You read that right – amongst our look at all things crowdfunded this week are some genuine engineers who in reality want to construct piloted robot for the aim of push each other . What a week , what a week .
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Cartography
‘ Claim Territory on a mapping ’ is n’t exactly a unexampled thing for board games , but this beautifully designed dining table game find out you build the dining table itself as you play , graph the map :
Cartography builds on the ancient soil claiming game “ Go ” by adding a single-valued function - making mechanic . The map is made up of interlocking triangular tiles , with walls that dissever the map , allowing territory to be defended or captured . Players create and claim territory , and capture opponents , in an effort to control the map . The map changes as you take on so you must keep your wits about you . Strategy is key and luck does n’t determine the winner . Cartography is light to find out and challenging to master !
$ 35 nets you the baseborn game , but a $ 65 pledge incur you a solidifying that ’s twice as large , demote it up to four participant mapmaking goodness .
Everything’s OK: Ten Years After Fracking
This sci - fi webseries sets itself in a post apocalyptic Manhattan , a decade after ecological catastrophe has laid humanity dispirited . Also , one of the leads is the revived head of Orson Wells . That ’s the sort of estimation you’re able to get behind .
In a world without drinking water , robots patrol what remains of Manhattan for the sole function of convincing copious people to remain in the ravaged city . The East River is now the East River Gulch , a venomous dry up ravine dot with derelict shanty town for the poor , dying , and expatriate . ‘ Everything ’s O.K. ’ is a dark comedy , environmental sci - fi web serial publication chronicle the adventures of Orson Welles ’ revived head in New York City ten years after fracking has triggered an ecocatastrophe .
This Kickstarter will fund a complete eight episode first time of year of this show . The episode are already pen and cast , all that ’s provide is to film , edit , and composite plant . What ’s unique about this show is the combination of unrecorded actors and miniature papercraft backgrounds , like a perverted reverse of “ Who Framed Roger Rabbit . ”
The serial itself will run online for loose after release – $ 10 profit you access to behind the scenes shape up updates , while the $ 50 pledge grade gets you the season before it releases as a HD Download , as well as a T - Shirt and a digital artistry multitude .
Dark Patterns Volume One
This cool looking comedian see a grouping of untried teen formerly united as a supernatural think - tank coming together again to face a new threat from doomsday cultists :
A group of child prodigies are brought together as part of a government think - armored combat vehicle codenamed “ Dark Patterns ” to enquire and debunk supernatural occurrences .
After gaining ill fame for solving a snatch , the radical is hired as a last - prospect effort to aid find a billionaire ’s kidnapped granddaughter , suppose to be abducted by a day of reckoning craze shout themselves The Parting . During the investigating , thing go terribly wrong , causing the Dark Patterns project to dissolve , and an investigation concluding the kidnapping was a dupery .
On the 5th anniversary of the case , the grouping is bring back together for a alive idiot box special , and find themselves the objective of a very real scourge …
“ Dark Patterns Volume I ” from Joey Groah and Meredith Moriarty is 44 full - color pages of an original supernatural action mechanism comic about 2d chances and letting go , with a second loudness to follow .
A bare $ 6 assurance mystify you the PDF of the first volume , while $ 13 gets you a physical rule book as well as some digital bonuses .
MegaBots: Live-Action Giant Robot Combat
I promised giant mechs , here are your giant mechs !
This mad look Kickstarter is depend for 1.8 million dollars to make two giant robots – piloted by two humans – before they ’re pitched against each other in a springy deathmatch ( do n’t interest , they raise paintball at each rather of actual bullet , so it ’s slightly less ludicrous than you ’d think ):
We grew up watching flick and playing game portray a future fill with giant automaton and mechs . Now the world is full of modern robotic technology , but few of us get to see it in our everyday lives . It ’s tuck out in research lab , worked on at high - tech companionship , or commit into space . We get to see brusque YouTube telecasting and read articles about it , but for the most part , the cool stuff is off - terminal point to the populace . MegaBots , Inc. , uses clipping - edge robotics technology to create the giant piloted fighting robots we were promised during our childhoods !
There ’s raft of financing tiers require – $ 10 gets you a code to the livestream of MegaBot ’s robo - tournament , $ 5,000 lets you pilot one of the Mechs in the tournament itself , and $ 999,999 gets the MegaBot squad to build you a function Mech of your own , because of path it does .
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