Here's today's ask, to give us something fun to follow as we make final preparations and travel to Philadelphia for PAX Unplugged this week ...
1. Find an online pirate name generator (or use your real pirate name, of course!)
2. Post it in the comments, along with which cre...
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Leder Games
10 days ago
We're Back at Sea! 2-Player Live Stream Tomorrow
Join us tomorrow, November 27th at 2PM CT for a live stream from the studio. We'll show you the Blackfish Brigade vs. the Shellfire Rebellion and answer your questions! Join u...
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Leder Games
14 days ago
This Year for Thanksgiving, We’re Thankful for You! (Also for the 3- & 4-Player TTS and Print & Play Files.)
Launching anything new is always a risk. Thankfully, we have you: a community of supporters who are willing to explore possibilities with us! As we clock out for the long Thanks...
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Leder Games
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What's Your Preference? The 2-Player Game or the 3/4-Player Game?
There's a definite difference in "flavor" of the 2-player game of Ahoy vs. the play style of the 3- and 4-player factions. Do you have a preference for one over the other? Are you a high-conflict fan of the militant factions, or more lackadaisical in your play like the Smuggle...
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Leder Games
17 days ago
Mark Your Calendar! We’re Playing Live Tomorrow.
Hey! We'll be streaming LIVE tomorrow, November 20th at 2PM CT, here and on our Twitch channel!
We're anticipating a lot of sea-faring shenanigans, as the stream will feature...
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Get Sailing with the 2-Player Factions!
The first of the new faction Tabletop Simulator Mod and Print & Play drops are in! Find the info on the main campaign page, or choose a link below!
How to Play: The Blackfish...
Ahoy New Horizons 2-player live play, Monday November 27th at 2PM CT on Twitch
Join us tomorrow, November 27th at 2PM CT for a live stream from the studio. We'll show you the Blackfish Brigade vs. the Shellfire Rebellion and answer your questions! Join us on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ledergamesmedia
Come and See Us at PAX Unplugged!
Leder Games at Pax Unplugged, Booth 2846
PAX Unplugged is this coming weekend in Philadelphia, and almost the whole studio will be there! Stop by and see us at booth 2846. We'll have some merch, and we'll have the most recent Arcs kit and the new Ahoy expansion content on display.
We're Hitting the Road, But There's More Streams Ahead!
Ahoy New Horizons Live Stream with Brambeard Gaming! Wednesday, November 29 at 8PM CT
We'll be on the road to Philadelphia, so we've asked Richard and TJ, AKA Brambeard Gaming, to stream some Ahoy: New Horizons on Wednesday! Tune in on November 29th at 8PM CT on their Twitch channel!
Can't afford it right now, Is there any downside of pledging at the late pledge as oppose to pledging right now? Thanks and I hope everyone is having a splendid day
We're late to the party discovering Leder Games, but we've recently fallen in love with Root and Fort, and this seems like a great time to grab the original Ahoy as well as this excellent-sounding expansion.
As a household with both kids, pets, and elderly family members (and thus multiple spill risks at the gaming table), we always like to sleeve cards for games, get washable mats when possible (love the ones for Root!), etc. What size are the cards for Ahoy, and how many are there in total for both the base game and these new expansions? Thanks so much, and congrats on a great campaign so far!
Launching anything new is always a risk. Thankfully, we have you: a community of supporters who are willing to explore possibilities with us! As we clock out for the long Thanksgiving weekend, we are grateful for those of you who are able to support the campaign with your pledges and those who have shared our newest campaign with their friends.
We’re looking forward to a few days of good food, time with friends and family, and of course … games! We may not be as responsive to your questions during this time, but will return invigorated and ready to go on Monday.
3- and 4-Player Faction Files are Launched!
Just in time for the long holiday weekend for our US backers, the TTS Mod and Print & Play drops for the 3- and 4-player factions are live! You can test and try all of the new factions this weekend. Find the links on the main campaign page, or right here.
How to Play videos - Leviathan & Coral Cap
Two more how-to-play videos for the Leviathan and Coral Cap Pirates are now available! With components in flux and the factions still in development, these aren’t final but should get you sailing with the current iterations!
4-Player Live Stream with Panda8ngel!
This Friday, November 24, tune in to Panda8ngel’s Twitch channel for a 4-player showdown featuring our Sales Director, Clay! The shenanigans shove off around 2PM CT. See you then!
