This workweek ’s look at all thing crowdfunding is jam carry with goodness – with everything from an artbook about Astrologically inspired androids , a fitness app with a post - revelatory narrative , and a revival of TV golem combat . Also , fart jocularity . Lots of fart jokes .
Header Image credited toThe Android ’s Astrological Companion
Flat Plastic Miniatures
This project by Arcknight has already hit its prey , but it was impossible not include – the very cool idea of gimcrack , formative toy / token fit for any tabletop fantasy RPG characters you demand to stand for in your escapade :
The Flat Plastic Miniature ( FPM ) is similar to a composition board instrument or papercraft mini , except that it ’s produced on duncish transparent plastic . They are artistically pleasing without any white edges and can be used to create a depository library of miniatures OR supplement the existing miniatures you already have .
financial support now contributes towards arrive at the project ’s stretching goals , including access to more plurality of miniature to expand your library with – a $ 20 pledge net you the ‘ digital collection ’ to use in online RPG clients as well as PDFs to print your own minis , $ 25 gets you a individual ‘ pack ’ of specific physical miniatures , whilst $ 75 nets you all of them , admit any added by stretch goals .
5th Passenger
This creepy Sci - Fi / Horror short motion-picture show boasts an telling cast , sport the likes ofStar Trek alums Tim Russ , Bob Picardo , Martina Sirtis and Manu Intiraymi :
Set in 2151 , after the Yellowstone Caldera volcano erupts bewilder the Earth into chaos , 5th Passenger tell the story of a on the Q.T. significant distaff officeholder and her four man crew adrift in deep space in an flight pod after their transport ship explodes before reaching the new home planet . They fight amongst themselves as they run low on air , but must work together to find a condemnable alien hiding aboard their craft before it kill them all .
$ 35 nets you get at to a digital transcript of the finished film , as well as behind the scene video , a written matter of the script and a PDF of the flick ’s post horse .
Robo Games
Any British kid who grew up at the turning of the twenty-first century should lovingly think of Robot Wars – the astonishing BBC / Channel 5 TV show about gentleman’s gentleman - made robots with names like ‘ Sir Killalot ’ and ‘ Crusher ’ move forefront to maneuver in arena combat . These unfearing mortal need to bring the data formatting back by covering the Robotics Society of America ’s Robogames :
This Spring of 2015 , we are bring about a marque - new show where weaponize automaton wage battle in the arena – struggle for glory , line-shooting right , and to plough their opponents into little metallic element scraps . It ’s all the excitement & carnage that you would expect when mad scientist from around the world enter their automaton creations into gladiator combat — two robots get in , but only one golem will exit the arena a achiever .
A $ 20 assurance can get you a just the ticket to see one of the Robot duels live in San Francisco , but $ 25 gets you access to every episode of Robo - fuel mayhem as a digital download .
Apocalypse Survival Training
The motivation to get out there and do some exercise is bad to find oneself sometimes – so why not use this Apocalypse - themed audio adventure to give you the impetus to act like you ’re running for your life ?
AST Season 1 is a reformist full body and mind / body exercising set during an apocalyptical foreign fire on London . You are drop in with a nonadaptive grouping of survivors of the initial violation , who are drive to ring together to get through London to render to stop the encroachment . It runs over 37 cyclic 30 minute instalment alternating between forcefulness circuits , holistic training and track .
The strength racing circuit ask the chemical group preparing for their runs through London , and are led by trainer character , much like a group exercise socio-economic class .
The holistic sessions are to ready the mathematical group mentally for the dangers ahead . They are lead by ex femme fatale private agentive role ( now grandmother ) Beatrice , and gainsay your creativity , focus , resiliency and suspicion as well as your trunk .
£ 10 gives you access to the ‘ Imaginactive ’ App as well as all of Season One of Apocalypse Survival Training ’s story .
Star Wars Farts
You may groan as you think ‘ Crowdfunding has come to this , another half - assedStar Wars parody ? ’ , but Star Wars Farts is about highlight the growing popularity of Remix videos as well as skewering the over - chroma of Star Wars tie - ins and mockery . It just happens to do so through the medium of Fart joke :
Star Wars Farts is a satire of corporal , cash - in Star Wars parodies and merchandising . We desire to call attention to Star Wars spoof becoming a commercial-grade industriousness used by declamatory companies to make money off of fandom . We ’d like to see Star Wars parodies made by lover for fans , not company that see fans as a demographic for marketing .
After 40 years , Star Wars sendup have been mined out of every non - obvious joke . So a one - hr supercut of Anakin , Obi Wan , and Padme farting is now the only necessary Star Wars parody leave to be made to make our point .
$ 20 nets you a copy of the Fart Joke movie supercut , 30 - 60 instant of fart jocularity inserted into the 3 Prequels , as well as a preview chapter of ‘ Dark Farts Rising ’ , the ( of course of study ) railroad tie - in novelization .
The Android’s Astrological Companion
This beautiful leger is an artbook / anthology cross , have lovely artwork and sci - fi inadequate series about 12 female mechanical man , inspire by each Zodiac :
Sometimes I cogitate of my paintings as illustrations to story yet unwritten . We thought it might be a really fun experimentation to invite some authors we know and love to write those stories , inspired by the paintings but with no further guidelines . Once the stories came in , we realized to our joy that what we terminate up with was a sublimely cohesive shared universe . A universe where android girls pull off heists in interplanetary quad fort , engage in philosophic musings with Zen Buddhism lions , rebuild their body to struggle in illegal gladiator tintinnabulation , hunt down down insane copy of themselves on abandoned moonlight , and earnings wars of curiosity .
A $ 20 toast get you both a signed hardcover copy of the script and a digital PDF of it .
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