{"id":2073,"date":"2011-08-28T18:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T00:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2011-08-28T18:21:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T00:21:50","slug":"scurvy-dogs-pirates-and-privateers-sail-the-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2011\/08\/scurvy-dogs-pirates-and-privateers-sail-the-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Scurvy Dogs: Pirates and Privateers Sail the Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Gendron, who had never designed a board game, has just designed <em>Scurvy Dogs: Pirates and Privateers Sail the Seas<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PIRATE001_1313685000.jpg\" alt=\"Darren Gendron, left, Alex Chambers and Ralph Pripstein play Scurvy Dogs\" title=\"Darren Gendron, left, Alex Chambers and Ralph Pripstein play Scurvy Dogs\" width=\"296\" height=\"205\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2074\" \/><br \/>\nHas the project got sea-legs? It probably does now, thanks to favorable coverage in <em>The Washington Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDarren Gendron sees an opportunity &#8212; a niche, really &#8212; that he believes he can seize. It involves board games. It involves Gendron becoming a part of your Wednesday game night, entering the collective cultural consciousness through the living room. It involves pirates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Once the purview of larger game companies, such as Parker Brothers and Hasbro, game design is opening itself up to passionate, niche hobbyists.<\/p>\n<p>Gendron wants to self-publish his game, and he estimates that he\u2019ll need $20,000 to get it off the ground, through a micro\u00adinvesting site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\">Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has one week left to raise the money that might allow him to achieve the dream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/pirate-board-game-creator-rolls-the-dice-on-a-jolly-good-pastime\/2011\/08\/18\/gIQAFh7hlJ_story.html\">Monica Hesse @ Washington Post<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Gendron, who had never designed a board game, has just designed Scurvy Dogs: Pirates and Privateers Sail the Seas. Has the project got sea-legs? It probably does now, thanks to favorable coverage in The Washington Post: Darren Gendron sees an opportunity &#8212; a niche, really &#8212; that he believes he can seize. It involves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}