There's a definite difference in "flavor" of the 2-player game of Ahoy vs. the play style of the 3- and 4-player factions. Do you have a preference for one over the other? Are you a high-conflict fan of the militant factions, or more lackadaisical in your play like the Smugglers?
The only issue I have with Ahoy is a map readability one - island suit symbols get hidden by tokens & ships pretty quickly, leading to lot of time spent moving stuff to see where a certain island is. A pretty popular workaround that people posted about on BGG is to replace the blue dice with dice color-coded with the island suit color... any plan to offer official ones as part of this expansion or future ones? I'd pay to have these as add-ons. They are so critical.
Hey! We'll be streaming LIVE tomorrow, November 20th at 2PM CT, here and on our Twitch channel!
We're anticipating a lot of sea-faring shenanigans, as the stream will feature expansion designer: Nick! As well as studio staff members Anne, Ted, and Clay. Come and see the new factions in action!
Hey everyone! Wow! What a great day! I really appreciate you all coming along with us!
I do not write a ton of updates anymore, but Brooke extended the opportunity for me to write about the Ahoy project. Here are some of my thoughts.
Nick is the lead designer of the expansion. He started noodling on some ideas for alternate factions and it came together surprisingly quickly for him. He brought to us the pitch for doing an Ahoy expansion and we started to look into the project’s feasibility.
I met Nick around January of 2018. He was interviewing to be a Graphic Designer. I am not a huge fan of skill tests on interviews, but we offered to compensate the final few candidates for an hour of their time to design a card for the then new Vast: The Mysterious Manor. He also by coincidence submitted a card about an Island Revolt. Was it fate that brought us together?
He started in February that year and quickly started applying himself to graphic design. Nick was our seventh employee. He made the move into development, showing an appetite for the subject as well as a firm understanding of design from years of playing CCGs.
Nick has been designing for us for a few years now. He helped out a great deal with Oath and Arcs card design. In Root he got many of the pieces I struggled with to work, as well as designing the Landmarks. He is now a Senior Developer! Congratulations, Nick!
I would also like to thank our Marketing Coordinator, Brooke, who is super awesome, for pulling all of this project together.
Ahoy was presented to me at PAX Unplugged by Greg Loring-Albright a few years ago. I was interested due to the asymmetry but as usual, was skeptical. We were pretty busy with our projects and we already had Root covering a game about asymmetric warfare. I gave it a chance though. I asked Cole and Nick to look at Ahoy. They tried it out and brought it back to me recommending that we should publish. At the time, we were experimenting with direct to retail releases. We went that route for this new title and put Nick in charge of the project. It turned out pretty well but without the magical push of crowdfunding we found we would run into people at conventions that were surprised by Ahoy’s existence.
This expansion gave us an opportunity to bring Ahoy to a broader audience and I am delighted by the response. Our studio operates on a more creative-focused studio model. We create projects in house and bring them to the market internally, as opposed to signing games from freelance designers. I believe neither approach is superior, I just know what works for us. These rare moments of direct funding allow us the most freedom possible to continue working in this model.
One of the dangers of the model though is that it has been a challenge to scale, that we could only bring a project out every 15 months or so. Cole, Nick, and I all have things we want to work on and this project is one of our first tests to see if we can make the model work. It has been interesting and we will continue to track our progress as we grow.
That growth would not be possible without your help and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Coming up tomorrow, Kyle will be hosting a stream to do some art for Ahoy. I will also be on the stream fielding questions and rambling on about whatever I feel like. Find those details below!
Thank you for reading this for a bit. I will see you all at the finish line!
Patrick Leder
Leder Games
Celebratory Shark Cake!!!
Art Stream with Kyle Ferrin!
It's a bit of a Leder crowdfunding tradition to have a live stream with Kyle, doing what he does so well! Kyle will be joined by Patrick Leder, so bring your questions and watch some of Kyle's creative process.
Today's the day! We've released the print & play files for the 2-player factions (The Shellfire Rebellion and the Blackfish Brigade) and updated the Ahoy Tabletop Simulator mod.
Have you given them a try? Do you have a favorite?
The first of the new faction Tabletop Simulator Mod and Print & Play drops are in! Find the info on the main campaign page, or choose a link below!
How to Play: The Blackfish Battalion and The Shellfire Rebellion
We’ve prepared a couple quick how-to-play videos for the 2-player factions. With components in flux and the factions still in development, these aren’t final but should get you sailing with the current iterations.
Art Stream with Kyle and Patrick | Catch the Video-On-Demand!
Kyle and Patrick hung out on an art stream yesterday! Did you miss it?
