Hexy Models: Attention, Officers! The Hard City Police Department announces that the campaign ends in less than 24 hours from now. We are just about to hit $37 000 mark and are very close to $38 000, which means unlocking another Stretch Goal - extra Mutant miniatures! Check the full update here
Hexy Models: Attention, Officers! The HCPD wishes to inform you that we are now in the final 48 hours of our campaign! Who will win the fight on Hard City streets, the brave Officers or the evil mastermind Doctor Zero? Check the full update here
Hexy Models: Attention, Officers! The HCPD wishes to inform you that mission Essen has been successfully accomplished and that our campaign is soon entering its last 48 hours. We are back from the fair and we have a lot of good news for you today! First of all, we've unlocked the last social stretch goal, which means that Chief of Police MacArthur reports for duty today. How do you like his miniature? Check the full Kickstarter here
Hexy Models: Attention, Officers! The HCPD issues the last update before our mission in Essen, Germany begins! First of all, answering your suggestions, we decided to broaden our Facebook Social Stretch Goal to also include Twitter! Therefore, you have already unlocked the first SSG (over 3000 FB likes/Twitter followers) and you're getting extra Blast Trick cards! And we only need 278 Facebook fans and Twitter followers combined to include Chief of Police MacArthur as an KS-exclusive Ally. Challenge accepted, Officers? The BGG Stretch Goal got unlocked just before the weekend, and we didn't even show you the miniature of reporter Kathie Jones, so let us make up for it now - meet the new KS-exclusive Ally! Check the full update here
Hexy Models: Attention, Officers! The Hard City Police Department comes back with another report for you. First of all, we'd like to share some great news regarding solo and full co-op gameplay. As you know, Hard City originated as a "1 vs all" game and this remains its primary mode, but answering our backers' requests, we are also working on the design of solo and fully co-operative gameplay. Our team has been joined by a specialist in this field, our friend and long-time collaborator (you may even hear his voice in the trailer video!), Błażej Kubacki of NSKN Games - the designer of Mistfall and Chronicles of Frost. He is preparing the solo and co-op rules that will make use of a completely new set of cards and tokens, controllng the game's AI. We will keep you updated about the progress, and please give Błażej a warm welcome to the HCPD in the comments!
The second important announcement today is that all of you who are attening the game show SPIEL in Essen this week will be able to meet us and play the Hard City prototpe at our booth 6-F110. Please come by and share your feedback, meeting fellow Officers will be a pleasure for our whole team. We are there throughout the whole event, starting on Thursday (25th October) morning, until the gates are closed on Sunday (28th October)! We are taking Hard City with us, but we will also have our first game, Star Scrappes: Cave-in for sale with a special SPIEL discount! See you all! PS. Due to this almost a week's long trip to Germany, we might be a bit slower answering your comments and messages, so please be patient, we'll do our best to keep in touch!
Hexy Models: Attention, Officers! The Hard City Police Department comes back with the first 4 days' report. To begin with, we would like to express our gratitude to every single backer who has helped us fund the game and unlock the first two stretch goals! Today a new character, movie star Aaron "Lucky" Kaufmann, enters the stage! Check the full update here
Hexy Models: Attention, Officers! The Hard City Police Department wishes to inform you that we are only seven Hard Sets away from unlocking the second stretch goal and including movie star Aaron "Lucky" Kaufmann as a playable character in the game. Read the full update if you want to know his story!
Hexy Models: First stretch goal unlocked, new stretch goals and add-ons announced. And even more good news! Attention, Officers! The Hard City Police Department comes back to you with a 48h report. First of all, we would like to thank again all our great backers and congratulate you on unlocking the first stretch goal.
