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	<title>DivNull Productions &#187; Early Dark</title>
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		<title>Kickstarter: Early Dark</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthropos Games is soliciting funding on Kickstarter to print of their new game Early Dark. DivNull makes a point of backing any tabletop RPG that shows up on Kickstarter, especially if the result will be open source or a cut above your average game. Early Dark seems like it has a chance to be the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://divnull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/shapeimage_2.png" alt="Early Dark" title="earlydarklogo" width="240" height="100" class="alignright size-full wp-image-356 icon" align="right"/><a href="http://www.anthroposgames.com/AG/Anthropos%20Games%20Home.html">Anthropos Games</a> is <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anthroposgames/early-dark-tabletop-role-playing-game">soliciting funding on Kickstarter</a> to print of their new game <a href="http://www.anthroposgames.com/AG/Early%20Dark%20RPG.html">Early Dark</a>. DivNull makes a point of <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1924986268">backing</a> any tabletop RPG that shows up on Kickstarter, especially if the result will be open source or a cut above your average game. Early Dark seems like it has a chance to be the latter, which is why it&#8217;s being mentioned here. Its goals are certainly interesting: &#8220;Treat gender, race, and human consciousness as progressively as possible; Forge a world indebted to non-European myth and story in addition to common Western fantasy tropes; and Create a dynamic game engine that drives dramatic narrative while reproducing realistic conflict and human limitations&#8221;.</p>
<p>This is also a decent opportunity to praise Kickstarter for a feature: making the amount pledged independent of the &#8220;pledge tiers&#8221;. That is, you can choose the benefit of, say, the $20 tier, but still pledge $100 if you want. Often, I want to pledge a certain amount, but am totally uninterested in the extra crap thrown into that tier.</p>
<p>One the other hand, Kickstarter&#8217;s search feature is horrible. It should not be difficult to build a search like <code>role-playing and rpg</code>, but that fails totally. Also, <code>role-playing</code> and <code>roleplaying</code> return totally different results. That could be considered desirable, but only if you also allow <code>role-playing and roleplaying</code> (or, better yet,  <code>role*playing</code>) searches. Kickstarter has informed me they intend to fix this, but nothing has happened as yet.</p>
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