Die of the Dead

[therearerules]

We've got a video preview!

 

[Fondue]

Looking great! Nice vid too.

 

Seeing the dice being rolled in a box made me recall an old episode of GameTek by Geoff Engelstein (twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/gengelstein/status/1072558227341090818), which talked about the Pop-o-matic mechanism in games and how, whilst seemingly producing random results over a long time frame, actually has a recency bias with the mechanism more likely to 'flip' a die to it's opposite side than to be truly random. 

 

Where I'm going with this is to ask if you made sure the coffins were chunky enough to ensure the dice could 'roll' enough and make sure things were random?

 

[therearerules]

49 minutes ago, Fondue said:

Looking great! Nice vid too.

 

Seeing the dice being rolled in a box made me recall an old episode of GameTek by Geoff Engelstein (twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/gengelstein/status/1072558227341090818), which talked about the Pop-o-matic mechanism in games and how, whilst seemingly producing random results over a long time frame, actually has a recency bias with the mechanism more likely to 'flip' a die to it's opposite side than to be truly random. 

 

Where I'm going with this is to ask if you made sure the coffins were chunky enough to ensure the dice could 'roll' enough and make sure things were random?

 

Yes. Although that basically means making sure people are aware that they're sturdy things and to give it some welly. Also I remember that GameTek episode!

[Captain Kelsten]

He had those coffins upside down, surely? Why was the thicker bit on top? 

 

Looks great. 

[therearerules]

11 hours ago, Doctor Shark said:

He had those coffins upside down, surely? Why was the thicker bit on top? 

 

Looks great. 

So when opened everyone can see the dice, no matter the angle!

 

[Captain Kelsten]

Just now, therearerules said:

So when opened everyone can see the dice, no matter the angle!

 

 

You've thought of everything!

 

 

When is this going on sale?

[therearerules]

Tuesday!

[Captain Kelsten]

Eek! Good luck! I'll be buying it for sure. Or backing it. I'm never sure how Kickstarter works. 

[moosegrinder]

48 minutes ago, Doctor Shark said:

Eek! Good luck! I'll be buying it for sure. Or backing it. I'm never sure how Kickstarter works. 

 

It's pretty much the same thing. I'm definitely in.

[Mortis]

Cheers for the run through @therearerules it’ll go onto my Kickstarter list to join forks on my shelves.  

[shynra]

After playing forks and how it look i was sold already but that video was even cooler(well seeing the game plays really ) Ive played forks with about 12 people* - ill tell them all about this, I know one will love it as its dice based. Looking froward to seeing the kickstarter live on Tuesday.

 

 

*not all at once - just a good short game to start with before we start a bigger game in the group

[JoeK]

I'm definitely in  . 

[therearerules]

Thanks everyone, I'm pretty stoked because Eric Summerer tweeted that he liked the cardboard construction today!

[bm]

Congrats!

 

Backed!

[shynra]

Backed - link: 

 

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radical8games/die-of-the-dead

 

I was 29th! This was my 50th kickstarter backed @_@; (25 boardgames and the other 25 mainly vidya games)

 

[Mortis]

Backed - been an expensive few weeks on Kickstarter with the fuzzies, perseverance, Arkwright the card game and this but can’t miss this one on the table for when we eventually get our group together. 

[therearerules]

Thanks everyone! I'm now running around the internet trying to make sure everyone knows!

[moosegrinder]

Buh-buh-buh-buh BACKED. And shared on the Twitters.

[revlob]

Backed.

[moosegrinder]

5 minutes ago, therearerules said:

Thanks everyone! I'm now running around the internet trying to make sure everyone knows!

 

The £57 pledge says "contact for details" or similar. Is it supposed to?

[therearerules]

1 minute ago, moosegrinder said:

 

The £57 pledge says "contact for details" or similar. Is it supposed to?

Yeah that's just for retailers

[jonnyalpha]

Backed as well. Good luck. 

[Arn X Treme]

I dont do kickstarter after being out of pocket all the time.

 

Do i have any options for this as id love to get my hands on it and support you.

[Glasgowchivas]

Backed - best of luck @therearerules

[jonamok]

So very very backed.

[jonnyalpha]

It looks like you've funded on your first day! Well done.

[therearerules]

Thanks. That's superb news because it's my wife's birthday tomorrow and it means I won't be checking the KS all the while

[Glasgowchivas]

https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/News/weekly-kickstarter-round-up-wednesday-26th-august-2020?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=news

 

You’re in the news @therearerules

Edited August 26, 2020 by Glasgowchivas

[Danster]

Good luck @therearerules

 

Backed this morning

 

[Professor Rob]

Dice Tower preview here:

 

https://www.dicetower.com/game-video/die-dead-dt-preview-mark-streed