5 FAILED Kickstarter Board Games - SGR 

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Wow, that Canadian company masquerading as an American company sure had the most Canadian-accented Canadian in their video.

Sometimes I find people who open a Kickstarter project not knowing what they actually want/need to do a bit scarier than those who do with an intention to exploit it but at least have enough knowledge on how things work.

Valley Games, the Company with a Logo that looks like a spread Bum. "You help us, we may do the same to yours." Anyone else notice that Black Star'ish Logo has a similar theme? In Hindsight, they should've seen this coming from a guy named Rik with Bum related Logos.

A boardgame based on Candy Land and Risk would be awesome! I can see the Baron Licorice raising and army and conquering the gumdrop field and moving toward the candy cane forest.

Fun fact with the last one, it's not just the rulebook and logo that were plagiarised. By the end of the campaign people were finding the original 3d assets they'd ripped off for the renders of some of the minis too (one of the characters was a person's CG fanart of the protagonist of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, for example) That said, I'm amazed we didn't get the Robotech campaign in this list.

Why hasn’t whoever owns the rights to jumanji made a VR board game? even a badass board game that utilizes our phones and tablets to do a decent AR board game with a beautiful board game that looks like the board and pieces that look like they came straight from the movie

Can't wait for the Juanji: Welcome to the Tropical Forest

"Sincerely, Sean Bury" I'M NOT SEAN MURRAY, I'M MY ORIGINAL CHARACTER-

Twas a pleasure to help, had a bunch of fun recording this dude \m/

Whenever I hear the Marvel vs. Capcom 2 character select music, I now automatically associate it with bad kickstarters.

These Kickstarter vids are one of my favorite series, please keep 'em coming.

there was an actual Parker Brothers made version of Jumanji. My mom bought it for my sister and I from Wal-Mart when i was a kid

I used to play an actual licensed Jumanji game I was really young. it was amazing, all right I’ll take a nostalgia goggles off for one second. it was all right, I would say that most kids nowadays probably wouldn’t be entertained by it but being a kid the 90s that boardgame along with all the other board games that took our parents 4 to 5 hours to set up the board game and The game only lasted about a half an hour and then we moved onto the next. Jumanji was just a plain simple cardboard box with a simple board. Their were so many board games back then. I think it would blow a lot of kids minds today.

Have you done failed Kickstarter Comic books yet?

I don't think anyone is ever going to top that time a Sun god commanded the creator to change the rules because it was TMI

i'm calling it now, 2019 edition of this video. jasco and angry joe wont have managed to produce the street fighter board game.

I remember as a teenager, me and my friends, we tryed to make a board that would be between monopoly and Hotels in term of rules, but we never agreed on the name.

I don't really wanna go into detail with this.

Ohey! My parents are friends with the designers of Saloon Tycoon. Alas, I hadn't been able to join them during any of the playtests Rob ran, would've been neat to have gotten in on the ground floor of that. So to speak.

Any chance you could dig into the Lisa Frank Makeup Collaboration with Glamor Dolls on kickstarter? They've went silent, won't return emails and people haven't even got the digital rewards and we're a year overdue.

From what it sounds like, what the guy trying to set up a Kickstarter for a Kickstarter sounds like he really needed is a bank loan. That's where most people go for a business startup.

AlphaOmegaSin made the raging robot guy sounds like a super pissed off Big Bird.

Wow. Super glad I caught this early! I love watching your videos. As always, great work!

Your self portraits are always so hit or miss. Like, either 'hey look at that cool-ass bloak' to 'OH MY GOD NO I DON'T WANT TO JOIN YOUR CHURCH'

"I just took my meds now."

Holy crap, I thought that voice sounded like AlphaOmegaSin when I heard it, and I was right xD

0:04 All together now... I WANNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE!!!!!

Wouldn't mind a list of your personal top 10 board game recommendations👍

You should check the Heroquest 25 Anniversary campaign, that one could get a 15 minute video by its own. Problem is, is a Spain kickstarter so the majority of info probably is in spanish. It is way too long of a story to tell here, but boy it has everything. Even the kickstarter website (Lanzanos) scammed the backers after the original kickstarter creator scammed them. Legal actions has been taken in the past by individuals, but this month an association has been founded by backers to sue as a collective.

You should check out Meszoica, it was supposed to be a successor to Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, however it ended up being a "dinosaur-sized disappointment." It went from 30$ early access to 99 cents.

Man, I haven't played a decent boardgame in years. I should get that to those.

The Sega CD Terminator song at 21:40 was such a nice touch. That soundtrack rocks!

Great video as always! Love them a little bit extra when it's about board games too ! ;)

Can you please tell, what is a song playing in 17:23? I know it's assassin's creed melody/theme but it sounds a little different than i remembered.

Wow, two Jumanji rip-offs? That is unbelievably desperate. Also, cheers for using my music again. :)

question, if someone had things about getting the rights, could they legally make a branded kickstarter, I.E, if I wanted to make a official jumanji or something else could I do it if I mentioned about getting licensing and the minimum goal had that cost in it?

