I'm going to give the full explanation. First and foremost, I had to convince David to use two logos (not one) for NanoTech Gaming. David purchased in January 2013, the first tungsten die that I created.
By November 2013, Amber Rix started a kickstarter campaign that included Tungsten Dice. I supplied the tungsten cubes to her (about $4,000 worth).
David got the first one, and I still have the second one that didn't turn out as nice. There were only two made by hand.
I sold over 200 cubes to Amber.
David also purchased serial number "0000" and "0007" of my Goodshooter dice.
All of this was before David hired me, and was just his way of supporting what I was doing (which was very centered around the game of craps at the time).
But one thing that I noticed was that most places here in town don't know the difference between a backgammon die and a craps die. So it was sort of something that was a bit of an obsession for me.
Amber, for example, did not respect the positions of the pips and where they should go and had a math reason for changing that up.
But all too often, marketing would just get the crap-die totally wrong!
It bugged me. I like getting it right. And I like it when others NOTICE that it is done right.
The things we are doing at NanoTech Gaming involve getting the little details right! And that's one story behind the die. It's a real crap die with the pips in the right places and it shows the refraction the way that it should look, and the serial number is in the right place and the right orientation.
And the serial number being 1337 is also for a reason. 1337 is basically a meme that stands for someone who thinks that they have above-average skill in a video game or "leet skillz."
The video game culture is absent, in general, among those in the gambling industry (EG: here in Vegas).
The goal was to mix both the ACCURATE representation of the MEME of gambling (which everyone generally accepts is the craps die or dice) with a numerical representation for the meme of competitively playing video games.
So the 1337 die is also to make one other important mark. And that is to resonate with the players in a way that does not smack of commercialism. The die image is the image for the PLAYERS and the N logo is the image for us at the company (the gaming company itself). So we represent both the players and the folks who make the games (us). And some of us folks (like me) are both players and makers.
It's just like that. And we had a couple THOUSAND of these dice stickers printed up and they are getting passed out to folks and are showing up all over town in very visible locations.
And unlike stickers that advertise (very obviously) a business, these advertise the existence of PLAYERS who know what a craps die looks like and will display our craps die PROUDLY where a cheap made-in-china monopoly die being passed off as a crap die will be LOL'd at.
If you walk around Vegas right now today, you will see our craps dice that have been slapped and stuck and put into places and NOT TAKEN DOWN. And why are they not taken down? They represent the players, not our business. The players who are smart enough about gambling that they will play craps because it is and will be the best game to play for someone who is not already an advantage player but knows enough about the first task (lowering the edge to the best that they can) in order to gamble with big money.
AP's get slapped and abused all of the time. So being a craps player and playing fair is just the best game you can get right now.
We intend to change all of that. And not for the math guys who can compute optimal play, but for the guys with hand-to-eye coordination who've been left out of the opportunity for AP up until now, and who's only possible game that they might ever be able to AP would be craps -- if it were possible -- and it's not.
So that's the long story about "WTF is wit da dice, homey?"
By November 2013, Amber Rix started a kickstarter campaign that included Tungsten Dice. I supplied the tungsten cubes to her (about $4,000 worth).
David got the first one, and I still have the second one that didn't turn out as nice. There were only two made by hand.
I sold over 200 cubes to Amber.
David also purchased serial number "0000" and "0007" of my Goodshooter dice.
All of this was before David hired me, and was just his way of supporting what I was doing (which was very centered around the game of craps at the time).
But one thing that I noticed was that most places here in town don't know the difference between a backgammon die and a craps die. So it was sort of something that was a bit of an obsession for me.
Amber, for example, did not respect the positions of the pips and where they should go and had a math reason for changing that up.
But all too often, marketing would just get the crap-die totally wrong!
It bugged me. I like getting it right. And I like it when others NOTICE that it is done right.
The things we are doing at NanoTech Gaming involve getting the little details right! And that's one story behind the die. It's a real crap die with the pips in the right places and it shows the refraction the way that it should look, and the serial number is in the right place and the right orientation.
And the serial number being 1337 is also for a reason. 1337 is basically a meme that stands for someone who thinks that they have above-average skill in a video game or "leet skillz."
The video game culture is absent, in general, among those in the gambling industry (EG: here in Vegas).
The goal was to mix both the ACCURATE representation of the MEME of gambling (which everyone generally accepts is the craps die or dice) with a numerical representation for the meme of competitively playing video games.
So the 1337 die is also to make one other important mark. And that is to resonate with the players in a way that does not smack of commercialism. The die image is the image for the PLAYERS and the N logo is the image for us at the company (the gaming company itself). So we represent both the players and the folks who make the games (us). And some of us folks (like me) are both players and makers.
It's just like that. And we had a couple THOUSAND of these dice stickers printed up and they are getting passed out to folks and are showing up all over town in very visible locations.
And unlike stickers that advertise (very obviously) a business, these advertise the existence of PLAYERS who know what a craps die looks like and will display our craps die PROUDLY where a cheap made-in-china monopoly die being passed off as a crap die will be LOL'd at.
If you walk around Vegas right now today, you will see our craps dice that have been slapped and stuck and put into places and NOT TAKEN DOWN. And why are they not taken down? They represent the players, not our business. The players who are smart enough about gambling that they will play craps because it is and will be the best game to play for someone who is not already an advantage player but knows enough about the first task (lowering the edge to the best that they can) in order to gamble with big money.
AP's get slapped and abused all of the time. So being a craps player and playing fair is just the best game you can get right now.
We intend to change all of that. And not for the math guys who can compute optimal play, but for the guys with hand-to-eye coordination who've been left out of the opportunity for AP up until now, and who's only possible game that they might ever be able to AP would be craps -- if it were possible -- and it's not.
So that's the long story about "WTF is wit da dice, homey?"
