Ann Arborite hatches Kickstarter board game biz, The Perfect Heist

Karl Tiedemann has always been a fan of heist movies (think Oceans 11) and board games (Trivial Pursuit) so the Ann Arbor resident decided to combine the two into his own heist-themed board game - The Perfect Heist.

"How fun would it be to play a board game about a heist where you build your own team and stuff like that," Tiedemann says, explaining his thought process behind creating the game. Tiedmann, a UIX designer for Barracuda Networks during the day, started working on it as a hobby about seven years ago but got serious about it within the last year.

He launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowd fund the creation of the game, setting a goal of raising $13,000. Today he has raised a little more than $50,000 after his wife started posting about it on the popular message board Reddit creating a significant buzz about it on the Internet.

"I'll probably hit $52,000 within the week," Tiedemann says.

For now he's staying with his day job while keeping The Perfect Heist as a hobby business. But the Ann Arborite and his wife wouldn't mind if it grew into something bigger.

"It's still an open question, 'Where do I go from here?'" Tiedemann says. "It's just a hobby job at the moment."

Source: Karl Tiedemann, creator of The Perfect Heist
Writer: Jon Zemke

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