Thanks to your support we will be able to include three extra Equipment cards in the game! Also, as many of you were encouraging us to show some more upcoming SGs, have a look below at what the HCPD has prepared for the next days of the campaign. The vote for a new SG character is now over and you have chosen movie star Aaron "Lucky" Kaufmann to be the next playable character included in the game for free if we hit the $35 000 stretch goal. Hyper Augmented Rescue Detective aka H.A.R.D.Man becomes now an add-on, available for purchase for $6. Check the full update for more news and information here
Hexy Models: Hard City loved and funded, vote for a new SG character begins! Attention, Officers! The Hard City Police Department wishes to inform you that our game has been funded on day one and the first step to victory over Doctor Zero was made. Thank you very much for your support, you are awesome and we love you!
We did not manage to hit the First 24h Challenge, so Blast the Police Dog miniature becomes now an add-on, available for just $3 (a component upgrade only, Blast card and token are already in the box!). Get one and contribute to unlocking cool Stretch Goals! To get more stuff and defeat the evil mastermind once and for all, we still need more Officers on the task force!
Finally, we would like to invite you to take part in the first of the whole series of votes that are going to take place during the campaign. In each voting two new characters will be presented and you will be choosing your favorite. The winner will be included in the game box for free as a Stretch Goal and the other character will become an add-on. available for purchase as soon as the Stretch Goal gets unlocked. Sounds good? Okay, so who's your favorite in the first pair? Check the full update here
Hexy Models relaunched their eagerly-awaited Hard City Miniature Board Game Kickstarter today and already made a great start with more than half of the initial funding goal reached!
The Hard City Police Department needs you! Here's why you should join the force - or become an evil genius - right now! By pledging... You're helping us bring an awesome game to life, and make Hard City better for everyone! You're getting a nostalgic ride with a robust, modern game engine under its neon-drenched hood! You're receiving everything in one package - others will have to hunt down Kickstarter bonuses separately! You're joining the ranks of people passionate about what made the 80's unforgettable, and a part of our culture forever!
Become a police officer and enter the rainy, neon-lit streets of Hard City. Stop the evil mastermind Doctor Zero, shoot mutants, rescue civilians, and blast some cool synth music really loud, while driving your Chevrolet. You will be given a whole arsenal of weapons and various items that will help you withstand until reinforcements arrive. Or become Doctor Zero himself, send your minions to the streets of the city, fight the officers, and finally take control of the whole metropolis! Who will survive on the streets of mayhem?
Protect the innocent civilians of Hard City while the nefarious Doctor Zero and his Mutant henchmen cause havoc across the city. Play as the outnumbered but brave Hard City Police Department to halt the Mutant menace and defeat Doctor Zero in Hexy Models latest board game now funding on Kickstarter here!
Playing Hard City - The Miniature Board Game
Hard City is an asymmetrical miniature board game of tactical conflict on the mean streets of a mutant-infested town. As Police Officers players spend Action Points (yes, AP markers are shaped as donuts!) to move, shoot, tackle hideous mutants in close combat, and to evacuate hapless civilians.
Each turn only one Officer is activated. Then the devious Doctor Zero gets to act, playing cards to command his mutated horde. Cards from his Chaos deck can always be used in one of two ways: either to apply their text or to use their Basic Actions printed on the bottom of the card. This allows the not so good Doctor to spawn and move his mutated minions, attack civilians, and Officers, and to perform special actions like Garbage Throw, Sinister Laughter or Evil Masterplan. Too far out to appear on the board himself, Doctor Zero has a card or a mutant for any job!
The streets of Hard City are dangerous, but the HCPD Officers are a bunch of tough guys and gals. In fact, they are way too tough to die! If an Officer's Hit Points are reduced to 0, he or she is just knocked down until the next round, but also gets an It's Not Over Yet! card, which means things will be more difficult for this character in the future. Each knockdown also brings Doctor Zero one step closer to victory, but our heroes have some tricks of their own up their sleeves! Each time a total of 10 Mutants are eliminated, the Officers not only score on the Victory Track but also level up and gain an awesome Skill Card.
Oh, did we mention that the game is divided into episodes, which all have a different setup, special rules and winning conditions? They collectively tell the full story of radical action and adventure in Hard City! Filled with Easter eggs and cinematic references, Hard City will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last episode! And even if our heroes beat Doctor Zero, he may still return for a sequel!
