We ’re back with another look at neat crowdfunding projects , and this week ’s got everything from a notice series dedicate to NASA ’s robotic spacecraft , a mapping tool for fantasy writers and tabletop gamers alike , and even a Calendar dedicated to the badass Women of cosplay .
Header Image Credit : The Historic Robotic Spacecraft Poster Series
Thistil Mistil Kistil
This webcomic about Norse mythology has been pass for over 5 yearsonline – and now creator Sarah Schanze is look to get the first five chapters printed in a playscript :
Thistil Mistil Kistil takes place during the Viking age . It tells the taradiddle of a untried warrior list Coal and his quest to reach a promised afterlife . Past transgressions of the trickster Loki , however , have put a considerable kink in Coal ’s design , and before he can reach Valhalla , he must finish a quest give to him by Odin . Loki agrees to serve , but he does n’t make it easy on the surly unseasoned warrior .
$ 10 gets you a PDF of the first 5 chapter as well as a 24 - page fillip story , while a $ 20 pledge get you that and the physical hardcover book signed by Schanze .
Women vs. Cosplay 2015 Calendar
This Calendar gathers some salient female cosplayers together for 12 month of television game cosplay awesomeness , boast little titbit about their cosplay inspiration as well as their dandy cosplay designs – including thelovely Dragon Age Inquisition cosplay by Armed and Dangerousthat we ’ve report before !
We are influence with distaff cosplayers with a miscellanea of experience and natural endowment , and we ’re putting together a roll that brings our favorite fibre to life – plucked from the video games we know and play . We solve not only with cosplayers from around the world , but lensman as well . This helps us bring down costs ( versus the unbelievable expense of flying every cosplayer down to utilise a photographer of our own ) , and allows us to sport many unlike gifted photographer versus each photograph have got the same flavor .
A $ 20 assurance will get you the forcible calendar , a PDF collection of wallpapers ground on the photograph from the Calendar , and two post card featuring the cosplayers affect with the project .
Other World Mapper
This neat firearm of software lets you generate your own fantasy worlds packed with detail – perfect for representing the newfangled context of your next RPG campaign , or for worldbuilding out front of a new fantasy novel :
As RPG gamers and unpaid story author , we often require maps to convey our story . After twelvemonth of bouncing between hand draw in function and computer programs that did n’t provide the tools we wanted , we ultimately asked ourselves , “ Since we ’re package developers , why do n’t we make a specialised function program with the tools we require ? ” and that ’s how Other World Mapper was born . As soon as we started developing we realized how awesome this program could be . Now we want to eat up Other World Mapper so that we can share it with our fellow gamers , writers and anyone who enjoys create worlds !
$ 20 will get you the factual package itself to get you started , whilst $ 35 get you an ‘ upgrade ’ edition boast an expansion of extra fine art assets to make your maps with .
Historic Robotic Spacecraft Poster Series
Pay tribute to NASA ’s machinelike explorers – Voyager , Cassini and Curiosity – with this set of stylish screenprinted posters .
Each of these missions represent the best of what human intellect can achieve and can also bring home the bacon a nostalgic sense of pridefulness . To many , Voyager was a heavy part living through the ’ 80s with it ’s tour of the outer solar arrangement and Carl Sagan ’s originalCosmosseries . In the ’ 90 Galileo treated us to a thrilling tour of Jupiter and it ’s exotic moons . Then Y2 K served up Cassini at Saturn and two particularly full-bodied rovers on Mars with two out of the three operating to this day .
We have noticed over the last few age , that there have been some beautiful poster series by various interior designer cover melodic theme such as Earth science , manned space mission , the planets and astronomy . However , design that pore specifically on any special automatonlike planetary military mission seemed to be almost non - existent . When you do find something — the designs are broadly data point - driven . The likes of which might be wait gracing the wall of a eminent school science lab , but not hanging prominently in one ’s own living way . Well we desire to change that and here is how we propose doing it .
$ 20 can get you all three invention as PDFs , but if you need the strong-arm bill sticker , They ’re available at a salmagundi of tier in dissimilar sizes .
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