Ok the Firefox copy is hilarious xD

Most of my tabletop game experiences with Kickstarter have been pretty pleasant. Exploding Kittens, Adorable Pandaring, Secret Hitler, not to mention the upcoming Binding of Issac and Trogdor games (though maybe I should knock on wood for that) but only two games really stood out to me as bad...the first is Big Angry Monsters, a Kickstarter campaign I was so interested in...I backed it twice...and it failed...twice. It's weird though 'cause it seemed like he was doing stuff right, it just didn't get any traction. The second if Thug Life, which had two campaigns. The first asked for a whopping $75,000. Naturally it failed, only raising about $11,000, but they did do a second one where they really revamped the game in a way that looks to be for the best, only asking for $5,000 and raised well over $13,000. Apparently that one is still going pretty smoothly, with an update as recent as two weeks ago that things are moving forward to...I guess that one isn't a failure, just sort of a neat story. Good luck on your eventual game, Slopes. I actually started making a campaign for a tabletop game once, but I never finished my alpha build of the game and didn't want to launch the project without some cool art or prototypes to show for it.

Dang, I was listening to this in the background, heard the Shadow of the Colossus music, and it gave me a shiver. xD

If that guy who wanted people to give him money so he could make a game company...If he spent HALF the giving actual details rather than "I can't give you more details" "I don't want to go into more detail at this time" or "I wish I could you more details", people MIGHT have actually given him some money (just not much for obvious reasons)

I commented to help your algorithm. You said you didn't want to do the SGP board games but covered them anyways, that deserves at least a small bump.

"how the below average has fallen" Hot dang that's some spicy sass! Gonna use that one

I was upset about the Cones of Dunshire kickstarter a few years ago. Such a good opportunity and popular following already, it's too bad they asked too much for their game.

I pledged for 'Upfront.' Loved the original and was really looking forward to the new printing. $250 down the drain.

The Theme Hospital music makes me so happy

Great video. I love the Terminator music near the end. Nice touch.

Can I get that Raging Robot voice on loan? Going to have that kickstarter message as my voicemail message!

The ad for Key to the Kingdom in the beginning brought me back to my childhood

Anyone know the name of the song that plays at 2:20 ?

1: If it's from a Mexican or Spaniard, it's pronounced: "One-Gee"... 2: Nice company name... 3: That's a dumb idea. That's like making a RU-vid video on a RU-vid video to promote my shit. 4: ...Raging Robot sounds like a drunk Daxter. 5: Shady... But Rising Sands isn't just ordinary sand... It's quicksand!

AOS was a pleasant surprise guest. was laughing my ass off

19:36 Chris Christodoulou - Cyclogenesis | Risk of Rain (2013)

Glad to catch this with the notification.

What was the game shown at the very very beginning, right before you started talking about Saloon Tycoon? The one that involved a modular board and fantasy characters and lots of tokens and monsters?

where's my Juandi movie?

4:43 In space, not even a goat can be heard screaming.

Kickstarter has to do something about people running away with money

Hey Dan what editing software do you use? this stuff is super professional

What is the name of the song that begins at around 21:40 ? Sounds like Castlevania, I know I've heard it before but can't recall exactly what it is.

That Raging Robot comment was funny. "Happy fucker [sic] holidays Rik!"

This series is a very enjoyable one. I love it.

Why doesn't this guy have his own TV Tropes page yet?

Plagiarism is a no-win scenario. The only way you won't get caught is if your project wasn't worth paying attention to in the first place.

I have to say, I always appreciate your music selection. I was happy to hear the old school Tomb Raider theme make an appearance... But i lost my mind when all the sudden I hear music from the old Westwood monopoly PC game. Who knew I wasn't the only one who remembers that game. I still got that shit, the best way to play monopoly to this day; and dat soundtrack is amazing. lol

That whole Valley Games thing really doesn’t make sense to me... if they owed Phil approx.$255,000, asked for only $30,000 on Kickstarter, but got just shy of $340,000 then shouldn’t they have been able to do SOMETHING with the project? I know there are legal fees and there was the other guy that took them to court but they should have been able to pay Phil back... they should have tried to do installments but even if he refused and they had to do it all at once they still should have had enough to do something with the games the received funds for on Kickstarter so their backers received what they paid for, then with the proceeds they received from sale from all the games they had on the market they would have been able to settle up with the other guy as well. Even if they found out they needed more than $30,000 they had over $300,000 more than that so there is NO reason why they shouldn’t have been able to make everything work. I can’t figure out how they screwed up so bad. It sounds like flat out terrible management or the intention to take the money and run from the get go... or (and I do realize they pretty much go hand in hand) both. It’s disgusting. I don’t understand why Kickstarter allows things like that to happen. They should be perused legally by Kickstarter on behalf of the backers or something. The guy jetting off to Australia to throw his hands up and continue living his life is insane. I really can’t wrap my head around how they received SO much money over their goal in that campaign and couldn’t figure out a way to to pull themselves out of the hole they had essentially voluntarily jumped in. Maybe I’m missing something but it seems like they just about had a get out of jail free card handed to them but chose not to use it. I just...... HOW?!?! WHY?!? WTF?!?

what is the game at 20:17 ?

