The only way we know how to beat back that bad news and fear is to keep on keeping on, making beautiful and creative products for customers to enjoy. In our estimation, that’s needed more than ever right now with a news cycle flooded with bad news and fear. We exist to bring fun, joy, wonder and entertainment to our customers. Second, we’re gamemakers! This is what we do. Delaying the campaign delays critical funding for us to continue making games, paying our employees, and printing or reprinting valuable inventory for our website and conventions, which is obviously the other 50% of our revenue. We depend on Kickstarter campaigns to keep the wheels turning and our business healthy. First of all, Kickstarter/crowdfunding accounts for up to 50% of our annual revenue. We’ll be extending the significant shipping savings now available on our website ($10 max USA, and $20 max Europe) onto Kickstarter for the first time ever, as well! Given the bundle discounts and fees that come alongside Kickstarter campaigns, this is a major step for us, and hopefully a welcome benefit for backers. For better or worse, we’re keeping our games moving forward, even if it means running our campaign from the safety of our homes. We are officially moving forward with the Cloudspire Kickstarter on April 14, viruses be darned. At the end of the day, however, we reached one simple conclusion. These are important things to examine, and examine them we have. Folks are even questioning the ethics/morality of asking for funding during a time when many are struggling to be able to work and purchase essentials. A quick look at trends shows games taking in anywhere from 30-50% less on average. Second, we have a Kickstarter for new Cloudspire content and a Cloudspire reprint coming on April 14! There’s a ton of chatter around Facebook groups and the board game community regarding delaying a crowdfunding campaign during this epidemic. Thanks to years of prudent and financially smart decisions, along with a few lucky crit dice rolls, we are blessed to be able to weather a storm like this. We appreciate the many who have commented or reached out with concerns for us and our employees. So we say with the utmost confidence that CTG will still be around when all of this is over. Sales via our website, even during this first big week of what feels like catastrophic shutdowns, have continued to be quite strong, which has kept us upbeat and optimistic in the midst of all this social distancing.
CTG, unlike many retailers and other indie publishers, is in a very strong and healthy place financially. First of all, let me say that we are so thankful for all of your support. What we really want this message to be about is the future of Chip Theory, our upcoming Kickstarter, and our general unwillingness to let this pandemic get us down. We should note that thus far, everyone on the Chip Theory team (including extended family) is healthy, safe, and no worse for wear (aside from the cabin fever associated with working from home…and it’s only day three of that…yikes). While those are important, and certainly justified, the truth of the matter is that like everyone else, we’re over here doing the best we can, with most of us working from home. However, the best place to keep up to date on details is on Contention’s site, where you can be notified when it goes live.Greetings, Chip Theory faithful! Josh (Ghillie) here, doing my best to avoid writing what at this point could feel like one of the million other “What we’re doing about the coronavirus/COVID-19” messages. Ordering cannot be completed yet, as the Kickstarter has yet to begin. In our review, we gave it nods for its “unique and cohesive mashup of roguelike and collectable card game mechanics.”įor now, the current release date for Slay The Spire: The Board Game is expected this Autumn for us Aussies.
Slay The Spire is a wonderful, heralded game. This truly is an exciting adaptation for indie game fans and board game fans alike. It’ll take 45 minutes to play per player and will be a “co-operative deck-building adventure.” That itself is exciting and wondrous to think about, given the source material’s single-player nature. Potentially, this points to each playable character in the current game, meaning players may take up the mantle of the Ironclad, the Silent, the Defect and the Watcher. It’s being made by Contention Games and will support up to four players. Admittedly, details are quite limited at the moment. This adaptation is aptly named Slay The Spire: The Board Game. Really, it’s one of the biggest, nicest fits yet. Deck-building roguelike Slay The Spire is the latest game announced to be making the jump. From Dark Soulsto Divinity: Original Sin, we’ve had a fair share of video games jumping into the board game space.
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