I do love Kickstarter. I love it when it is used for a smaller company that has an idea and wants to get it off the ground. Not companies that are using it as a "pre-order" system, but rather a real venture capital like solution.
Case in point.
Knock-Down Drag-Out: Country Noir RPG
Country Noir is best described as Americana Folk Horror. Here are what the authors have to say.
Dark country roads, darker forest lands. Crumbling factories and dying towns. Bare-knuckle brawls and gunfights. Mystery and danger. These are just a few of the elements common to “country noir” (sometimes also called hillbilly noir, grit-lit, or southern noir), a category of crime fiction and film where secrets are everywhere and the restoration of order and justice are by no means a sure thing. Winter's Bone, Justified, Ozark, Hap & Leonard, and the Slim in Little Egypt series. Knock-Down Drag-Out is a way for you and your friends to bring these kinds of stories to life.
I mean it sounds really great.
Now full disclosure. I know of the authors, but they might not remember me. Jason & Ian Miller both worked with my brother at a movie theatre in the heart of Little Egypt. They had even been to my house at a Halloween Party where they drank some mead my roommates and I had made the year before. We thought one of them was going to go blind from it.
The game looks like a lot of fun and one I would really enjoy.
So it would be great if it got funded!
Check it out and throw some coin in their direction.
This one is definitely up my alley. Thanks for sharing Tim.
ReplyDeleteSounds interesting. As someone who was raised in a small town, the game's probably understating how horrifying rural communities really are. So much human nastiness and hypocrisy lurking just under the surface even before you throw in supernatural elements.
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