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**katfude**

Aww yiss. Time to go buy like 4 dice bags to keep all the different sets of tokens in.

Can't wait to toss all these stupid cardboard X-Wing tokens, dumb, shaky servo skull objective stands and awful cardboard Malifaux chits into cold storage!

**Anpu-adom**

katfude wrote:
Aww yiss. Time to go buy like 4 dice bags to keep all the different sets of tokens in.

Can't wait to toss all these stupid cardboard X-Wing tokens, dumb, shaky servo skull objective stands and awful cardboard Malifaux chits into cold storage!

My feelings exactly...

Congrats, RiTides. Now the hard part comes... first, deciding what exactly it is that I want.

**Piston Honda**

Anyone know why KS/card holder keeps declining my pledge and when I go to pay for it manually... with the same FAHKIN card it goes through?

last 3 or 4 KSers. Real tired of your gak whoever is behind this.

**Theophony**

Piston Honda wrote:
Anyone know why KS/card holder keeps declining my pledge and when I go to pay for it manually... with the same FAHKIN card it goes through?

last 3 or 4 KSers. Real tired of your gak whoever is behind this.

I'd check to see if you accidentally mistyped your number, e proration date or security number on the back into the card page. Otherwise my only guess would be your married and have too many boxes of models visible for your wife to see. You need to hide them in shoe boxes in her closet as we all know they never look to see if they already have black high heels, or flats before buying another set.

**RiTides**

Thanks for the well wishes, guys! It's awesome to see how many familiar names/handles will be using these cubes in several months time

Got in a call with the cube manufacturer this evening (they're west coast time) and have finalized the last detail we were waiting on, which is a final surface finish being applied to the mold before beginning the production run. The timing of that being finished and my being ready to give them the color quantities for the run after the survey should coincide really nicely!

Piston Honda, my guess would have been something that was entered wrong, too (even your billing address) that Kickstarter has stored and is thus repeating the same mistake until you fix it manually each time.

**notprop**

Congrats on the success of the Kickstarter. I realised last night that I wouldn't mind some off these but too late alas.

When does this go on retail?

**Kirasu**

I'm glad I pledged, looks like a great and useful product.

**darrkespur**

Congratulations RiTides!

**lliu**

Congrats! RiTides, you must be jubilant!

**Theophony**

Now the waiting......for MODcube KS2 the colored MODcube dispenser

**RiTides**

notprop, we will be turning this around quickly so retail is not too far off, hopefully late October. We've had a number of people say they missed out by mistake (which is really encouraging to hear on the one hand!) so will have a mechanism for folks to get in on the pledge manager when it comes out in 1.5 - 2 weeks time, for just a brief window.

And cheers for the comments guys! No more Kickstarters for the cube, Theophony, as the goal here was to cover the capital costs and then sell them directly and in stores in the future

If we are successful with these, there may be other gaming aids and products in the future, but we are very much focused on the present and delivering well on these!

**Cyporiean**

RiTides wrote:
notprop, we will be turning this around quickly so retail is not too far off, hopefully late October. We've had a number of people say they missed out by mistake (which is really encouraging to hear on the one hand!) so will have a mechanism for folks to get in on the pledge manager when it comes out in 1.5 - 2 weeks time, for just a brief window.

Looking forward to it.

<3

**Theophony**

RiTides wrote:

And cheers for the comments guys! No more Kickstarters for the cube, Theophony, as the goal here was to cover the capital costs and then sell them directly and in stores in the future

If we are successful with these, there may be other gaming aids and products in the future, but we are very much focused on the present and delivering well on these!

Once I get mine I can make a side trip to miniaturemarket.com and let them see them firsthand. I've talked with a few of the peeps there and they do Star Wars x--wing tournaments on a semi regular basis. Maybe donating a set as a prize to the winner might help get word out. I usually don't play at stores, but St. Louis is blessed with at least a dozen game stores, and I just happened across another card game only store yesterday on my way to work.

**RiTides**

Update showing all possible token and cube color combos! If my math is right, for folks who choose to split their sets into two different cube colors, there are over 700 options available

Update #24 - June 12, 2015

Here are the final token colors for the ModCubes!

Progressing from the top left across each row, they are:

- Black on Silver
- Metallic on Black
- Metallic on Blue
- White on Black
- White on Purple
- Black on Yellow
- White on Red
- White on Blue
- White on Green

The first option (black on silver) replaces the grey we were testing previously, since the white on grey did not provide good contrast. Also, for now we have decided we can't offer the red on metallic as a standard choice - the material we experimented with was from a different manufacturer, and again doesn't have as good of contrast (in this case compared to the other metallics). If your heart was set on metallic on red, send me a private message and we'll see what we can do, but we think the white on red looks much better!

