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This week (April 8-12, 2019), the Cheapass crew is visiting with Greater Than Games, streaming vintage Cheapass Games like Lord of the Fries and Give Me the Brain. Tune in between 11am and 5pm Central Time to catch some of it live, or replay the videos later - they’ll be available on the Greater Than Games channel, and maybe even edited later! :D And don’t miss the campaign for “Cheapass Games in Black and White: A Retrospective” - a lovely big brick of a book covering the history of Cheapass games and the development and rules of the 100+ games published during their 20 odd years of publishing. 

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Kickstarter Roundup!

In today's blog post, we do a roundup of some interesting and puzzly Kickstarter campaigns!

Oh yes, it’s that time again.

For years now, crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have been hotbeds of innovative puzzle and game design, and I’m always happy to spread the word about worthy projects that I think will delight and intrigue my fellow PuzzleNationers.

So let’s take a look at some projects that are currently seeking funding and see if any pique your interest!

The…

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http://geekandsundry.com/get-ready-to-rumble-with-the-new-button-men/

Fans of dice-rolling combat action will be getting a blast from the past when a new version of Button Men is released this October. Known for its simple ruleset and quick play, Button Men has a devoted following and was recently put up on Kickstarter to bring dice fighting back to the...

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Kickstarting a gigantic retrospective on the wonderful, lo-fi Cheapass Games

Carol Monahan writes, "In the summer of 1996, James Ernest began his quest to bring happiness and joy to all the people of the world, by creating clever tabletop games and selling them really cheap. He named his company Cheapass Games, and now he's writing a book about it."

  "Cheapass Games in Black and White: A Retrospective" includes the rules and histories of all of our black and white games, from the well-known Kill Doctor Lucky, Lord of the Fries, and Button Men, to many more obscure games, such as Escape from Elba, Pennywise, Dogfight, and The Lost Pueblo of Doctor Green, plus a few prototypes and unreleased games you've never heard of.

   Get the complete history of Cheapass Games, all collected into one big heavy book!    On Kickstarter until April 30th.

Cheapass Games in Black and White [Cheapass Games/Kickstarter]

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/15/kill-doctor-lucky.html

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Sailor Moon Crystal goes Tabletop - Dyskami to Publish Line of Sailor Moon Board Games

Sailor Moon Crystal goes Tabletop – Dyskami to Publish Line of Sailor Moon Board Games

Living up to their company motto, “it’s about time!” tabletop publisher Dyskami Publishing announced a licensing agreement with Toei Animation Inc. to design and distribute a line of board games based on the popular anime series, Sailor Moon Crystal. Company president Mark MacKinnon said, “We are absolutely thrilled…Sailor Moon Crystal offers a dynamic range of iconic characters and rich…

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Trogdor!! The Board Game Coming to a Table Top Nearest You

Trogdor!! The Board Game Coming to a Table Top Nearest You

The Brothers Chaps (Homestar Runner) and James Ernest (Cheapass Games) have come together via Kickstarter (FULLY FUNDED 7/17/18) to present:

Trogdor!! The Board Game

Now, through the magic of giving someone your money, you will be able to play as Keepers of Trogdor, dedicated to helping in full decimation of all peasants, land and thatched huts. Trogdor will burninate the entire village, but…

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Six Almost-Selfies Sort-of-from 2015

Once upon a time, @marbleflan tagged me in the six selfies of 2015 meme. 

Because I am a Functional Adult™, I thought “Hmm, could be fun”, saved it to my drafts, and forgot about it entirely.

Now that it’s aged in my cellar for nearly two years, I have rediscovered this draft, but I have a problem: I don’t take very many selfies, and as far as I can tell, I didn’t take any in 2015.

I could take some now, but they couldn’t be 2015 selfies, at least as I understand the nature of time.

But! Let it never be said that Sufficiently Large N backed down from a meme simply because it was literally impossible under our current understanding of physics!

So without further ado, I present:

Six things that aren’t selfies but could maybe be mistaken for them somehow (loosely of 2015)!

#1. A seal in a business suit

I’m not much of an artist, but a seal is basically just a blob with a face and a suit is just a couple of triangles, so I think this worked out well enough. The suit should make it obvious that this is no ordinary seal - she is, in fact, a selkie, a creature from Gaelic folklore that can shift between seal and human forms; she’s wearing a suit because she’s on her way to a business meeting.

She was brought in as CEO of major sealant manufacturer when the company was having trouble keeping its head above water. The previous CEO had really been floundering - he’d gotten in over his head and was under a lot of pressure. Most people thought the company was all washed up, but the CEO did a deep dive into their processes and really streamlined things. Thanks to her leadership they landed a couple of big contracts and now have a huge volume of liquid assets (managed though several shell companies).

