New miniature photos!

 IDW Games has posted photos of the production miniatures for Rayguns and Rocketships!

The speedy Astro-Rangers

The noble Zard

 

The deadly Star-Pirates

The horrible Blaarg

Rayguns and Rocketships Kickstarter is tomorrow!!

Calling all Planeteers! There is just ONE MORE DAY until Rayguns and Rocketships launches on Kickstarter!

IDW Games has been doing an amazing job with the production art of the game and has shared some images of the production copy of the game with the world! It's so satisfying to see the game finally looking like I've always imagined it would.

 

The Zard repel an attack by the Blaarg!

The painted card art is stunning!

The Blaarg command you to get your copy of Rayguns and Rocketships tomorrow!

One week until Rayguns and Rocketships blasts off on Kickstarter!!

The Planeteers are charging their rayguns, refueling their jetpacks, defragging the AI of their circuitswords and loading up the rocketships for their big debut on Kickstarter!

How can you help? By spreading the word! Let your friends know Rayguns and Rocketships is coming! And when April 19th comes, and if you think you'll like the game, you can always fund it! (no pressure!)

Thanks in advance!

Rayguns and Rocketships is coming to Kickstarter!

 

CALLING ALL PLANETEERS! The big announcement has finally arrived!!

I am proud to announce that Rayguns and Rocketships is coming to Kickstarter April 19th!

IDW Games has announced it's MSRP will be 74.99 (which is a great price when you realize how many miniatures come in the game!)

You can read more about it at: http://idwgames.com/breaking-news-idw-games-announces-rayguns-and-rocketships-kickstarter/

Rayguns and Rocketships toys?

In my mind, Rayguns and Rocketships is much more than a board game, it is an entire universe. I think the characters and vehicles of Rayguns and Rocketships would make pretty keen toys, how about it, toy makers?

Astro-Rangers action figure design

 Star Pirate action figure design

 Zard action figure design

 Blaarg action figure design

 

Astro-Ranger Rocketship vehicle design

If you want to see Rayguns and Rocketships toys, let me know in the comments!

Meet the Planeteers #8 - The Master Brain

Things are heating up as Rayguns and Rocketships roars closer to our galaxy. I thought an introduction to the characters, technology and places you will encounter in the game was in order. This time we meet one of the horrible alien minds behind the Blaarg invasion: The Master Brain!

Master Brain is the fearsome leader of the Blaarg hive-mind. Its silent unblinking blaarglings follow its every mental command. Clanking around in its mechanical battlepants, this mind-controlling tyrant happily sows the seeds of chaos in this war-torn galaxy.  

While the Master Brain deplores physical exertion, it will attack with a flurry of powerful tentacles if threatened. On the top of the head of the Master Brain lives a tiny parasitic creature that feeds off of excess psychic energy. Is this the true master of the Blaarg race?The Blaarg race get their name from the single word any surviving Planeteer has ever heard uttered from its terrible toothy maw: BLAARG!!

 

 Concept art by Scott Rogers

3D model by Simon Grell

Color guide by Scott Rogers

All of the Meet the Planeteers characters and rocketships seen here will come with the core set of the Rayguns and Rocketships board game.

Stay tuned, Planeteers for more exciting Rayguns and Rocketships news!

 

Meet the Planeteers #7 - The Blaarg!

Things are heating up as Rayguns and Rocketships roars closer to our galaxy. I thought an introduction to the characters, technology and places you will encounter in the game was in order. This time we meet strange and terrible invaders to the Rayguns and Rocketships galaxy: The Blaarg!

The Blaarg are an alien race from another galaxy. They are a hive-mind race commanded by a gigantic leader who commands the smaller blaarglings to carry out its every command. The blaarglings have no individual identities and live and die to serve their Master as they scurry around their saucer in their mechanical pants.

The Blaarg have found the chaos left in the wake of the galactic cataclysm to be the perfect environment to torment any being they encounter which they dominate with their terrible mind powers. Will the galaxy survive their invasion?

 concept art by Scott Rogers

 3D model by Simon Grell

Color guide by Scott Rogers

The Blaarg fly around in their distinctive saucer-shaped rocketship that has a few different features from the other Planeteers craft. Most notably, the belly-mounted turret in the middle of the ship which gives the saucer 360 degree shooting radius - making it a very deadly and unpredictable opponent!

Concept art by Scott Rogers

3D model by Simon Grell

Color guide by Scott Rogers

All of the Meet the Planeteers characters and rocketships seen here will come with the core set of the Rayguns and Rocketships board game.

Next time we will meet the mind controlling the Blaarg! - the fearsome Master Brain!