Speaking of cinematic awesomeness, you will find it not only in the art and style of the game but also deep within the mechanisms of Hard City! To make your experience even more cinematic, we created a unique cutscene mechanism that the Officers may use while fighting mutants!
Each Hard City episode comes with a selection of cutscenes, visualized on a separate track and representing crucial moments in the plot. The events in each cutscene are triggered once per game after the Officers have met the scene's requirements. You may choose any scene that is further on the track than the current one, but remember to choose wisely. Once you go ahead, you can't go back!
The Hard City Heroes and Villains Miniatures!
The Hard City Board Game contains plenty of cool miniatures, skill cards, equipment tokens, chaos cards, folded game board, 4 exciting episodes and more than 60 other illustrated tokens representing donuts, civilians and scenery! The Hard City Board Game contains 24 plastic 32mm scaled miniatures featuring 4 unique heroes of the Hard City Police Department starring Captain Nails Miranda Casey, Sergeant Donathan Johnson, Furious Nurse Jenny Takabura and last but not least the tough-looking Marcellus Hammer facing no less than 20 of Doctor Zero's Evil Mutant Henchmen in four different sculptures!
When I first saw the preview pictures of the Hard City Board Game, I was truly impressed by the quality of the artwork and the digital sculpting of the miniatures. Which is simply superb with these cool miniatures oozing with character and sculpted in great-looking dynamic poses worthy of any 80's B class action movie cast - beat the living heck out of those Mutants with Marcellus Hammer!
Check the Hard City Board Game Kickstarter here for more information and make sure to pledge today if you want the free 'Blast' Hard City Police Department Dog Companion! Let's together unlock some cool stretch goals and make Hard City The Board Game a great miniature tabletop industry success!
A new day is dawning over Hard City, no one has to be the bad guy anymore... We are very proud to announce that our game will also feature a fully co-operative gameplay mode, which so many of you requested in the comments. So now Hard City is both a 1 vs All and full co-op game, and yes, we are also thinking about solo!
Secondly, we have another Social Stretch Goal for you. The first one got unlocked yesterday, so instead of black and white comic book art on Skill cards you will get it in full color. Thanks for sharing our FB post over 50 times! You wanted alternative Civilian sculpts, so come and get them! Go here, leave a comment and tag a friend. After 50 comments, we will include four male and four female Civilians in each Hard Set. Deal?
On the top of the campaign page you may also see the full content of the Hard Set pledge now, even the items that have not been unlocked yet. We want you to see what is still to come, but to be able to actually include all these goodies in the game, we need more recruits! So please share the link to our campaign and FB fanpage, spread the word and tell your friends how awesome Hard City is. And how more awesome it will get with them on board! Check the Kickstarter for the Facebook links
Hexy Models added some interesting normal and social media stretch goals to their popular Hard City Miniature Board Game Kickstarter including the already announced FUBAR mutant, new episode cutscenes and a plastic Police Car!
The Hard City Police Department is here to serve you and listens to the citizens' voice! Persuaded by your feedback, we decided to make adjustments to our Stretch Goals. FUBAR's attack is closer than ever before, and this big green miniature will be added to each core box as soon as we reach $50 000, then you will get new cutscenes for each Episode at $55 000. Following your comments, we also got rid of the cardboard Police Car, adding an awesome plastic Police Car model to every Civilian Set at $60 000. Check the full Kickstarter here
There is even more good news, are you ready? We are launching Social Stretch Goals today! The first task for you is to share this image on Facebook at least 50 times. What's the reward? Color artwork on Skill cards. The current version is inspired by black and white comic book sketches, but if you want it in full color, show it to us by sharing the FB post and we will make our artists do it! Share your love for our game with others! Like our fanpage, join the official FB group, follow us on Twitter and add the game to your BoardGameGeek wishlist. Let's make Hard City streets a safer place together.
