my mouth that would make a Pirate blush.
There is currently a help request in with the Kickstarter Support Staff and, unfortunately as a result of this unexpected event Into the Black is in a holding pattern until Kickstarter resolves the issue.
My sincerest apologies on this delay, I feel like a fool!
Do not fear matey’s. The moment the page gets RE-approved, it will launch and everyone will be sent notification!
Once again, here is the preview page for anyone wishing to look at it : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iwillnevergrowup/1534167851?token=66ea951c
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Here’s a pReview of Into the Black from The Kentucky Bored Gamer
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Project Funding Cancelled
I hope everyone is having a great long weekend here in North America with Canada Day and Independance Day having arrived (and just a great weekend otherwise for the rest of the world)!
RETREAT!
It took a lot of deep thought to decide to cancel this projects funding at this point. There were numerous times throughout that I thought I should just cancel and others where I thought it would be best to run out the clock.
With that, and with heavy heart, funding for Into the Black has been cancelled, for now!
Thank you everyone for your support through this process. A lot has been learned and the errors that were made have been noted and will certainly be addressed.
REGROUP!
Don’t worry, I’m not giving up on it, not by a long shot!
Cancelling this project is not a bad thing; in fact it’s a start of a new, exciting and better phase of the game!
Plans are already in motion for relaunch, but I’m going to take the time to do it better!
In those plans are things such as looking at ways of reducing the funding goal if possible, adding in some of the stretch goal content as part of the base game, upgrading the tile art and looking deeper into the possibility of miniatures, a play through video, better images of the game, more previews, more advertising, more demoing … more of everything!
Stay tuned for updates, and please join our mailing list at www.iwillnevergrowup.com/newsletter for more info and advance notifications.
Don’t abandon ship! Into the Black will be published, one way or another!
NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER! We’ll be back matey’s!
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