Kickstarts Today
Sometimes, what you want to talk about just drops in your lap. Hooray for late-summer Kickstarts.
- Say what you will about Zach and Kelly Weinersmith, but they get it. They get their audience and know exactly what they are like¹ and are more than ready to dish it up to them. The academia-themed boardgame, Every Else Thinks This Game Is Awesome, has blown through its Kickstarter funding goal in a about four and a half hours (presently it’s sitting at 180% of goal), and will likely be hitting the stratospheric levels associated with a Weinersmith joint, including globs of stretch goals that make the final product awesomer.
Me, I decided to back as soon as I saw the grad students were represented by interchangeable pawns with no control over their own destiny. All of the rewards where you got to influence or appear in the game are gone, but 943 people (as of this writing) can grab the reward level where a special card signed by the Weinersmiths² is included in the game. This one looks fun, it’s already funded, it’s basically zero risk given prior Weinersmith Kickstarts, so give it a look, yeah? Oh, and check out the video on the campaign page, it features a great variation on the soundtrack record scratch.
- Also up for Kicks and Starts, the 30th — you read that right, three-zero — campaign from Iron Circus, the latest iteration of their ongoing fairy tales from around the world series, Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: North America. Notably, the stories are told by Indigenous creators, which really should be a given but isn’t yet, so good on Spike and everybody at IC. Then again, Alina Pete has been part of the IC family forever, and is herself a member of the Cree nation, so keeping the stories in the hands of the people they originated with was probably more of a given than at any other publisher.
Usual Iron Circus deal is in effect: every US$5000 over goal raised results in a US$5/page increase in pay to the creators; as of this writing (a day into the 18 day funding period), creators are making an extra US$40/page, and about to hit US$45. According to the FFF mk2, we’re headed for US$155K +/- 30K in funding; hitting the low end of that range would result in a US$105/page bonus, in an industry where mid-major publishers may pay less than that total per page. We’re more than a full day away from being able to calculate the McDonald Ratio, but it would come to at least US$185K, based on what’s been raised in the first two days³.
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¹ Damn you, Sports & Leisure category, damn you to hell!
² And featuring facts about both weiners and smiths.
³ Remember, Kel McDonald’s rule of thumb is the money raised in the first three days of the campaign is approximately one third of the eventual total.
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