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**Vanguard-13**

That's not a bad Idea, Wehrkind.

I might just do that if the cubes feel too light weight.

**cincydooley**

This one would be amazing, RITides:

Does no one else love florescent???

**Vanguard-13**

At that point why not try to make a glow in the dark one. There is all sorts of glowing powders that can be mixed into the resins.

**Wehrkind**

It would be handy to have glow in the dark cubes for when I sit alone in my darkened basement at 3 am playing X-wing against myself.

So alone.

Forever alone....

**Cyporiean**

Wehrkind wrote:
It would be handy to have glow in the dark cubes for when I sit alone in my darkened basement at 3 am playing X-wing against myself.

So alone.

Forever alone....

Time to get the kid hooked on Star Wars and gaming.

**Wehrkind**

You have no idea. I keep a few Bones models within eye sight of her so she can pine for the days when she is old enough to play with them. So far though, she mostly just wants to name letters and eat everything within reach.

Soon... soon.

**Theophony**

Wehrkind wrote:
You have no idea. I keep a few Bones models within eye sight of her so she can pine for the days when she is old enough to play with them. So far though, she mostly just wants to name letters and eat everything within reach.

Soon... soon.

Tyranids and Genestealer cultist in training.

**shadowfinder**

cincydooley wrote:
This one would be amazing, RITides:

Does no one else love florescent???

This green or the one you have is good.

The blue need to be a lot brighter. it is like a navy dark blue. it is to close to black for me.

**Alpharius**

I too was hoping for a lighter shade of blue...

**RiTides**

I am nothing if not someone who responds to feedback! So tomorrow morning, I will put a poll question about the blue into the update

and show 3 shades of blue that the factory has given me the option to choose from. I would love to hear your thoughts on it then, along with what game system people would like to see next! (and possible future colors!)

**Dark Severance**

*cough* Pan'O blue *cough*

**cincydooley**

Alpharius wrote:
I too was hoping for a lighter shade of blue...

They'll only be offering a lighter shade of pale.......

**Alpharius**

...as long as they also offer a deeper shade of soul?

**RiTides**

Update is up with a poll for choosing the next 3 colors and game systems - you get to decide! I'd love for interested folks on Dakka to vote, too

Vote here!

http://goo.gl/forms/vS4biJGnb4

Full text of the update:

Poll for new ModCube Game and Color options! Vote!!

As we approach our last initial stretch goal, we'd like to get as many interested folks as possible to vote in the following poll for choosing the next game systems and colors!

It is only 3 questions, and should take you about 30 seconds. We will make them in the exact order determined by this poll - you decide:

http://goo.gl/forms/vS4biJGnb4

Feel free to share the link, although note that people must log in to their Google account to vote (to prevent duplicates).

Here is stretch goal path that will come out of the poll - we realized that we can actually break the goals up into intermediate goals by unlocking one color at a time, and by just showing a sample of the tokens that will be included in the game system. Check it out!

$15,000 - First 4 game systems and colors - UNLOCKED!
$18,000 - Green and Blue colors - UNLOCKED!
$21,000 - Token set compatible with Malifaux - Currently funding
$22,500 - New color and game system - Determined by voting in poll!
$24,000 - New color and game system - Determined by voting in poll!
$25,500 - New color and game system - Determined by voting in poll!

As a final note, we are very open to feedback on the composition of tokens in each set! The WGC Infinity group on Facebook has been giving us great advice on that set, and it will be updated with more options (although still 80 tokens total). If you have any feedback, please don't hesitate to share - this is one of the best parts of the Kickstarter experience, having a say in the product you are backing!!

Okay, now go back up to that link and vote in the poll - results will be revealed and the next 3 stretch goals set on Monday =)

Make your voice heard and vote for the game systems you want! Your light green is on the list, cincy

Also, I love the ideas of both weighting the inside of the cube (which is hollow) and adding lighting effects (would require translucent acrylic, but that is easy enough). If anyone is serious about that second option, please PM me so I can send you a set to go all mad scientist on

**Alpharius**

Done!

Now, everyone vote for the LIGHT BLUE option so I relax and forget about this one until RiTides takes my money!

**MasterSlowPoke**

Does Dropzone Commander not use a lot of tokens? They're the only game I noticed missing from the list.

**Vanguard-13**

I will publicly cast my vote for Heavy Gear Blitz.

