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Slugblaster: Game of the Year Edition

Created by Mythworks

Slugblaster is an award-winning tabletop roleplaying game about hoverboards, giant bugs, and trying to be cool. We're reprinting the game in a new deluxe hardcover Game of the Year Edition, complete with pizza box, dice set, and map playsheets!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Grind Your Way to Fame
about 1 year ago – Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 01:18:34 PM

Become a Famous Crew!

One of my favourite parts of Slugblaster is the fame track. You start out as nobodies. Just a group of newbs with cheap hand-me-down gear and big dreams. Then you blast, race, grind, film, and party your way to stardom. From nobodies, to up-and-comers, all the way to legends, with all sorts of perks along the way. Get your name on a shoe. Sign a movie deal. Foster a diehard fanbase. Get sent a lifetime supply of Panic Energy® drink. 


Mountain Dew-Brained 

This just in from a video by Zayda The Forward Thinker:

"Strong Mountain Dew-brained sensibilities... A beautiful art-style combined with THE best page layouts I've ever seen in a game"

Thanks Zayda!



We Hit 35k!

And to celebrate we went to the discord and rolled to see what we should add to the box. And we rolled... a limited-edition ENAMEL PIN!



3 Days Left!

These next 3 days are going to be HYPE. Will we hit the 690 backers mystery stunt? Will we hit the 40k mystery perk? No one knows! But we do know it's going to be a party. 

💜

Mikey






Week 4: Campaign Close in Sight!
about 1 year ago – Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 10:05:44 AM


Welcome back to another episode of Slugblaster TV, this time brought to you by Panic Energy!



Because nothing says XTREME like anXiety! 



$32k: More Maps! 


We hit $32k, which means we've unlocked More Maps!



Calorium is a plane of fire with strange airships, boiling soda lakes, a napping phase dragon, and the glow of a dying late-stage sun. Sounds like the perfect place to film some content!


The Waking Pits are Slugblaster's version of a cold, dark hell, complete with blackened skies, mammalian fossils, swarms of starving phosphorescent bugs, and The Trench - the abyss of abysses. You probably don't want to go there; that is, unless someone called out your ego for a trip. We've all been there, right?

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With this achievement unlocked, 4 pack-in game surfaces / maps will be included in your boxed set of Slugblaster! Now that's what we call progress!

$35k: Roll for Stretch Goal!



Says it all, really. The publisher in me really hopes we don't roll a 6. Gamer Ray, on the other hand...

Wilkie's Goodie Jam #2



Want to make some fun kick ass content for Slugblaster, and do it for a good cause? Join us as we raise funds for teen mental health and celebrate the close of the campaign! This jam's theme is DIY, which means Deez Interstellar Yonders!

All proceeds from the jam will be donated to Good Minds, a charity supporting mental health in Africa.

Come up with cool stuff! Donate to a good cause! Roll some tables and do some game designing! 


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Alright, everyone. One more week! 

Let'z get it! 

- Ray


Week 3 - Funded! More Maps, Game Jams, and Slime!
about 1 year ago – Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:21:57 AM

DING DING DING

Early this morning we crossed 30,000 bucks, thrusting this daydream into reality! I can feel the plasma ovens warming already!

Thanks so much to everyone who's backed so far! The votes are in, and we’re celebrating by adding a limited-edition Slugblaster sew-on patch to the box.




It’s been a fun two weeks! 

I rapped when we hit 69 backers, I did this skateboard trick at 360, we gave our backers map downloads at 420, and just this weekend my kids slimed me to celebrate 500.

Plus I got to go to Big Bad Con! I met so many friends and see Slugblaster making so many tables smile! Someone told me it was the talk of the weekend!


More to Unlock! 

We're only halfway through the campaign and have lots planned! Like MORE MAPS. 

$32k - MORE MAPS! Two more location maps for the box! Can you guess which ones?
$35k - MORE SWAG! Unlocks a RANDOMLY ROLLED PRIZE for the box! Watch in real time on the discord!
$40k - ???



Powered by Hype

You are the most powerful marketing force we have. Every time one of you shares this project, I see that number jump. With your help, we can stack this new edition with features and swarm our community with new fans. 

Here are some ideas for how you can help! 
  • Share this or this! Retweet, post in your discords, etc! 
  • Tell a friend about it! Ask your gaming group if they want to go in on a copy or two for your campaign. 
  • Buy a copy to donate to a school gaming club. I've done it and it rules. They are starved for new cool games. Kids swarm over to huddle around and plan new campaigns. 



Other Fun News!

