The Kickstarter Weekly is published each weekend, featuring hand-selected campaigns completing their funding the following week! More video series are coming in 2023, including re-launched Teach & Reviews with improved equipment, and a new video series deep diving into the mechanisms and strategies of various games. You can also view these videos directly on my Youtube channel:

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Destinies First Impressions

“Destinies is a competitive, story-driven, game of adventure and exploration, mixing an app and a board game. The first in a series of games using a brand-new system called Destinies. This game is set in a dark medieval-fantasy universe. The Destinies system offers a fully story-driven, app-supported, RPG-like board game experience, without the need for a game master. Each scenario depicts a part of a vivid world, full of dark stories, epic NPCs and mysteries to solve. Each player takes the role of a hero on a quest to fulfill their destiny. Each destiny is a final goal of the character and has at least two, completely different paths to victory, composed of branching series of quests. Players compete with each other to push the world towards their own destiny.”

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Red Rising First Impressions

“Enter the futuristic universe of Red Rising, based on the book series by Pierce Brown featuring a dystopian society divided into fourteen castes. You represent a house attempting to rise to power as you piece together an assortment of followers (represented by your hand of cards). Will you break the chains of the Society or embrace the dominance of the Golds?”

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Late May 2021 Kickstarter Update

Featuring 9 Currently-Running Kickstarters, including Dominations Deluxe; Dice Theme Park; Florence; Hoplomachus: Victorum; Angel Fury: The Battle for a Human Soul; Vivid Memories; Railways of Sweden, Australia, and Rail Barons of the World; ICE; and Vengeance: Roll & Fight.

Also 6 Backed Crowdfunders, 6 Acquired Games, and 1 Played Game, including Canvas: Reflections, HEXplore It: The Domain of Mirza Noctis, It’s a Wonderful Kingdom, Kemet: Blood & Sand, Keyper at Sea, Merchants Cove, My City, My Father’s Work, Red Rising, Santa Monica, Shasn, Stationfall, and Yedo: Deluxe Master Set – (Un)Pleasant Surprise.

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Early May 2021 Kickstarter Update

Featuring 13 Currently-Running Kickstarters, including Marvel United: X-Men, The Shadow Planet: The Board Game, Board Royale – New Expansions & Second Printing, Cellulose: A Plant Cell Biology Game, It’s a Wonderful Kingdom, Hellboy: The Board Game Expansions and Dice Game, HEXplore It: The Domain of Mirza Noctis, Transmissions, Canvas: Reflections Expansion & Reprint, Keyper at Sea, My Father’s Work, After the Empire – Deluxe version reprint, and Stationfall.

Also 4 Backed Crowdfunders, 8 Acquired Games, and 5 Played Games, including AuZtralia Big Box + Revenge of the Old Ones and TaZmania, Chronicles of Crime: 1400, Cryo, Gorinto, Hippocrates, Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King, John Company: Second Edition, Maglev, Metro Mercado de Lisboa, Red Rising, Stronghold: Undead Second Edition, Taverns of Tiefenthal, Three Sisters, and Vast: The Mysterious Manor.

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Cryo First Impressions

“In the engine-building, worker placement game Cryo, leaders of separate, hostile factions compete to survive and claim control over the underground caverns on a remote icy planet. You need to act quickly and strategically to avoid further sabotage from other factions. Send drones out from your engineering platform to scavenge resources and save your crew still in cryostasis. Utilize multi-use cards to your advantage, and claim the underground caverns for your faction to survive.”

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Venice First Impressions

“Set in the titular city in the 16th century, Venice lets players take the role of wealthy, influential merchants as they ride their gondolas up and down the city’s canals, train their assistants, complete contracts, and leverage their influence to gain political power. But business is anything but usual. As they broker contracts and flirt with crime, merchants must avoid arousing the suspicion of the Venetian Inquisition, lest they find themselves arrested and their businesses shut down.”

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Late April 2021 Kickstarter Update

8 Currently-Running Kickstarters, including Mythic Battles: Ragnarök, John Company: Second Edition, Lasting Tales, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Scrumpy: Card Cider, Empyreal: Far Corners, and Hippocrates. Also AuZtralia Big Box + Revenge of the Old Ones and TaZmania.

And 1 Backed Crowdfunder, 5 Acquired Games, and 2 Played Games, including Cryo, Gorinto, Horrified, Maglev Metro, Reef, Robinson Crusoe – Collector’s Edition, Stronghold: Undead, and T.I.M.E Stories: Estrella Drive.

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