There ’s a bit of a Doctor of the Church Who bent to this week ’s look at all things crowdfunding , as we take a facial expression at two project inspired by the sci - fi serial – but that ’s not all . There ’s an RPG about fighting your friends , a cool anthology of sci - fi and phantasy story , and a game that ’s shaped by the tale you write for it .
Header Image : Elegy for a Dead World
Last One Standing
barrack by the the like of Battle Royale and The Hunger Games , this tabletop game tasks you with crusade amongst your friends in a dystopic battle for survival that switches the usual pen - and - newspaper publisher RPG impetus of co - mathematical operation into one of competitor :
The game is set in a dystopian future where young adults are force to oppose to the death , exhort by a few democratic stories you ’ve likely get a line of . The default option setting of the game has a bit of benighted humor in it , to emphasize the absurdness of idyllic felicitous families sit down and watch real people fight to the death . But of course the game can be as loose - hearted or dead serious as your group wants it to be .
Also , because the game is , itself , about a game , it leave the GM to intervene directly in the purpose of the director – the shadowy figure who manage the game . Through this , they can keep the activity locomote and forever drive the characters towards interesting scenario and away from boring discourse of how expert to arrange people ’s inventories .
A $ 10 pledge nets you a digital transcript of the secret plan regulation , maps and character sheets , whilst $ 25 gets you a printed written matter .
The Minister of Chance Movie
The Minister of Chance is a strange affair , a spin off of a tailspin off – The tenacious running sci - fi / fantasy audio drama primitively grow out of grapheme from a Doctor Who Big Finish Audio play made in 2001 . It ’s grown into its own thing since then – and has quite the cast of British histrion , from Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann to Tamsin Grieg and Tim McInnerny – and now they want to bring the adventures to a movie formatting :
In a world not our own , Ambassador Durian ( Paul McGann ) of the technologically advanced country of Sezuan arrive in the sleepyheaded kingdom of Tanto . Charming and handsome , he jovially offers the King a pact of friendship , then explains that if the King declines , his population will be annihilated .
a £ 10 ( more or less $ 16 ) pledge pass you a digital ticket to get at the first of the four planned episodes of the movie , as well as your name in the credits .
Temporally Out Of Order
This collection of 14 sci - fi and fantasy news report come from a variety of remark authors , and is the first tone in establishing a new small press fellowship hollo Zombies Need brainpower :
This project will fund a skill fable and fantasy anthology titled TEMPORALLY OUT OF social club , containing approximately 14 all - original ( no reprint ) poor stories from established SF&F source in the field — include David B. Coe , Laura Anne Gilman , Faith Hunter , Stephen Leigh , Gini Koch , Seanan McGuire , and Laura Resnick , plus others . The account book will be edited by Joshua Palmatier & Patricia Bray , both editor program of the DAW Books anthology “ After hour : taradiddle from the Ur - bar ” and “ The Modern Fae ’s Guide to Surviving Humanity , ” and the Zombies Need Brains LLC anthology “ Clockwork Universe : Steampunk vs. Aliens . ”
You know the drill : $ 15 gets you a digital copy of the anthology , whilst $ 20 is enough for a physical edition .
The Doctor Puppet Christmas Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPfZ-7uIJQ
We ’ve coveredAlisa Stern ’s Doctor Who marionette seriesbefore on io9 , but now they ’re asking for help to fund the webseries ’ latest Christmas Special :
This Christmas , we want to make our best episode yet !
It will be a melodic escapade asterisk the Twelfth Doctor and Clara – something a picayune darker than our preceding Christmas episodes . We plan to make an atmospherical scene for a occult story to spread in . The puppets wo n’t speak or talk , so the music will be their voice .
We plan to release the installment about two week before Christmas .
A pledge does n’t really give you access to the instalment , which will be released on youtube anyway , but offer a diverseness of rewards like props from former trunks , a chance to meet the Godhead at NYCC , or the opportunity to go and see the puppets and filming in person .
Elegy for a Dead World
This PC game is a sidescrolling sci - fi dangerous undertaking invigorate by classic literary authors – and has you writing parts of the story to mold where the dangerous undertaking head teacher next :
In Elegy for a Dead World , you journey to distant satellite and make write up about the people who once inhabit there .
Three hepatic portal vein have open to uncharted populace . Earth has sent a squad of Explorer to investigate them , but after an accident , you are the sole subsister . Your missionary work remains the same : appraise these worlds and compose the only chronicle of them that outsiders will ever know .
$ 10 gets you a Steam key for the game when it comes out in former 2015 .
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