Octopus Overlords

Carpet_pissr wrote:

TiLT wrote:Just to rub it in...

Set up a small test room and had tons of pieces left over. It looks very good assembled.

Looks fantastic - thanks for sharing. What's the next step? I have no idea what this is (part of a board game?), but it looks great.

It's for use with fantasy roleplaying games along with miniatures. These dungeons are props to help visualize the dungeon the characters are exploring, particularly in combat.

TiLT wrote:Just to rub it in...

Set up a small test room and had tons of pieces left over. It looks very good assembled. A couple of pics:

Dang those looks fantastic. I really am jealous.

Updated my status now

Chrisoc13 wrote:Fulfilled:
Dungeon Roll
Krosmaster Arena (and now sold on eBay)

Partially Fulfilled:
Zombicide Season 2 (just waiting for the second shipment now, just more survivors)
Small World 2 (6 player map and Steam version still to come)

Still waiting on but on time:
Myth
Buccaneer Bones
Monsters & Maidens
Wrath of Kings (just the two Zombicide characters)

Waiting on and Delayed:
Galaxy Defenders (delayed at least 3 months now)

Soon to be waiting on:
Dungeon Roll winter promo pack (ends in ten days, looks like it is adding more interaction between players with the new characters)

I love those dungeon pieces, even if I have no place to every use such a thing!

I'm very much still waiting on Ogre Deluxe Edition. All of the pics show a fantastic product worth the wait. But they are taking forever to ship out the fulfillment boxes! They, apparently, lose money with every KS shipment they make, which seems to be counter-intuitive. I guess they intend to make that money back with the retail copies?

The hope is that I get Ogre before Thanksgiving, but I am not optimistic.

TiLT wrote:

Carpet_pissr wrote:

TiLT wrote:Just to rub it in...

Set up a small test room and had tons of pieces left over. It looks very good assembled.

Looks fantastic - thanks for sharing. What's the next step? I have no idea what this is (part of a board game?), but it looks great.

It's for use with fantasy roleplaying games along with miniatures. These dungeons are props to help visualize the dungeon the characters are exploring, particularly in combat.

Hey TiLT, how many sets did you go in on?

hentzau wrote:Hey TiLT, how many sets did you go in on?

Two base sets and two add-ons, all of them hand-painted.

TiLT wrote:

hentzau wrote:Hey TiLT, how many sets did you go in on?

Two base sets and two add-ons, all of them hand-painted.

Hmm.

My OGRE was shipped from Texas last Friday, and I also received a shipping notice for Fairy Mischief. Both should arrive at my door this week.

At this point, Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake failed to deliver its monthly update (rather than weekly). I'm not holding out much hope, but the concept of a kid-friendly classic adventure was a worthwhile.

Good. Maybe I'll actually get my copy of OGRE from CSI be Chritmas.

My OGRE arrived this evening. I have no idea where I am going to put it. I don't think I have the room!

My copy of OGRE also arrived. I understand unboxing is an adventure.

Box is opened. My wife thinks it's insane and frankly she's right. But..MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF CARDBOARD OGRES. The glory of more than a Thousand Counters!

Hero-U: Rogue University demo is available.

Not sure if we have a thread dedicated to that one, and frankly I'm not sure it deserves one based on what I have seen.

I still don't understand why I even backed this game...I was not such a huge fan of the Quest for Glory games (since I can't even remember them, but I know I played them), so most of the fault is mine for backing something I wasn't enthused about I guess.

But damn...that demo is some downright bad stuff, and appropriately trashed on the Adventure Gamers forums. I cringed after the first post, then the devs made comments. AWKWARD. Yikes. I will agree that I have seen more than a few freeware online games that are much better than this, BUT this is just a demo, so maybe they can increase the quality by 700% to get it up to the expectations of backers, built by the KS.

http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/viewthread/2699/" target="_blank

Part of the response from the devs to the pretty harsh criticism:

"We agree that the animation is unsatisfactory, and we are switching to an entirely different approach, as well as new character designs. We’ve also dropped the programmer who spent four months on that animation system. However, personally I think it’s “not bad” rather than “awful”; I would not mind playing a game with the current animation if the story was good. The new animation is a big step upwards, but still not AAA game quality; our budget is $550K, not $25M. (By the way half of that $650K is out of our pockets. The Kickstarter campaign covered half of the total development cost.)

Lori and I are putting two years of our lives, and committing to loans equal to the Kickstarter funding, so that we can make this the best game we can create. You chose not to put in even $20 to help us with the game; you have no skin in this and your criticism is empty. I will be interested in playtesting your game when you decide to create instead of criticizing."

