Kickstarter Alert: Grandmother Fish by Jonathan Tweet!
Jonathan Tweet (superstar RPG designer and co-creator of D&D 3E) launches a Kickstarter for Grandmother Fish, a children’s picture book about evolution.
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Author: Matt Forbeck
The 2014 Diana Jones Award Shortlist
The Diana Jones Award committee announces its shortlist for this year’s award for excellence in tabletop gaming. Check out five items that made the cut!
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Storium Stretches for Schools
The Storium Kickstarter winds up a blistering campaign as it stretches to reach funding for a version for schools.
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Thrillbent Arrives in the App Store
The comics site Thrillbent launches a new iOS app along with a subscription model for instant access to its growing library of fantastic stories as they’re released.
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Kickstart Another Year of Crossed Genres Magazine
Geek Dad contributor Bart Lieb and Kay Holt are running a Kickstarter to fund another year (at least!) of Crossed Genre Magazine—their progressive speculative fiction anthology series.
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Monopoly Sucks and This Will Make It Worse
Matt Forbeck points out why Monopoly is an awful game and explains how the new Monopoly House Rules edition will only make it worse.
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Storium Launches on Kickstarter
Storium, a new kind of online storytelling game, launches on Kickstarter. It features innovative play plus a slew of fantastic authors and game designers offering up a wild array of worlds in which you can play.
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Disney Trip: Behind the Scenes With the Creators of The Pirate Fairy
Matt Forbeck visits Disney Toon Studios and shares a behind-the-scenes visit with the creators of the latest Disney Fairies film: The Pirate Fairy.
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Disney Trip: The Pirate Fairy
Matt Forbeck reviews The Pirate Fairy, Disney’s upcoming home video release. During his Disney bloggers trip last month, he sat in on a private screening of the latest Fairy film, and he loved it.
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Disney Trip: Visiting the Disney Animation Research Library
As part of his visit to Disney Studios last month, Matt Forbeck visited the Disney Animation Research Library to see how they catalog and archive their treasure trove of original artwork from their animated films.
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Disney Trip: Saving Mr. Banks Museum
Matt Forbeck goes on a tour of Walt Disney Studios’ archives and a special display of Walt Disney memorabilia to learn more about Saving Mr. Banks.
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Disney Trip: Frozen!
Disney’s award-winning hit film Frozen is out on Blu-Ray today. Read Matt Forbeck’s quick review and watch him in the sound booth at Disney Animated Studios as he records a bit of dialog for Olaf!
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Disney Trip: Saving Mr. Banks
Saving Mr. Banks is going to be released on Blu-Ray and home video tomorrow, March 18. Disney sent me an early copy of the film to check it out, and it’s fantastic stuff.
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Disney Trip: Fun With Frozen’s ADR
Geek Dad Matt Forbeck returns to Disney Animation Studios to learn about things like ADR. Get an inside look at the recording studio inside which actors give voice to the characters in the Oscar-winning film.
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Dwarven Forge Returns to Kickstarter With Caverns
Dwarven Forge returns to Kickstarter with a new drive for a full line of Dwarvenite cavern tiles. The Kickstarter launches today.
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Disney Trip: Playing with Frozen’s Rigging Tech
Geek Dad Matt Forbeck went to the Disney Animation Studios to learn about how they made Frozen and to play with the rigging machines. Get an inside look at the tech Disney artists use to bring their character models to life in the Oscar-winning film.
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The togoDock Puts Your iPhone in its Place
[Fuse]chicken—makers of the Une Bobine posable cable dock—has a new IndieGoGo campaign for a clever new iPhone 5/c/s dock that uses the power of magnets to sit where you need it.
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Gen Con Family Fun Badges on Sale Now
Gen Con—the largest table top gaming convention in the world—has a great deal on Family Fun Day badges this you. You can grab a four-pack of Sunday-only badges for only $30, a savings of $170 over the standard rates.
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Disney Trip: Chatting with the Frozen Leaders
An interview with the directors and the producer behind Disney’s hit animated film FROZEN.
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Goodbye to Aaron Allston
Aaron Allston, legendary game designer and Star Wars novelist, died yesterday while at a convention in Missouri, apparently of heart failure. He was 53.
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Turtle Shell 2.0 Speaks Well
Turtle Shell 2.0 is a solid Bluetooth speaker.
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Honeywell Heats Up the Winter With a Hot Giveaway
A review and giveaway of the Honeywell HZ-980 space heater.
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SuperTooth Freedom Headphones Deliver
The Freedom headphones from SuperTooth deliver great, comfortable sound without wires.
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Break It: The Sonim XP5560 Bolt
Sonim Technologies contacted GeekDad late last year and asked if any of us could break their Sonim XP5560 Bolt. My kids cheered at the chance to do some deliberate damage to a phone, and I replied, “Challenge accepted.”
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Noble Beast Kickstarter Delivers Classic Tales With Twists
Noble Beast, publishers of Steampunk Holmes, Kickstart a whole new series of enhanced ebooks based on classic lit.
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New Potterverse Films in the Works
J. K. Rowling to write new films set in the Harry Potter universe.
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Blood Kiss Kickstarter Features Tom & Sian Mandrake
Father-daughter artists team up to work on a Blood Kiss graphic novel based on Kickstarted film by Michael Reaves, starring Amber Benson and Neil Gaiman.
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Monster Mutants for Your Math Needs
Tom Beatty has launched a new Kickstarter for a program that uses cute monsters to teach multiplication.
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Kickstarting Adventure Maximus
Adventure Maximus is a fun tabletop RPG for families and kids, running on Kickstarter right now. It features a card-based system that lets you create characters and even full adventures on the fly. The Kickstarter runs through June 4 and is already funded, with stretch goals that make it a fantastic deal.
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Cryptozoic Launches MMO/TCG Kickstarter
Cryptozoic launches a Kickstarter for an MMO/TCG called Hex.
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