jesters hand youtube channel and reviews

Wow, things have been moving so fast this week.  We are still waiting on some reviews that promise to be great. We have also started to do a table Top review show (bi-weekly) we have a lot of work to do and a long way to go but the goal is to give a brief description of the game, and then each reviewer will give one strength and one weakness of the game to prove we are impartial.  We do state “If you had to pick one thing you like” and “if you had to pick one thing you didn’t like”.

    We are doing this because we love board games, after we build a little viewer ship we will focus on boardgame prototypes because I think that is where we can do the greatest good.

    In the mean time we sure could use some likes, and shares and if you would mention us on boardgamegeek.com that would be great too.

Here is a link to our pilot Youtube episode    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFoFkroWPGY

Patrick-

The big screen

We have been working on a new KS video for the last few weeks.  There is a little green screen action in it and a few other animated elements but I have to say.  Acting is like hard and stuff!  I am not kidding it is remarkably hard not to come across as a tool when you are talking honestly to an in animate object (I guess if it has auto focus it has some degree of animation stop busting my cherries).   We will keep working on it.  This time I am not going to let a time line effect my decisions.  I truly want to make the best possible product.  I have a great job working with great people so, profit margin is not a huge (or any priority).  I will leave you a picture of my living room with a green screen. You can see I have a great wife as well. Its been like that for almost 2 weeks.

Wish us luck..

And remember

“ I have been, and always shall be, your friend.”

Order of the stone

 Jesters hand has been working on the rules revisions and re-design, a re-do of the kickstarter video, and of course networking, networking, networking.  I have published a version of our kickstater video and asked my facebook friends for feedback.

    The response is pretty all over the place from “this is the best video I have ever seen” to crushing email that merely said “This sucks, you lost me after the 3 second mark”.

    What is truly interesting is that both overwhelming praise and a comment from someone that only watched for 3 seconds has about the same value. Next, to nothing.  I would rather hear overwhelming praise then a bad mood vent but neither help us truly make a better video.

(check out or video on the facebook page if you would like to form your own opinion, and feel free to email me. I would love to hear what you think https://www.facebook.com/rhett.siebert )

    I sent emails and asked them to peel back the layers, and I have to say every conversation became positive pretty quickly.  If you are following this because you are interested in doing your own game design, you like me personally, or you find Siege of Verdan interesting I have some novel advice that you have probably never heard before.

Sticks and stones.

    Some people may be having a bad day.  Some people may just want help but are very direct.  Some people will just want to have there voice heard. The bottom line is to not let misspoken words or someone bad day effect you. In the game industry I have found that most people have the best intentions, and some do not. Look for the constructive information, and set the rest a side.

   

    If you have read this thread I think you know I am doing this project for many reasons, but making money, and admiration are very low down on the priority. 

What ever the reasons you are involved in gaming I hope you never forget why you started.

I hope that luck always swings in your favor, and when it doesn’t you have the courage to pick up that die and roll again.

Play on.