Update. Fairy Mischief arrived on time.
Even more Update. Kobolds arrived.

Arrivals:
Pebble (Sept 2012 arrived April 2013)
FTL
Alien Frontiers Factions expansion (delayed by a few months)
Alien Frontiers iPad
Zombicide (including zombie survivors due March 2013)
Lace Anchors 2.0
Dungeon Roll (Aug 2013 delivered on time!)
Zombicide Season 1 extras (delayed from March 2013)
Small World 2: The Return (Oct 2013 delivered on time!)
Ogre (Nov 2012 arrived Nov 2013)
Zombicide Season 2, Part 1 (Sept 2013 arrived Oct 2013)
Fairy Mischief (Nov 2013 delivered on time!)
Kobolds Ate My Baby! In Color!!! (Jun 2013 delivered December 2013)

Waiting on:
Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake (Aug 2013)
Delver's Drop (Oct 2013)
Alien Frontiers Faction + Promo Pack (Nov 2013)
Eminent Domain (Dec 2013)
Robot Turtles (Dec 2013)
Zombicide Season 2, Part 2
Dungeon Roll Winter Promo (Feb 2014)
Bones 2 (Dec 2014)
Wasteland 2 (???)
Project Eternity (???)
Satellite Reign (???)

Got my ogre last night and put a couple of hours into punching out and assembling ogres. I am 3/4 finished. In the home stretch now. I might even be able to play a game this weekend.

Like the others have said, this thing is huge.

Updated list:

Received:

Glory to Rome
D-Day Dice
Carnival
Agents of SMERSH
Defenders of the Realm: Battlefields
Pirate Dice
Wrong Chemistry
Flash Point
Pirate Dice
Tammany Hall
Fallen City of Karez
Storm The Castle
Castle Dice
Dungeon Roll
Professor Pugnacious (just came today)
Eight Minute Empire
Eight Minute Empire: Legends
Railways Express

Waiting on:

Airborne In Your Pocket (thinking this one will never materialize)
Storm Hollow
Up Front (once again, thinking my money may be gone on this one)
The Card Game of Oz
Xia: Legends of a Drift System
Defenders of the Realm: Minion Upgrades
Alien Frontiers Faction Pack and Promo Pack
Marrying Mister Darcy Card Game (for my daughter)
Dungeon Dice
Fantasy Frontier
Dungeon Roll Winter Promo Pack
Templar Intrigue
Shadows of Brimstone

Ogre Designer's Edition - Fulfilled.

The Official Settlers of Catan Gaming Board - 50% Fulfilled. (Ordered 3-4 player board and 5-6 player seafarers board. Only 3-4 player was delivered so far)

Dice Rings - Fulfilled.

Dungeon Roll - A Dicey Dungeon Delve - Fulfilled.

Blue Laser Lamp- with passive cooling technology - Not Fulfilled

Penny Arcade's Podcast, "Downloadable Content": The Return - Fulfilled.

Xia: Legends of a Drift System - Not Fulfilled

Ninja Dice - Not Fulfilled

Oh Noes! I may have a Kickstarter game that has gone missing!

I received a UPS notification about delivery of a package from Publisher Services Inc last Wednesday. I was out of town, so I send my buddy Tom over to look for it, and he said there was no package there. I looked at the tracking info and it was from Publisher Services Inc. Called UPS, they said to contact the sender. Checked out their website, found a phone number. Called up. Got to the warehouse, found a very nice gentleman named Mersad, who's lunch I interrupted. He checked out the order, said for sure that according to UPS it was dropped off. He asked if I knew what I had ordered, I confessed I had no idea but I suspected it was a game of some sort. He said that yeah, they do order fulfillment for a lot of game companies. I asked if they did Kickstarter fulfillment, and he said they did, but the last one he did fulfillment on that he remembered was Dungeon Roll (which I already got.)

So Mersad is going to do some digging into their system to see if he can track down exactly what it was that was shipped to me and by whom. I'm looking through my order history of stuff to see if I'm missing anything from anyplace.

(Funny side note...looking at their website their logo rang a bell with me. I did some digging and found out that sure enough, I know one of the head honchos at the company. He used to work for GDW back when I was heavy into Space:1889, and I did some freelance stuff and a lot of demoing for them. Really nice guy, ran into him across a gaming table at GenCon this year. If Mersad can't help me out, I got someone to call. )

Were you in on Kobolds Ate My Baby? My copy just arrived...

Heh, this is one of the weirder facets of participating in a bunch of Kickstarters. You'll suddenly get a package and won't have the faintest idea what's inside.

I'm awaiting my copy of Werewolf (from the creator of Cards Against Humanity), which should be showing up soon. Rebuild: Gangs of Deadville is still many months away.

hentzau wrote:Oh Noes! I may have a Kickstarter game that has gone missing!