I did get my add-on wooden dice cubes from the Space Goat: Evil Dead project. I assume they are legit. I back both projects. The IP from Evil Dead would be funny as a board game (if done well) and I was actually looking forward to experiencing the Terminator game's multiple timelines mechanic...

I haven't seen the video yet, but I have to mention the ad I saw before I forget it. The was an ad for a Kickstarter over a board game called Lemmify. Considering now poorly animated it was, the irony was not lost on me. Thanks for the amusement, RU-vid's algorithms.

Speaking of Duandji - I mean, Jumanji, I loved the actual board game that came out with the movie. I wish they still produced it!

If you do another board game-themed kickscammer video you should take a look into Soda Pop Miniatures aka Ninja Division. Starting with Super Dungeon Explore Legends, their Kickstarters have been a series of slow motion train wrecks.

What's with the random Va-11 Hall-A music at 12:30?

I always wonder what the angry face with the party horn came from. It looks like you weren't having a great time. Lol Great video though!

That terminator boardgame is basically the collectable card game just in a box....

Completely forgot +AlphaOmegaSin was in this video right until I heard the word "Fuck". I've watched so many of his videos and his pronunciation of that word when he's being sarcastic, is so distinctive.

nice video, i'll have to keep these fuckups in mind when i eventually launch a kickstarter for my own game. also whats the bullet hell game in your credits? looks good

Patreon shoutouts gettin pretty long! Congrats 😁

Awesome video! Make sure you announce loud and strong when your game goes live (wallet waiting)!

"These board games didn't just die, they were murdered!"

Honestly, I cannot be mad at Phil. Screw Rick, though.

Saloon Tycoon is an awesome game, glad I backed it

What's the board game at 20:20?

Take a look at "Darkness Sabotage" from Dethrone Games. It is another one that looks like it would fit in on this list. A really well put together campaign that has some great visuals and videos, even some great looking prototypes. There was some weird stuff at the start with the pricing, but the creator changed a few things and the campaign ended up being pretty massive at over $250,000. At first there were regular updates and the creator seemed to really be invested in making things great, but as time went by, the updates became less regular. Months would go by with nothing, then he would pop in, apologize for the delay and get back into posting nice looking updates. After nearly a year of this, the backers found out that the game had barely even begun production and many things were still in the design phase, leading him to admit that things had been delayed for probably at least another year. Over the course of the following year, updates again became sporadic and finally, there has yet to be a single post or even login from the creator in over 3 months. Numerous backers have tried to contact him and many have filed disputes with their credit card companies and government agencies to try and get their money back. Sucks too because it really looked like a cool game. I have around $400 invested in it myself that I will likely never see, sadly.

Jumanji was awesome, I still remember playing it as a kid with my mom and sister.

Question, what's the game in the outro? Same presentation as a Touhou game but I know it's not one haha

Whats the game at the end called

Nothing says „Screw you Kickstarter“ like a Superbacker Badge

8:24 Music from the 90s Westwood Monopoly PC game. Legendary.

Where my teramyyd backers at? We just passed the 6 year anniversary of its funding.

>That last game God damn it, this series is called Kickscammers and I just watched the tail of 4 other failed game projects many of which were run by asshole and I know all this but stilll... That looks so cool and I waaaaant it.

2:20 This song... it's giving me like, nostalgia for some reason. It's gotta be from something, right? Does anyone know what this song is? I feel like I know it really well.

I wonder what would happen if legislation was made that said crowdfunder sites could only take their cut after a suitably similar product to what was promised is released to backer. They don't get a penny from projects that hit their mark but didn't deliver. Impossible I know but I suspect oversight would increase

Weird use of Theme Hospital music, but hey, it works. lol

Kickstarter: I need a lot of money to develop my game but I'm not going to tell you anything about it. My response: come back when you actually have something to talk about then...Next!

Ah you should have included the saga of Pirate Den, including the antics of Boyan Radokavich and Wil Wheaton. It has it all, back stabs, lies, theft, firings, moves, running away with money, ... and its why I no longer back games on Kickstarter.

Have you done one of these on the Robotech Kickstarter. That was an absolute crazy fiasco. Plus the history of those involved is also really interesting

People really gotta learn that the more stuff you plagiarize and rip off, the more likely someone will notice. Like if ONE asset was ripped off from ONE thing, it's possible no one will notice, or only a few people will but they won't have enough leverage to do anything, or people will just pass it off as a big coincidence. If like EVERY asset in the game is ripped off from somewhere, odds are many people will notice and you'll get in trouble.

Man, that Radiant logo. Still amazing after all these years.

12:29 Bruh, I know VA11-HALL-A music when I hear one!

Hi I am planning to begin a kick starter to start producing my own wargaming models. I stumbled onto your RU-vid channel and wanted to see if you had a way I could contact you about helping me learn how to be successful with this.