Well, to start… sorry for the lack of updates the last few weeks! Between the holidays and getting ready for the Kickstarter, I barely had the time to procrastinate and beat myself up for not doing the updates, so…
Holy shit, did you hear!?! Next Tuesday is the launch of ESW: A3 — Satanic Panic! THAT’S RIGHT… another fucking Kickstarter! I have already seen a couple of people moan about each of these new games launching on Kickstarter, which fucking mystifies me. The truth is Kickstarter is currently the best way to market the launch of a board game… sad but true. Entire companies are built around helping you market a game, and they ONLY work on crowdsourced projects! So part of this is just trying to continue to build our ESW audience. You know, like a religion! I really want to convert as many people as possible (and then slowly introduce weird sex shit after you’re hopelessly indoctrinated… never mind, we will get to that later).
SO, the OTHER reason a Kickstarter rules is we can have fun as a community, unlocking stretch goals and low-fiving each other. I mean, you get the game at the retail price but you ALSO get a TON of extra stuff… what’s not to love?? I hope you’re all ready to jump in and be part of this shit.
SECRET INFORMATION: The Kickstarter is going to start at 10AM Pacific (give or take) and there is a special “early demon” pledge tier with only 6 slots available (you may want to be around to check it out)… but you didn’t hear it from me. Also be prepared to sign over your soul, assuming you still have one…
So the next mailer is also going to hit the post next Tuesday and shortly (?) after that your mailbox. What’s so special about THIS mailer? Well, I have been holding onto the best-of-the-best gifts to line up with the delayed launch of our Kickstarter. I wanted something extra rad to hit in the middle of all my FFF members being gathered in one place. So I created a music CD with 12 original Epic Spell Wars songs on it! Here’s the cover… and back!
and the back!
One of the challenges of making the gifts for the mailers is coming up with stuff that’s flat so it fits into that envelope… something flat AND custom. One of the things that dawned on me was a CD, but that raised the question, “What the hell would be on it?” Of course, there was only one answer: SICK BEATS! But how would I acquire these sick beats? Turns out FIVERR is the perfect place to find amazing artists from around the world willing to work for the sort of budget I have… “not much.”
So I wrote up a bunch of fucked-up songs (Jared, one of my game designers wrote the Pleasure Palace song), then I hired some amazing musicians to make my KILLER TRACKS dream a reality. HOLY SHIT, they turned out WAY better than I could have imagined… I love them so much. We have an Italian funk band on “Oh Baby It’s Viagrus” with MULTIPLE singers! I had a Bollywood song made and it was so fantastic we had him make another… that would be “Party at the End of Time” and “Pleasure Palace Panic.”
I used auto-tune and actually sing the Game Overlord song “Game Over Now” and it’s also me of course on “SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY,” a dubstep song made from the first Kickstarter video. I am super excited for you to get this!
Here is a link to one of the songs…
I was also thinking about giving away an uncut sheet every weekday of the Kickstarter campaign. What would be a good way of running that? Everyone that makes a comment is entered or maybe everyone that pledges is in the pool? Or some kind of social media challenge?
Love,
Cory
I’m 4 sure gonna pledge this time, since I missed out on the A2 KS. I ended up buying it from a scalper but the foil Legends weren’t that good since they bend and you can see them on top people’s decks. Is there any improvement on that? Otherwise, the regular print would be better.
interesting, bummer to lose foil, wonder if everyone is having this issue…
I had a similar issue on my Cthulhu foil promo card from A1. The foil layer started peeling after repeat shuffling. For that reason I never played A2 without sleeves so my foil legends are holding up fine after MANY games. Had to protect all that shine!
I made a thread about it with a few pictures but it didn’t appear on the forum. It said it went into moderation review. Do you check those? I also had a first-impression thread for A2 pruned that way, but I assumed that was because the game wasn’t out yet when I posted it.
I’m not having issues with the foil cards but with a newborn I’ve only got to play it 1 time and I got destroyed by my wife.
Foils bend due to humidity. If ESW foils are like other TCG foils, the foil layer doesn’t contract or expand with humidity but the cardboard does so it curls. How much it curls is dependent on how big of a difference you are from where it was printed. Some people have been successful of fixing the bend that happens with foils
the problem on the Cthulhu and studd stuff, was a I used a “gold” foil card stock that turned out not to be ideal…
OMG!!! Tuesday 19:00 (here in Spain). I just carved it on my arm with a rusty knife.
I’m so excited for esw3 it just so happens this world hates me. My bank card got hacked and I’m waiting for a new one which means I can’t even try for the early pledge! Ugh. Hope it’s not too special.. I’ll still get everything I can when I can including both FFF! Is the first FFF very limited I’m stock? I’d be devastated to miss out on that too 😛
Don’t listen to those haters – I LOVE the Kickstarter format! Your last ESW campaign was a blast. I’m especially thankful for all the extra stretch goal content that gets included due to extra funding. I will be backing all the new content for sure. As an owner of EVERYTHING ESW related (even the uncut card sheet and the Cryptozoic volunteer exclusive cards), I’m hoping to snag one of those six Early Demon slots. Can’t wait!
I have been looking forward to this since you told me about it at Gen Con!
Holy shit! My wife and I are excited about the CD. But then we realized we would have to sit in the car to listen to it. Not a damn CD player in the house. We don’t have disc drives on our PCs. I’m in my 40’s, how do I no longer have a discman?
I honestly think it depends on how you want to do it.
If it’s based of how many pledges you want you could go off of who ever pledges and if there is a way to if there is a reference system. So if someone pledges and is referred by someone who is already a pledge they both get an entry.
Or if you don’t see too much traffic on this site you could also make it a comment or signup or a mix a both.
You could also have it people who pledge a certain level in kickstarter. That way it also makes is so you increase your pledges dollar amount.
Maybe also have people show case their drawing on the me bixby shitty drawing familiar card. (I drew nothing yet because I can never make up my mind)
Maybe have something more interactive and have people name of a card and maybe a description of what that card can do. and you can use it to make a card in the game in the future or give you a theme for you to make the next game/card in a game.
I tried my best being number 1 when it first came out but I think it was 15 and I was number 33 on the pledge that 6 slot is fire but I also don’t mind putting my money into something I enjoy and believe.
Also yeah Kickstarter is the way to go. Love it can’t get enough of it. I’ve probably spent thousands in games on Kickstarter.
Been patiently waiting for info about how to snag the Year 1 FFF stuff if ya missed it… cause I missed it! I kow you said you have a few hundred extras, Cory and i would loooove to snag one.
Based what I see on the forums here and on the kickstarter, there are many of us who would love information on how to snag one of those ~400 copies!