Urgent Update: Backerkit Shipping Issues
over 5 years ago – Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 10:03:12 PM

What's up, Homies!

This is Al stepping in to let everyone know we were made aware of a double shipping issue with Backerkit. This is an issue I have encountered before and they had to manually adjust, so I know there is a solution.

I am submitting a trouble ticket to Backerkit to deal with this, so the situation should be remedied in 24-48 hours. For now, we ask that you please wait on filling out your surveys until we get this sorted out.

You have our apologies for the mix up and we will keep everyone posted when the double shipping issue has been resolved.

Thank you for your patience and we will keep you all posted,
Al

Happy Dia de los Muertos!
over 5 years ago – Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:01:13 AM

Happy Halloween Homies!

To celebrate our favorite holiday we are giving all of our backers a special gift this holiday season, a free Dia de los Muertos Drama card in every copy of Thug Life!

What does it do you might ask? When a Thug is killed for any reason, they are placed on the Dia de los Muertos card instead of being returned to their Hood. The Boss with the most dead Thugs on this card gains a Respect at the end of the round.

Dia has been really fun to strategize around during our recent playtest sessions. What do you think of the ability? Did we nail it? Let us know if you have your own cool ideas for this card!

We have been very excited to share the card art with you all, so without further ado, here is a sneak peek at a portion of the card art!

Be safe tonight and save us some Reese's and full bars!

Behind the Curtain: Card Layout and UI
over 5 years ago – Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 01:30:09 PM

What's up, Homies?

This is Al Gonzalez taking over the updates to share a bit of behind the scenes action with you. It's been a whirlwind of a time since we finished our Kickstarter and there is a lot of news to share. To start I am going to talk about the most drastic change we made to the game: Card design and UI. 

We always knew I owed the game one more design pass. After taking a week off, the three of us gathered in our top secret workshop, drew on some Plexiglas, and passionately discussed where the game needed to go to get ready for manufacturing. When we were done, I got to work on updating the deck:

I didn't feel there was much wrong with the basic wire frame of the cards, but testing this hundreds of times there was definitely a hit list of interface problems to address. I also wanted to take this opportunity to really polish the look to something we could be proud to release.

I will go into details on a future post, but to keep things short I will say that we've tested this new layout a few times and everything seems to be going over well. We've addressed a lot of the playability issues present in the game and Jason has taken the opportunity to simplify and clean up the language on the entire deck.

There is a LOT more to go over, but I will save that for future updates. If you have any questions, feedback, or comments please use that comment button and write in a question! I love talking shop and am happy to reveal more secrets of the design trade for our community.

See you in the streets,
-AG3

Backer kit unleashed!
over 5 years ago – Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 10:22:41 PM

Hey Homies

BackerKit launch

Checking in to let yall know that our BackerKit will be launching very soon. We will announce here when it goes live of course, so let your Homies know in case they missed it. 

BackerKit backers will get all the stretch goals unlocked in the campaign but not the promotional skull token or the KS exclusives.

New UI 

We'll also be revealing our new card UI this week and we can not wait to share it. 

Also, you like Halloween surprises right? Hell ya, we do too! In the meantime, don't forget to respect your dead ones!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday! More updates soon. 

Last 48 hours to support Rap Godz
over 5 years ago – Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 01:16:04 AM

Hey Homies

Quick update

We had a good weekend session. We are closing in on final card UI, final Street board design and opening late pledges on backerkit! More on that, along with art sneak peeks soon.

Rap Godz, last 48 hours!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/omariakil/rap-godz-the-hip-hop-strategy-and-storytelling-boa

The Rap Godz Kickstarter is only 48 hours away from finishing up and they are SO close to getting their funding. Go check out them and get in on this man!

Crossover Homies!

We are also announcing that we are jumping in DB Fresh, Rap master from Rap Godz into Thug Life! On the other side of the street, Rap Godz will be adding Yummy, our graffiti artist, into Rap Godz!

Games like ours very rare in the board game space and it makes too much sense not to help our Homies over at Big Brother games out!