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How Kickstarter is Changing the Game - ft. Col. Louis Zocchi, Gamescience Dice
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Colonel Louis "Lou" Zocchi is a legend in the board game industry. So what’s the biggest change he’s seen in his 57 year career? An award winning game designer, distributor, publisher, lecturer, and dice manufacturer, Lou has played a number of roles in the games industry since at least 1959.
In this episode we talk about:
• The Game Industry’s Biggest Distrupter: Kickstarter
• Steve Jackson, OGRE & the $900,000 Kickstarter
• How Anyone Can Succeed With Crowdfunding
• Making Sure Your Game’s Design is Clear
Welcome to geekBOLD’s How-To’s Day! Kicking off this new series are interviews from BoardGameGeek.com’s 2015 BGG.con, featuring advice and tips from designers, developers, publishers, and other folks making the cool stuff we love.
Louis Zocchi has been widely honored for his contributions to the gaming industry by being awarded the 1986 Charles S. Roberts Hall of Fame Award as well as inducted into The Game Manufacturer’s (GAMA) Academy of Adventure Gaming's Hall of Fame. He stands alongside such groundbreakers as E. Gary Gygax, Charles Roberts, Steve Jackson, Sandy Peterson, Michael Stackpole, Julie Guthrie, Liz Danforth, and numerous other gaming legends. Col. Zocchi is also featured in Flying Buffalo’s Famous Game Designers Playing Card Deck as the king of clubs.
Lou Zocchi is also a game designer, creating the respected games Luftwaffe, The Battle of Britain, Alien Space, and Flying Tigers.
In its first 11 years of publication, he was one of Avalon Hill’s magazine The General’s first editors. Louis Zocchi was also a frequent playtester of some of their early popular wargames, such as Bismark, Afrika Korps, Jutland, Stalingrad, as well as several other unpublished titles. He helped assemble TSR’s redbox Dungeons and Dragons, and formed the very first adventure game distributorship.
Zocchi was also America’s first polyhedral dice manufacturer. Well known as a passionate advocate of well crafted die, he’s even designed and patented a 100-sided die named the Zocchihedron after it's creator. You can often find him at gaming conventions selling his precision Gamescience Dice & explaining the difference they make versus mass produced versions.
Zocchi is also a publisher, distributer, magician, clown, and a reportedly skilled hand-saw player.
Other places to find Col. Lou Zocchi, his dice & his games:
http://www.gamesciencedice.com/
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Luftwaffe: http://amzn.to/1OLLxhq [☕ ref]
Luftwaffe SW: http://amzn.to/1Ti6cxp [☕ ref]
Star Fleet Battle Manual: http://amzn.to/1OLNuuf [☕ ref]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Zocchi
https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/38414/interview-lou-zocchi-first-dice-idea-i-was-shown-s
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/1485/lou-zocchi
Where to find OGRE, from Steve Jackson Games:
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