Review: The Castles of Burgundy
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Paul: Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Oh, Jesus! That looks like the lovechild of a maths textbook and hotel room art. I’m not having that in my house.”
Hold on. The Castles of Burgundy, which casts 2-4 players as the holders of estates in medieval France, has the whole board game community bleating with quiet joy. We absolutely had to get hold of a copy and try it out. You know what? I actually think it’s quite special, too, although I appreciate it’s such a placid, thoughtful, deeply European game that it won’t be Quinns’s kind of thing. Still-
Quinns: No, no, I really like it.
Paul: You do?
Quinns: Yeah, it’s excellent.
Paul: But-
Quinns: And here’s why!
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It’s awesome that Palmer’s Kickstarter has done so well — but look at what it’s entailed. It’s entailed time, effort, planning and work both backward and forward in time. That currently $439,000 isn’t a windfall for her; it’s a marker of what all that commitment to the work has earned.
If you’re one of the people looking at her Kickstarter money with stars in your eyes and awesome plans of your own in your head, ask yourself first: Have you put in the time? Earned the credibility? Scoped out the financial balance sheet? Made the commitment to fulfill every single thing you have promised?
Palmer has. If you haven’t — on any of this — be aware that your results, shall we say, may vary.
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John Scalzi explains the ups and downs and behind-the-scenes of how you do a successful Kickstarter and what the money means. Whether you’re interested in Amanda’s Kickstarter or not, this one should be required reading for anybody interested in how it works, what it is, and what you want to do if you want the same results… (via neil-gaiman)
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Reglubbing this ‘cause I’m seeing a lot of unwarranted hate for Kickstarter lately. Dudes, seriously: 1. it’s a system that allows patronage *and* a way around the dinosaur of traditional publishing models, which means more artists have a chance to get their work out there, 2. the artist very publicly puts their professional and social cred on the line, and 3. no one’s making you back anything, ffs, not any more than Amazon makes you buy a product simply by carrying it. Sheesh. (via bigbigtruck)
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mattrhodes:
“My Hero”
My entry for the first Anthology Project book.
I’d suggest picking both up. There are some incredibly entries in there by some amazing artists.
http://theanthologyproject.com/
What fantastic work. Jeeze.
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546 plays
bigbigtruck:
Brown Bird, “Fingers to the Bone”
from Salt for Salt (2012)
Found these guys at random in the SXSW lineup, listened to the sample track, was impressed as hell, and wound up buying their whole album on Bandcamp.
oh hey, this particular track is available free from their bandcamp (guess that’s what you meant by sample track, durrrrrrrrrr).
