A competitive 1 to 4 players abstract game where you have to control the value of your dice by making the 9 Muses dance.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
LAST 24H! PLASTIC TRAY UNLOCKED, ARTIST'S DELIGHT RESTOCKED, ONE LAST VOTE AND A FINAL STRETCH GOAL!
4 months ago
– Mon, May 27, 2024 at 08:05:21 AM
🧙🏼♂️ Well, here at last, dear friends, comes the end of our Dancing Company. 💃🏽
Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
This campaign has been an incredible journey, just like the one in The Lord of the Rings :D
We deeply thank you from the bottom of our hearts... and invite you to live with us the final hours of this adventure. We still have a few surprises for you, you know? ; )
🎁HERE'S ALL THE STRETCH GOALS YOU UNLOCKED:
🎁 NEW STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: Plastic Tray
As you surely have experienced in many other games, an internal plastic tray is a solid comfort tool to keep your game components in order when you put it back on the shelf, or around the world with you. We don’t have a custom design yet, but it will be thought for holding even the components from the expansions (not the playmat, sorry, it’s too big!)
In the final 48 hours rush, you SOLD OUT the limited "Artist's Delight" reward, which includes a unique, handmade drawing of a Muse, by our amazing artist Sara Marino!
We asked her if we could restock, and she gave us permission to release 5 NEW UNITS. THESE ARE THE LAST ONES! No other drawings will be made, making this 10 rewards totally unique.
You'll get to choose which Muse you want Sara to draw after the end of the campaign.
Click here or the image above to Modify your Pledge and choose the "Artist's Delight" one.
⬇️ WAIT FOR THE GIF TO LOAD! ⬇️
➕Most wanted AddOns
The Cosmos Playmat is the most requested AddOn, and for good reasons! With its 31,5x31,5 inches size it's a HUGE space where you can play infinite Dance of Muses games without even barely wear the Tiles.
After the Cloth Bag, the Gemstones Dice Set are on the rampage, finely crafted by MistyMountaingGaming based on our design, and coming with a lifetime warranty! (Ignore the trasparent dice: they are cool but not really readable, so we discarded them in favor of the gemstones ones: purple Amethyst, red/orange Aventurine and white Labradorite!)
Also DecKreative, our randomizer deck for every gamer and creative person conquered your curiosity. Did you know that you can play a Dance of Muses variant with it? Tyche, the goddess of fortune, let you draw 2 cards at the beginning of your turn: choose a Muse on one card, and the 6 sided die on the other, and adjust the Muse in play with that value. You can even close the game! Crazy!
We just decided that the poster will be PRINTED ON BOTH SIDES, because you deserve it. So, every poster will have two designs!
So, WRITE IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS UPDATE YOUR FAVORITE DESIGN: the two most voted will become your Art Collector bundle, included in every reward tier from 60€ and above and also available as an AddOn.
Vote your favorite design!
Here's the list, for you to copy-and-paste:
A. Awake Mnemosyne (Work in progress) B. All the Muses C. The Mysterious Muse (since you loved the previous cover. We heard you!) D. Dance of Muses Cover E. Sleeping Mnemosyne (Work in progress)
PS: thank you so much Adem, for your work on keeping the count! You're the best!
🚨 FINAL SURPRISE: 40K BONUS STRETCH GOAL!🚨
Right! We just added a new Stretch Goal, because you are fantastic! Also, YOU GOT TO CHOOSE WHICH ONE WE'LL UNLOCK, just like the ones before.
It's a good time to register to Kickbooster, share the link with everybody you know and on your socials, reach 40.000 together, and also get your 20% cut!
⚠️ FOR ALL THE BACKERS: TAKE THE SURVEY!
You can also find the link in your private message inbox! That will help us make a better communication and understand feedbacks about the campaign and the game!
Love,
Francis & Jules
LAST WEEK: SUN TOKENS + GOLD FOIL UNLOCKED! VOTE THE LAST STRETCH GOAL BEFORE THE FINAL RUSH!
4 months ago
– Mon, May 20, 2024 at 07:57:42 AM
Hello Dancers! This weekend we've been to Play, the greatest board games festival of Italy, in Modena! Here's just a couple of shots of your favorite designers and publishers :P
With Lorenzo Silva, designer and head of Horrible Guild: Potion Explosions, The King's Dilemma, Railroad Ink, etc...)
