For anyone interested in the most cyperpunk strategy game I’ve seen in decades - there is a kickstarter wrapping up for Spinnortality - where you try to have your megacorp take over the world. Kind of gives me a Shadow President meets Shadowrun vibe (no magick elves or dragons).
There is a full playable demo - guess he’s using the $$$ to polish and expand gameplay.
I posted the update - thinking it was a backer sharing a post from a social media site. Sometimes Jeremy chats there & I shared what thought was from him. Super simple.
Why is it still there? Kickstarter doesn’t allow you to remove it after so many hours.
Plus-
It still rings true. All the Backer did was re-post what Jeremy has said in the past. Which is still true. What part do you want to understand? Are you a Composer that has ever tried to write a symphony?
Any fellow Darkest Night backers reading the making-of book by the designer they just sent out? I’m still pretty annoyed at the delays, but I’m finding the book interesting at least.
We’ve still got 19 hours to go on this. I just backed it.
It is now funded.
I meant to post about it last month, when Rock, Paper, Shotgun linked to the game. I REALLY want this game to be good, for a lot of reasons. One of the main reasons for that is that while I was listening to Mike Duncan’s excellent “Revolutions” series on the French Revolution, I kept involuntarily gaming things out to myself. It just seemed like a situation where if you stepped up as a leader of ANY faction, there was a pretty decent chance of paying a visit to Madame Guillotine at some point in your future.
Why did anyone step up, then? How, if you’re the King, or Marie Antoinette, or any of a number of royal personalities, military leaders, or rebel faction heads, do you avoid getting executed?
That seemed like it would make for a really complicated, but really intriguing game idea to me, and this game feels like it will scratch that itch completely. Plus, I’m secretly a sucker for playing dress up in games, and the historical costuming here is a nice little lagniappe.
Darkest Night sent out pledge manager updates so people can pay for shipping. $19 is about what I expected for it, so I’m happy, but not as happy as I’ll be when the game is finally here.
I’m having it shipped to my parents’ house to be safe (they live out in the country and don’t have neighbors), so I can’t wait to hear their reactions to having a very large box arrive.
Along with everything moving along great for Tiny Epic Defenders 2E, yesterday Gamelyn Games launched the Kickstarter for their newest entry in the series, Tiny Epic Zombies:
$30 shipped for a deluxe copy of the game, and in typical Gamelyn fashion, they’ve blown through over a dozen stretch goals after a day.