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This was the first time I visited the Room and Board channel, but did enjoy it. Very chatty, but informative at the same time!
=> 1 minute with Room and Board
Snapshot from this video clip (you can click on the image):
This will be another thing to watch for once the game is out. Etsy likely will have someone making 3D walls for the game, similar to these:
=> Etsy Walls and Doors (for Mansions of Madness)
However … after thinking about this for a week or two, I think that I just might be able to make my own walls from folded pieces of manila file folders! I am NOT a very handy nor crafty person, but I can imagine cutting a piece out from a file folder… folding it in half… folding small tabs out from both ends and then stapling (or gluing) the folded area together! The small tabs at the bottom will get it to “stand up” on the map :)
Highlights:
As you may or may not know, I also had a prototype of ISS Vanguard over a year before the final game hit backers doorsteps. I created and managed a website for it, just like I am doing now for Rogue Angels. I haven’t been doing much with the MyISSVanguard website the past few months, but I checked and there are 650 articles posted on it (we might get there with this MyRogueAngels website – we are at 57 articles right now after just twelve days).
One thing I learned while playing with the ISS Vanguard prototype is that cardboard tokens in a bag are NOT fun. They don’t really mix around well. They don’t make a nice clinky sound when you shake the bag. Running your hand through the cardboard tokens did not bring enjoyment (to me any way).
Then I discovered Coin Capsules!
And now … inserting each token inside a hard plastic coin capsule made a phenomenal difference. They mixed around in the bag great. Shaking the bag made lots of NOISE. And running your hand around inside the bag was actually fun feeling all the tokens (inside those hard plastic coin capsules) sliding between your fingers!
Here is the article I wrote for MyISSVanguard about this new discovery of mine:
=> Transform Your Cardboard Tokens
And here is what the tokens looked like inside coin capsules (dumping out of the bag):
The nice thing about this (for Emil’s sake) is that it was the game players who decided if they wanted to upgrade their token experience. Awaken Realms didn’t need to do anything (other than specify what the size of the tokens would be).
Of course, coin capsules is not the only way to upgrade a bag of cardboard tokens. I can imagine someone on Etsy making thick plastic chips matching the four types of interact tokens.
But then again … the “stackable” 4 colored plastic components that came with the prototype for interact tokens do have their own air of deluxification!
Our Burning Suns Community is going strong! We just achieved the 115,000 Euros Stretch Goal.
The game will now come with 4 more enemy bosses! Each will be a new type of enemy and each will include it’s own illustrated standee.
Here are the stretch goals ahead of us now:
So now we are looking forward to:
Yes … Colton (at Board Game Officer) watched 47 review videos and took notes (lots of videos, lots of notes). Then he made a video summarizing what he noticed the reviewers saying ALONG with his own views, since he has played many missions himself already! His video is a perfect companion to the dozens of one minute video clips I put together. We both tried to make it easier for you to get a feel for what all the reviews are saying without watching nearly 100 videos yourself!
You can checkout over 80 One Minute Video Clips here:
=> One Minute Videos
And you can watch his 30 minute summary of the 47 review videos that he watched here:
Oh … and yeah, I made a one minute video clip from HIS summary video too :)
=> One Minute with Colton
UPDATE December 16, 2023 from Emil – the article and video are still good, but here is his quick summary to save you time reading the article (but, yeah, read both:)
Here are the amount of cards in the game (including stretch goals):
Len’s added note: this should be the maximum needed:
For those who wish to sleeve all the cards in the game, Emil let us know that most of the cards will be standard bridge / poker sized cards (so you have many sleeve options). The exception is the Enemy Behavior Cards which are slightly bigger (120 x 80 mm). More info about the sleeves is below the video window (where I show you the two types of cards and example sleeves for them):
(You can tell from the video that I do it all on my own – nobody here to run the camera for me … sorry about the ending, but I didn’t fit into the screen anymore :)
Here is a snapshot from the video (click to see the 1 minute clip):
Here is some background to sleeving your cards.
As the Kickstarter is drawing to a close (just two more days), here are the TEN most recently posted videos about Rogue Angels.
I include a link to a ONE MINUTE video clip for each, so you can watch all of them in less than 10 minutes (because some actually are less than 1 minute). If you like what you see in a clip, just click on the supplied link to the full video and watch the whole thing!
List of Ten Most Recent Videos:
Funding has surpassed 110,000 Euros giving us the next stretch goal!
This will add SIX new maps PLUS all the setups to utilize them! We also now have three more stretch goals to aim for:
The next three will add:
Highlights:
My Rogue Angels 