Why are Historical Games so Crunchy? | Design Club

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Good time zone, internet. Hello and welcome to Design Club, the only game design show on the internet where it's Kickstarter launch day. We're having tech problems, but we're here to talk to you about crunchy historical games. I am your humble design club host, Will, joined as always by my pal Jeff. Say hi

to the people, Jeff. >> Hi to the people, Jeff. Hey, everybody. Welcome to our third Kickstarter day.

But for right now, our design club day. If we're looking a little frazzled, it's because we had a Kickstarter go up this morning. We did a three-hour live stream that I believe for the first time had Twitch and Extra Credits and Extra History all streaming at the exact same time with Will managing multiple guests

coming on to talk about it. >> Um, >> which is no small feat. And then because of course it did. We had weird tech things showed up. My internet decided it didn't want to internet. But none of that really matters for now. Though being the studio director, I'm going to do my studio director hat for a moment

and say we have a Kickstarter live. If you would like one of our beautiful upcoming 2027 history happens everyday calendars to match your collection of our 2025 and our 2026 one.

>> Yes, >> those it is available right now. Um we'll I'm sure there'll be a link in chat or you can just Google extra history Kickstarter.

>> Y >> and if that inspires you to get one of our 2026 calendars, they're currently half off because we're halfway through the year.

>> Excellent. Excellent. Uh, >> and studio director hat off, game designer hat on. Since we have a history thing going on, Will and I chatted and decided it might be fun to talk about historical video games and a particular thing we noticed.

>> Yeah. >> Which is they awfully crunchy. >> That is correct. >> And we'll get to that. But you wanted to say something, Will, before I said that.

Oh, I just wanted to mention to you and to everyone else that while we were having technical problems, we crossed our latest um stretch goal and we are at $21,264, which means that we have added more digital art, more links, more cool stuff to the calendar. Um, >> I am going to bring up a Kickstarter

page on my second Kickstarter. >> Yeah, >> extra history. I want to see how we're doing it after we talk.