Kerberos Productions: Free 3D Printable Science Fiction - The Pit Board Game Kickstarter Miniatures

Kerberos Productions: Kerberos Productions, the makers of the classic 4X Space game Sword of the Stars, have launched their new tabletop division with a unique promo campaign: free 3D miniatures for your home printer.

The Pit: The Board Game is the team’s first project for the tabletop gaming market, a science fiction dungeon crawler with cooperative play and custom minis. To promote the crowdfunding campaign for the game, the team has made 3D print files for their colorful sci-fi characters available for free on Thingiverse. Check the free miniatures here

Today’s free files are a squad of four Space Marine minis, featuring a variety of creative Army Men poses, including the classic Prone Rifleman and Kneeling Rifleman from the Tim Mee toys of the 1960's. Kerberos artist John Yakimow has translated the lively characters and monsters of the original video game into board game miniatures using a FormLabs Form 2 (3D) printer for prototyping.

The Pit Board Game Kickstarter is currently ongoing, and offers a Base Game with four custom miniatures, 32 custom dice, over 700 cards, and a variety of other game pieces for CAN$65, a little over USD $50 or €42. The full collection of 3D print files for all Characters and monsters in the game can be added to the Base Game for USD $118/ € 93. Check the Kickstarter here

Kerberos Productions: Print Your Own Minis With Kerberos Productions

Kerberos Productions: The future is now! Kerberos Productions launches their new board games division by offering 3D printing files to the audience.

The line between Pixels, Paper and Plastic is growing increasingly thin, and many devs for video games, television and film are translating their 3D modeling skills from the small screen to the tabletop market. Kerberos Productions, the developers of Sword of the Stars, Kaiju-a-Gogo and Sword of the Stars; The Pit, are joining the 3D revolution with the launch of their new board games division. Their first tabletop project is The Pit Board Game, a cooperative dungeon crawler which features the colorful player characters and epic monsters of the Sword of the Stars universe. Check the Kickstarter here

To create the miniatures for the game, artist John Yakimow sculpted his video game characters using 3D art programs and a FormLabs Form 2 printer. His team is continuing its long history of empowering their audience by offering their supporters the 3D files from the game to print their own minis at home. Files for printing will be provided in STL format, which is compatible with most 3D printing platforms. The files are available as part of the Engineer Pledge Level on the company's Kickstarter.