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We’re all still a bit in shock at Sauna Game HQ after an incredible experience at Spiel in Essen!

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The reception for our team and our game was so amazingly positive and warm, we really felt welcomed by the board gaming community and given our chance to share our laughter with the whole convention!

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We met and demoed with hundreds and hundreds of awesome and unique people who shared their enthusiasm for the game with us. As well as collected a whole bunch of contacts we still need to work our way through – sorry if you’re waiting to hear from us, we’re a little behind but catching up.

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This has also had a huge impact on our campaign, boosting us well over the 20k mark and unlocking stretch goals we hadn’t had the chance to even announce!

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On that note, we’re really excited to be picking up the demo quickplay version of the game we made for Spiel and turning it into a Party Mode for the game with simplified rules and a shorter playtime. It’s almost there, so with a little more playtesting it should be ready to add to the game.

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Next up at 25k we’ll be introducing a customisable player board giving your free choice of role, kinks and likes for the adventure to come.

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We’ve said it a lot, but we need to keep saying it – THANK YOU!!!!! We’re so grateful to every single one of our backers who has supported this project, all the people who have helped us spread the word to make this campaign way bigger than we could have wished for, as well as all of our new friends we met at Essen who welcomed us with all the laughter we could hope for!

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A special mention has to go to Johno – for being an incredible friend and supporter, giving priceless advice and spending time helping me despite being so busy with BarPig. Thank you for helping us make this all happen!

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Btw – the latest and greatest 3rd release of BarPig: The Great Festival is also live on Kickstarter now

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Finally a massive thank you to the Gay Sauna the Board Game Team at Spiel! Craig my (straight) brother, who flew in from the UK, got us to Essen before tirelessly promoted the gayest game Essen has ever seen. To Yaron my Husband who has supported this project for all these years yet continues to find the enthusiasm to come and work your ass off with demos. And to Miko and Estefano for being awesome and putting your hearts into every single demo. We couldn’t have made this event so special without all of you.

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What an amazing day 1 – gunna be an aeesome day 2!

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Hey folks we’re all ready for the festivities to begin today at SPIEL!

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We’re all ready to talk sauna and play some games with all these fun gamers this weekend!

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Come drop by to see us at 6K108!

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In other news, we’re speedily getting closer to our next stretch goal (even more gorgeous visitors to join us at the sauna!).

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With just under 2 weeks left of the campaign – let’s see how many more stretch goals we can unlock! Please help us – sharing is caring

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Take care all and happy gaming!

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When we started this campaign only 11 days ago, I was secretly hoping we would reach 10k by the end of the campaign, but I didn’t really expect to reach it, and certainly not with so much time left to go.

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We’re so very very thankful to everyone who has backed, shared and talked about Gay Sauna the Board Game. We’re on track to make this huge and we (obviously) wouldn’t be where we are now without you all.

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Our most recent unlocked stretch goal is the campaign favourite for Jose: Engraved Dice! Everyone loves cool dice, and we’re thrilled to be at the point we can include this in the game for everyone. It makes me wonder if anyone might make their own games using these dice – I mean how often do you get dice with bums and willies on them eh?

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We’re now steaming ahead to add even more visitor art. Keep your eyes peeled for the next chance to win your own place in the game.

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We also revealed our next Stretch Goal: The Gay Sauna Guidebook! This is a small project I’ve been working on for a little while including some backstory on the world of Gay Saunas, as well as insights into the various tribes, kinks and cruising areas included in the game. It will be included as a separate booklet in the game. Not needed for the game, but educational and informative to read before or after you play.

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A lot of our time right now is spent preparing for SPIEL, Essen – we’ve got some pretty awesome visuals planned out for our stand. We’ll be demoing the game for anyone who wants to try it out so please drop by. We’ll be in hall 6, booth K108 (6K108).

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We hope you enjoy your weekends everyone!

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Hi everyone

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We hit a big milestone today – not any stretch goal, but we exceeded the total we made in our 2019 campaign! Not only have we raised more, we’ve done in a week what it took 30 days to raise last time – and we’ve still got plenty more time to grow even bigger and better!

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We’re spending a lot of time at the moment preparing for Spiel, ordering the last things we need for our booth – getting very excited to share the game with such a big audience!

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Would be great to hear we’ll be seeing any of you at Spiel – we’re at booth 6K108 so come by for a game and a chat!

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Take care and thank you all again for all the support you’ve given us!

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Happy Monday everyone!

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I hope you’re all off to a great start of the week? We’re still stoked and excited here at Sauna Game HQ (aka ReRoll Works) as this campaign has gone so well so far and we’ve got so much more to bring you all!