With Walter Obert (designer of Chang Cheng, Ugg-Tect and Kragmortha), and Dario Massa (designer of Peter and the Grown Ups and "Non si può più dire niente")
We are near the end of this amazing adventure! Only 1 week to the final rush, are you ready for the fireworks?! :D Here's a recap of what you got by making this campaign a huge success with almost 1000% funded and 700 backers (😱):
🎁HERE'S THE STRETCH GOALS YOU UNLOCKED SO FAR:
🎁 NEW STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: Sun Tokens!
They emerge victorious after being defeated by the Solo Game Modes. :D Eight customized wooden Tokens to keep track of the scoring, with a more precise method integrated in the rulebook.
🎁 NEW STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: Gold foil!
After an honorable defeat against the Tile of Mnemosyne, the most good-looking upgrade is back! Simple but greatly charming, the gold foil printing procedure adds a layer of golden paint on some details of the box and the tiles, making the game shine and mesmerize you!
➕ ADD THE PLAYMAT TO YOUR ORDER AND PLAY IN THE COSMOS!
The Cosmos Playmat is the most requested AddOn, and for good reasons! With its 31,5x31,5 inches size it's a HUGE space where you can play infinite Dance of Muses games without even barely wear the Tiles.
After the Cloth Bag, the Gemstones Dice Set are on the rampage, finely crafted by MistyMountaingGaming based on our design, and coming with a lifetime warranty! (Ignore the trasparent dice: they are cool but not really readable, so we discarded them in favor of the gemstones ones: purple Amethyst, red/orange Aventurine and white Labradorite!)
💙 Play with 200+ players on 20+ games on Board Game Arena!
The Alpha version of Dance of Muses is on FIRE!
Board Game Arena (BGA for friends) is the greatest platform of online board gaming, and at the moment 227 players are running games of DoM in 21 games at the same time!
To play you need an invite to the private group: join our amazing Community in our Private Facebook Club and drop us your nickname on BGA. We'll provide an invite as fast as possible!
One of our designers, Marco Baglioni, is even organizing a contest! :D
Click on the link or the image above!
❓ THE LAST STRETCH GOAL! WHAT'S YOUR VOTE?
That's it, Dancers! We reached the LAST VOTE!
This campaign is being amazingly emotional, and we've been very, very, very happy to unlock almost EVERY Stretch Goal we have prepared for you.
But ONE HAS TO GO.
The loser of this vote WILL NOT make it to the final game.
For the last time, WRITE IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS UPDATE YOUR FAVORITE STRETCH GOALS!
Vote: Embroided Cloth Bag VS Plastic Tray!
See you next week for the result and THE LAST UPDATE!
📬 FOR ALL THE BACKERS: TAKE THE SURVEY NOW!
You'll also find the survey in your private message inbox. This will help us make a better communication and understand feedbacks about the campaign and the game!
Love,
Francis & Jules
DELUXE EDITION UPGRADED, PLAY THE GAME ON BGARENA, 2 NEW STRETCH GOALS TO VOTE!
5 months ago
– Mon, May 13, 2024 at 08:12:27 AM
Dancers!
We are very close to 900% funded with 600+ backers, and we are about halfway to the campaign! This is the treasure you unlocked so far thanks to the Stretch Goals:
🎁HERE'S THE STRETCH GOALS YOU UNLOCKED SO FAR:
We heard your votes! NEW STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: Tokens Upgrade!
This only regards the tokens of the «Divine Interventions» Expansion, included in every Deluxe reward and above (which become even more convenient!)
The cardboard tokens are replaced with 30mm (1,18’’) ceramic chips, like the ones used in game such as Splendor. They will be printed with our custom designs and they are sooo fabulous to the touch! 😍
➕ MOST POPULAR ADDONS!
DecKreative, our randomizer deck for every gamer and creative person conquered your curiosity. Did you know that you can play a Dance of Muses variant with it?
Tyche, the goddess of fortune, let you draw 2 cards at the beginning of your turn: choose a Muse on one card, and the 6 sided die on the other, and adjust the Muse in play with that value. You can even close the game! Crazy!
With no surprise the Cosmos Playmat is your favorite AddOn :D It's a HUGE rubber mat where you can play your games dancing in a wonderful cosmic setting.
After the Cloth Bag, the Gemstones Dice Set is gaining ground... of course! Look at how hypnotic are those gemstones, made by MistyMountaingGaming based on our design!