Hexy Models' Hard City Miniature Boardgame Kickstarter has been funded for well over 160% of its initial funding goal. Hexy Models now also released a retailler pledge along with a The Dice Tower review and more information about Hard City!
First 48h Report: FAQ, The Dice Tower preview, info for retailers and more story on the page! Hello Rectruits, enjoying your weekend? We certainly are. Our campaign is at 160% on its third day and we have some exciting announcements to share with you! First of all, we created the campaign's FAQ. If you are a new backer looking for some specific information and you do not want to dig through over 100 comments, look here first. Maybe we had already answered your question before you asked it!
Secondly, if you are a game store owner wishing to support Hard City, we have a special offer for you. Just email us about the details. Another Hard City video was also published today. Mark Streed from the mighty Dice Tower had a look at the prototype of our game and totally loved it!
Last but not least - the story. Hard City is a heavily thematic game with an immersive story divided into Episodes, cutscenes, pop cultural references, Easter eggs, etc. We feel as if we have presented too little of that so far. You know that there is Doctor Zero, the Officers, the mutants, but what is actually the background for the events presented in the game? How did it all begin? Check out the bottom of About the Game section. Have fun reading! PS. Have you already joined our official Facebook group, Hard City Player Department?
Hexy Models' Hard City Kickstarter unlocked the first new miniature, the loyal Blast Police Dog which is a Kickstarter exclusive miniature now available as add on. Following as new stretch goal is the free FUBAR - massive mutant miniature!
The Hard City Police Department wants to thank you all, brave citizens fighting together with us for the first 24 hours of the campaign. Hard City has been funded in an amazing time of under 7 hours, with two stretch goals unlocked so far! Thanks to your support, each core box will include a completely new Episode with Tesla Coil tokens and unique Cutscenes, as well as extra Skill cards to make your team's level ups even more exciting! After the first day of the project, we also have a new add-on for you: Blast, the police dog with the Blast sheet and special Trick cards.
Finally, a new stretch goal is now within sight. Well, it's quite big, so it would be hard not to see it anyway. If we manage to reach $60 000, each core box will also feature the huge, the ugly, the one – FUBAR, a new mutant with his own special rules! Spread the word, share the love for Hard City! Show our campaign to your friends, family and local police officers, as every new backer brings us closer to unlock this awesome green miniature for all of you - don't let it be gray anymore!
The popular Hexy Models' Hard City Miniature Board Game Kickstarter has been funded in less than 7 hours! Make sure to pledge today as imminent stretch goals will be revealed soon.
That has been a bit stressful, but most of all – awesome 7 hours. Thanks to your incredible support we reached the main funding goal at the very early stage of the campaign! The Hard City Police Department would like to express its utmost gratitude to all the brave citizens who made this possible. But our common fight against Doctor Zero is far from over yet! It has just begun...
Become a police officer and enter the rainy, neon-lit streets of Hard City. Stop the evil mastermind Doctor Zero, shoot mutants, rescue civilians, and blast some cool synth music really loud, while driving your Chevrolet. You will be given a whole arsenal of weapons and various items that will help you withstand until reinforcements arrive. Or become Doctor Zero himself, send your minions to the streets of the city, fight the officers, and finally take control of the whole metropolis! Who will survive on the streets of mayhem?
Check the popular Hard City Miniature Board Game Kickstarter here
Hexy Models launched their eagerly-awaited Hard City Miniature Board Game Kickstarter today and already made a great start with more than one third of the initial funding goal reached!
The Hard City Police Department needs you! Here's why you should join the force - or become an evil genius - right now! By pledging... You're helping us bring an awesome game to life, and make Hard City better for everyone! You're getting a nostalgic ride with a robust, modern game engine under its neon-drenched hood! You're receiving everything in one package - others will have to hunt down Kickstarter bonuses separately! You're joining the ranks of people passionate about what made the 80's unforgettable, and a part of our culture forever!
