So, if you’re considering investing in that startup website your little brother keeps talking about, you may want to reconsider. The fact that we’ve hit a bubble in the web industry is just that, a fact. And to prove it, there’s even a new board game.
Startup Fever is currently on Kickstarter and is about 60% to goal. Now the game itself is fully developed, but Louis Perrochon, the designer, needs some extra money to make it pretty. This is something we can all appreciate, as ugly games are, well, ugly and thus more likely to stay in the back of the game closet.
Now Louis is throwing a little extra sugar into the mix if you’re willing to help him out.
- Pledge $1+ and you get your normal Kickstarter updates on where the Startup Fever! project stands.
- Pledge $10+ and your name will appear as a supporter in the official Startup Fever! rule book.
- Pledge $50+ or more and you get your name in the rule book and a “free” copy of Startup Fever! when it comes out. (A theoretical $60 value.)
- Pledge $60+, the “Nerd Level” and you get all the above as well at the Startup Fever! Venture Capital expansion, complete with lawyers.
- Pledge $100+ and you get 2 copies of the expansion.
- $150+ gets you the Beta version of Startup Fever!, a retail copy, the expansion, and your name in the rule book.
- $250+ gets you all the above, and you can suggest new PG-13 style events to be added to the game. (Not sure how this will work, but ok.)
- $500+ gets you all that other stuff, and Louis Perrochon will personally attend your game night to explain the game to you and your friends (if you live ~50 miles from Palo Alto.) You’ll also get a 4.5kg Toblerone, that’s just short of 10lbs. of chocolate for you American folk.
- Bonus: $500+ level option for those first 10 (and 2 are already taken) who pledge at this level, you’ll get a Beta version of the game, even if the funding falls through which is possible, but at 60% with 2 months to go looks unlikely to happen.
So yeah, using a startup to fund a startup game about startups. Nope, no bubble here. Move along folks.
But seriously, watch the video about Startup Fever! While the game looks somewhat interesting, it also looks a bit like Die Macher to me. Or am I wrong?
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