Iain and Jamie are delighted to welcome home their space based roving reporter Janice Turner from Wren Games. The crew cover legal rustling on the Great Western Trail, companies producing less games and Aliens returning to the tabletop. In our Brainstorm we turn to the subject of Kickstarter and seek sage advice from Janice who has been down that road in the not too distant past and has a background in project management.

 

Headlines

 

Indie Game Studios sues Plan B Games

https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/88986/indie-game-studiosstronghold-games-sues-plan-b-gam 

 

AEG pledges to make Less Games

 https://www.alderac.com/2019/04/25/publish-fewer-new-games/ 

 

Steve Jackson games releases stakeholder report for 2018

http://www.sjgames.com/general/stakeholders/report19.html

 

News

 

Alien films return to the Tabletop 

https://frialigan.se/sv/startsida/ 

 

Asmodee launches Aconyte fiction arm

https://www.asmodee.co.uk/news-item/asmodee-announces-fiction-imprint-aconyte/

 

Steamforged games gains steam

 https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/43073/steamforged-games-raises-5-million-roughly-6-5-million 

 

Origins Award Nominees announced

 https://www.originsgamefair.com/origins-awards-nominees 

 

 

 

Another Kickstarter Suspended

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1361678389/devil-ring-age-of-the-war?fbclid=IwAR1iUr3dDIveZN9l3i9Yiu3AanbNFa82jpnKANlBC1WPY_YbrCdvAnhwSGw 

 

Previous campaigns

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/player11boardgame/age-of-the-war-devil-invasion-of-the-ring/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/121737448/age-of-the-war-kingdoms-conquest-boardgame/comments

 

Brainstorm

 

Janice's articles

 https://www.cardboardvault.com/lessons-learned/little-things-add-up-1-standard-costs 

 

Outro

 https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/ 

 

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