Perhaps you're right and the board game is crap. From the presentations I have watched, I think the challenge is more about ideas than it is about building a complete game. And presenting those ideas carefully.... that is marketing.
However, Chain World is a simple extrapolation of Minecraft. You can evaluate whether that is "utter crap" pretty easily. Plus he's made at least 10 other games, many of which are publicly available for free.
Personally, I found his latest game, The Castle Doctrine, to be amazing: http://jere.in/1
However, Chain World is a simple extrapolation of Minecraft. You can evaluate whether that is "utter crap" pretty easily. Plus he's made at least 10 other games, many of which are publicly available for free.
Personally, I found his latest game, The Castle Doctrine, to be amazing: http://jere.in/1