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We will be featuring communities, venues and creative gaming projects (like your KS project) that we call Spotlights. AtB Spotlights are created by conducting interviews with gamers, retailers and game designers in order to promote the industry as a whole. Our website is to remain 100% 3rd-party ad-free. This KS project and future Members will be how we keep our services active.

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The goal of this Kickstarter is to enable AtB to take the show on the road and create 10 Community and/or Venue spotlights outside the greater San Antonio area, complete with video interviews, game demos and in-depth information about your local venues and communities. AtB is currently staffed by just me, and my limited budget keeps me in San Antonio and the immediate area. AtB is intended to be a global community, not just for a single, city, state or country.

In addition to travel expense, AtB will use KS funds to obtain better recording equipment and rigs. We currently own 1 camera and need more for better quality videos and recording games. My arms are ready to fall-off after a tabletop match or tournament. Having cameras placed on rigs will not only allow for better videos, but free me up to move around, take pictures and conduct interviews while people play. This will be especially important for AtB organized events, like tournaments and meet-ups to expose new-players to new games...at least new to them.

The Around the Board Community (AtBC) Forums are under construction and will launch soon, but only AtBC Members will be able to make posts. Registration will be free, and some forums visible to all of those logged in, but only Members (and Founders from this KS) will have the opportunity to create posts promoting their projects and services. AtB Members will also have access to private areas of the forums. For example, there will be a special feedback and polls section where Members can directly shape the future of AtB. Feedback is extremely important to AtB, and we wouldn't even be this far along without constantly seeking it out, striving to always improve.



AroundtheBoard.com is already up and running, and just waiting for you to drop us a line. Official AtB Spotlights are not a paid service - we feature who we feel shares a passion for gaming and the positive promotion of the industry as a whole. If you're a reviewer, You-Tuber, play-tester, game-designer, artist, retailer, community organizer, event organizer, publisher, or just a gamer that likes to paint, head to AroundtheBoard.com/contact-atb and send an email to the appropriate @aroundtheboard.com address. We love to see what kind of creative stuff you're doing, and would be proud to be an outlet to display that creativity.



Around the Board will never ask for sensitive information, like credit card numbers or passwords. If we need to share personal contact details, we can speak over the phone. Anything discussed remains confidential unless the sender/owner gives us permission to share on our website. We feed the impostors to Oscar - it's how he keeps that lovely grin so lovely.