July Update: New Kickstarter, Roll20 Update
5 months ago – Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 06:11:50 AM

New Project: The Armory

Today we launched our first Gamefound project to support The Armory: The Ultimate Guide to Modern Weapons. Inspired by d20 Modern’s Weapons Locker, we promise that this book will be the most comprehensive modern-day arms supplement of its kind. You can find the link here.

What's In It?

The 250+ page supplement boasts over 700 modern-day weapons, armor, and equipment ranging from firearms to explosives to melee weapons. The weapons categories include: 

• Pistols
• Rifles
• Shotguns
• Sub-Machine Guns
• Grenades
• Heavy Ordinance
• Melee Weapons
• And Unorthodox Arms

No matter what year your game is being played, we have the perfect weapon for you. The book contains armaments from every modern-day era and beyond with weapons ranging from the 19th to the late 21st century. 

The book also contains stat blocks for shields, body armor, and special equipment. It gives you the tools to translate your favorite weapon into an in-game item.

5e Compatible

The Armory is made for the Everyday Heroes system, but will also be compatible with any 5th edition game. Want to bring a Keltec KSG Pump Action Shotgun into your fantasy game? Or pull out a Carl Gustav m/45 Submachine gun to lay out a Cthulhu from beyond? Perhaps you want to show off your collector’s edition Desert Eagle to your fellow Space Marines. Either way, this supplement is for you.

On Roll20 and Foundry

The items will be available in print format, digital format, and VTTs such as Roll20 and Foundry. 

Pledge Today

The Gamefound project goes live on July 9th, 2024, and ends on August 5th. You can find the link here.

Cinematic Adventures on Roll20

We've begun the process of making the Roll20 conversions for the 6 remaining Cinematic Adventures. We're excited to bring these to those who've been expecting the Roll20 versions of these adventures!

June Update: Flashy Badges, Roll20 Update, Origins Events, and a New Crowdfunding Project!
5 months ago – Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 09:41:40 AM

Hello Evil Backers,

Here is your June update from Evil Genius Games

Early Backer Status

We want to reward you all for being early backers and the cornerstone of our success. Next time you log onto our official website expect to see an "Early Backer" badge and a permanent 10% discount on everything in the store. Over time expect to enjoy even more perks through the website. This is our thank you to you. 

Foundry

We've now released the final Cinematic Adventure. So all 8 adventures should not be released and in your hands. They are also available on Foundry. Please let us know if you have not received them yet.

Roll20

You've spoken and we listened. We've finally worked out a deal with Roll20 to release PDF-plus versions of the remaining 6 Cinematic Adventures. This means that we will provide all of the adventures, notes, and tokens for each CA. And we think we can make these available within the next few months. Stay tuned!

We're at Origins

Please join us June 19th-23rd in Columbus OH for Origins Game Fair. Stop by booth #315 and say hi to our friendly staff. And while you're at it, please join us for one of the 90+ events we're hosting at the show. Click here.

Highlander Tournament at Origins

Don't forget to register for the Highlander: The Dark Gathering tournament. We start with just 64 characters, but in the end there can be only one. Compete for a replica sword from the movie. Special guest Adrial Paul will be the Master of Ceremonies and cheer you on. We have spots still available.

New Gamefound Project: The Armory

On July 9th, we will be launching our 3rd crowdfunding project for The Armory. The Armory will be, without a doubt, the most comprehensive 5e-compatible weapons guide ever released. It will provide stats for over 700+ firearms, melee weapons, and related equipment. Get a FREE adventure when you sign up for notifications.

We chose to run this project on Gamefound because we can only do one Kickstarter a year and we wanted it to be focused on Intergalactic Heroes. Also, we've heard good things about Gamefound and were excited to give it a try. 

Sample Weapons

Here are some sample weapons from the book!

March Update
8 months ago – Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 07:50:17 AM

This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.

February Shipping Updates: We're at the end
9 months ago – Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 01:00:30 PM

Hello Evil Backers,

Thank you again for your support. What a feat to deliver 10 products in a such a short period of time. I'm really glad to hear how much you enjoy these games. We couldn't have gotten this far without you. Here are a few updates for your February!

