What if alien assail the Prussians in the late eighteenth Century ? A funny al-Qur’an serial attempt to answer just that in this calendar week ’s look at all affair Crowdfunding – but that ’s not all . There ’s a board game about humanity rebelling against a rogue A.I , retro radio - drama with a Sci - Fi twist and more .
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MIND: The Fall of Paradise
This 4 player board game pits rebellious leaders of Humanity against a extremely innovative A.I and its plans to save Humanity by uploading its mind to a Hive Utopia :
head – The capitulation of Paradise is a sci - fi boardgame in which one role player becomes judgment , an all powerful A.I , and up to 3 other players take the roles of rebel leaders that do not approve with the decision of giving executive authority to an A.I over Lyanon , the 15th territorial dominion of Earth . The Rebellion considers that it ’s unnatural for a creator to obey his creation .
Before the biz starts role player choose a scenario to play , distribute initial imagination and populate the starship and colonies offered by the scenario with unequalled human citizen . nous always starts the game by have Lyanon , while the rebel leader may start by owning different settlement and spaceships in the Solar System , or by own nothing , and just being citizen of Lyanon themselves .
A £ 65 pledge ( that ’s around $ 100 ) net you and chintzy written matter of the full game for when it ships in late 2015 .
Redshift Season 1
This monthly podcast of Sci - Fi narrative that aims to revive the vibe of classic Radio Dramas , and act as a base for unexampled science fiction from upcoming source :
red shift will be a love letter to the classic sci - fi radio receiver drama of the past . display like Dimension X , The Whistler , the BBC sci - fi radio of the seventies and other shows lend famous and upcoming sci fi authors of the times into the plate of millions of people , opening minds and expose people to forward think stories and fantastical worlds of imagination . We want to carry on that tradition .
The first time of year of Redshift will be 6 episodes of all raw production , using local Twin Cities actors as well as authors both local and internal , perhaps even external . Each calendar month will bring a young production , usable for barren on FancyPantsGangsters.com , and with it behind the scenes cloth , author interviews and perhaps even alone art art object commit to each new story .
Although each story will be free to access online if the kickstarter is successful , the pledge grade can sack you anything from a poster of the serial ’ artwork ( $ 15 ) or a copy of the first season on CD ( $ 35 ) .
DungeonMorphs Dice
Need to mother a agile map for your next tabletop RPG ? This dandy Card and Dice system maps out a haphazardly put together city or village for your adventurer to muck around about in with a pealing of the dice :
Each side of each dice will have a unique design of part of a city or small town . The next time the party looks for a town to hold back at , roll a few of the die , push them together , delineate up the dice , and you ’ve got an instant city or Greenwich Village . If you take the layout later , take a photo of the die ( or card ) . utilize our PDF , Font or images if you need to keep track of the village / metropolis digitally . ( Every reinforcement will let in the matching image version in either JPG or PNG format . ) ab initio we ’re plan on making one set of 5 dice with half city intention and half village designs . However , we bear to meet our initial goal betimes and do extra set of dice .
A mere $ 5 pledge will sack you all 60 potential figure permutation as PDF tiles for you to impress out and use in place of the die , while $ 20 start you a individual set of 5 dice and $ 20 grow you two .
Prussians vs. Aliens
This comedian by Davide La Rosa and Riccardo Pieruccini reckon an alternative story where Prussia is invaded by an exotic subspecies as political tensions in Europe accomplish a feverishness point at the top of the French Revolution :
It ’s 1789 . French Revolution is raging in the street of Paris .
No one cared to mark that the Prussians were interfering fighting an exotic threat and saving the world . But let ’s ill-use back for a minute . A few weeks earlier , the fatty King Frederick William II was experiencing the bad awakening of his life-time . Rumour has it , the whole Prussian horse fleet had melt . It could n’t get any bad for a land whose greatest army pride are the horses ! After all , what ’s left of an eighteenth Century army if you take the horses off from them ?
A 5 euro ( about $ 6 ) nets you a digital copy of the first 46 - page intensity of the story , while 20 Euros ( about $ 24 ) gets you a hard written matter in either English or the original Italian .
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