The easiest way to confuse a selfie and a selkie is via typo. The f and k keys aren’t particularly close to each other on most keyboards, but after exhaustive and thorough internet research that took more than fifteen entire minutes I did discover that they are, in fact, adjacent on the TNWMLC keyboard. This keyboard was designed by the folks at carpalx by running keyboard-optimization software backwards to find the worst possible keyboard layout for typical English-language typing.

This is “of 2015″ because I drew this picture in 2015 specifically intending to make a selfie/selkie pun, but never got around to using it until now.

#2. SMS charges

It’s money you pay for using a cellular telephone. It’s a fee for your cell phone. It’s a cell fee.

Crickets chirp. In the distance, a lone tumbleweed rolls forlornly by.

I wasn’t sure how to represent this pictorially. So this photo is of my phone from 2015 surrounded by fake money. The money, by the way, is from Cheapass Games - their business model used to be producing games that they could sell very cheaply by not including things like dice, playing pieces, or paper money, because you probably had those bits lying around already from other games and there was no reason you should pay to buy more of it. These days they mainly publish via Kickstarter, but they’re still producing awesome games. One of my favorites, Unexploded Cow, has players trying to solve the problems of mad cows in England and undenotated WWII bombs in France by simply applying one of these problems to the other, and the game is a lot of fun.

#3. Wildfire

To confuse “selfie” with “wildfire”, type “selfie” on a swiping-based phone keyboard using only your nose.

Your mileage may vary.

The picture is a screenshot from Undertale, The Friendly RPG Where Nobody Has To Die, which came out in 2015 and is one of the best games I’ve played. If you haven’t played it, I would recommend that you stop what you’re doing and go play it right now. But don’t yell at the snails too much or you’ll give them anxiety.

#4. A Shelfie

Shelfies: like selfies, but for your shelves! This was A Thing™ at some point, I think in late 2015 or early 2016.

As it happens, I actually do have a picture of one of my bookshelves from 2015! Except I wasn’t using it for books, as you can probably tell from the picture.

I consider my quantity of board games to be entirely reasonable, on the grounds that I know people with collections orders of magnitude larger than mine and therefore mine is normal.

#5. Else ifs

To mistake “else ifs” for “selfies”, just nag a ram.

I’m a software engineer, so I write a lot of these (else-ifs, that is, though I do write a lot of anagrams too for unrelated reasons). Of course, I mainly program in python, where it’s shortened to “elif”, so the anagram doesn’t work unless you spell it “Selfi”, which sounds like it should be a failed internet startup that tried to capitalize on what “the kids” were up to these days.

Anyway, I think this code snippet actually predates 2015, but I did work on this project during 2015 so it still counts. It’s part of a time-travel-based chess variant that I really need to go clean up and put back online. The game itself worked, but I wanted to set up a usable web interface so that I could play it with other people at a distance. I should also probably implement some minichess variants, because with normal chess the state space of time chess explodes far too quickly (@aiffe also suggested pawn games as another way to make it a little more playable). All of this is on a to-do list that’s been around since at least 2015.

#6. My head on a pedestal

This is from long ago, but I rediscovered it on a DVD in a closet in 2015, so I’m counting it. It’s also the closest thing to a selfie in this entire post. I took a computer animation class as an undergrad, and one of the projects was a lighting exercise in a museum scene. To get the centerpiece for our scenes, the professor had us all scan our heads in a laser scanner. So this is my face, from a decade ago, if it were made of cheaply-rendered stone and full of scanning glitches! You can’t really tell from this picture, but that little bump on my nose near my right eye is about three inches of spike sticking out of my face for no obvious reason.

And that wraps up the selfies meme from 2015! Tune in again in several years to see whatever meme ends up being popular this year that I draft and then forget about!

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OMFG IT HAS ARRIVED! BURNINATE THE COUNTRYSIDE! BURNINATE THE PEASANTS! BURNINATE THE VILLAGE!

All in a friendly cooperative game designed by (among others) one of the greats, James Ernest (of Cheapass Games fame).

One of the unexpectedly nice things about Kickstarting a thing is that you usually have totally forgotten about it by the time it ships, and then "Wow! Thank you, Me of the past, for thinking about sending me this excellent present in your future! And here I was thinking you were just a dick."

