Board game attracts £32,000 crowdfunding support
A NORTH East board game firm has beaten its crowdfunding target by more than 32 times after setting out to raise just £1,000.
Flick Fleet is a tactical board game where players take control of acrylic space ships and go to battle by flicking dice at their opponent’s ships.
The game was developed in 2018 by Jackson Pope, from Newcastle, and Paul Willcox, from York, who founded the company Eurydice Games to publish the game.
Since its original release and Kickstarter campaign, Flick Fleet has proved a hit with fans who have cried out for more content and expansion.
Its success led to Eurydice Games using the crowdfunding platform three more times in order to raise the money to produce new copies of the game and add new elements.
In the past, the duo has traditionally set low targets for their games’ crowdfunding campaigns. Initially they only just hit their targets but in recent years their fans have been pledging far more than expected. During lockdown in 2020 the team decided to set a target of £500 for their first expansion, but players pledged more than £18,000.
Eurydice Games’ most recent Kickstarter campaign – titled Flick Fleet: Box of Flicks 2 – has been its most successful campaign to date after it raised £32,000.
Mr Pope added: “We were hoping to go to conventions this year but we probabl\y won’t. So we decided to do another campaign and we wanted to set another low target. We thought we might hit the £10,000 to £20,000 range so we were optimistic. But again our backers blew us away.”
In total 389 people pledged to back the campaign, with the company raising £32,088 – considerably more than its £1,000 target. The new add-ons include a number of new ships for the players to enjoy, including a fighter wing, a bomber, a stealth ship and a dreadnought. Now that the campaign has successfully been funded, Eurydice Games will be opening a pledge manager in the coming weeks where backers can select their rewards and those interested in buying the game but who missed out can purchase a copy.
After that, it will be down to Mr Willcox to physically make the game pieces in his garage using a laser cutter.