Ken Burnside is creating Spaceships

Origins Award Winning Designer of Attack Vector: Tactical

patrons

$459

per month

Milestone Goals

Backgrounder

$50 per month

I intend to post at least three ships a month sharing a nascent setting. If I make $50 a month, every set of three ships will also come with a brief explaining who these star empires are, and why they're fighting, with a bit of received wisdom for doctrine on how to fly each of the example ships.

Previews of AV:T Ships

$120 per month

If I get 120 a month, I'll put up one Attack Vector: Tactical ship in addition to the three Squadron Strike ships. (The amount of work needed to get an AV:T ship ready for press is about 5x the work needed to design a Squadron Strike ship from scratch....)

Strategic Campaign Map

$200 per month

At this level of support for three ships, I'll generate a campaign map for the powers in question. I will also make the ship design spreadsheets with the active designs in them available for you to peruse and make your own home brewed variants from the existing design.

Attack Vector/Ten Worlds Scenario

$260 per month

At this funding level, I will include a Ten Worlds scenario draft each month that includes one of the ships previously posted on Patreon, and one of the ships from Ship Book 1.

I will also include a scenario draft for SSDs for Squadron Strike roughly every other month (I've got a lot of SS products in the queue).

Squadron Strike Scenario Per Month

$310 per month

At this level, instead of ad hoc Squadron Strike scenarios when I can fit them in, there will be a Squadron Strike scenario each month.

Instructional Videos

$385 per month

At this funding level, I will post up some instructional videos on YouTube - not limited to Patreon backers - covering assorted tutorials for the games I publish. They'll become more frequent as I figure out how to use video editing software...

On Game Design Spreads

$450 per month

I have a large pile of notes on techniques and tips for game design that I've been wanting to assemble into a book. At this level, I will put up two pages of laid out eBook per month until I complete it. The final book will be priced to sell and sell fast on the Ad Astra web site, but if you want to see it as it's being written, this is the place to do it.

7 Milestone Goals

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Art Budget

$600 per month

At this level of funding for three ships, I can talk some of my regular CGI artists to contribute spaceship art. If you're a 3D modeler and have existing models you'd like to see statted out, let me know and I'll use some of your existing art instead. At this level, there will also be a promotional JPEG made showing the art for all three ships, highlighting the URL of the artist involved.

Fill Out The Rosters

$1,300 per month

I expect, at 3 ships per month, that it will take about 6 months to fill out a complete product's worth of ships. If you hit this point, I will A) need to have people regularly testing ships and B) will be filling out the other ships needed to make a complete navy for the micro-setting outlined above. This doesn't mean a "product a month" - but it does probably get closer to a product every other month to every three months or so - art doesn't get cheaper when you buy in bulk.

Contact Ken

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-P6f5APUYrnkYRTiHloNpnFy

@AdAstraGames

facebook.com/ken.burnside.52

About

Award-winning game designer, Hugo finalist freelance writer. Big fan of spaceships

Location

Milwaukee, WI, USA

Ken Burnside is Supporting

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I design games, and do freelance business writing. I'd really like to cut back on the business writing and design more games, or more spaceships for the games that I already support.

By supporting me, you also support continued updates to the Squadron Strike Ship Design toolchain - every ship system diagram (SSD) I create uses the same tools that anyone else can use for Squadron Strike. These will be the "no art" versions of the SSDs, and if you tell me what needs fixing, I'll go through a rapid turn on fixing errors as they're found. This is the same ship design spreadsheet you see in the introductory video.

Pledge $5.00 or more per month

58 patrons

Your name will be added to the Roll of Honor that goes out with every quarterly Squadron Strike Spreadsheet update.

Pledge $20.00 or more per month

2 patrons

I will name a ship or character after you in a scenario in a published product! If you sustain at this level for a year, your name will appear as a walk-on character or as a ship name in another product.

Current names added to the roster:
Stephen Rubin (Lt. Rubin in Die Another Day)
Kuzanori Iriya (Will be added to a scenario.)

Pledge $30.00 or more per month

(Limited 7 of 7 left)

If I get at least two (and no more than seven) subscribers at this level or the $50/month level, I'll run a monthly Google Hangout where you can ask questions about projects in the works.

Pledge $50.00 or more per month

1 patron

I will name a ship class after you in a published product. If that ship class ends up being made into a miniature, you will get one miniature shipped to you. Each year that you sustain at this level, your name will be attached to a new ship-class in a new product.