Blade Runner: The Next Million Dollar Kickstarter?

Free League's Blade Runner Kickstarter has just launched, and is tearing through stretch goals after funding in just 3 minutes. It looks very likely that this will be the company's second million dollar Kickstarter (following last year's The One Ring campaign, which raised over $2M). It will also be the third million dollar Kickstarter in the last month, following Matt Colville's Flee Mortals!, and Monte Cook Games' Old Gods of Appalachia.

Blade Runner was voted the Most Anticipated TTRPG of 2022 by readers of EN World right here.

Free League's other million dollar Kickstarter, The One Ring, did $521K on the first day and finished with $2M. Compared to the other million dollar campaigns in the last few weeks --

• Flee Mortals! did $788K on the first day.
• Old Gods of Appalachia did $679K on the first day.
• Only one campaign has done $1M+ on day 1, and that was Avatar Legends with $1.15M on the first day.

Check Out These Bladerunner RPG Previews

Free League has shared some previews of its Bladerunner RPG, which comes to Kickstarter next week on May 3rd and looks very likely to be the third million dollar Kickstarter in the last month.

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BLADE RUNNER – The Roleplaying Game

Walk the neon-noir streets of Los Angeles 2037 in the official BLADE RUNNER RPG from Free League Publishing and Alcon Entertainment.

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[TerraDave]

It’s a novel, but you are right. It is one of the greatest novels of all time. And a rather spectacular movie, even if only loosely based on PKD’s novel.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a short novel.

Ridley Scott of course directed the movie and can certainly take credit for its then distinctive take. And of course he did Alien just a few years earlier.

Success with one Ridley Scott film based game could mean success with another. We will see.

 

[overgeeked]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a short novel.

By modern standards, sure. It was nominated as a novel for awards when it came out. It being on the short side doesn’t really matter.

Ridley Scott of course directed the movie and can certainly take credit for its then distinctive take. And of course he did Alien just a few years earlier.

It’s paranoid fiction mixed with sci-fi. Noir was the obvious way to go as it’s literally a detective story set in LA with all the nihilism and morality of a noir film.

Success with one Ridley Scott film based game could mean success with another. We will see.

And clearly a popular one. Did they do a Kickstarter for Alien? I don’t remember.

 

[Nikosandros]

And clearly a popular one. Did they do a Kickstarter for Alien? I don’t remember.

As I recall, they did not. They had a pre-order with some benefits.

 

[Nikosandros]

It’s a novel, but you are right. It is one of the greatest novels of all time. And a rather spectacular movie, even if only loosely based on PKD’s novel.

Yes, the movie and the novel are quite different. It's not only the plot or the absence of Mercerism in the movie, but, IMO, the whole reflection about being human and the role of the replicants (especially Rachel) in all of this.

 

[TerraDave]

So I what I saw when I checked was Singapore dollars. I am not in Singapore...but that is what I see.

Its still over 100 USD per pledger. But they will need a few more days to get to 1.5 million.

 

[Morrus]

So I what I saw when I checked was Singapore dollars. I am not in Singapore...but that is what I see.

You can select the currency at the bottom of the page.

But Singapore dollars? Not Swedish Krona? That's weird! I suppose they're right next to each other on the dropdown menu.

 

[Reynard]

Bladerunner was hugely influential on the visual identity of the cyberpunk genre, but I'm not sure how important it was outside aesthetic. The important themes came from DADOEC, of course, and Gibson popularized the literary form of the genre that RPGs embraced.

 

[MGibster]

Bladerunner was hugely influential on the visual identity of the cyberpunk genre, but I'm not sure how important it was outside aesthetic. The important themes came from DADOEC, of course, and Gibson popularized the literary form of the genre that RPGs embraced.

I'lll be honest with you, I enjoyed Blade Runner a lot more than I enjoyed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I've always thought of the movie as a very loose adaptation of Dick's work that essentially borrowed some concepts and went its own direction. With Alien, Free League brought in a lot of information from the movies, but also from other sources including some things that appeared in the early draft of the Alien 3 script that didn't make it into the movie. I'm a bit curious what, if any, elements from DADOEC Free League might incorporate into the game.

 

[MGibster]

Weird double post.

 

[Reynard]

I'lll be honest with you, I enjoyed Blade Runner a lot more than I enjoyed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I've always thought of the movie as a very loose adaptation of Dick's work that essentially borrowed some concepts and went its own direction. With Alien, Free League brought in a lot of information from the movies, but also from other sources including some things that appeared in the early draft of the Alien 3 script that didn't make it into the movie. I'm a bit curious what, if any, elements from DADOEC Free League might incorporate into the game.

I feel like there is a LOT more lore surrounding Alien. Not just multiple movies, but novels and comics and games. I can't recall any "expanded universe" Bladerunner stuff except the 90s PC adventure game and some recent comics from when 2047 came out.