You Can Help Us Design New Cards For One Billion Users
from the let's-hit-that-goal dept
As part of our final push to get our Kickstarter campaign for our new card game over the line, we’ve added a new limited tier for backers who want to show their support while getting more involved. We’re inviting 5 superbackers to work with us to co-design new cards that will be included in the game. This is your chance to make a permanent mark on One Billion Users!
When you back us at the new Design a Card tier, we’ll work with you directly to brainstorm a new card, figure out its gameplay rules, and craft a fresh visual design. You’ll be able to choose one of three types of cards:
- An Influencer card, with a brand new personality, to go alongside our existing slate of Influencers like The Investor and The Contrarian. They’ll have their own unique name, custom emoji-based portrait, and rules for choosing which network they join in the game.
- A Network card, used for advanced play to give each player unique powers and constraints, to go alongside our existing Networks like TapTap, EnvyGram and Friendlink. It could be based on another real-life social network, or perhaps a fresh invention of the kind of network you’d like to see. It will have a name and custom-designed logo art, and a set of brand new rules.
- An Event card, which comes up randomly during the game. It could be an ongoing event (like the existing Tech Bubble or Regulation events) or a one-time event (like the Social Shuffle or Troll Trouble events). Event cards don’t have unique artwork, but they are a great opportunity if you’re interested in game design, with lots of leeway for crafting interesting rules that will become very important to the game.
Whatever you choose, it will be a collaborative design process where you’re involved at every step (or, if you prefer, you can just give us your idea and we’ll run with it!) You’ll also get an acknowledgement in the rulebook, and we’ll throw in ten copies of the finished boxed game, so you can show off your contribution to your friends. Head on over to Kickstarter to learn more.
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Do you think Bluesky will ever reach One Billion Users if they keep giving a free pass to horrid people like Jesse Singal?
Honestly, I love your articles and am an avid reader and want your hard work put into the site to be rewarded. But honestly this doesn’t seem like the kind of project that will succeed… and maybe there is someone out there who thinks differently, but working on game art seems like it should be paid labor, rather than a perk of funding this project.
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We’re not asking anyone to work on game art – we’ll produce everything necessary, and the backers can be involved in as much or as little of the process as they want
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Begging for people to give you money for a vanity project is unseemly.
If you really believe in the likely profitability of your card game, go get funding from a bank or some other institutional investor.
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Way to say you don’t know how Kickstarter works without just saying you don’t know how Kickstarter works.
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“Begging for people to give you money” = “get funding from a bank or some other institutional investor” also
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You do you.
But you did see that they’ll take the idea and produce it themselves, yes? The option for people to add their own further input beside the basic idea is for people who want to do that thing. Further, uhhh, you didn’t read this at all, did you? No one is doing artwork, and the mode of the visuals is already set.