Break! Die Spieleschmiede - Epic Coins Crowdfunding

Die Spieleschmiede launched a crowdfunding campaign for epic coins:

Link: Campaign on Spiele-Offensive

Break! Die Spieleschmiede - New Merchandise

Die Spieleschmiede offers new merchandise:

Link: Die Spieleschmiede

Break! Die Spieleschmiede - Crowdfunding without Risk

Die Spieleschmiede published an article explaining why their crowdfunding system does not involve any risk for the supporters:

German based crowdfunding website “Spieleschmiede” (game forge) protects backers.
Board Games are always supervised by experienced editors and contracts ensure production of the rewards.
Currently there are some articles and fears about crowdfunding of boardgames and the legal protection of funders and their financial risks.

What happens, if a project is funded, but the person responsible is unable to produce the rewards? Do backers get their money back?
Unlike open platforms, the German based Spieleschmiede makes sure that backers get their rewards or get their money back.
“Spieleschmiede is the safe way of crowdfunding”, explains Frank Noack of Spieleschmiede. Noack and his team launched the platform about one year ago.
Since then they collected more than 170.000 Euro for boardgame projects. Nine out of ten projects succeeded.

The Difference
Spieleschmiede is not an open financing platform. Frank Noack: “We work directly with boardgame publishing companies and experienced game editors. Many backers worried about the possibility of losing their money without getting the promised rewards. Working directly with the boardgame publishers gives us the opportunity to make direct contracts with these companies to produce the rewards. We check the basic calculation before a campaign starts und we hand out the money to the publishers depending on the progress of the production. This increases security for all smithies.”

The Projects
Spieleschmiede (game forge) is a platform created by board game enthusiasts for board game enthusiasts. Together they finance projects related to board gaming and the board games, which the publishers think are too risky to produce with a normal print run. With the help of smithies these games can become reality.

Link: Die Spieleschmiede 

Break! Die Spieleschmiede - Kolossus Crowdfunding Campaign

German company Die Spieleschmiede announced a crowdfunding campaign for a new miniature boardgame called Kolossus:

Kolossus is a strategic game, but with rules that are easy and fast to explain. It is best for families and casual gamers.
Each player controls one unique faction. Always two factions play together as a team and achieve victory together.
The aim is whether to beat all units of one faction or to conquer the citadel of time. Each round a chrystal of time appears at the citadel and the team controlling the most of them at the end of 12 rounds will be the winner, if no faktion was eliminated before.
What makes this game unique is the three dimensional, versatile terrain. It can be moved and will be, so the landscape always changes. Right at the start of each game a huge earthquake is shaping the world, forcing players to adapt their tactics. The shaping is done by a huge "earthquake" that players do at the start and players can decide, how they terraform their world tactically. Later in the game players can cause be even more small earthquakes to adjust terrain to their needs.

Link: Campaign on Spiele-Offensive