Bad Decisions

A project in Minneapolis, MN by Ian Price
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Amuse yourself, your friends, and everyone you meet with this fill-in-the blank party card game about people making poor life choices.
Backers: 113
Average Pledge Per Backer: $97

Funded: $10,938 of $10,000
Dates: Mar 6th -> Apr 5th (30 days)
Project By: Ian Price
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Latest News

Give a dollar, we mock up a card.

April 5th - via: kickstarter.com
In these final hours of the project, we have so many excellent people to thank for backing us - but we'd love to have more. Tell your friends to give us even a dollar, and for everyone who backs the project we will put up an image of a fool card in... (Read More)

Bonus intermediate stretch goal!

April 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Last year, we made Kitsune: of Foxes and Fools, funded two years ago through Kickstarter. That project reached 126% of goal, pretty awesome for us. We'd like to hit that number again. For this project, that would mean $12,600.00 or more. If we can... (Read More)

Stream later today + T-Shirt Design.

April 4th - via: kickstarter.com
At 2pm today, we will be streaming online Bad Decisions gameplay: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bad-decisions-kickstream And here is a preview of our T-shirt design, to become available if we hit the first stretch goal: Preliminary T-Shirt Design  (Read More)

Final 48 hours - a good review of Bad Decisions - Live Stream update!

April 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
We are entering the final 48 hours of the project. If you have friends who are on the fence, this is their last chance to back! You and they can still get extra rewards if they join us right now. We also got reviewed over at Spielnacht. The fellow... (Read More)

If your bad decisions run towards "eating too many sweets," you'll love this.

April 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Alchemy of Cake by Sweet Tooth design is an illustrated guide to making cakes. Coming in the form of posters, each diagram shows the ingredients and processes needed to make a famous and delicious style of cake. So if you understand visually... (Read More)

Funded!

April 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to a generous backer, we are currently at goal! The web game client will be up shortly at http://baddecisionscg.com/ for free! Play with friends and help us hit stretch goals!  (Read More)

Crisis: Hostage Situation!

March 30th - via: kickstarter.com
As you can see from his tweet, our software developer has gone evil mastermind! Until the pledges hit 50% of funding, he's holding hostage the free web version of the game! You can play with your friends or with a computer to find funny combinations,... (Read More)

Last week is here - we need new backers, so you get more stuff!

March 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Alright folks, here's how it is. At the average amount people are backing us for, we'll need about 200 backers to finish this project as a success. So this is when we unveil to you an incentive to get your friends to back. If you convince someone... (Read More)

New paper-efficient print and play version!

March 26th - via: kickstarter.com
All links have been updated - including this one! (click both links, each word is a link) Now you get more cards per 8.5"x11" sheet of letter sized paper, so if you want to print the game to try it out, it's more feasible to do so!  (Read More)

We now have more backers on this project than on Kitsune!

March 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Our first project successfully funded with 84 backers. Our new, more ambitious, project now has 85 backers! This is cause to celebrate! In honor of this, I am adding a new $75 reward level. The new reward is a physical copy of the game, one card in... (Read More)

100 backer incentive.

March 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Charlie and Ian are planning to do a live stream, including some Bad Decisions gameplay and some live art, and possibly other cool things. The time and exact agenda of the live stream will be revealed when the project hits 100 backers. Tell your... (Read More)

Reddit AMA: Friday the 27th at 6pm Central.

March 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Over at http://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/ there is a forum for people to field questions from the internet at large about any and everything. We will be posting a thread there to field such questions, and hopefully raise the profile of our project. You... (Read More)

Have you invited your friends to the Facebook event? Have you signed up to "attend?"

March 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
We have a Facebook Event page for Bad Decisions. It's an open event, so anyone can attend and anyone can invite people to it. Bringing more people into this event is a great way to help us spread the word - and make sure this awesome game becomes a... (Read More)

Back from Kitsune Kon

March 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to everyone who joined us during our promotion, we are up to just about 40% funding! Thank you to our generous new backers! Sadly, the promotion is now over, and no new pledges will benefit from the convention bonus. Sorry, we had to make it... (Read More)

Kitsune Kon Promotion Special!

March 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello fellow Kitsune Kon attendees! We have a special offer for you! Anyone who adds their pledge (or increases their pledge) for at least $25 this weekend, and comes to tell us in person at our Kitsune Kon booth in the vendor hall, will get $25... (Read More)

Compare and contrast - the old kickstarter video.