But I am not holding my breath

**RiTides**

Alpharius, There's a link to view the poll results after you submit your vote, you can see that the lighter blue has a 2:1 edge on the darker one! So, I'll look to see if the 3rd option gets any traction, but it looks very likely that the blue will be getting lighter!

MasterSlowPoke wrote:
Does Dropzone Commander not use a lot of tokens? They're the only game I noticed missing from the list.

It has a lot of possibilities for tokens, and I play it myself! My good friend is the 2013 GenCon tourney winner and 2014 runner up, and a Hawk Talon... he has reached out to them asking if a set for Dropfleet would make sense

. So, we'll see if I could offer either of those options!

Vanguard-13 wrote:
I will publicly cast my vote for Heavy Gear Blitz.

But I am not holding my breath

Heavy Gear Blitz is one that looks so easy to me because they already have the "dice layout" on their website for people to make their own. I'll definitely be getting to this, but I think it is more likely at retail rather than during the Kickstarter (although on a case-by-case basis I am willing to let you simply take credit for a future set if you don't want the Kickstarter options - not putting that on the campaign page but willing to work with anyone here who wants to help but doesn't play these games!).

Edit: Already over 200 votes on the poll, wow!

**Theophony**

Cast my votes.....I mean vote

. I'm guessing that there just might be a MOD out there rigging this election, and I ain't talking about RITides

**kronk**

Voted. Looking good, so far. Don't feth up!

**kingbobb**

Loving how well this is doing!

Any chance of getting a D&D Attack Wing set made up? The Dogfight set covers a lot of the same ground, so as an option could that set maybe be made to a little more generic to cover multiple Attack Wing platforms?

**Alpharius**

Theophony wrote:
Cast my votes.....I mean vote . I'm guessing that there just might be a MOD out there rigging this election, and I ain't talking about RITides

We are Legion after all...

But clearly the superior shade of blue is winning of its obvious merits alone.

I'm sure THAT is what you meant to say, right?

**Vanguard-13**

I will have to vote when I get home. There's this silly firewall thingy where I am right now.

**RiTides**

Another interesting thing about the poll results is the vast popularity of the Game Creator Set (general numbers and symbols). My wife has been telling me for some time that I should make a more general set, and wow, was she ever right!

So I will be getting on that right away

along with the other 2 most popular sets, which right now are trending towards 40k Mysterious Objectives and Star Wars Armada.

Also, overtyrant - My acrylic supplier just pointed me to some orange panel material (along with a few panel colors that will remain a secret for now), and I went ahead and ordered it! So, I'll be doing some test cuts on it and showing off the results when it comes in early next week

**Anpu-adom**

Ritides...
Have you tried the Modcubes with cardboard tokens? I'm wondering if 110lb of 65lb cardstock would work for homebrewed games.

They won't be as nice as your acrylics, but if the design process happens faster than the manufacturing if might be nice to have some print and play tokens available for the odd games.

**RiTides**

Anpu, I actually have not and several people have asked me - I tried an earlier version with cardboard tokens, but since moving to this 2-piece design intended for injection molding, I've only tried acrylic tokens.

Are there "print on demand" services for cardboard tokens (and if so, could you point me to one)? The acrylic tokens are 0.44" x 0.44", so the other challenge would be getting tokens that are the correct size - I would think you'd need a custom punch for these to make a lot quickly.

I'm definitely interested in looking into this, as the response from the board gaming crowd has been quite strong but I didn't have anything geared towards them to start with... so I'd like to correct that

to help bring more people into the fold and be able to create more options for everybody.

**Cyporiean**

You could use DriveThruStuff (Wargame Vault)'s Card POD service, but the end customer would have to cut the tokens out themselves.

They are supposed to be adding a token service in the future, but no time frame on that.

**Anpu-adom**

RiTides, I was thinking of printing sets at home... not in an industrial sense. My metal straight edge and X-acto knife would serve for the scale I was thinking about.
For many of the homebrewers, all you would need would be to produce a template in the 0.44x 0.44 size with cutting marks.

There are a few game piece producers online:
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/
http://www.printplaygames.com/

**RiTides**

Ah, got it! Yes, I just need to see what card thickness is appropriate- it will likely be too thick to print at home (1/16" is the acrylic thickness) but using a printing service and cutting them may well work. I'd like to have something to point people to for this, as it's been asked about quite a bit. So, I'll look into it!

**Theophony**

Couldn't you just print on whatever type paper you want and then use a blank piece behind it to give it some strength?

Or you know sell blanks and a glue stick for them to create their own counters