Sunship : A Game of Celestial Creation and Conquest
A project in Brooklyn, NY by Will and his Dad000days
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Sunship evolved out of a father-son project into a beautiful handcrafted game combining computational thinking, art, and strategy.
Backers: 82
Average Pledge Per Backer: $50
Funded: $4,101 of $3,500
Dates: Oct 25th -> Nov 24th (31 days)
Project By: Will and his Dad
Backers: 82
Average Pledge Per Backer: $50
Funded: $4,101 of $3,500
Dates: Oct 25th -> Nov 24th (31 days)
Project By: Will and his Dad
$4,101
current pledge level
Last Updated: November 24 @ 20:04 -0500 GMT
117%
of goal
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Latest News
Rule Book and Sunship Stories 
November 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Will's Drawings Only three days left to our Kickstarter campaign! Excited that we met our goal and still hopeful about doing even better, Will and I felt inspired. This weekend as we worked on finalizing some of the printed materials, we decided... (Read More)
WE DID IT!
November 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks so much to the amazing Kickstarter community!Although Sunship met its goal today, our expectations were surpassed almost immediately. We've gained the support of the amazing toy company Ogo Sport, Pixel Academy stepped up to donate free... (Read More)
Augmented Reality Stretch Goal and International Shipping
November 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Augmented Reality for Game Makers Kit Given we are only a few hundred dollars away from our goal, we are announcing a "stretch goal" as an additional incentive: The Augmented Reality (AR) Toolkit. In developing Sunship, I found one of the greatest... (Read More)
Shapeways Supports Sunship!
November 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Shapeways will help us print pieces for free! A New-York-City-based 3D printing company has offered to let Will print Sunship designs for free! You might have heard of them... The company is called Shapeways. Their facility is like Willy Wonka's... (Read More)
Busy, Busy Weekend
November 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Weekend Activities This weekend Will's friends sold cookies to promote Sunship on the streets of Brooklyn. There was also a fair amount of play testing AND we worked on a new video about Sunship strategy. After all the bustle, Sunship reached 80% of... (Read More)
Passing the Halfway Mark!
November 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Sunship Bake Sale We got up early this morning to make cookies and print fliers for a Sunship bake sale. This turned out to be a great way to get the word out because, shortly afterwards, we passed the halfway mark to our Kickstarter campaign goal.... (Read More)
Pixel Academy Supports Sunship with New Reward
November 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Pixel Academy in New York Will has taken several classes at Pixel Academy located here in New York City. The experience has been great. Not only did Will gain exposure to 3D printing, he also learned his way around apps like Tinker3D and Gimp.... (Read More)
Bit Math Battle System
November 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Sunship has many great features of game play including the bit math battle system. We developed a short video overview of how it works. The use of bit math and simple bitwise operations is extremely efficient, elegant, and flexible. It is a great... (Read More)
Production Update
October 28th - via: kickstarter.com
After seeing the Sunship Kickstarter page a friend of mine at Ogo Sport, Jenie Fu, invited me to drop by. She was brilliant, very supportive, and we discussed production at length. Jenie Fu of Ogo Sport discussing Sunship. My plan has always been... (Read More)
Why We Made Sunship
October 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Will learning how to use Gimp When I was a kid I had a Commodore 64 computer in my bedroom. There was no restriction regarding computer usage imposed on me ( what we refer to today as "screen time.") I had plenty of video games, hundreds even, but I... (Read More)
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