You can find more precise instructions with screenshots in our first update.
⚠️ LAST WEEK FOR EARNING A 20% CASH BACK! 💰
With Kickbooster you can create your own unique affiliate link to our campaign and get paid for every successful pledge that comes from it!
Share your affiliate links through your blog, social media, email, or wherever you’d like, and watch the commissions roll in. The more you share us, the more you earn!
Click the banner or join HERE. You have time until Tuesday, 21st!
❓ STRETCH GOALS FINAL BATTLES!
You unlocked all our main Stretch Goals... but some of them didn't make it through the votations! So why not try again and UNLOCK TWO OF THE "LOSER" STRETCH GOALS?! Let's see what are your favorites among these "non-winners"! :D
WRITE IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS UPDATE YOUR FAVORITE STRETCH GOALS!
Vote #1: Sun Tokens VS Embroided Cloth Bag
Vote #2: Gold Foil VS Plastic Tray
See you next week for the results!
💙 Want to play DoM on Board Game Arena?
YEEEEEAH! We have an Alpha version of Dance of Muses running on the greatest platform of online board gaming: Board Game Arena (BGA for friends)!
It's on invite only, so you need to join our amazing Community in our Private Facebook Cluband drop us your nickname on BGA. We'll provide an invite as fast as possible!
Click on the link or the image above!
⚠️ FOR ALL THE BACKERS: TAKE THE SURVEY IN YOUR KICKSTARTER INBOX! 📬
Remember to take the survey that you’ll find in your private message inbox! That will help us make a better communication and understand feedbacks about the campaign and the game!
Love,
Francis & Jules
NEW EXCLUSIVE DICE REVEAL, 2 STRETCH GOALS UNLOCKED + ENROLL IN OUR CASH-BACK INITIATIVE!
5 months ago
– Mon, May 06, 2024 at 08:02:58 AM
Dancers!
The campaign is going AMAZINGLY, as we hit 800% funded with 578 backers! 🤯
🎁 FREE FOR ALL BACKERS: HERE'S WHAT YOU UNLOCKED SO FAR!
UNLOCKED: Mnemosyne Tile
Mnemosyne, Goddess of memory, is the mother of the Muses! She joins the dance with her daughters under the shape of AN ADDITIONAL TILE, bringing the total to 10 in every copy of DoM! Not only, her tile is DOUBLE SIDED, and has TWO DIFFERENT GAMEPLAYS! Read the previous update for more details!
As the wonderful GOLD FOIL details on Box and Tiles loses, we are sure we’ll be seeing them again :P
UNLOCKED: Customized Dice
The custom design Jules made applies to all the dice of Dance of Muses (even the ones in the expansion and the Misty Mountain Dice AddOn), and it is studied to simplify the search of the needed value, with two “+” and “-” symbols printed on sides 2 to 5.
Too bad for the Embroidment on the Cloth Bag, which slides down to a better moment. ;)
➕ ADD THIS TO YOUR PLEDGE!
We talked with our friends at Misty Mountain Gaming, which are experts in dice manufacturing with gemstones – yes, GEMSTONES – and we added a NEW LUXORY ADDON, that you can find in the “Manage your pledge” section.
From your Kickstarter account, click the “Manage your pledge” button that appears next to your pledge amount.
On the next page, select "Change your pledge," and then change (or keep) your selection.
Choose your new add-on(s).
Continue and confirm until the end of the process... you made it!
You can find more precise instructions with screenshots in our first update.
💰 HELP THE CAMPAIGN AND EARN SOME CASH BACK!
With Kickbooster you can create your own unique affiliate link to our campaign and get paid for every successful pledge that comes from it!
Share your affiliate links through your blog, social media, email, or wherever you’d like, and watch the commissions roll in. The more you share us, the more you earn!
You know the drill: WRITE IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS UPDATE YOUR FAVORITE STRETCH GOAL!
Tokens to Chips
This only regards the tokens of the «Divine Interventions» Expansion, included in every Deluxe reward and above.
The cardboard tokens are replaced with 30mm (1,18’’) ceramic chips, like the ones used in game such as Splendor. They will be printed with our custom designs and they are sooo fabulous to the touch! 😍
Plastic Tray
As you surely have experienced in many other games, an internal plastic tray is a solid comfort tool to keep your game components in order when you put it back on the shelf, or around the world with you. We don’t have a custom design yet, but it will be thought for holding even the components from the expansions (not the playmat, sorry, it’s too big!)