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The BoardGameGeek Show: Golden Geeks, Sorcerer, Measuring a Game's Shelf Life, and More

by W. Eric Martin

I haven't posted an episode of The BoardGameGeek Show recently, but they've been rolling out on a fairly regular schedule every two weeks on BGG's main YouTube channel. Thankfully I managed to find my camera and audio equipment amongst all the boxes in the game room of my new house just in time to join Scott, Steph, and Lincoln on camera. Now I just need to tackle the dozens of boxes still untouched... One topic I'd like to explore more in the future is the limited shelf life of games, which we touched on in this show following a distributor's comment that I saw. That comment mentioned that a game has a retail shelf life in the U.S. of only a few weeks — unless the game is great, in which case the game might last two or three months. The problem, of course, is that you often can't determine a game's greatness within such a limited time because the potential audience for it is unlikely to descend on the game store within that short window, play it, then spread awareness of the game to others before it's already been moved out of a distributor's catalog. Publishers have a tough job of spreading awareness of their game releases, and beyond that continuing to spread awareness of a design instead of simply dropping it in favor of next month's release. You're not going to develop evergreen titles in your catalog if you don't give them a chance to plant roots. Youtube Video 00:20 Opening and intros 00:55 Tickets! Get your tickets for BGG.CON! 02:52 2018 Golden Geek Award winners 06:59 What Have You Been Playing? Doppelt so Clever - Wolfgang Warsch - Schmidt Spiele, Stonghold Games 08:42 Subtext - Wolfgang Warsch - Edition Spielwiese, Stronghold Games 12:53 Museum - Eric Dubus, Olivier Melison - Holy Grail Games & Luma Games 18:02 Two Stacks - Edward Doreau - (Self-Published) 21:24 Sorcerer - Peter Scholtz - White Wizard Games 26:50 Board Game News: Ticket to Ride London - Alan R. Moon - Days of Wonder 28:18 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein - Dan Blanchett - Plaid Hat Games 29:22 Sarah’s Vision - Anthony Howgego - Baloise Group 31:23 The limited shelf life of games 35:07 Kickstarter News: Blood on the Clocktower - Steven Medway - The Pandemonium Institute 37:38 Fuji Koro - Jerome Demeyere - Game Brewer 38:18 Cheapass Games in Black & White 40:11 Goodbyes from BoardGameGeek News | BoardGameGeek http://bit.ly/2v9yiXH

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Bookmark Cheapass Games in Black and White on Kickstarter

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Cheapass Games sprema antologiju o svojim igrama

Zar ne bi bilo loše imati jednu knjigu koja obuhvata sve o društvenim igrama jednog izdavača? Na takvu ideju je došao i Cheapass Games, koji je lansirao Kickstarter kampanju kako bi objavio knjigu Cheapass Games in Black and White. U pitanju je antologija preko 22 godine rada ovog […] from Pitchwise.net: Cheapass Games sprema antologiju o svojim igrama

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We’re making a Jägermonster poker deck!

It’s part of our Kickstarter campaign for “Girl Genius: The Works”, running through April 20th, 2018. Check it out HERE.

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Girl Genius: The Works em KS

Girl Genius: The Works em KS

A editora norte americana Cheapass Games lançou uma campanha de financiamento no Kickstarter para produzir Girl Genius: The Works.

Girl Genius: The Works é um jogo de carta da autoria de James Ernest, para 2 a 4 jogadores com mais de 10 anos e com uma duração aproximada de 30 minutos.

O conceito base do jogo tem as suas raízes na popular webcomic Girl Genius.da autoria de  Phil and Kaja Foglio.…

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108 James Ernest - Button Men Beat People Up (Mp3)

108 James Ernest – Button Men Beat People Up (Mp3)

https://soundcloud.com/legends-of-tabletop/108-james-ernest-button-men

Check out the podcast as I talk with James Ernest about their ongoing Kickstarter for Button Men – Beat People Up.

Button Men is a quick, strategic dice game designed by James Ernest. It’s easy to learn, loaded with strategy, and one of the cleverest games we’ve ever made.

Each player selects a character card, and uses the…

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Kickstarting a new edition of Cheapass Games's classic "Button Men"

Carol from Cheapass Games writes, "In our continuing quest to bring back the very best classic Cheapass Games, we're creating a new boxed set of Button Men, our strategy dice combat game. This time around, the characters will appear on cards, rather than pin-back buttons, but since they're all 1950s era gangsters, the 'button men' name still works! The new format lets us provide 48 characters - and 30 high-quality polyhedral dice - in one affordable package. We'll also make the old-style pin-back buttons available as game accessories. Button Men won two Origins awards back when it was originally published in 1999, and it's one of our favorites."

https://boingboing.net/2017/04/25/custom-polyhedral-dice.html

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PuzzleNation Product Review: Tak

In today's blog post, we explore Tak by @PatRothfuss & @CheapassJames!

Puzzles and games are constantly advancing and innovating, incorporating new technologies, new production techniques, and a lengthy legacy to build upon. In this blog alone, we’ve looked at 3-D printed puzzles, logic games that involve actual lasers, and puzzles that were brought to life thanks to internet crowdfunding; none of these were possible fifteen or twenty years ago. But today’s game is…