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We are currently sending all backers their link to download the Print and Play version of Hegemonic. It's about 95% the same as what is going to print. You will need a lot of colored cubes and some money/coins and a few odd ball figures. But it's all... (Read More)

LEADER CARDSWe have some near final artwork and layout for the back sides of the House cards for the game posted here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1581266/hegemonic Give it a thumbs up so that we make the front page of BGG and bring more... (Read More)

Anyone interested in Hegemonic and/or its coins will be interested in this new unannounced Kickstarter campaign that just opened up. This way you can grab any of the limited spots on the rewards before anyone else.... (Read More)

I can't believe it but you all pulled together to hit the $85k stretch goal and now I owe you all a free set of 50 metal coins! Everyone will still get the cardboard coins that come in the base game box as well. 50 coins is enough to play the game in... (Read More)

Wow, you guys & gals have been doing great. So great that we're within $1k of reaching the Foiled / Digitally Signed KS only box!  So just to challenge you great people a bit more, I lowered the Metal CAPs goal to $85k.  This is to get a set of... (Read More)

OK all you by-standers who wanted to wait till this game hit the plastic miniatures stretch goal. We have hit it! Now you have no excuse not to pledge.  In fact - I'll go one step further and lower the custom exclusive foil box stretch goal to only... (Read More)

This guide was created to help people avoid the pitfalls and run a successful campaign for a card or board game through Kickstarter. Kickstarter is like a mall, the worlds biggest, they bring the customers to your “store”. You must concentrate on selling them a game while they are visiting and get them to help shout out to others. Using your own website or even a competing crowd-funding site will not be nearly as effective. (Read More)

Hegemonic is a 4X board game currently funding on Kickstarter. The Post-Human Assembly is reaching out to explore a neighboring galaxy. Each of the Great Houses has its own ideologies, and plans to achieve hegemony with a combination of industrial strength, political power, and martial might. (Read More)

I've always enjoyed tinkering with and designing games. In the summer of 2010 I started designing a space empire game called Hegemonic, inspired in part by the many sci-fi authors I enjoy. I endeavored to break the mold and create a space empire game with a big open decision space, lots of room for creative and dynamic gameplay, and mechanisms appropriately abstracted to match the theme of galactic domination. The first prototypes were tested in early 2011 after spending months in a sketchbook working out the concepts. With the help of space artist Alex Skinner, I had an attractive prototype to use and share with willing test subjects. I then spent the next fifteen months, until mid-2012, developing the game, testing with external (blind) playtest groups, and polishing the gameplay. (Read More)

Game designer Oliver Kiley and Minion Games' James Mathe explain why strategy fans should be keeping an eye on Hegemonic, an upcoming game of galactic conquest that promises a noticeably different take on the 4X genre. (Read More)

Welcome back to another Kickstarter Conversation! This time I am joined by James Mathe of Minion Games who has brought us a new board game for Kickstarter called Hegemonic. Thank you for joining us today James! (Read More)

Minion Games has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming board game Hegemonic. That’s not very newsworthy. What is impressive is the fact that this is the company’s sixth Kickstarter campaign, and they’ve finished and shipped a board game for each one. (Read More)

Board games were the genesis for many kinds of strategy video games available today, including space strategy games (and 4X games). So, today, and for a change, I will write about a different kind of space 4X game, a tabletop game. In this case a board game. (Read More)