Here is a quick one for anyone who keeps a game in their coat pocket. DIE Ball, a two-player fantasy-sport battle from micro-game specialists Button Shy, is in the final hours of a Kickstarter that has trounced its goal, and it will set you back all of ten dollars.
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Set up your group for freeButton Shy, run by designer Jason Tagmire out of Haddon Township, New Jersey, has built a devoted following on wallet games: tiny, hard-wearing sets of cards that slip into a bi-fold wallet and go anywhere. The studio puts out a new one every month, and its back catalogue includes the cult solo hit Sprawlopolis, Tussie Mussie and Circle the Wagons. DIE Ball is Tagmire's latest, a modular sports brawl for two where each side fields its own squad of cards, with a solo mode in the box too.
The response says a lot about how these little games punch above their weight. Against a token $1,000 goal, DIE Ball has pulled in $8,461, around 850% of target, from more than a thousand backers. A copy is just $10 with free US shipping, so it is less an investment than an impulse buy.
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Start organising for freeThe catch is the clock. The campaign closes on 4 July, so if a pocket-sized sports scrap sounds like your kind of filler, you have little time to jump in. It is exactly the sort of thing to keep in the bag for the pub, the commute, or the lull before everyone arrives on game night.
Sources: Kickstarter | Kicktraq | Button Shy
