Hey Reader!

David Kessler here.

​Nothing But Net has fully funded!​

Congratulations to Hafiz Printer, whose game Nothing But Net is live on Kickstarter until May 20th, and has already funded!

Nothing But Net is a head-to-head two player basketball card game that is meant to capture the feeling of pick-up basketball and bring it to the tabletop. The game box turns into a basketball net dice tower, the die is a basketball, the player tokens are sneakers, and the art is diverse to represent the diversity in both the basketball and board game communities.

As a hobby designer, Protospeil North was a HUGE help in the development of the game. Nothing But Net started off as stick figures on cardstock, and evolved with every subsequent Protospiel to get to the point where it is now. Being part of online communities like the Board Game Design Lab, and seeing how other first time designers and publishers took an idea to make it into something real, was a big inspiration to push Hafiz forward. Hafiz was motivated to turn his stick figures into something more because he needed to get the next iteration ready for each upcoming Protospiel!

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~David

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