The Curators

We take a look at 5-Minute Dungeon, Mega Man Pixel Tactics, we use 8-Bit Miniature Werewolf & Mafia to discuss an often overlookied element of crowd-funding. Then we feature a little more of the interview with Monica Valentinelli about writer’s block, self-doubt and the extra pressure that women and minorities have as professionals in the gaming industry.

LINK TO CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

The Curators is sponsored by BackerKit. If you’re planning to crowdfund your project, BackerKit can help you! Check out which companies and designers use BackerKit: backerkit.com/tabletop_games

Related Links:

* Pixel Tactics

* Tiny Epic Quest

* Small Box Games

* Books of M: Monica Valentinelli’s official page

* Ms. Valentinelli on writer’s block and success

The Curators is presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.

We’re back! This time, we take a look at Scion 2nd Edition, Scroll and Codex: Dice Tower and Rolling Tray, and BattleCON: Trials. Then we feature Monica Valentinelli (I doubt you don’t own at least a couple of games she worked in in some shape or form).

LINK TO CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

The Curators is sponsored by BackerKit. If you’re planning to crowdfund your project, BackerKit can help you! Check out which companies and designers use BackerKit: backerkit.com/tabletop_games

Related Links:

* Books of M: Monica Valentinelli’s official page

* Shadowrun: Court of Shadows

* Unknown Armies Third Edition Roleplaying Game

The Curators is presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.

Add-on episode! More Marcelo & Joey talking about The Gods War and more Sandy Petersen talking about… everything!

LINK TO CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

The Curators is sponsored by BackerKit. If you’re planning to crowdfund your project, BackerKit can help you! Check out which companies and designers use BackerKit: backerkit.com/tabletop_games

Related Links:

* Glorantha: The Gods War Kickstarter

* Petersen Games

* Keith Thompson Art

The Curators is presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.

Four games this time! We take a look at Akua, Merchants of Araby, Bitbox, and Glorantha: The Gods War. Then we feature Sandy Petersen talking about his new massive strategy board game, Glorantha: The Gods War.

LINK TO CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

The Curators is sponsored by BackerKit. If you’re planning to crowdfund your project, BackerKit can help you! Check out which companies and designers use BackerKit: backerkit.com/tabletop_games

Related Links:

* Board game shelves with Scott

* Board Games with Scott

* LINK

* Cthulhu Wars

* Petersen Games

* Moon Design Publications

* Chaosium Inc.

* Call of Cthulhu 7th edition is still available for pre-order on Kickstarter

The Curators is presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.

Add-on episode! Marcelo discovers bento boxes (both the food trays and the nerdy swag subscription services), and Joey explains how critical he is of movies and then we come to a common definition of entertainment. Special “raw” episode: you can see how we really sound in real life!

LINK TO CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

The Curators is sponsored by BackerKit. If you’re planning to crowdfund your project, BackerKit can help you! Check out which companies and designers use BackerKit: backerkit.com/tabletop_games

Related Links:

* 4001 A.D.

* http://www.bookdepository.com/Rai-Book-1-Clayton-Crain-Matt-Kindt/9781682151174?a_aid=TerceiraTerra

* Wayward

* Valiant Comics on Scribd

* Mr. Nobody

* Comic Bento (not a sponsor!)

* Board Game Bento (not a sponsor!)

The Curators is presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.

Masthead credit: 4001 A.D. #1 cover by Clayton Crain and “Bento” by Hajime NAKANO.

Find out what happens when you leave your expensive dice just lying around in this episode of The Curators! We take a look at Fire of Eidolon, a 16-Bit inspired co-op dungeon board game, Precision Polyhedral Floating Face Dice, made of all kinds of metal, and Evil Dead 2, the official board game! Then we feature Tommy Hall from BackerKit to tell us how the company began and what it stands for in this chaotic crowd-funding world that we live in.

Note: this episode was recorded on the week before July 30th, so the Dev Day we reference has already passed. But you can check when the next one is happening right on Gamerati’s Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/Gamerati/

LINK TO OUR CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

The Curators is sponsored by BackerKit. If you’re planning to crowdfund your project, BackerKit can help you! Check out which companies and designers use BackerKit: backerkit.com/tabletop_games

Related Links:

* Deluxe V20 Beckett’s Jyhad Diary

* Millennium Blades reprint

* diaspora*

The Curators is presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.

Add-on episode! Marcelo and Joey seem to like all the games! Plus: extra audio from Luke Crane’s interview from the last episode. A little more focused on him as a game creator — but also as a villain, bwa-haha!

LINK TO CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

The Curators is sponsored by BackerKit. If you’re planning to crowdfund your project, BackerKit can help you! Check out which companies and designers use BackerKit: backerkit.com/tabletop_games

The Curators is presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.

We take a look at Mistborn: House War, The Duchess (a gaming table), and HOPE. Then we feature Luke Crane, the Head of Games at Kickstarter.

LINK TO CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

Related Links:

* Marcelo’s review of the Final Empire

* Board Game Tables

* Kingdom Death

* Subscribe to the Kickstarter games newsletter

Presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.

Add-on episode! Extra audio from Caleb Stokes’ interview from the last episode. As a one-man gaming company, Caleb has a different point of view of the state of the art in the industry. Also: Joey tells the tale of the potato salad Zack Danger Brown made for $55,492.

LINK TO CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

Related Links:

* Red Markets Kickstarter (there’s still time!)

* “KS Lessons” at Stonemaier Games

* “Deadly Freddy”, Fred Hicks’ blog

* Potato Salad at Kickstarter

Masthead image credits: The Fall Without End cover by Ean Moody & “potato salad with herbs” by Cooking etc.

The Curators is presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.

In the sixth regular episode of the podcast we take a look at Zed, Lumbermancer, and Fable Fortune. Then we feature Caleb Stokes talking about his current project, Red Markets.

LINK TO CURATED PAGE: http://www.kickstarter.com/gamerati

Don’t miss the add-on episode coming out in a week with more from Caleb Stokes regarding the state of the Kickstarterverse nowadays and Joey’s tale of a Kickstarted potato salad!

Related Links:

* Lumbermancer at Steam Greenlight

* Hebanon Games blog and DriveThruRPG store

* Inequality for All documentary official website

* Game Designer Workshop podcast

* No Security: Horror Scenarios in the Great Depression

* Better Angels: No Soul Left Behind

* Eclipse Phase: The Devotees

* The New World – Free 4E D&D Campaign Setting

Presented by Marcelo Ferrari and Joey Turco.