March 18th - via: kickstarter.com
 Which do you like better?  (Read More)

Additional milestone incentives.

March 17th - via: kickstarter.com
If we get $3500 by noon (GMT-8) tomorrow, we will post a video with me (Ian) talking about the game design in Bad Decisions - why we chose the mechanics we did, etc. If we make $3750 by 6pm on Thursday, Susan will post a video talking about how... (Read More)

Peanut Butter Facial + Dogs = Bad Decision!

March 16th - via: kickstarter.com
If we can get $4000 or 100 backers by Wednesday 6pm, mom will be posting a silly peanut butter face video. But why? Peanut butter facials are a beauty treatement advocated by some, easily done at home. Scrub face, apply peanut butter, allow it to... (Read More)

One of our incentives has been reached!

March 16th - via: kickstarter.com
We hit 30% funding before midnight thanks to some generous donors, so Charlie will be making a video of himself playing Bad Decisions against himself, himself, and also himself. Charlie will probably win the game! And lose it. He estimates sometime... (Read More)

Incentives update - welcome new backers!

March 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Pi day was strong - not quite strong enough to get me recorded getting a pie smashed in my face, but I did eat a piece of pie in celebration. However, Charlie is still planning to record the clone video. He will release it to the public on one of two... (Read More)

Big news! Web app coming!

March 14th - via: kickstarter.com
We have a play-with-anyone web version of Bad Decisions coming soon - hopefully as soon as Monday! It will be completely FREE! We are then going to work on a version of Android and iOS devices, which will sell for $1. However, pledging to this... (Read More)

Good news, bad news. New incentives!

March 13th - via: kickstarter.com
The good news is pretty good - we have currently exceeded the pledges which came in during the original News Flash: Bad Decisions kickstarter's entire run with our first week's pledges. Hurray! The bad news is, we didn't hit 25%, so the incentives to... (Read More)

Thank you to everyone so far - bonuses for 25% by 6pm!

March 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Generous and beloved backers - we have so little to go to 25% funded, and it's so important to get that amount in the next 5 hours. If we can make that goal, we'll be adding two bonuses for everyone: - Every set of Bad Decisions will have 6 blank... (Read More)

Sharpie Face Caramelldansen

March 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Here I am! A man of my word!  (Read More)

Backer Challenge: 50 backers.

March 12th - via: kickstarter.com
When this project reaches 50 backers, I will film myself drawing on my face with sharpie and then doing carameldansen for 1 minute and post it on youtube with links here and on facebook and twitter. This is the first of many bad decisions I will make... (Read More)

Day 6 - first week is drawing to a close.

March 11th - via: kickstarter.com
We still haven't gotten any stores buying in, and that could make a big difference. Do you want to see this game happen? Then go into your local game store, and tell them to check out our project. We've built in some strong financial incentives for... (Read More)

Dawn of the 5th day.

March 11th - via: kickstarter.com
We've been getting some decent exposure online, but pledges are slowed down a lot from the initial rush. We're continuing to work hard to get the word out about this game to all and sundry. Tomorrow (March 11th) we'll be going over to Draxtar Games... (Read More)

Stores - why you should back us.

March 8th - via: kickstarter.com
The Headline Venue reward level offers three benefits to stores who want to sell Bad Decisions, which make it superior to ordering from a distributor: $10/unit price point. Studio 2 will be selling the game to stores and distributors at $10.75/unit,... (Read More)

What theme will you nominate?

March 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Everyone who backs this project will be asked to nominate a theme for the rest of the core set. You should be thinking about what that theme will be! So far, we have a theme of headline news, because so much stupidity happens in real life that we... (Read More)

End of the first day: 15%!

March 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Not a bad start! The statistics show that hitting 10% of goal the first day is good, and we did that and half again thanks to our first 26 generous backers. Thank you everyone! If you've played with us at a convention, or downloaded the print and... (Read More)

An extra goodie for everyone!

March 7th - via: kickstarter.com
We printed these promo cards for a convention last year, and we still have some left. We're going to include a copy of each card with every backer who's getting physical product already! If you message us and show us that you've shared the project... (Read More)

10%!

March 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to our first 13 backers, we hit 10% in less than 10 hours. Awesome! Thank you all so much! Now, take a look at those stretch goals we have. See them? They look nice, right? Well, they're changing. Halve all those numbers. The base goal is... (Read More)

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