  • We're planning a Slugblaster game jam starting on Tuesday and running for the next 6 weeks. We'll each make something fun for Slugblaster—a world, a device, a fun table, a monster, whatever! Then we take all the submissions, put them in a bundle and sell it to raise money for teen mental health. Our first jam raised over 1000 dollars!! Join us! It's fun! Full info soon, but for now you can vote on the theme here!
  • There's always a ton of fun on our discord. We share slugblaster stories and art, we talk about candy and horror movies, we design games together, we have a in-character chat and league-play events that you can infect your own games. All sorts of stuff.


Week 2 - Feelings, Cons, and Tricks
about 1 year ago – Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 06:32:01 PM

Hey Everyone!

Another week, another episode of Slugblaster TV, coming to you live at our irregularly scheduled time of Thursdays half past moon! Ray here with another mondo update brought to you by Teenage Angst.




Did you know that Slugblaster has a powerful yet simple engine to help your characters grow?


With Slugblaster's powerful Beats system, you too can grow distant from your mom as you melt your brain away with multidimensional peelback.
 




Because here at Slugblaster, we believe in deeper roleplay through narrative arcs. Like eating a bag of chips. 



With infinite Doorways, the choice is always yours. 




BIG BAD CON 


Holy moly wasn't that something? I'm not even quite sure if I'm fully decompressed yet. So many cool people. So many games. Absolute 0% brainpower left by the end of the con. It was great. Can't wait to run it back.

Here are some pictures:



The Blades in the Dark Discord Crew, or at least as many as we could muster. Mikey, MK (She who Ships in Darkness) and ThisisVictor.


Me after my second session of Slugblaster. Yes, I wore the same hoodie all weekend. And I'd do it again, damnit. I'd do it again.
 


Overall, I  think we managed to get Slugblaster one of the most played (I counted 10 seshes) and talked about games of the show.





Mikey running a playtest of Street Gods, his last game of the evening. By all accounts it slapped.   



Right after Moe, me, and Mikey after a very long Saturday night unwinding with some whiskey. Sorry not sorry we ran out Zeb before you got there. Moe necked the last of it shortly prior before this picture was taken. It was delicious.

(but not as delicious as your one million beer varietals plucked fresh for the juice of the gods. freakin' norcal.)
 

Yeah overall it was a good time and I probably should have gotten a haircut before. Oh well. You live and you learn and next year you sign up for the POC Meet and Greet properly so you don't get dirty glances when you crash the party.




ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!! 






Mikey, the mad lad, did it. A 180! It took a lot. But y'know what? If it were easy, we would've had it up a long time ago. No. This shit was hard. So hard that we only have it now. Like, a couple of days after we unlocked it.

Check it here or in the achievement below. 

SO FUCKING CLOSE 




As of writing we are $3,685 dollars away from funding. Can y'all help us make that happen? Pretty Please? 

There's a couple of things that can help us out.  First, if you can please help us spread the love to your gamer friends, skater friends, and that small little intersection of skater and gamer friends. Surely we haven't tapped them all.  

The other thing that really helps is if you interact with our posts, comment, upvote, etc. here on BackerKit. Doing so increases our visibility on the platform. Speaking of which...


New Poll!


Originally the plan was to release a sticker at $30k, but we figured we'd throw it to y'all to see what goes in the box. So, what do you think? What should we throw in that ultra deluxe primo pie? 

The Choice is Yours!


OTHER COOL PROJECTS



If you like RPGs, you should check out Dice Exploder! Each week, Sam Dunnewold goes deep with a co-host on a new RPG mechanic. I love it. Listen to it on the road and at the gym. They're looking for a couple of bones to fund the next season, and maybe if we all collectively say yay we will have the power to summon Lord Harper, The Family Bakers, and other illustrious luminaries of our little corner of the industry.



Also, do you like Owlbears? Because Metal Weave Games and Andreas Walters, the lord of Owlbears, has a new Baby Beastiary Calendar for 2024 featuring the art of Nala J Wu. That's a woohoo from me because physical artefacts are necessary to preserve the past. And, like, help, with organizing events. Like haircuts.

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Alright! That's all from me! Word on the street is Mikey is going to decompress and debrief about Big Bad Con as well. Did you know he was in and out in less than 32 hours?  The mad man. 


Peace! 

Ray  

Treats for our 420 backers! 🤙
about 1 year ago – Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 12:00:47 PM

We're ripping along! Closer to our 30,000 funding goal, closer to THIS
 

Yesterday we got our 420th backer 🤙, and to celebrate we're giving all our backers download access to full-resolution maps. Get both the new Thennis Spar and Golden Jungle maps in two variations— a blank version for your table and an action-packed vignette for your desktop wallpaper.