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Quarex posted:Instantly sold. King's Bounty and Disciples. Honestly, the moment I saw the combat screens I donated $15. I'd donate more, but money's tight 
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Lately I've been thinking about how some iOS Kickstarters promise a copy of the game to backers, and some don't. The thing of it is, you'd easily run out of promo codes, and while you could spend a few bucks to gift the app to all your backers, but from everything I can tell, none of that counts toward your app store ranking, thus marketing to non-backers. And it seems like that is just shooting yourself in the foot, since backers are going to be (more or less) your most vocal and mobilized audience. Is asking them to put down an extra three bucks upon release that big of a faux pas, in order to pump up that app store visibility?
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As a huge fan of Disciples 2 as well as King's Bounty, I am a big supporter of Legends of Eisenwald.
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Dragonrah posted:If you read the kickstarter, you'll see that the license owner wont let them do a new game until they prove LSL is commercially viable. I didn't mean a new LSL game. Something new. Still funny and raunchy but perhaps something less dated and juvenile.
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MaverickEX posted:Lately I've been thinking about how some iOS Kickstarters promise a copy of the game to backers, and some don't. The thing of it is, you'd easily run out of promo codes, and while you could spend a few bucks to gift the app to all your backers, but from everything I can tell, none of that counts toward your app store ranking, thus marketing to non-backers. At least with Android, they could just hand out an APK file to backers. Last I checked, Apple only allows 50 codes per app. Either way, they're probably screwed because hitting the top 25 or 50 is really the only way to make filthy huge piles of cash from the app stores.
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The Black Stones posted:You've got his argument a bit wrong, it's not that we won't ever get JRPG's again, but we won't get SUPER DUPER DELUXE SPECIAL PREMIUM PHYSICAL COPIES of them anymore without the best of the best translations that have Bill Clinton jokes and other awesome pop-culture references that make Japanese games SO AWESOME. All we're ever going to get is horrible literal translations that every other company spews out! drat, and here I thought we had that covered, too, what with Record of Agarest War 2 Limited Edition coming with a blow up character doll, a heart shaped compressed towel, and an artbook! Not even Vic Ireland would have thought of the blow up doll. Rebel Blob posted:The developers of Legends of Eisenwald have won me over. Oh, gently caress this. gently caress everything. I can't pledge money on more awesome kickstarters. And this is one of them! For heaven's sake, start spacing those things so we non-rich people can pledge on more projects! It really looks like the game I had hoped Disciples 3 would have turned out to be. Instead we got that abortion funded by publisher money.
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I sent a message about the "Yogventures" IndieGoGo campaign and it looks like it's gone for good now.quote:Hi Daniel,
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I'm always squeamish of Kickstarters that have grammar issues and misspellings, but given that the Legends of Eisenwald guys aren't native English speakers, they get a pass. The game looks awesome, and I am down for $15. edit: Has it been mentioned that Leisure Suit Larry got funded? Strenuous Manflurry fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Apr 26, 2012 |
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Apr 26, 2012 12:55
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What's the exchange rate? Is 50k USD a lot of money in Belarus? The medieval times is awesome sauce. I hope that somehow they can get some Medieval Studies professors fleshout the world.
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r1ngwthszzors posted:What's the exchange rate? Is 50k USD a lot of money in Belarus? It's about 400.000.000 belarusian ruble. The median salary there is about 300$, so that's quite a lot of money actually.
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Rebel Blob posted:The developers of Legends of Eisenwald have won me over. That game is pretty much guaranteed to be janky as all hell. I want it. Arnold of Soissons posted:e: they're giving metal pins, hand made leather pouches and cosplay swords as rewards for contributing? These guys did not get the "don't blow your whole wad on top end prizes" memo. Those rewards are very limited and very expensive. I doubt it will be an issue.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:edit: Has it been mentioned that Leisure Suit Larry got funded?
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Lblitzer posted:Are those games even fun? When I was younger I just thought they were aimed at middle-aged perverts who thought LucasArts adventure games were lame. They were genuinely some of the better adventure games of the time.
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NINbuntu 64 posted:They were genuinely some of the better adventure games of the time. Bearing in mind that "the time" meant that the main competition was King's Quest, which was even crueler and more poorly designed, but less funny. I'd say that as games they are inferior to pretty much anything SCUMM-based by a wide margin, but those came along later, and there is a lot of humour to be found in LSL as long as you aren't the one actually playing them.
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Lblitzer posted:Are those games even fun? When I was younger I just thought they were aimed at middle-aged perverts who thought LucasArts adventure games were lame. The creation of Leisure Suit Larry came as a thing of when Al Lowe was asked to remake a really shoddy text adventure porn game for some modern system. He agreed to do it if he got to have fun with it and the big restriction he had was that he had to make sure all the items were the same as in the original game. And he made fun of the game aimed at perverts by having the hero of the game be a total loser out to get laid. Even if you don't like the games though, they are a part of gaming history and part of the flippant attitude that makes gaming as great of a hobby as it is. Depending who you ask that is.
