Flashgitz Space King board game already has roughly 18,000 Kickstarter followers before it’s even live, which is a bigger head start than most campaigns ever see.
Flashgitz built Space King by making fun of Warhammer 40k, and now they’re about to officially sell us some of their own. This isn’t somebody tossing Space King-looking files onto a print farm and hoping nobody notices. Flashgitz is making the board game themselves, with official Space King miniatures and lore straight from the show.
If you think about it, where else would a Warhammer 40k parody like this end up? Space King works because the people making fun of grimdark clearly know and like the thing they’re roasting. Now they’ve gone from drawing ridiculous power armor to putting their own version of it in a box.
Games Workshop spent years teaching hobbyists to buy plastic by the sprue, and apparently Flashgitz took some notes themselves…
Yes, This One Has Great Minis
- Creator-owned, not fan-made: Flashgitz is making this one themselves, with official Space King miniatures and official lore, so it isn’t another legally distinct STL drop.
- The audience showed up early: PledgeBox tracks roughly 18,000 Kickstarter followers, and the animated promo was near 1.2 million views, all before pledge one.
- What changes if we’re right: any cartoon with a big enough audience can go straight to plastic now, without asking a miniature company for permission first.
Unlike the third-party miniatures and 3D printing scene where we’ve seen takedown notices, cease-and-desists, and communities getting nuked over models that got a little too close to something else. Here, the people who own Space King are the ones putting it in the box, so no one has to wonder whether the minis disappear two weeks after launch.
Eighteen Thousand Followers Before Anyone Knows the Price
Their Space King Game site currently just collects emails. There’s no price, no pledge tiers, no stretch goals, and no delivery window yet, but at the time of writing, they have roughly 18,000 Kickstarter followers, and the project sits at number two on its upcoming tracker.
It helps that Flashgitz isn’t trying to sell this with a dry components video. The video above runs a little over three minutes and already has over 1.2 million views. Instead of sitting Tom and Don at a table to explain cards and dice, they made another Space King bit and let the Captain advertise the whole thing.
Episode five, War World, drops August 29, so the Kickstarter signup push is happening while the series already has people looking its way.
Most of Us Are Buying the Plastic, Not the Rulebook
The pitch is a semi-cooperative action game for one to four players, so there is an actual game here instead of Space King art slapped over a generic head-to-head miniatures board game. Solo support is useful too, especially if nobody else in your group has accepted the Captain into their life yet.
But plenty of hobbyists are already looking past the rulebook. The campaign says the box is packed with minis and lore, and from what we’ve seen, the minis are exactly what you’d want and expect from extremely legally distinct proxies for another grimdark game.
Just don’t start building a Space King army yet. Right now, everything official calls this a board game, not a wargame, and a box full of cool power armor doesn’t automatically mean there’s a deep tabletop ruleset hiding behind it.
Final Thoughts on the Flashgitz Space King Board Game
The interesting part starts once the Kickstarter is live. Space King already has roughly 18,000 people watching before there’s a price, and now we get to see how many cartoon viewers really want the Captain sitting on their painting desk.
If enough of them do, Flashgitz won’t be the last animation channel looking at miniatures this way. Build the audience first, make the plastic second, and suddenly you don’t need somebody else’s tabletop company to decide your setting deserves models.
Now all Flashgitz has to do is show everyone what the box costs, what’s actually inside, how the game plays, and whether they can get it onto people’s tables without Kickstarter doing what Kickstarter sometimes does.
See the Kickstarter for the Space King Board Game
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What do you think of the Flashgitz Space King board game, and are you signing up before the Kickstarter goes live?