Up Front?

Holman wrote:

hentzau wrote:Oh Noes! I may have a Kickstarter game that has gone missing!

Up Front?

Ouch...

hentzau wrote:

Holman wrote:

hentzau wrote:Oh Noes! I may have a Kickstarter game that has gone missing!

Up Front?

Ouch...

(me, too)

Robot Turtles (Dec 2013) arrived on time.
The latest report is that Eminent Domain arrived so the shippers now just need to fill the orders.

Finally got my copies of Flash Point: Extreme Danger and Dangerous Waters, as well as the KS edition of Coup.

Haven't gotten the FP expansions to the table yet, but we've played about 30 games of Coup.

I really need to create a checklist of what I am still waiting on because I am pretty sure some games could never be delivered and I would barely notice.

I haven't backed an actual boardgame project since June. I am so proud!

Kickstarter has updated their website so now you check off when you get the things you baked. Nice to help keep track of kick starters.

Conveniently I was right on that screen in another tab, updated and wow do I still have a lot of stuff outstanding. 3 full board games and every computer game I have ever backed (7), plus the second shipment from Zombicide, Veronica Mars Movie (March, woo!) and Reaper Part II.

Kelric wrote:I'm awaiting my copy of Werewolf (from the creator of Cards Against Humanity), which should be showing up soon.

Showed up!

Sails of Glory arriving Monday!

I've now received Zombicide Season 2 (wave 1, which is almost all of it) as well as the Consortium PC game.

Aaaand I just got the first of two packages for Sails of Glory. This is the main package, including the game itself, all the ships, as well as all the standard extras everyone at my level (Captain) gets along with their rewards. The other package, which was sent at lower priority and thus will take some more time, contains all the custom extras I ordered plus my two game mats.

The game looks totally awesome, and the ships are bigger than I thought.

Fulfilled:
Dungeon Roll
Krosmaster Arena (and now sold on eBay)
Small World 2

Partially Fulfilled:
Zombicide Season 2 (just waiting for the second shipment now, just more survivors)
Buccaneer Bones (waiting on stretch goals)

Still waiting on but on time:
Monsters & Maidens
Wrath of Kings (just the two Zombicide characters)
Dungeon Roll Winter promo pack
Templar Intrigue
Coin Age

Waiting on and Delayed:
Galaxy Defenders (delayed at least 3 months now)
Myth

Soon to be waiting on:
Burgoo (not sure I'll even like it, but for 3 bucks... I'll give it a shot
Tiny Epic Kingdom

2 that I am most excited about are of course delayed, but that's not the end of the world.

Xia: Legends of a Drift System is officially delayed as of yesterday. Sounds like it won't be a big delay though, just an extra round of revisions with the manufacturer.

Zaxxon wrote:Xia: Legends of a Drift System is officially delayed as of yesterday. Sounds like it won't be a big delay though, just an extra round of revisions with the manufacturer.

I'm actually OK with him pushing this out, especially when he does such a great job of explaining everything that is going on with getting the game fulfilled. I have to say, it's been one of the most pleasant kickstarters I've done. Cody is great at communicating what's going on.

Same here. I voted to take whatever time he needs.

Received 3 different Kickstarter rewards today:

• Sails of Glory - Two battle mats, which means I now have all rewards I'm supposed to have for this Kickstarter.
• Broken Age (previously known as Double Fine Adventure) - The first act was released today.
• The Banner Saga - First episode released today.

All days should have payoffs like this.

Did this for a post on BGG about kickstart expenses:

Total - $1763
Board games - $1125
Almost board games - $250 (Dice Tower + Reaper Bones)

Regrettable Board Game Selections - $266 out of $1125. That's not as bad as I thought. Of course there are still $317 of those board game projects to deliver so I could still come to regret them.

Of the four games I have received so far (Banner Saga, Broken Age, Defense Grid 1.5, and Shadowrun Returns), by far my favorite is Shadowrun Returns. It's pretty much exactly what I expected/hoped for when I plopped down the funds when it was just an idea.

For various reasons, the other games haven't reached the ridiculously optimistic ideal I had when fund raising was going on, but I am at least pleased with all of them.

Still very much worried about the Jane Jensen one and the Hero University one as well.

Fun exercise.

Total: $688, all games.
Tabletop: $498
Video: $190

First: Defense Grid 2 (July 2012)
Latest: Pairs (Mar 2014)

Received: 2 video, 7 tabletop
Outstanding: 4 video, 5 tabletop

Regrets: Nothing too horrible, but Something Different hasn't hit the table yet.