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Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions

Silver Spring, MD

Evil Hat Productions is a small game publisher based in Maryland, helmed by founders Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue. We’ve published pen & paper roleplaying games before, including the multi-award-winning Dresden Files RPG, and now we’ve set our sights on expanding into other media.

  1. about 11 hours ago
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
    backed a project

    Brassft Punk - Daft Punk tribute via New Orleans brass band by Earl Scioneaux

    Modernizing older hits is all the rage. What if we went the other direction? - Daft Punk's hits, funky New Orleans brass band style.

    • 97% funded $9,737 pledged
    • 614 backers
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  2. on May 19
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
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    MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone by Jay Silver

    Ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? Alligator clip the Internet to your world and start inventing the future.

    • 968% funded $242,015 pledged
    • 5,259 backers
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  3. on May 9
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
    commented on a project update

    Have you confirmed that Chessex can use these logos? Just on the lookout for assumptions. :)
  4. on May 9
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
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    Botanical Voyeur: A Guide to Sex on the Prairie by Jennifer Dixon

    A world of intrigue, warfare and lascivious intents wait just below the surface. Open your eyes and there's no telling what you'll see.

    • 100% funded $3,000 pledged
    • 54 backers
    • Funded May 09, 2012
  5. on May 8
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
    commented on a project update

    Yeah, assumptions are exactly what goose ya, every time.
  6. on May 8
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
    commented on a project update

    Tracy, talk to Daniel Solis (maybe over on Twitter) about this. He's dealt with non-Chessex sourcing for custom dice before and may be able to get your costs down. (This is why it's important to actually price out an order in interaction with your supplier before you promise a reward level. I'd encourage you to blog about this goof sometimes, after it's all sewn up -- it's exactly the sort of thing I've been trying to get folks to think about before they launch their own!)
  7. on May 8
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
    commented on a project update

    I had not considered doing that. If we did, it'd definitely be through DriveThru's POD program.
  8. on May 8
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
    commented on a project update

    It's not a high priority for us to spend the extra money on getting someone to do a proper conversion of it. That said the layout is pretty basic; I'd expect a page by page "fan conversion" to work fairly well. I could be wrong.
  9. on May 8
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
    commented on a project update

    Nah, we're gonna turn it into banana bread!
  10. on May 8
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    Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions
    commented on a project update

    We didn't put DRM on anything intentionally. That said there was one epub that stealthed some encryption in there due to the embedding of a protected element, which was since fixed -- if you re-download from DriveThruFiction you should have the more recent/fixed version.