Shipping Update

We're awfully close to having this game into everyone's hot little hands. Here is a quick update by region:

• North and South America (Excluding Canada) - Everything should be shipped. If you don't have it, check back in with us at [email protected].
• Canada - We had to send replacement product to our distributor (Bliss) on Feb 12. They have confirmed receipt of the product and they expect to send them out this week. 
• (Australia/Asia)  The last orders this region were shipped by Let’s Play Games on Feb 3. You should now all have received your product. If not, please check back in with us at [email protected].
• The last UK shipment (Spiral Galaxy) was scheduled for yesterday. If you don't have it already, it should be there soon.

Roll20 Update

We've been working with the folks at Roll20 to fix the remaining issues with the implementation. If successful, our goal is to continue to support the core system so that all of you Roll20 (this includes me) fans can continue to enjoy the game on their VTT.

Once this is done, we'll turn back to the Cinematic Adventures and see which ones we think we can launch as well. The key challenge, I've learned, is that drag and drop won't be automated, making it a poor user experience. 

Once this is cleared up, we can begin processing refunds or Foundry credits for any Roll20 CAs we don't launch. 

Thanks for your patience!

January Shipping Updates - The Vault Just Released from Customs, Goodbye Roll20, Hello Foundry
11 months ago – Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 08:24:42 PM

Hey everyone!

Happy New Year everyone. Here is January's update. 

Shipping Update

Quick update on the final leg of our Kickstarter campaign! We are very near the finish line and are excited for you to have all of our products in your hands.

The final product we need to finish the Kickstarter is the physical version of The Vault. This is en route to our various warehouses worldwide as we speak.

Now, for what you are here for: When will your products ship?

North and South America (excluding Canada):  Due to congestion delays from holiday shipping traffic the Vault is landing later than we anticipated. The shipment was stuck in Detroit for several days for an examination, which was just completed today. We expect this to finally be delivered to our US warehouse tomorrow (Friday 1/5). With the Vault arriving at our warehouse tomorrow we expect to begin filling backer orders starting on Wednesday 1/10!

Canada: Yours will take a bit longer. Once the Vault arrives at our main warehouse we will ship yours to our partner in Canada, who in turn will ship to you. This is how we are able to keep the shipping costs lower. We will let you know when we have a more clear date, but we are likely a couple of weeks out from our Canadian partner shipping to you.

Rest of World: We're expecting your copies of the Vault will land to our international warehouses over the next couple of days. We are hoping to ship your orders starting late next week.

These timelines apply to The Vault and to anything else you backed in our first Kickstarter Campaign. If you opted for single-wave shipping and purchased The Vault, all of your items will ship in this batch.

Thanks for your patience during this final leg of our campaign. Unfortunately, we cannot control US Customs. The Vault is well worth the wait!

Virtual Tabletops

As part of the Kickstarter campaign, we sold Roll20 versions of our Cinematic Adventures. We were excited about releasing these VTT extensions along with our official partner - Roll20 - who promised to do the conversion. However, as many of you experienced, the Roll20 implementation of Everyday Heroes did not meet expectations. Because of this, we paused the development of future Cinematic Adventures on Roll20 beyond the two we released (The Crow and Escape From New York). 

On the other hand, everyone has been extremely happy with the Foundry implementation. The implementation (completed by Jeff Hitchcock) has met our standards of quality and demonstrates the kind of VTT experience we want all of you to have. 

Therefore we are going to exchange your purchased Roll20 products with Foundry products instead. Anyone who bought both the Roll20 and Foundry products will receive store credit for those Foundry purchases. If you're a die-hard Roll20 fan like I was, I recommend trying Foundry. Here is the release schedule for the Foundry products:

• Escape From New York - released
• The Crow - released
• Kong Skull Island - released
• Pacific Rim - January 2024
• Total Recall  - February 2024
• Highlander - March 2024
• Rambo - April 2024
• Universal Soldier - May 2024

We'll work over the next 30 days to get these products out to everyone.

Join Our Organized Play!

I want to thank all of you for your support of our first Kickstarter. I hope you are having as much fun playing our game as we had playing it. If you can't find players, then no fear. We're launching our organized play program this month. Sign up now to be GMs, Volunteers, and Players.