Here is a picture showing each of these token colors in the dozen cube colors - every option available! This gives you over 100 different choices =) if you're selecting a single cube color, or over 700 different choices if you're splitting your set into two cube colors:

Note that the purple and blue tokens look similar in this picture, so refer to the first picture in the update to see how these tokens stand out from each other. Other than sets with fixed colors (X-wing and Imperial Assault) due to gameplay, you will get to choose both your cube colors and token colors in the survey, so figure out which combination you like best!

We will be targeting Monday, June 22nd or Tuesday June 23rd to send out the survey, as Kickstarter strongly recommends waiting 2 weeks for the pledges to clear first (otherwise it's a bit of a logistics nightmare). We're hoping to place the production run order for the cubes within a week of sending out the survey, if we can get 75% of the surveys back to give us a good indication of color ratios to order for the cubes. We'll also have a limited window for Paypal backers to join in once the survey goes out, and a chance to add on to your pledge in BackerKit!

Finally, we'll be continuing to work on the remaining sets and the tweaks to the current sets over the coming weeks. It makes sense to start production on the sets that are ready (or very close to ready), while the others are finished. To that end, our full-time laser cutting summer hire will be starting on Thursday, June 25th.

Until next time, keep on modding!

I'd love to hear any thoughts folks have on the different color options

. There were some surprising combos in there that I ended up liking, which is why it was totally necessary to lay them all out like this!

**Vanguard-13**

It's a really good set of colors!

Only one cube color missing: White. But I don't see that as a big loss really.

I really like the dark green cube for some reason. It seems to show imperfections, and comes across as a very "Swampy" feeling. It's perfect. Like something you'd use for a Cryx, Necron, or Zombie army.

All the tiles look amazing. I really like the silver based tiles. They just seem to pop and look the best.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

I'm all about the red/orange/yellow and purple cubes (not sure what I'm going to get from those yet)

I think the black/silver and red/white go best with them (although in isolation without the cubes I'd originally been tempted by the black/yellow option)

**RiTides**

Vanguard, thanks! Regarding white, yes it's been noted by a few folks, but because the acetal raw material is not truly white, it's harder to make (they can add coloring to achieve any of the other colors, but not white). Also, the imperfections in the coloring in these pics is just due to these being painted samples - the black and orange cubes are the final colors straight from the mold, but the others are painted (except purple, which is from the mold but the final version will be just a shade darker).

Orlando, I had a really hard time imagining which tokens would look good in which cubes, and my gut instinct was different on some of these! I'm partial to the two drab colors (maroon and military green) myself

and I'm thinking with purple tokens.

**shade1313**

Anpu-adom wrote:
katfude wrote:
Aww yiss. Time to go buy like 4 dice bags to keep all the different sets of tokens in.

Can't wait to toss all these stupid cardboard X-Wing tokens, dumb, shaky servo skull objective stands and awful cardboard Malifaux chits into cold storage!

My feelings exactly...

Congrats, RiTides. Now the hard part comes... first, deciding what exactly it is that I want.

Yep, that's a lot harder than coming up with the money for a few sets...so many color choices!

**insaniak**

It's certainly an impressive array!

RiTides wrote:
I'd love to hear any thoughts folks have on the different color options .

The cubes are two pieces, right? So... Two tone?

**Dark Severance**

Well that happened sooner than I expected, that is how you know that ModCube was a good idea, it is already being emulated. Should have had the design patent. ^_^

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/240962318/askrias-cube?ref=category_newest

**Sinful Hero**

Dark Severance wrote:
Well that happened sooner than I expected, that is how you know that ModCube was a good idea, it is already being emulated. Should have had the design patent. ^_^

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/240962318/askrias-cube?ref=category_newest

The resemblance is uncanny!

**Vanguard-13**

The idea is the same, of course. I think we've all wanted to have custom dice made. This is certainly another way to do it.

Not sure if I would invest in it though. It seems... cheaper somehow.

Maybe it's just me being Biased. But RiTides' Mod Cubes seem a lot more engineered and stable. These Askrias Cubes seem more like model kits. Meaning you'd have to build it, Alter things to fit, and Glue them in place.

But that's just my two cents.

**Sinful Hero**

They also involve stickers.

**Dark Severance**

Yeah it isn't that the idea itself is unique, we've done them in our own methods. Mod Cube was the first to make it a reality with a modular design. I've actually had something I use but it involves stickers from GameCrafter and dice that I have used. But the problem is stickers.

