Just 30h left to support Billionaires & Guillotines
I promise this is the last such message for a while...
Well, it’s chaos out there. What a time to be hawking a stupid game about beheading billionaires…
A funny thing happened: the far right found out about my game Billionaires & Guillotines and are very angry. Some influencer made a 2:45h video stream about it…
Presumably you already read my previous message and are annoyed, so I’ll keep this brief, with apologies.
⏳ HELP! - Please buy the game in the next 30h so we can break through the threshold to have it featured on Kickstarters’ main page and “go viral” in a bunch of other ways.
💸 SMALL SUPPORT - If you don’t have money or don’t want the game, you can still back the project with a tiny pledge of as little as $1/£1/€1. It actually all helps.
🎁 GIFT - Consider buying Billionaires & Guillotines as a lovely gift for the radical weirdos in your life, or a passive-aggressive gift for your boss.
👹 PROPAGANDIZE 1 - Please consider spamming your friends, family, enemies, trolls and inner demons to let them know about the game. I can’t stress enough how important word-of-mouth news is about things like this.
📥 PROPAGANDIZE 2 - Please forward news of the game to podcasts, journalists, influencers and others who might be interested. It makes a big difference.
📚 EDUCATORS - Please ask your local or academic library to order the game. There’s an information sheet here.
OK, that’s it from me for now about this. I’ll follow up later in April with some news about the campaign.
In the board game Billionaires & Guillotines, 2-5 players take on the role of plutocrats vying to grab the wealth of the world before their actions trigger a revolution where they all lose… a lot more than their assets.
Will you play the aristocrat or the war profiteer? The tech overlord or the property speculator? You will try to build a private space program, marry (and divorce) a celebrity spouse and start your own scam charity in this raucous game for aspiring billionaires and their enemies.
As the revolution approaches, the billionaires have one chance to cooperate to delay their downfall… but otherwise, may the best (or worst) tycoon win.
Billionaires & Guillotines starts out easy and you can add complexity and more features once you’re ready, making it a great game for both casual and more experiences players. It takes about an hour to learn and play the first time.
It’s the first board game produced by the legendary radical publishing house Pluto Press in cooperation with designer Max Haiven, author of many books including Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts.
To back the project, visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plutopress/billionaires-and-guillotines
To learn more, visit: https://maxhaiven.com/billionaires-and-guillotines/