Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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Hi! We’re Evan and Josh, the dorks behind other successful Kickstarter campaigns including Ransom Notes, Abducktion, and, most recently, Tiny Laser Heist.
Bloomchasers started as a seed (ha!) of an idea: Could we make a game about a tree that actually grows as you play to create a 3D “board” of leaves?
From there, Bloomchasers blossomed into a simple strategy game that’s easy to learn and plays in 30 minutes. It’s simple enough for a game night with your mom, but has enough strategic depth even seasoned tabletop gamers can enjoy competitive games over and over. Plus, we’ve designed the game so you can either play competitively against each other, or play together on a team against the game itself!
Here’s how it works: Each turn, players — affectionately called “Bloomchasers” — place a new branch onto the tree, along with a “bud” of your color. Your goal is to place your buds in certain shapes so when a Bloom card is drawn, you’re set up to grow flowers (and your opponents aren’t!) Your ability to read and predict the weather will help you bloom faster and make sure you’re growing the most valuable flowers to win.
Plus, after our experiences developing games with unique, 3D components, like Abducktion and Tiny Laser Heist, we asked ourselves:
“Could we make a game look so good, you wouldn’t want to put it away even after you were done playing?”
We enlisted our friend and up-and-coming game designer Tavey to help us find an answer. Together, we’ve had an incredible time developing this super-fun, light strategy game that feels just as much of an art piece as it does a game.
If a light-hearted and fun game that’s simultaneously relaxed and cutthroat with unconventional components and imaginative mechanics sounds right for you, we hope you’ll help us grow this campaign to it’s full potential!
As of May 8th, this project has raised $248,000 of their $10,000 goal. This project has 3 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $30, you will get one base game. For a pledge of $45, you will get one base game plus expansion. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/punsofanarchy/bloomchasers-delightful-3d-tree-game-of-flowers-and-wits?
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