“Schadenfreude” is a terrible, terrible emotion. I am being absolutely honest when I say that I was hoping to be proven wrong about the Nexus Infinity Dice Cube thing. Sure, the prototype was 3D printed, itself had obvious mechanical issues, and they overpromised a bunch of customizations that didn’t make sense (like glow-in-the-dark black and blue inks — though they decided not to offer the black glow in the dark ink because it didn’t show up as well as they liked in the dark). And the campaign itself was sloppily clogged with AI text and images, and they had a shockingly quick ship date, but they could have proved me wrong.
But they took the money and ran… right to their next project.
First step: change their company name. As near as I can tell, they change their company name for each product they kickstart. They have explained it’s to keep their many diverse and successful product lines separate, but that doesn’t make any sense.
Second step: 3D print a prototype almost identical to the Nexus Cube; this one looks like two unfolded cubes lain side-by-side. They claim you can play any game that can be played on a chess board on it, and some you can’t. (A 7×7 intersection board is too small for Go and Gomoku). They also claim to be pocket-sized. If the picture above is an accurate rendering, and it is that big compared to the hand, there is no way that would fold to fit into a pocket.
The victims on the Infinity Dice campaign are reporting it to Kickstarter, so there’s every chance it will never go live, but if it does, I’ll write about it here.
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