KickTraq

I’ve got the first edition of this book, which was included with Fleishman’s rather preposterously elaborate Tiny Type Museum and Time Capsule five years ago. It is a self-exemplary achievement: a handsomely designed printed object about how it came to be possible to create and produce handsomely designed printed objects. (Read More)

Keybird Instruments founder Lander Pinson hit on the idea of a small and portable acoustic piano when he was studying composition in Belgium and living in a small room on a farm. He missed playing an acoustic and so started on a path that led to him creating the Keybird L1, what he’s calling the world’s smallest acoustic piano. (Read More)

The ALIEN RPG 2nd Edition Kickstarter is coming to an explosive finish, shooting past the $2 million mark with 48 hours to go. Free League’s ALIEN RPG 2E Kickstarter has been a resounding success. Even the most entrenchedm small-minded middle managers at Weyland-Yutani would have to acknowledge how stand up a job this Kickstarter has done. (Read More)

This tiny drink cooling robot has finally hit KickstarterFirst announced at CES 2025, Yukai Engineering’s Nékojita FuFu is a tiny robot that’s designed to hang off cups and bowls to cool food and drinks by blowing on them. Calling it a robot is might be a bit of a stretch, but it’s cute, compact, and now available for preorder through Kickstarter for ¥3,550 (around $25 USD). (Read More)

The BleeqUp Ranger is a brand-new pair of AI-powered sports camera glasses, and it’s already making waves since launching on Kickstarter. (Read More)

It’s been another busy week, so let’s distract ourselves with TTRPG news. How do we do that? We start by summarising the summaries! (Read More)

Skybound's Transformers Compendium Set Kickstarter raised over $2 million in the first two days for the hardcovers collecting the 1980 series of Transformers comics originally published by Marvel Comics. The set includes eight volumes of between 1000 and 1,200 pages: two volumes each collecting the U.S. and U.K. runs, in Autobot or Decepticon editions. Each volume is bound in faux leather. Release is planned for December 2025. (Read More)

Hari 'Graig' Dimitriou, who worked with Team Cherry on the original subterranean adventure and a little bit of its long-awaited sequel Hollow Knight Silksong, is now making Roc's Odyssey, a side-scrolling, comic book-style, post-apocalyptic Metroidvania that has almost everything you loved in Hollow Knight: intense fighting, slick platforming, a zig-zagging map, and secrets tucked away in every corner. (Read More)

Skybound, in collaboration with leading games, IP and toy company Hasbro, launched the campaign for the Kickstarter-exclusive THE TRANSFORMERS Compendium Set this week, which collects the complete US and UK stories from the original 1980s THE TRANSFORMERS run in definitive hardcover compendiums. The campaign is live now on Kickstarter. Pledges as of this monring, had already reached nearly $2 million. (Read More)

Friend of The Gaming Gang, Glynn Seal and his MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing have a new adventure release up for crowdfunding. Designed for Old-School Essentials and other OSR retroclones, Ryecroft: A Dangerous Cemetery Crawl takes players to a dark locale where the enemies at hand aren’t the undead. The Kickstarter project is already funded and you can reserve a copy of the main book, maps, booklets, and their associated PDFs for a pledge of approximately $58.00 or grab just the PDFs alone for a pledge of approximately $20.00 through April 25. Expected delivery is this October. (Read More)