Overland Gamer The Podcast - Kickstarter Brief Podcast Notes KS003

Welcome to Overland Gamer the Podcast.

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Overland Gamer is a podcast combining two of my hobbies, travel, and gaming. It is my hope to grow this podcast as I share my adventures. We'll showcase some kickstarters, share game reviews and game playthroughs. We'll have location briefs and travel blogs. We'll talk about travel destinations, game development, writer's life, interviews and much more.
So lets get going shall we?


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We took a bit of a break to re-evaluate how we’re going to go forward. We’ll be changing things up a bit and we hope you enjoy the new format coming up. We plan on doing shorter shows with a more focused content.




Todays Kickstarter Brief we will take a look at current kickstarters that have caught our attention. 
Recorded March 1, 2020

Scattered Nexus
Extortion bringing people together to argue
Hunker a game of woodland friendship under falling snow
Cheer Up! The big D expansion
Empire of the Stars
Cindr
The Ming Voyages and The March of Progress
Goetia: Nine Kings of Solomon
CardWeaver 

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Today’s kickstarters are inspired by the fine folks at Indie Game Alliance. Indie Game Alliance is a great resource for board game developers to get your game out there in the eyes and hands of those who want to play games. 

Scattered Nexus - 

• 17 days - 1-4 player game - 30-120 minutes (Board Game Geek) - ages 10+
• A battle style card game based on a growing list of indie comics. Features a coop and competitive mode

• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slimstudio/scattered-nexus?ref=IndieGameAllies
• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/297807/scattered-nexus
  
  
  

Extortion, bringing people together to argue!

• 24 days to go - 3-8 player game - From Broken Archer game - 
• Convince other players that you make the best President by talking them into voting for you. Debate specific topics that come up. Example “A zombie outbreak has begun across the country. How do you respond?”
  
  
  
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/extortion/extortion-bringing-people-together-to-argue?ref=IndieGameAllies


• http://www.brokenarcher.com/home.html

HUNKER: a game of woodland friendship under the falling snow

• 22 days to go - 2-4 players - 50-75 minute game (Board Game Geek) - ages 9+
• from Aaron Franco 
• Players will optimize their actions to explore, forage for food, build shelters. Players gain points by foraging for and stashing away food, playing friendship cards, and hunkering down before weather events. Some cards provide mini objectives to pursue. 
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paperwilds/hunker-a-game-of-woodland-friendship-under-the-falling-snow?ref=IndieGameAllies

Cheer Up! - The Big D Pack Expansion 

• 31 days to go - 4-8 players - 30 minute play time (Board game geek) - age 17+ - From Cheer Up Games. 
• Four expansions and 300 new cards for Cheer Up! 
• Cheer Up is a party game where players use adjective, noun, and verb cards to answer questions in the best way possible. Typical judge and vote game where the judge will turn over a question card, other players draw cards. Players use the cards drawn to answer the question the funniest, best, or worst way possible. Judge picks the best. 
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cheerup/cheer-up-the-big-d-pack-expansion?ref=IndieGameAllies
• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256507/cheer

Empire of the Stars - 4X Board Game

• 12 days to go - 2-4 players - 60-90 minutes (board game geek) - age 10+ from CrossCut Games
• Fast paced empire building game of exploration, conflict and struggle for dominance. 
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872048165/empire-of-the-stars-4x-board-game?ref=IndieGameAllies
• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/279581/empire-stars

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Cindr - A press your luck game about dating amazing dragons… without getting burned. 

• 4 days left. 

• Publisher - Smirk and Laughter Games
• Designer - Harold Mikolaitis, Benjamin Walker
• 2-4 players 
• 30-40 minute
• Age 14+
• Cindr is a 'push your luck' dice game about dating awesome dragons without getting burned. On your turn, you will roll the dating dice up to three times, once for each stage of your date. Try to roll as many Hearts as possible, and avoid Fires to find that special dragon partner! The game ends when one player earns 21 love points, having found joy and fulfillment to win! 
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smirkanddagger/cindr?ref=IndieGameAllies
• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/295478/cindr

Goetia: Nine Kings of Solomon

• 17 days to go - 2-4 players - 80-160 minutes - ages 13 +
• A dark euro worker placement, resource management game following some novel based mythology. 
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/demonicgames/goetia-re-launch-in-february?ref=IndieGameAllies
• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/267333/goetia-nine-kings-solomon

The Ming Voyages and The March of Progress

• 14 days to go - 
• 2 games in one kickstarter
  The Ming Voyages: A game of treasure and conquest for 1 or 2 players. 
• The March of Progress - A 2 player strategic micro wargame. 
• Both games have 30-45 minutes. Ages 12+

CardWeaver - 

• 1-4 players - 30-60 minute - Ages 13+ - from ODAM publishing

• One vs all deckbuilding card game based on the world of The Shared Dream
• Up to 3 players team up against another player. Buying cards and competing in a 1 vs all. 
•  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/odampublishing/cardweaver?ref=IndieGameAllies
• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/297530/cardweaver
  
  
  

Gruff: Whispers of Madness

• 1-4 players - 20-45 minutes - ages 11+ - from Brent Crutchfield and Studio Woe
• Tactical card game where players duel to the death with custom teams of eldritch monster goats - 

Again, thank you for listening. 
Remember
Be kind to one another.
Always know where your towel is,
And be kind rewind. 

Overland Gamer is produced by Joe DeMarco. Sounds recorded by Joe DeMarco. Escape from the Con is written by Joe DeMarco. 
See you next time. 
 
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