Kingdom Death: Monster raised 12.4M on Kickstarter because it is like Kinky Sex (NSFW)

Chris Barney
Perspectives in Game Design
14 min readFeb 21, 2017

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Models from the core Kingdom Death: Monster game painted to look like stone.

Well that’s quite a title. How is a board game like sex? Let me start by saying that I didn’t set out to write this article. I started writing an article about how this game was able to raise so much money. I looked at all the aspects of its design and in the end came to the above conclusion. Then I stopped, dismayed… could I even publish…

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Video Game Designer (Poptropica), Board Game Designer (Fall of the Last City), Asst. Prof. (Northeastern University), Speaker (GDC, ECGC, BFig, Pax, DevCom)