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Tag: Kickstarter

Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘DragonStone Mine’

July 16, 2016December 8, 2017Claire Jennings

An engaging game for people of all ages; comes with three game modes for prereaders up through adults. Mine some gems and test your luck of the draw with the spell cards in this two to four player game. Five-year-old tested and approved.

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Kickstarter Alert: Ancient Astronaut Mission Patches

July 15, 2016December 8, 2017Sophie Brown1

The Ancient Astronaut Mission Patches are embroidered patches that combine the style of NASA mission patches with the legends of the ancient astronauts.

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Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘Alienish’

July 7, 2016December 8, 2017Sophie Brown

‘Alienish’ is a part-quick-fire, part-memory game that helps you to quickly learn the basics of an alien language.

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Geeking Out When Kickstarting a Fantasy Anthology 

June 29, 2016December 15, 2017Melanie Meadors

Adrian Collins joins us today to tell us five things made him geek out while he was working on the Kickstarter for ‘Evil Is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists,’ a new grimdark fantasy anthology from his magazine, ‘Grimdark Magazine,’ currently on Kickstarter!

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Edo Blocks: These Are the Blocks You Were Looking For

June 28, 2016December 8, 2017Karen Walsh2

Edo blocks are the toy that will cause your kid to ignore Phineas & Ferb. ‘Nuff said.

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Kickstarter Alert: One Third Stories

June 8, 2016December 8, 2017Sophie Brown

One Third Stories are a company who aim to produce “a children’s book that starts in English and ends in a different language.”

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Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: Galactic Sneeze’s ‘Spank the Yeti’

June 8, 2016December 8, 2017Lisa Tate

The offbeat minds behinds behind ‘Schmovie’ are squeezing their creative juices into a new adult party game.

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Kickstarter Alert: Movin’ With the Mover Kit

May 18, 2016December 8, 2017Evil Genius Mum

The Mover Kit: Wearable tech for kids; with a huge range of possibilities to code, create, and encourage kids to do more. It’s fairly simple in appearance but like any child’s imagination – it’s the potential within which is amazing.

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Kickstarter Alert : MiaMily Hipster Plus Baby Carrier and Bag in One

May 13, 2016December 8, 2017Sarah James1

The MiaMilly Hipster Plus 3D carrier is a carrier that’s ergonomic for both babies and adults and has an actual pocket integrated into the waist belt (think fanny pack, but nicer). We can’t wait to try it!

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Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘Great Scott!’

April 30, 2016December 8, 2017Sophie Brown6

In ‘Great Scott!’ the whimsical 19th-century parlour game that never was, players use cards to build ridiculous inventions and explain them to each other.

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Kickstarter Alert: ‘Mandelmap’ Poster Is a Math Geek’s Delight

April 19, 2016December 8, 2017Patricia Vollmer

Check out Bill Tavis’ Kickstarter to raise funds to print his Mandelmap as full-sized posters. This would make a great gift for the math geek in your life!

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Geeking Out About Giant Robots and City Smashing Kaiju

March 29, 2016December 15, 2017Melanie Meadors

Nick Sharps (N.X. Sharps) is the editor of the acclaimed anthology, ‘Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters’ from Ragnarok Publications. This week on Geek Speaks…Fiction! Nick tells readers about his latest anthology, ‘MECH: Age of Steel,’ and how it made him geek out!

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Flipping Tropes: A New Anthology Turns Cliches ‘Upside Down’

March 15, 2016December 15, 2017Melanie Meadors

This week on Geek Speaks…Fiction! we welcome editors Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates to discuss what made them geek out while editing their new anthology, ‘Upside Done: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling’!

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Help Kickstart “End of the Line – The Game of Post-Apocalyptic Family Survival”

March 4, 2016December 15, 2017Nicole Wakelin1

“End of the LIne – Post-Apocalyptic Family Survival” turns surviving the apocalypse into a family-friendly game where even the family dog helps collect food, water, and ammo.

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It’s Who I Am: Fantasy Author Tim Marquitz Geeks Out About Writing

March 1, 2016December 15, 2017Melanie Meadors

Urban fantasy author Tim Marquitz joins us this week to talk about writing his Demon Squad series, and what it means to him to write in a genre alongside authors like Jim Butcher, Kat Richardson, Seanan McGuire, and more!

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Save ‘JourneyQuest’! In Defense of Morally Ambiguous Female Characters

February 19, 2016December 7, 2017Melanie Meadors6

Today I welcome guest actress Emilie Shimkus, who plays Wren on the fan-funded, fan-favorite show JourneyQuest, which is currently in its last day on Kickstarter! She lets us know why this show is important to the genre, and why it’s important that it succeed.

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Kickstart Your Kids’ Confidence in Math with MathKit

November 17, 2015December 4, 2017Kelly Knox

MathKit has time left in the Kickstarter campaign, and I highly recommend checking it out if you want to make math as much as a family activity as you do reading books at bedtime.

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Beware the Horsemen! Mark Lawrence Brings on the Apocalypse With New Game

November 5, 2015December 4, 2017Melanie Meadors

Fantasy author Mark Lawrence visits GeekMom to tell us about his new game, ‘Horsemen of the Apocalypse’!

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‘Covalence’ Game: Cooperative, Educational, Chemistry Fun

October 14, 2015December 4, 2017Rebecca Angel4

‘Covalence’ is a cooperative and educational chemistry game. But is it fun? Yes!

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Fund This! Launching Your Own Campaign!

August 17, 2015December 3, 2017Samantha Cook

GeekMom Samantha Cook doles out some experienced advice on launching your own crowdfunding campaign in her latest installment of Fund This!

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