Reply To: Ignition Core Games Is Teasing…Relic Knights?

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I think kickstarter works best for companies that are realistic and need the additional visibility that comes with crowdfunding, especially within the tabletop hobby. Miniatures tend to be a pretty safe bet.

STL files are ridiculously common, but I’d say there are dedicated platforms out there that would work as well.

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Several kickstarters have gone down a similar road before :

– Orc Quest : picked up by Monolith, backers from previous kickstarters only needed to pay for shipping
(they ran out of funding when they were close to finishing)

– Evil Dead boardgame : picked up by Angry Joe and his team (I think), similar deal for backers of the kickstarter that never completed. However instead of the original boardgame this was a completely new game design.
(AFAIK the original team ran out of funding because they underestimated how difficult producing a boardgame is when you don’t know what you’re doing and have to communicate with Chinese factory that apparently wasn’t making things easy.  Their last updates before the project died showed that there was a game and minis were being designed. I don’t know if fraud was proven … but it was pretty close)

– Starfinder miniatures : after what felt like ages Archon Studios were gracious enough to send something to backers (I think Ninja Division and Archon weren’t agreeing on who or what needed to pay for things). I’d say they were the oldest example of a company digging a whole to fill another. Delays of a different project killed their cashflow and things escalated from there.

So … there could be hope depending on what the new company wants to do.
Relic had some good ideas, but the market is soo damned crowded that I doubt it will ever be anything other than a niche game.

It’s good to see that the IP can be revived.

https://www.ignitioncoregames.com/

The website and catalog make me wonder if they are set up to deliver a game though. Existing catalog appears to be a game from another company. It could work for Relic if all they need is to create and ship the physical products.

However they are USA based and the webshop indicates that they don’t really ship enough to get reasonable shipping prices (asking folk to email for a ‘better deal’ does not give me hope for this).
As such I’d expect this not to be EU friendly … but we’ll have to wait and see.

Heck .. it may be a one man band which will spell trouble if the kickstarter goes big.