My first post.....Go easy on me.

I am new here myself and as far as I can tell one of the greatest features here is the connectivity of designers at every conceivable level of experience. I am just starting out with physically manifesting prototypes to playtest, but I have been thinking about them more than half my life. I am sure this is a common story here and that is encouraging.

I wish you much success on the upcoming publishing campaign, and I will definitely be checking out what you have to offer (if it's good enough for, Rahdo...I am in!)

WW

Wow! That's one of the most gorgeous games I've ever seen. Incredible job on the art.

Also, that was perhaps the best rules summary video I've seen. Well done.

$49K is a pretty steep goal, but with the hype you've apparently built up, I think you can hit the mark.

Do you have any video of people actually playing the game? The rules summary is great, but it would be really informative to see people actually taking turns and making decisions.

Good luck!

We should clear the air about designers "who come to BGDF looking for backer support". We get a lot of designers that pop-up, write about THEIR game and how they want to KS-it and are looking to "market" the game and support their KS.

Now while I understand your KS preview is still prior to a KS, I urge you to "contribute" to the BGDF community.

What that means is discussing topics that go beyond YOUR game. Get involved with what other people are doing and talking about.

One-trick ponys that are simply looking to garner support don't benefit much from our community and really don't contribute a lot either.

So if you really want a BGDF "welcome" get into conversations and topics with the other designer and post your comments, ideas, suggestions, feedback on topics "out there" in the fora.

Cheers.

I agree with questccg. OP did a very nice, well-written post here, much better than most others that shows up and make their first post about their kickstarter, but I would really have preferred if he had spent at least a few minutes in the last 21 months since registering here on discussing game design here.

The greatest weakness with bgdf has become that so many seems to see it primarily as a way to do free marketing of their projects (which mostly means kickstarters).

This is a problem on many other forums for game design (boardgames or digital games) but in my experience it is much worse here than elsewhere. Perhaps because there are no clear rules and no moderation? There are no attempt as far as I can see to confine promotions to paid ads or at least isolate them in their own subforum (and, preferably, excluded from the sidebar) where they belong.

I doubt that posting kickstarter-links to fellow designers works very well, but I guess when it is free anyway and likely to bring in a handful of new backers with a tiny chance that some of them will spread the word it is something worth doing, so it will not end as long as it is allowed on a site (and has no cost).