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A Terrible Idea

Oakland, CA

I make things. I design games. I do other stuff too.

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    Ogre Designer's Edition by Steve Jackson Games

    35 years after the first publication of OGRE, we're coming back with a massive new edition, and YOU can make it better.

    • 4,618% funded $923,680 pledged
    • 5,512 backers
    • Funded May 11, 2012
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    Everything is Dolphins - an RPG and art book by tim hutchings

    Everything is Dolphins is an RPG hovering somewhere between side scroller video game, talking animal fairy tale, and triptastic fun.

    • 448% funded $4,480 pledged
    • 112 backers
    • Funded Mar 11, 2012
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    School Daze by Tracy Barnett

    A collaborative roleplaying game about high school. Tell awesome stories, and make high school fun again!

    • 214% funded $6,440 pledged
    • 159 backers
    • Funded Mar 25, 2012
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    Void Vultures by Josh Roby

    Kill Space Monsters, Take Their Space Stuff. A science fiction dungeon crawl roleplaying game by Josh Roby & Ryan Macklin!

    • 543% funded $4,077 pledged
    • 258 backers
    • Funded Nov 01, 2011
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    H.P. Lovecraft's Wonderland by Rick Hershey

    H.P. Lovecraft's Wonderland, the graphic novel of a young girl, in a strange land, battling elder gods and cosmic horrors. It's Awesome

    • 160% funded $4,015 pledged
    • 122 backers
    • Funded May 11, 2011
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    Coronets but Never Crowns: Houses of the Blooded by Josh Roby

    The Family and Politics Expansion for the Houses of the Blooded Roleplaying Game

    • 320% funded $3,201 pledged
    • 109 backers
    • Funded Apr 17, 2011
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    Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple - A Storytelling Game by Daniel Solis

    Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple is a storytelling game about helping people and getting into trouble. For 3-5 players, ages 12+.

    • 609% funded $24,383 pledged
    • 552 backers
    • Funded May 24, 2011
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    Amaranthine: A Roleplaying Game by David A Hill Jr

    Amaranthine is a storytelling game of epic action and romance, where lifetimes of memory informs your stories about today's adventure.

    • 240% funded $6,008 pledged
    • 88 backers
    • Funded May 10, 2011
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    Reopen the Parkway Theater! by J Moses Ceaser

    We're reopening the Parkway Theater. Help support the iconic pizza, beer, and love seat movie experience that helps make Oakland so wonderful!

    • 113% funded $56,832 pledged
    • 998 backers
    • Funded Dec 03, 2010
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    Howard Glitch: a multimedia jigsaw puzzle by Jay Kenworthy & Rob Allmand

    One Story. Three Mediums. Infinite perceptions...

    • 157% funded $4,101 pledged
    • 101 backers
    • Funded Dec 06, 2010
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    GAMEFUL, a Secret HQ for Worldchanging Game Developers by Jane McGonigal

    Good games make us better and change the world. We’re the people making and playing those games. We need a Secret HQ.

    • 3,248% funded $64,965 pledged
    • 593 backers
    • Funded Sep 29, 2010
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    Alchemy - A Steampunk Cafe by Emmett Davenport

    A place that supports and encourages creativity, culture, and community with coffee.

    Funding Unsuccessful (10/15/2010)
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    Musopen: Record and release free music without copyrights. by Aaron Dunn

    Help us buy music and release it to the public., without copyrights.

    • 621% funded $68,359 pledged
    • 1,276 backers
    • Funded Sep 14, 2010
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    Early Dark Tabletop Role-Playing Game by Calvin Johns

    We want to print Early Dark, our innovative, all-original role-playing game that takes place outside the typical European-Medieval fantasy setting!

    • 205% funded $6,590 pledged
    • 143 backers
    • Funded Aug 27, 2010
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    Drawing America by Bike: Portrait of the Recession by Eric Clausen

    I'm riding my bicycle across the America for a year. I'm meeting people, getting stories of the recession and drawing pictures of the whole adventure.

    • 147% funded $1,475 pledged
    • 94 backers
    • Funded Aug 25, 2010
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    The Damage Patrol by Berin Kinsman

    It's never too late to be the geek you've always wanted to be.

    Funding Unsuccessful (09/12/2010)
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    Maschine Zeit - A Roleplaying Game by David A Hill Jr

    You don't truly know someone until they're bleeding out in front of you. Maschine Zeit's a sci-fi horror RPG homage to the genre of Alien.

    • 404% funded $2,630 pledged
    • 45 backers
    • Funded May 01, 2010
  18. Choose Your Own Adventure - A Robot Painting Series by Ryan Allen

    This project is for a Choose Your Own Adventure painting series. Here is how it works. You pledge $35 and you are put in line...

    Funding Unsuccessful (06/13/2009)