Members SamuraiJack Posted July 21, 2016 Members Share Posted July 21, 2016 (edited) Steampunk metal meeples for those occasions when a bit more panache is in order. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tishtoshtesh/tinker-bits-i-steampunk-metal-meeples?ref=category_newest Steampunk metal meeples for those occasions when a bit more panache is in order. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tishtoshtesh/tinker-bits-i-steampunk-metal-meeples?ref=category_newest Edited August 21, 2016 by Darsc Zacal Tag updated 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SamuraiJack Posted July 21, 2016 Author Members Share Posted July 21, 2016 About this project What are Tinker Bits?Thanks to a lot of great people, we have been able to make playing cards, a few different styles of dice and a bunch of coins and chips to play a variety of games with. Thank you if you're coming back to see our new project, and welcome to the family if you're seeing these things for the first time! We love tabletop gaming, and we'd like to branch out and offer something new in the Tinker line. These "bits" may be anything from player pawns to specific game pieces to oddments that can fit with a variety of games. There are a lot of great games out there, and we're looking forward to seeing if we can make them a bit more thematic and fun with a little tinkering. Our first foray into this more specific series of offerings will be these spunky Tinker Steampunk Metal Meeples. Yes, it's a bit of a mouthful, but calling them "steeples" or "tinkerples" just didn't sound right. Why Meeples?Meeples are iconic in the tabletop gaming world. They have many uses and are great little tactile toys. Giving them a Tinkerish steampunk twist is something that we've wanted to do for a couple of years. They started in Carcassonne, but meeples can find a home almost anywhere. As for offering them in metal, well, that's just one of the things that we enjoy. There's just something nice about the heavier, solid feel of metal game components, and they bring a certain panache to the table. It's not necessary for them to be metal to be playable, and yes, they are more costly than wood or plastic, but we think it's worth it. Why Kickstarter?So far, we don't have the ability to make these little gentlemen on demand in our own meager facilities, so we need to have another place do the production for us. Would that we had a metal, plastic and woodworking shop, but for now, I design them, and someone else puts them together. We have to put together a big enough order to make it worth the factory's time, though. That's where crowdfunding comes in, and Kickstarter has been good to us so far, both as backers and as creators. We have been able to pay for the molds and 16 samples in the photos above via proceeds from previous campaigns, but we can't pay for a production run out of pocket. If we can get enough interested parties together, we can get a batch of these made and sent out. That's the beauty of Kickstarter; making something happen together that just won't happen otherwise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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