On one hand stickers makes it easier for every person to make their own 'custom' sides. It also allows full color, better images for visuals. But on the other hand, it is stickers. I don't like using stickers because it is probably the OCD in me, they have to be put on the cube perfectly and if its off, it really bugs me. LOL!

**Anpu-adom**

$120 for 20 dice... I'm getting 36 for $105.
Those panels are going to be a pain to remove and the stickers are going to be a mess to line up correctly.
I'm extremely happy with ModCubs.

One of the images claims that the sprues were designed in January. *shrug*

**RiTides**

Very interesting, thanks for the link! We do have patent pending

but that design is clear of ours, as they have panels that must be injection molded (our patent specifically calls out panels that are completely flat, so that they can be laser cut or punched from flat material, which made the cube design a lot trickier). There are a lot of custom dice on the market already that require injection molded panels, but I think what sets the ModCube apart is how quickly we will be able to make new panel sets and how many tokens we can include in each set due to how we're making them. I wish those guys all the best with their project!

New update is posted, this will be the last one before the pledge manager goes out on Tuesday. From what we can tell, every single pledge payment has cleared!

A huge thanks to Vanguard-13 for working on the "GlowCube" shown in this update, and hopefully we can offer the LED kits as an add-on later on once it is perfected

. See more on it below:

Update #25

GlowCube 2.0 and Friends of ModCube

Hey Modders! We're working hard on finalizing the BackerKit pledge manager and are on track to have it ready to send out on Tuesday. In the meantime, here are a few cool things to check out! First, the GlowCube 2.0:

Super-backer Vanguard-13 has been hard at work on these, and is looking into being able to offer the LED kits he is using to light them up. These now incorporate a switch on the bottom face so that you can turn them on and off without disassembling! Very exciting stuff =) although unfortunately a bit labor intensive to create, as well.

We will be looking at offering the glow kits as an add-on for folks, and will send along instructions for this if we're able to do so. To have the designs themselves glow (or the inverse, the space around the designs glow) would also require painting around the etched area. This is also possible, but needs looking into... so, stay tuned!

We also made a few shoutouts to some other cool projects which you can see in the full update:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1388589874/modcube-part-tokens-part-dice-fully-modular/posts/1269498

This thread will likely get moved back to News & Rumors when the pledge manager goes out next week, since there will be a brief window for folks to join in on the campaign who missed it then

insaniak wrote:
RiTides wrote:
I'd love to hear any thoughts folks have on the different color options .

The cubes are two pieces, right? So... Two tone?

I decided showing 2-tone cubes would just be too many pictures to take in

but I certainly plan to mix colors on some of mine! I particularly like cubes that are half black / half other.

**Anpu-adom**

Ok, so I got my survey this morning (on schedule!)

The hard choices were made and I only had to add $30 worth of more stuff to my order...

Great job, RiTides... I hope cutting and fulfillment go well for you.

**RiTides**

Thanks, Anpu-adom! The intern starts on Thursday so like always it's busy busy here

Here's the update showing the survey is out, and late backer instructions! I'll be messaging folks who asked me about becoming a late backer tonight - if you don't hear anything please ping me.

Update #26 Pledge Manager link sent! Check your email . Also late backer instructions

Just a moment ago, I clicked the link to send out the pledge manager survey from BackerKit. Please check your spam folder if you don't see it! It is from "support@s.backerkit.com"

There are a lot of questions, but the end result is that the survey will itemize your order and really help us fulfill it. Please take a moment and fill it out today =). We would really like to get back 75% of the surveys in a week!

The pledge manager will remain open until the last token sets are finalized (which will be happening while we produce the earlier sets, so likely until late July) and your card will not be charged for any additional add-ons until then. So, you can always go back in later and tweak your selections / add more if you change your mind about anything =)

Finally, we will be messaging each person who asked about becoming a late backer - in order for you to join in on one of the pledge levels, we'll need to send you a Paypal invoice and add you in manually. So, look for a message on that today if you're one of those folks, or feel free to ping us if you haven't heard anything.

We'll leave you with some pictures showing all the color options you can choose for your ModCubes in the survey:

Spoiler:

Until next time, keep on modding!

It seems I somehow left off the MEdge option for the tokens, though, so fixing that now...

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

I couldn't justify more sets (stupid reality, spoiling my fun),

but I've got some nice yellow, orange and purple cubes coming my way with the game designers choice panels in red/white

(can you tell I like the bright colours)

**RiTides**

Wow, you do like bright colors

. I like that mix, they should be very eye-catching on the table!

I've added in the Maelstrom's Edge tokens to the first token question option, so if anyone is after just one set of those tokens, make sure to select them in your first token question in the survey! I'll have them added to the other questions later tonight.