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Earlier today we unlocked the latest Stretch Goal adding 3 more visitors to the deck! We’re thrilled to be upping the visitor count for the deck – so much so we’ve added our next stretch goal to give us another 3 more later in the campaign.  Please help us to reach these goals by sharing the project

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One of these new visitors will be modeled by our lucky Insta competition winner! We’ve brought the announcement date forward for this comp to next Monday 3rd October – as we’re making space for more giveaways in the coming weeks!

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Finally, but most importantly – a huge THANK YOU!!! to everyone who has shown their support so far! We’re already so far ahead in this journey thanks to all of your contributions <3

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Hey everyone!

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So happy we’re still going well with the campaign – we’re nearly at the next stretch goal which will unlock 3 new visitors to add to the gorgeous bunch we have already!

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Tying into this very theme, we’ve just launched a new competition for all of our Insta fans! We’re giving away the chance to be in the game – drawn as one of our characters by Jose!

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If you want to participate check out the post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci7zXazIfaW/

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For a bit more info about the competition, you can see the info page on our website: https://gaysaunatheboardgame.com/insta-competition/.

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We’re already looking into further competitions outside of Instagram as we know not all of you are insta-fans, and we’ll announce as soon as we have more news.

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Take care everyone!

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Adrian x

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We’ve reached over 100 backers – thank you all so much for your support!

At over 300% of our original goal, we’re thrilled to be bringing this project to life. It’s not even nearly over yet though – we’ve been working on our paid outreach which is starting to work well, and have a series of organic campaigns upcoming including an Instagram competition where we’ll be giving the chance to be drawn by our very own artist and be included as a visitor in the game!

Follow us on Instagram at @saunagame and stay tuned for the announcement to participate.

Amongst all this are some artist creation videos showing the live recording of Jose at work drawing our gorgeous visitor artwork. First up, it’s the hunky Jock!

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Hey everyone, so closing on the second 24 hour period and we’re well over the 250% mark!

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This means we’ve not only unlocked the custom player board Stretch Goal, but we also revealed another upcoming Stretch Goal: Upgraded Dice!!!

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We also got a present today from our lovely Artist Jose! He’s sent over a very much improved version of our How to Play video for the campaign page:

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Thanks you once again for all of the support so far! We can’t wait to make this happen!

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A question came up about the Lights On – Bar sequence at the end of the game, so I figured it would make sense to add some of the thinking and story behind this to clarify and maybe also help me refine the rules a bit further.

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The Story

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During the game, players are spending time going from one cruising area to the next. Occasionally it can all get a bit much, so spending time at the bar can give you a moment’s peace from all the intense flirting.

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However, there’s also a game going on, so while they’re grabbing a drink, players can also invest a bit of time chatting to the visitors who are watching from the sidelines.

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When the players are finished and heading home, they drop by the bar in a last attempt to lure one or more of these visitors back home with them – giving them another score or two in their epic hookup contest.

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The Mechanics

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Introduced as a way to provide alternative scoring possibilities outside of cruising room flirting to help players either catch up to a runaway leader, or for when the visitors in the room don’t provide any (good) matches.

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During a player’s turn they can choose 2 of 4 actions available to them, where one of these is placing a bar token on one of the spaces at the bar. This typically becomes the second most valuable thing you can do during your turn after you have hooked up – assuming sufficient horniness and mischief cards.

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Each space can have multiple tokens placed one on top of the next. Giving advantages to the most recent player (top of the pile).

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At the end of the game, the spaces at the bar are transitioned into visitors from the deck and laid out on the board as the “final cruising area” to play through.

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Now players work through each stack of bar tokens, top to bottom on seat 1, then 2 etc, until all tokens have been spent.

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Tokens can be spent in one of 3 ways:

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1. Flirt with the visitor on the space

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2. Swap any visitor on any space with a fresh one from the deck

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3. Move or remove any bar token – typically you move (a different) one of your own tokens to a more advantageous space, or remove a token from the player who’s the biggest competition.

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Flirting with visitors at the bar also is a little different:

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• You ignore your own preferences, but they still need to consent to your tribe

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• You ignore all horniness

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• You don’t roll the sex dice

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• You can’t use your item, but you can use any remaining Mischief Cards you have

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Ultimately this is a final round of potential scoring that brings a lot of tension for the winning spot as well as a final moment to mess around and heavily impact and influence the other players.

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The introduction of the round has been a huge success – although it took quite some iterations to get to this version that worked smoothly and wasn’t too overpowered compared to the rest of the game.

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We already plan on having the details about what players can do during this round more readily available – either as part of the player boards or as a reference card along with other useful summaries like the dice roll tables.

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So that’s how it works! I hope this helps clarify a bit more. Happy to hear any feedback or thoughts on the phase or how we might be able to portray this as effectively as possible within the game rules.

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