Ground Pounders

A project in Vancouver, Canada by Kerberos Productions
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A hex-based sci-fi strategy game featuring the tanks, air craft and infantry of the Sword of the Stars universe.
Backers: 410
Average Pledge Per Backer: $52

Funded: $21,414 of $42,000
Dates: Aug 29th -> Sep 28th (30 days)
Project By: Kerberos Productions
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Latest News

THANK YOU ALL!

September 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Just a quick update to all of our campaign Supporters and to all the visitors who come to our page seeking information about “Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders”. Our first Kickstarter campaign was definitely a learning experience, and although... (Read More)

Video Update #8 - It's the Final Countdown (na-na-nah-naaaah)

September 25th - via: kickstarter.com
We're in the final two days!  (Read More)

Latest News! Plus new Hiver Art!

September 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Just a very quick update today! We've added a new Backer Reward at the 10,000 dollar level: the Ouya release level! All the Cool Kids are doing it! And hey, it's never too late to pick up 30K from just three backers who reeeeeeeeally want to see that... (Read More)

Video Q&A #7 - Martin Cirulis; Q&A Harder

September 21st - via: kickstarter.com
You had more questions, Martin's back with more answers! Besure to check out our older videos for more on Ground Pounders from various team members!  (Read More)

Video Q&A #6 - Arinn Dembo on The Tarkas

September 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Want to hear a bit more about the Tarkas and their approach to military command? Arinn Dembo takes you through a bit on that very subject!  (Read More)

Faction Summary - Tarkas!

September 18th - via: kickstarter.com
 Tarka cadets training on the rooftops of a military academy. What is a Tarka? The Tarka are a race of saurian primates, evolved on a planet where the "dinosaur era" never ended. They were first encountered by Sol Force in 2415 at the Battle of... (Read More)

NEW ALPHA DEMO - ANDROID LINK!

September 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Sorry about that folks--we had a bad link in our previous Update. Here is the WORKING link to the Android version of the new Alpha Demo! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kerberos.gp And once again, here is the link to the new Demo... (Read More)

NEW ALPHA DEMO - ANDROID COMPATIBLE!

September 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Time to try to the new demo, Ground Pounders! We've got two new versions of the Alpha demo for you all to look at. The first is a demo for your Android devices, which you can download here! We also have a nicely updated version of the Alpha Demo for... (Read More)

[PRESS RELEASE] Ground Pounders Kickstarter Demo Released for Android, Updated for PC!

September 18th - via: gamasutra.com
Kerberos Productions, which launched its first Kickstarter campaign last month for the sci-fi wargame Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders, continues to offer the general public, as well as Kickstarter supporters, the opportunity to get hands-on with the game by releasing an Android device Alpha demo to Google Play for free! As well, the PC Alpha demo, which was released through GamersHell.com in August, is being updated with air and engineering units! (Read More)

New Backer Rewards! New Stretch Goals!

September 17th - via: kickstarter.com
First off--a huge thank you to everyone who has supported and shared our campaign so far. Kickstarter has been a really cool platform so far and a great experience, and we are really happy to meet some of the new gamers from great sites like Board... (Read More)

HIVER MILITARY ORGANIZATION - TOE GRAPH!

September 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings all! We have some fun stuff to share today, and we thought we'd get started by showing you how a Hiver Task Force in the early 25th century was organized. This is a TOE (Troops, Organization and Equipment) Graph for the Army of Inchinak,... (Read More)

Video Q&A #5 - Darren Waine on GP Multiplay/Multiplatform

September 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Lead Programmer Darren Waine takes a moment to walk us through what playing GP one different platforms is like!  (Read More)

Ground Pounders in the NEWS!

September 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Just a quick update for followers of the campaign with some links for more information on the game, and some shout-outs to all the great folks out here in Kickstarter Land. INTERVIEW AT TACTICULAR CANCER Lead Designer and Kerberos CEO Martin Cirulis... (Read More)

Faction Summary - Hivers!

September 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Hiver soldiers hanging around the barracks. What is a Hiver?  The Hivers are a race of eusocial aliens who resemble terrestrial insects, in particular the praying mantis. The First Contact between Humans and the Hiver race occurred on January 10,... (Read More)

New Backer Rewards!

September 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Over on the Ground Pounders open forum, we've been asking the players whether there were any additional Backer rewards that they'd like to see for this campaign. One of the most popular requests--the return of the commemorative Sword of the Stars... (Read More)

Video Q&A #4 - Arinn Dembo on The Hiver Wars

September 11th - via: kickstarter.com
The creator of the Sword of the Stars backstory and keeper of its lore, Arinn Dembo, takes a moment to talk a bit about The Hiver War, which is the period of conflict you are fighting through in Ground Pounders.  (Read More)

Dawg Company Who's-Who

September 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Who's-Whom? Well, not all of Dawg Company, as there are the guys from The Pit, who aren't pictured here, but this is the team working on Ground Pounders as you read this! (1) Martin E. Cirulis is the Lead Designer of Ground Pounders and the CEO of... (Read More)

Video Q&A #3 - Martin Cirulis, Creative Director

September 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Martin answers a handful of gameplay questions in this mailbag edition of our video Q&A!  (Read More)

Video Q&A #2 - Nick Naso, Programmer, on tools

September 8th - via: kickstarter.com
The tools is a little more detail, from the guy making them. There's no dancing this time.  (Read More)

Video Q&A #1 - Art Director Chris Gerspacher

September 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Chris takes a moment to talk a little bit about going from the realistic ships of SotS to the retro arcade feel of The Pit and back towards real again in Ground Pounders. If you have a question about Ground Pounders, ask it in the comments! We'll be... (Read More)

What Do Effect Cards Do?