Become a police officer and enter the rainy, neon-lit streets of Hard City. Stop the evil mastermind Doctor Zero, shoot mutants, rescue civilians, and blast some cool synth music really loud, while driving your Chevrolet. You will be given a whole arsenal of weapons and various items that will help you withstand until reinforcements arrive. Or become Doctor Zero himself, send your minions to the streets of the city, fight the officers, and finally take control of the whole metropolis! Who will survive on the streets of mayhem?
Protect the innocent civilians of Hard City while the nefarious Doctor Zero and his Mutant henchmen cause havoc across the city. Play as the outnumbered but brave Hard City Police Department to halt the Mutant menace and defeat Doctor Zero in Hexy Models latest board game now funding on Kickstarter here!
Playing Hard City - The Miniature Board Game
Hard City is an asymmetrical miniature board game of tactical conflict on the mean streets of a mutant-infested town. As Police Officers players spend Action Points (yes, AP markers are shaped as donuts!) to move, shoot, tackle hideous mutants in close combat, and to evacuate hapless civilians.
Each turn only one Officer is activated. Then the devious Doctor Zero gets to act, playing cards to command his mutated horde. Cards from his Chaos deck can always be used in one of two ways: either to apply their text or to use their Basic Actions printed on the bottom of the card. This allows the not so good Doctor to spawn and move his mutated minions, attack civilians, and Officers, and to perform special actions like Garbage Throw, Sinister Laughter or Evil Masterplan. Too far out to appear on the board himself, Doctor Zero has a card or a mutant for any job!
The streets of Hard City are dangerous, but the HCPD Officers are a bunch of tough guys and gals. In fact, they are way too tough to die! If an Officer's Hit Points are reduced to 0, he or she is just knocked down until the next round, but also gets an It's Not Over Yet! card, which means things will be more difficult for this character in the future. Each knockdown also brings Doctor Zero one step closer to victory, but our heroes have some tricks of their own up their sleeves! Each time a total of 10 Mutants are eliminated, the Officers not only score on the Victory Track but also level up and gain an awesome Skill Card.
Oh, did we mention that the game is divided into episodes, which all have a different setup, special rules and winning conditions? They collectively tell the full story of radical action and adventure in Hard City! Filled with Easter eggs and cinematic references, Hard City will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last episode! And even if our heroes beat Doctor Zero, he may still return for a sequel!
Speaking of cinematic awesomeness, you will find it not only in the art and style of the game but also deep within the mechanisms of Hard City! To make your experience even more cinematic, we created a unique cutscene mechanism that the Officers may use while fighting mutants!
Each Hard City episode comes with a selection of cutscenes, visualized on a separate track and representing crucial moments in the plot. The events in each cutscene are triggered once per game after the Officers have met the scene's requirements. You may choose any scene that is further on the track than the current one, but remember to choose wisely. Once you go ahead, you can't go back!
The Hard City Heroes and Villains Miniatures!
The Hard City Board Game contains plenty of cool miniatures, skill cards, equipment tokens, chaos cards, folded game board, 4 exciting episodes and more than 60 other illustrated tokens representing donuts, civilians and scenery! The Hard City Board Game contains 24 plastic 32mm scaled miniatures featuring 4 unique heroes of the Hard City Police Department starring Captain Nails Miranda Casey, Sergeant Donathan Johnson, Furious Nurse Jenny Takabura and last but not least the tough-looking Marcellus Hammer facing no less than 20 of Doctor Zero's Evil Mutant Henchmen in four different sculptures!
When I first saw the preview pictures of the Hard City Board Game, I was truly impressed by the quality of the artwork and the digital sculpting of the miniatures. Which is simply superb with these cool miniatures oozing with character and sculpted in great-looking dynamic poses worthy of any 80's B class action movie cast - beat the living heck out of those Mutants with Marcellus Hammer!
Check the Hard City Board Game Kickstarter here for more information and make sure to pledge today if you want the free 'Blast' Hard City Police Department Dog Companion! Let's together unlock some cool stretch goals and make Hard City The Board Game a great miniature tabletop industry success!
