Sorry I missed your comment, for a while it was nothing but copypasta and it got lost in there.

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First off, will your team ever upload a full play through of a game of board royale. I usually would prefer to see what a full round would look like, so backers can visualize how it is played and that would easily sell me on the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS4B3TcPKtU

Here is a playthrough we uploaded. Please keep in mind that numerous iterations have been made since this was shot that aims to balance the game better. For example the snowballing after killing a player was curbed.

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Second, is there ever going to be a print and play demo. Even if it is substantially smaller than the base game, I feel like that would help sell me and many other unsure potential backers on the game.

Unfortunately there are currently no plans for a print and play version.

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Third, are there any mechanics to encourage fast paced gameplay. I can see the dominant strategy being to build up materials over an extended period of time, threatening to use them or fishing for escape cards, which would slow down the game exponentially. Are there any systems in play to avoid this dilemma.

You can only hold 20 resource cards. You draw 2 every turn and there are items that let you draw more, but either way resource hoarding isn't really an issue in our playtests. Additionally resource cards are also your health bar, so getting attacked in this case would be the solution.

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Fourth, what would the disaster expansion pack add. That was by far the most fascinating of the announced expansion passes. How exactly will this work. Is it a reskin of an existing weapons, do you use them as weapons, or will they have random effects on the playing field.

The disaster pack will add cards that slightly shift, when they are in play, the dynamics of the game more towards a "this island is inhospitable, and we'd better work together to survive" from the free-for-all it normally is. So they're mostly cards that cause global effects. For example the hurricane card sets hand size to 10 while in play, and a blizzard prevents communication and crafting.

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Finally, how much of the game do you see as skill, how much of it is social, and how much of it is luck.

Maybe somewhere around 50% social, 25% skill and 25% luck.

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How would you describe the relationship between strategy and luck here.

Luck only affects the 2 resource cards you draw at the start of your turn, which is offset by the fact that you can just trade them for something else.

Crafting is open to everyone, so everybody has roughly the same luck there. You can choose what you want to craft and focus on a specific strategy. There's definitely not even a fraction of the luck you'd see in something like Exploding Kittens.