September 6th - via: kickstarter.com
An Effect Card is a tool for changing conditions on the battlefield, and swaying the outcome in your favor—or against your enemy. Certain features of your Effect Cards are obvious and self-explanatory, like the Card Name, Card Picture and Card... (Read More)

Anatomy of a Unit Card

September 6th - via: kickstarter.com
More gameplay details today, for all the folks who have asked for more crunchy strategic goodness! The Unit Names, Pictures and Descriptions on your Unit Cards might be pretty obvious and self-explanatory, but what do the rest of the symbols and... (Read More)

The faces behind Ground Pounders!

September 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Well, a few of them - we've updated the Kickstarter video to hear about the project from some of the team members working on Ground Pounders, as well as show off a few new treats! (Are those more tanks? Is that an Android? Yes and yes.) And there's... (Read More)

CRUNCHY MUNCHY UPDATE!

September 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Here's a treat for all you grognards out there who want to see some hard numbers and hard facts about how a Ground Forces Task Force is organized and armed in the early 25th century. We call this toe graphic "Early Sol Force Divisional Organization:... (Read More)

BOOM!

September 4th - via: kickstarter.com
We're working like busy little Hivers today whipping up some stats and info on the Units of Ground Pounders, but for now we just can't resist a good...explosion. This image features a Tarka hover tank opening up with its fusion cannon in the midst of... (Read More)

Top Ten Kickstarters Launched in August | Android Kickstarter Wrapup

September 4th - via: gamewoof.com
While most of the crowd sourcing gaming world has been focused on the PC game Mighty No. 9, a Mega Man clone made by many of the people who created Mega Man, August was an amazing month for Android Kickstarters. Not only did I have to do a mid-month update, listing my top five favorites of the first two weeks, but now I also have to run another “Top Android Kickstarters” of August and increase the number to ten and throw in some honorable mentions, just so I don’t feel like I am leaving any of the greatest projects out. (Read More)

Wow! What a Great Start!

September 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Our first Update is just a simple thank you to everyone who has helped out little campaign get off to such a great start. We're over 20% funded already, and there are already two new True Believers! This is fantastic. Thanks so much. This week we'll... (Read More)

Ground Pounders Kickstarter

September 1st - via: anythinggeekyreviewed.co.uk
Okay, so the name of the game is new, but the universe it is set in isn’t. Ground Pounders is set in the Sword of the Stars universe and is a new up and coming strategy game for the PC by Kerberos Productions, the devs behind all of the Sword of the Stars games. (Read More)

Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders – Preview

August 31st - via: 3rd-strike.com
Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders can be described as a turn-based war-game made by Kerberos Productions, the creators of Sword of the Stars 1 and 2 and Sword of the Stars: The Pit. The other day, they released the alpha of their newest game so it’s the perfect opportunity to see where this game is going to. (Read More)

Ground Pounders Looking for Support on Kickstarter

August 31st - via: biogamergirl.com
Kerberos Productions is looking for support for their upcoming title Ground Pounders on Kickstarter. The game will take the tanks, planes and other war vehicles from the world of Sword of the Stars and place them in an all new turn-based strategy title for PC and Android devices. (Read More)

Build Your Own Joke: Ground Pounders

August 30th - via: rockpapershotgun.com
About every six months there’s a little section of my brain that lights up, firing familiar neurons out towards my question centers. “Why,” they thunder, “in the name of the holy keyboard, mouse and monitor trinity hasn’t somebody ripped off Advance Wars yet?” Usually this statement takes fly on twitter and various half-measures are pointed out to me. In the end I forget the whole thing and go back to playing with a piece of string. I’m reminded again, however, by sci-fi Sword of the Stars spin-off and hex-based strategy kickstarter Ground Pounders. (Read More)

Ground Pounders: Hex TBS in the Sword of the Stars Universe

August 30th - via: spacesector.com
The creators of the space 4X games Sword of the Stars I and II are now on Kickstarter for Ground Pounders, a hex-based sci-fi strategy game set in the Sword of the Stars universe. (Read More)

Meet Ground Pounders, A New Wargame to hit Kickstarter

August 30th - via: vividgamer.com
Who wants a war game, in SPACE? I know I would love that, with futuristic tanks and all. Well, I present to you the answer in the form of Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders, a new hex-based sci-fi strategy game with them tanks I always wanted. (Read More)

Kerberos launch new Kickstarter for strategy wargame

August 30th - via: onpause.org
Kerbeos Production, the team behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit, have launched a new Kickstarter for a turn-based sci-fi strategy game called Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders. (Read More)

Kerberos Production’s “Ground Pounders” Kickstarter Has Launched

August 29th - via: hardcoregamer.com
It was announced a week or so ago that Kerberos’ next game would be yet another spin-off of the Sword of the Stars series, and be produced through crowd-funding through Kickstarter. Today, that Kickstarter, well, kicked off. It’s a pretty standard campaign; depending on how much you give, you’ll receive better and better prizes. If you’d like to give the game a try before even thinking about financing it, an alpha demo was released back when the game was first announced, it’s a free download. (Read More)

Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders Kickstarter

August 29th - via: bluesnews.com
Kerberos Productions announces the planned Kickstarter is now underway for Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders, their upcoming hex-based, turn-based science fiction strategy game. Here's word on what makes this different: "The Kickstarter campaign for Ground Pounders is unusual, with the developers seeking just $42,000 to cover the final three months of development, rather than more typical campaigns which attempt to raise the full budget for a full dev cycle. Instead, Kerberos has plans to take the game from its current Alpha state (a playable Alpha Demo has already been released) through an exclusive Beta period to release at lightning speed—with the projected final release date being December 2013." An early playable demo is available on Gamer's Hell. (Read More)

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