See you next week for the results.
📬 TAKE THE SURVEY IN YOUR KICKSTARTER MESSAGE BOX!
Remember to take the survey that you’ll find in your private message inbox! That will help us make a better communication and understand feedbacks about the campaign and the game!
💙 Our Facebook Group Community is expanding! Come join us!
Join our amazing Community in our Private Facebook Club! It’s full of wonderful people (and also us and the designers)!
Love,
Francis & Jules
NEW ADDON REVEAL, SOLO MODE UNLOCKED, 2 NEW STRETCH GOALS TO VOTE!
5 months ago
– Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 08:43:41 AM
Dancers!
We are JUST ONE WEEK in the campaign and we already hit 640% funded with 464 backers!
This is an astounding result, the best so far for us at Space Otter, so thank you again for your love!
NEW ADDON REVEAL!
To celebrate, we added a NEW ADDON, that you can find in the “Manage your pledge” section.
YOU READ IT RIGHT! Marco Baglioni, one of the designer of Dance of Muses will PLAY WITH YOU, teaching you the rules (if you need it) and giving you a chance to beat him.
You are warned: he’s good. He’s damned good. Neither Jules nor me ever bested him, and even his co-author David has to sweat a lot to do it. :P
After the end of the campaign you will receive a link to Calendly to book a date to meet Marco online and play DoM on Tabletop Simulator or Tabletopia.
From your Kickstarter account, click the “Manage your pledge” button that appears next to your pledge amount.
On the next page, select "Change your pledge," and then change (or keep) your selection.
Choose your new add-on(s).
Continue and confirm until the end of the process... you made it!
You can find more precise instructions with screenshots in our previous update.
UNLOCKED: SOLO MODE!
Well, you have spoken: with almost 4 times the votes, SOLO MODE wins over the SUN TOKENS.
Written by DoM authors, this is a collection of amazing, brain smashing puzzles to play with the game's components (in solo or with whoever you want), to be solved in a determined number of moves.
It will most probably be an additional booklet included in every copy of DoM (we are still working on it, of course).
Worry not for the Sun Tokens, though! They may spring up again later in the campaign!
2 NEW STRETCH GOALS TO VOTE!
This campaign is too amazing, and you need to be rewarded: we’ll unlock not 1 but TWO Stretch Goals this week!
But you still have to choose WHICH ONE!
VOTE #1
Mnemosyne, Goddess of memory
She's the mother of the Muses! She joins the dance with her daughters under the shape of AN ADDITIONAL TILE, bringing the total to 10 in every copy of DoM!
Not only: her tile is DOUBLE FACED, and has TWO DIFFERENT GAMEPLAYS!
When you play with Sleeping Mnemosyne (artwork still in progress), her tile cannot be moved. This means that even the Muses cannot move it, only dance around it. It’s a fixed obstacle that greatly changes the gameplay.
When you play with Awake Mnemosyne, you put A DICE OF EVERY COLOR on her tile. If you use the power of a Muse on her, you can only manipulate 1 die… but when she dances, ALL THREE DICES WILL GO UP! Crazy, right? And it’s not everything: this means that with 2 or 4 players, Mnemosyne acts like a THIRD COMPANY (or Artificial Intelligence, if you want), and she can even WIN THE GAME! XD
Gold foil
Simple but greatly fascinating, the gold foil printing procedure adds a layer of golden paint on some details of the box and the tiles, making the game shine and mesmerize you!
VOTE #2
Customized Dice
The custom design Jules made applies to all the dice of Dance of Muses (even the ones in the expansion).
It is studied to simplify the search of the needed value, with two “+” and “-” symbols printed on sides 2 to 5.
If this Stretch Goal wins, it will bring on the table even a luxury AddOn that we’ll present… eventually. :P
Embroided Cloth Bag
The Cloth Bag (included in every reward from the Deluxe up, or as an AddOn) gets an upgrade: the image is no longer printed, but EMBROIDED on the bag, make it even more precioooooous!
The Cloth Bag can contain all the game elements and expansions (given that you take them out of their boxes)
Like the first vote: WRITE IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS UPDATE YOUR FAVORITE STRETCH GOALS!
You have to choose one from the first vote and one from the second! See you next week for the results!
Also remember to take the survey that you’ll find in your private message inbox!
That will help us make a better communication and understand feedbacks about the campaign and the game!
