project-image

Cultivating the Baltimore Killer Queen Arcade Game Community

Created by Todd Blatt - Killer Queen Baltimore

Killer Queen is coming to Holy Frijoles! Thanks for helping us build the community. We're using the funds to get spectator's equipment like streaming gear and a nice TV.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

T-shirts are shipped!
about 6 years ago – Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 05:28:48 PM

Check out these sweet made-in-Baltimore Next Level shirts! They're printed by our friends at Momentum Printing and Productions in Hampden and came out very nice.

We hope you've been enjoying playing with us the last several weeks. Great news... We're actually more than 90% shipped on all rewards! You'll start receiving them early this week. Those of you who opted for local pickup, come by Holy Frijoles this week on Wednesday evening to pick up your shirts.

What's left to do on our end is fulfill the few reward tiers that include the Family Portrait picture frames, make a nice plaque, and schedule the Sponsored Happy Hour nights wit those of you who pledged for those tiers. Please reach out to us to help us make that happen. 

We've already started building what we need for the streaming and spectator's equipment, and already have the special TV mount needed to hold up the spectator's screen which will be mounted on the wall above the cabinets. 

Stay tuned!

We got some Buzz!
about 6 years ago – Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 08:42:33 AM

We're in the News!

Check out our coverage by Technical.ly Baltimore:

https://technical.ly/baltimore/2018/04/10/arcade-game-getting-buzz-hampden/

Don't forget, it's Taco Tuesday, so we're having our week casual play night tonight at 7pm!

Rewards News

T-shirts are in production and will be done next week!

Bracelets are all manufactured. 

Keychains will be going in to production later this week.

Join us on Facebook

If for some reason you're not yet in our Facebook Group yet, head over there. 3 more until we hit 200 members!

Killer Queen Community Update. Plus, we're Installed, up and running!
about 6 years ago – Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:11:38 AM

Killer Queen is here!

The Killer Queen cabinets have been installed in Holy Frijoles for about 5 days now and it's been so awesome to see how the community is forming. We had the cabinets set on Free Play for a backer's gathering celebration on Friday. Saturday night a bunch of people came out to play, we had a good crowd Monday too, and a HUGE turnout last night for our first weekly 'league' night. We'll eventually start forming teams/drafts and having little tournaments and things, but for right now over the next month or so we're really focusing on building the base and getting more experience to all the newbees.

Our current schedule is going to be Happy Hour half-price games on Mondays from 6-8pm, League night Tuesdays at 7pm, and then casual Just for Fun nights on Friday and Saturday since the bar is pretty busy. Folks have been showing up after work pretty much every day to get games in and practice. We'll be hanging out most days too to teach people and show it off. 

Intermediate Tips and Tricks

Check out this sweet PDF of tips and tricks that Joe Pollard from Austin Texas put together. It's got things in there for newbees, as well as stuff for intermediate folks to get good! If you're sharing Killer Queen with someone for the first time, this how to play video is pretty good too.

We're on a Podcast!

We had our friends from We Have To Ask podcast come out and do a live on-site podcast recording. These guys do improv pretty much every day, love video games and collaboration, and are big KQ fans. They came to the opening night on Friday with some equipment to record, and were super fun. Marty and Jonathan were some of our first backers, and you can listen to their podcast about Killer Queen here.

Rewards!

Most of you have done an excellent job of filling out your surveys to tell us what stuff you want, and where to send it. If you haven't done that, please do so ASAP :)  We're in production now of the leather bracelets, and t-shirts will be going to press next week. The bracelets are being made from leather using the engraver and cutting features of the laser cutter at the Baltimore Node stop by on a Thursday evening to check that space out!

 See you soon!

Todd

KQ is here! Come tonight!
about 6 years ago – Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 03:01:59 PM

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

We've sent out the surveys!
about 6 years ago – Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 07:27:18 AM

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