{"id":112337,"date":"2016-11-29T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T08:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=112337"},"modified":"2016-11-29T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T08:10:47","slug":"this-boardgame-is-on-track-to-become-the-biggest-kickstarter-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/112337-this-boardgame-is-on-track-to-become-the-biggest-kickstarter-ever","title":{"rendered":"This boardgame is on track to become the biggest Kickstarter ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tabletop miniatures game <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/poots\/kingdom-death-monster-15\/description\" target=\"_blank\">Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5<\/a><\/strong> has already raised more than $5 million on Kickstarter putting it on track to become the biggest Kickstarter of all time.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kickstarter tracker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kicktraq.com\/projects\/poots\/kingdom-death-monster-15\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kicktraq<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>with 40 days of the campaign still remaining Kingdom Death will likely eclipse current leader the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/597507018\/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises\/description\" target=\"_blank\">Pebble SmartWatch<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5 and why has it go so many people excited?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kingdom Death Monster is an massive cooperative board game about survival in a nightmare-horror world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Survivors fight for their lives against an onslaught of bizarre and fearsome creatures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will use the fruits of these battles to build a fragile civilization in a place where humans are at the bottom of a monstrous ecology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The title is actually a revised version of a 2013 game which sold to just 5,000 backers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s subsequently been completely sold out, which would explain some of the popularity but certainly not this level of traction.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that the first units will only be shipping in 2020, which means that some serious enthusiasts are dropping over R3,600 for a game coming out in 4 years time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncW3pZFA_nM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a title=\"Permalink to This retro lunchbox PC packs three monitors and dual graphics cards\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/111559-this-retro-lunchbox-pc-packs-three-monitors-and-dual-graphics-cards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This retro lunchbox PC packs three monitors and dual graphics cards<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This boardgame is becoming one of the biggest crowdfunding products of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":112341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,8577,2366,7736,17971],"class_list":["post-112337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-board-games","tag-kickstarter","tag-mos","tag-popular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112343,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112337\/revisions\/112343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}