(11-30-2020, 10:21 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Illuminati Confirmed: the video game version of Illuminati New World Order.  Campaign started today; if you pledge today there are bonuses.  As I type this it's at $12,000 of a $210,000 goal with 93 backers... and it gained about $1000 and 8 backers while I typed.

Quote:Based on the acclaimed Stellaris PC game, Stellaris Infinite Legacy offers everything you love about 4x board games with the customization and emergent story that makes the Stellaris PC game special. Stellaris Infinite Legacy is an accessible 2 hour 4x board game for 2-4 players (2-6 with Empires Expansion) with easy rules that grow based on your choices during play.

(03-12-2021, 04:04 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Pixels - Programmable LED-lit, Bluetooth-enabled, wirelessly-charged dice.

Three days into the campaign, and they already have pledges in excess of $2 million -- for an initial goal of $200,000.

Interestingly, they've made the actual electronics and physical design open-source.  The software and firmware is on GitHub, and the hardware designs are up on hackaday.io, and there are links to it all on the campaign page.

(03-12-2021, 06:54 PM)LynnInDenver Wrote:

(03-12-2021, 04:04 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Pixels - Programmable LED-lit, Bluetooth-enabled, wirelessly-charged dice.

Three days into the campaign, and they already have pledges in excess of $2 million -- for an initial goal of $200,000.

Interestingly, they've made the actual electronics and physical design open-source.  The software and firmware is on GitHub, and the hardware designs are up on hackaday.io, and there are links to it all on the campaign page.

My husband (who is the resident Dice Goblin in our house right now) looked at that one... up to the point he saw the cost ($40 for one die, not counting shipping), and admitted it was really way too rich for his blood. Especially when I pointed out that, eventually, the things won't hold a charge anymore and then you're down to a really expensive set of resin dice, as I doubt you'll be able to change the cell inside it. Plus, he'd be (gently) mocked by the DM and other player in our game for using them.

That said, they do look really cool. And props for it being Open Source... what you're paying for here is the manufacturing, which is non-trivial.

Unbound Publishing Wrote:After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college, St John's – over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems.

The book will reproduce in facsimile form extracts from the archive with explanatory text and footnotes to add context. Developed in close association with Adams’s family and literary estate, 42 will be a full-colour, large-format hardback that follows his career from early collaborations with Graham Chapman to his work on Doctor Who, through the Hitchhiker years, Dirk Gently, his groundbreaking non-fiction book Last Chance to See and his later digital work. Alongside this are details of projects that never came to fruition like a proposed theme park ride and a TV series provisionally entitled The Secret Empire.

(03-22-2021, 05:06 PM)Mamorien Wrote: 42: the wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams

Unbound Publishing Wrote:After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college, St John's – over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems.

The book will reproduce in facsimile form extracts from the archive with explanatory text and footnotes to add context. Developed in close association with Adams’s family and literary estate, 42 will be a full-colour, large-format hardback that follows his career from early collaborations with Graham Chapman to his work on Doctor Who, through the Hitchhiker years, Dirk Gently, his groundbreaking non-fiction book Last Chance to See and his later digital work. Alongside this are details of projects that never came to fruition like a proposed theme park ride and a TV series provisionally entitled The Secret Empire.

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