If you love adorable kittens that have been modeled into macabre taxidermy scenes , you may kvetch in to fund a documentary about straitlaced animal stuffer Walter Potter . you’re able to also endeavor to grab a circuit board game about quantum physics , a telecasting game that uses real Martian topography , and fund a new season of the web serial starring Inspector Spacetime .
Antimatter Matters: A Quantum Physics Board Game (Really!)
Can you put together the particles to produce an atom before your fellow players do ? Antimatter Matters is a 2 - 6 histrion circuit card game based on quantum mechanics . Here are the details :
The metre : The not - so - remote futureThe Place : SQEAC ( pronounced , “ Squeak ” ) , the Space - based , Quark & Electron , Antimatter - power Combiner — a state - of - the - art space laboratory revolve high above Earth .
As the lead scientist for Project SQEAC , you are in charge of humans ’s first endeavour to construct average topic from separately capture simple particles — up quarks , down quark and negatron , along with the gluons and photon that bind them together .
A lot can go wrong in the course of this experiment . You face the risk of antimatter - matter particle annihilation , collision with vagabond cosmic radiation syndrome , equipment malfunction and other danger , as you hearten the improbably hot , dense conditions that come about in the earliest beginning of our macrocosm , billion of age ago .
Your scientific peers , in other orbiting space science laboratory , are attempting the same effort . Will you be the first to unnaturally construct an corpuscle from the basic construction blocks of the macrocosm ?
If the campaign is successful , for a $ 59 pledge , you ’ll get a transcript of the game .
The Taxidermy Wonders of Walter Potter: A Short(?) Film
Walter Potter is a captivating design in the history of taxidermy , hump for his strangely lovely scenes of kittens , rabbits , and hiss . Ronni Thomas , Jehovah of theMidnight Archive , plans to document Potter ’s life and work by talk to historian , lensman , and collector of his work . For a $ 30 pledge , backers will take in a limited version Potter mailing-card and a Blu - Ray of the film . [ viaMorbid Anatomy ]
Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler…Season 2
The vane series that is most in spades not about Community ’s Inspector Spacetime ( * ahem * ) is back for a second season of Doctor Who - burlesque madness . Travis Richey is back as the Inspector , Mayim Bialik will be providing the vocalization of B.O.O.T.H. , and conductor Nick Acosta is on board for Season 2 , which is presently in preproduction . For a $ 10 pledge , backers will receive HD downloads of all six part of the season , as well as downloads of the sound effects and theme song .
Lacuna Passage
Lacuna Passage is a video game that uses real orbiter imagery for its topography of Mars :
Lacuna Passage is a story - ram exploration and survival game lay on Mars , drawing inspiration from title like Dear Esther , 2001 : A Space Odyssey , and even Pokemon Snap . You trifle as Jessica Rainer , the only subsister of the crashed Heracles mission , investigating the disappearance of the first ever manned mission to Mars . You have several pecker at your disposal , but most of import are your attainment of observance . You will need to uncover mission log , recorded audio files , and other strong-arm clues left behind at decisive mission locations in decree to uncover the story . An interplanetary lead of breadcrumb is waitress for you .
The game will be usable for PC , Mac , and Linux . For a $ 15 pledge , angel will get a digital download of the plot .
Fantastic Fiction at KGB Fundraiser
Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly register series hold on the third Wednesday of every month at the KGB Bar in New York . presently hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel , the reading are loose to the world and offer readers a small honorarium , plus dinner and drinks at the end of the reading . If you want to support the series , you may complain in at Kickstarter and be listed as a supporter . [ viaBoing Boing ]
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