Inglorious Space Kickstarter launched!

I too love the Lego building instructions idea, as well as some of your reward tiers.

However, I'm not really sold on your project. I looked at the page about as long as your average kickstarter shopper (enough to scan the tiers and look at some of your text), and nothing stood out enough to catch my eye and get me excited enough about the game to back it. Also, for the record, I rarely watch the videos on a kickstarter page unless I'm excited enough about the project to put a few minutes in to watch them. Does anyone else do that too?

I'm now going to try really hard to tell you why I wasn't interested without going back to look, because I want to preserve my opinions as they were formed when I first looked at your page. If my cursory lookabout on your page wasn't enough to give me the following information, then maybe it needs to be placed in a more prominent location (your tiers information was pretty high up on the page, if I remember correctly, which may be the wrong place). Please understand, I'm not trying to be critical; I'm trying to show you clearly what I thought as I looked at your page, which may help you to modify it and get more people excited about it.

1. I didn't have a clear concept of what kind of game it was. It looks like a game about flying around in starfighters, and each player can play a different pilot and such, but I don't know how it's done. That was perhaps the biggest detractor for me - what is it?
2. The artwork on the board didn't stand out to me. Some of it (like the green (?) arrows along the bottom of the board) didn't really look polished, as though it was hastily made in an image editor. A gradient effect with an embossing would really make those pop out, especially since it looks like an important... something.
3. What do the game pieces look like? You may have shown them, but they weren't memorable - maybe add a little shot of the pieces and cards up close?
4. I saw you were adding a sticker sheet at the $5 tier, which is likely affordable, but for some reason, I didn't really believe in it. Maybe because I couldn't see what it would look like on the page.
5. What do other people think about it? I didn't see much at the beginning that talks about what others thought of the game - is it fun? And is it like any other games that people have played?

I sincerely hope that helps. I apologize if it came off as too harsh, but with a few tweaks, your kickstarter page might get off to a much stronger start!

Well done. It was a modest goal - but TGC-oriented initiatives are not the mass market appeals of say a $100k Kickstarter.

But I know the anticipation to MEET your goal. No matter how large or small your project is - it's always a challenge to meet the expectation your have set.

Again congratulations...!

Note: We too will be using TGC to sell/manufacture our game. It's just easier in terms of logistics and cost. And with a sale, we get 100% of the profits, which makes it even more exciting (and feasible).