The creators of the board game Oh My God! There’s An Axe In My Head: The Game of International Diplomacy have regained the publishing rights and launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its manufacture.
Oh My God! There’s An Axe In My Head is set in an alternate-history version of the 1920 inaugural meeting of the League of Nations, when mad axe-jugglers disrupted the diplomatic proceedings.
David Fooden formed Game Company No. 3, LLC in 2011 to publish Oh My God! There’s An Axe In My Head and future titles. Previous games by co-designers David Fooden and Chris Adams include Continuum: Roleplaying in The Yet and The Chi-Chian Roleplaying Game.
Oh My God! There’s An Axe In My Head was previously licensed by Bucephalus Games in June, 2008. After holding the license for over two years and repeatedly pushing back the release date, Bucephalus returned the publishing rights to Fooden and Adams.
Game Company No. 3 has offered to provide Bucephalus with copies of the game at cost to fulfill any un-refunded pre-orders they took while licensors, if ordered during the Kickstarter support campaign. Bucephalus has not responded to the offer at this time.
The project is off to a strong start. The official Kickstarter blog has featured Oh My God! There’s An Axe In My Head and the International Game Developers Association lists the project on the IGDA-curated Kickstarter page.
Game co-designer David Fooden will be demoing Oh My God! There’s An Axe In My Head at PAX in Seattle, August 26-28 and throughout August and September at Seattle-area game stores The Dreaming 9/4, and Card Kingdom at a later date TBD.
Wouldn’t you say the title alone would make it worth taking a look at over on Kickstarter?