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Mordaedil posted:The creation of Leisure Suit Larry came as a thing of when Al Lowe was asked to remake a really shoddy text adventure porn game for some modern system. He agreed to do it if he got to have fun with it and the big restriction he had was that he had to make sure all the items were the same as in the original game. Only Al Lowe 
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I never got why people think Leisure Suit Larry was aimed at "perverts", I guess it's hard to convey otherwise once the "adult" label comes in (specially with the last two games), but there is absolutely nothing in there that would get anyone off. There were a lot more "lewd and pervy" adventure games back then, and Leisure Suit Larry was not it. It's just another adventure series with cheesy humour and lame puns where you play a loser hero (like every other Sierra game), only the jokes are more "adult", and I'm sure everyone has snickered at those at some point in their life. Though I agree that LSL1 isn't a good target for a remake, the series only really started to shine by the last games (LSL5-7), but I guess it'd be weird to start from the end.
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SupSuper posted:There were a lot more "lewd and pervy" adventure games back then, and Leisure Suit Larry was not it. Sure enough. Example, possibly  . Oh, and that's Roberta Williams on the right. The Roberta Williams from King's Quest.
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Saoshyant posted:Sure enough. Example, possibly Incidentally that is the game Mordaedil was talking about.
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Saoshyant posted:Sure enough. Example, possibly Charles Bronson isn't sure what the gently caress is going on.
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Der Shovel posted:Incidentally that is the game Mordaedil was talking about. This is even more amazing by the sole virtue that Softporn Adventure is one of the worst loving adventure games ever made.
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seorin posted:Those rewards are very limited and very expensive. I doubt it will be an issue. edit: should we make a thread about Legends of Eisenwald? they really need the boost, and unlike most other Kickstarters, the game is mostly done and they only need the money for content creation (i.e.: our money makes the game better in a very direct way). Star Guarded fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Apr 26, 2012 |
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It looks like Republique finally gave in and are making PC and Mac versions. I'm happy it looked like one of the few cool projects that wouldn't meet its goal now I think donations will really pickup. They still need to update the faq though. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/486250632/republique-by-camouflaj-logan
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Milfay posted:It looks like Republique finally gave in and are making PC and Mac versions. I'm happy it looked like one of the few cool projects that wouldn't meet its goal now I think donations will really pickup. They still need to update the faq though. they would have been a lot better off doing it as a computer based game anyway, now I'm not sure I'd want to back them for fear of if being a ios to pc port (oh god the horror) It seems pretty clear they don't understand demographics.
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A lot of the talk about other platforms and the decision to go with iOS suggests to me their main motivation to make this game isn't actually wanting to make this game, but wanting to make a AAA game for iOS in order to be a Special Snowflake. Which really makes the whole thing unappealing to me, even with a PC version. Edit: Didn't they say publishers wanted to fund this game, but not as an iOS exclusive, which is why they turned to kickstarter? Unless I'm remembering wrong this whole thing just got really weird. Electric Pope fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Apr 26, 2012 |
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Milfay posted:It looks like Republique finally gave in and are making PC and Mac versions. I'm happy it looked like one of the few cool projects that wouldn't meet its goal now I think donations will really pickup. They still need to update the faq though. I don't think there's enough demand for this to get it to 500K regardless of the platform, to be honest.
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They'd have had a far better shot with a gameplay video to show that what they're doing will actually work (or at least fake it working) and PC/Mac compatibility to start.
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Republique seems like a big misstep from semi-famous professional developer who should know better. Full voice, full cinematics, high resolution 3D iPad/PC graphics, 3 platforms with unique features promised for each--that's crazy ambitious. The dumbest part is that even if the project gets funded, they still need another $500,000 (probably more now) from outside investors. I don't care that you worked on Halo 4, I'm not handing you my money so you can ask someone else for more money, and if you can't get the additional funds I get nothing.
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So, it looks like Class of Heroes officially failed, with $96,951 pledged. Kind of sad really. Well, it'd be more sad really if they hadn't managed to completely cock the whole thing up. I mean seriously, if they'd added a reasonably priced digital tier and a less insane goal, maybe 100k-150k at most, there's no reason it couldn't have done well. Would this be the first "high-profile" kickstarter to fail since the Double Fine boom, or did I miss one along the line?
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Panic Restaurant posted:So, it looks like Class of Heroes officially failed, with $96,951 pledged. Kind of sad really. Well, it'd be more sad really if they hadn't managed to completely cock the whole thing up. I mean seriously, if they'd added a reasonably priced digital tier and a less insane goal, maybe 100k-150k at most, there's no reason it couldn't have done well. It was only high profile as a catastrophic failure though. And we've seen other projects from established developers get cancelled, so it's not really unique in that respect either. It's more a lesson that while Kickstarter can be an easy source of funding, there are limits.
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I am starting to enjoy logging into Kickstarter more than logging into Facebook. The little notifications are always far more interesting and emotionally rewarding. "BRAVO!!!" "YOU DID IT!!!" "HOORAY FOR YOU, AND ONLY YOU, QUAREX!!!"Gonzo McFee posted:Charles Bronson isn't sure what the gently caress is going on. NINbuntu 64 posted:This is even more amazing by the sole virtue that Softporn Adventure is one of the worst loving adventure games ever made.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:I'm always squeamish of Kickstarters that have grammar issues and misspellings, but given that the Legends of Eisenwald guys aren't native English speakers, they get a pass. The game looks awesome, and I am down for $15. Someone should make a Kickstarter for an organization that proofreads your Kickstarters. And products. In all seriousness good grammar does wonders for my willingness to back stuff. Especially if it reflects on a possible final game.
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Quarex posted:Yeah, I remember downloading it when I was like 13 and even then being profoundly bored by the whole thing. If you cannot entertain a 13-year-old boy with something even mildly lewd, you are doing it wrong. The big tip-off should have been the women's expressions in the tub, but I know that Charles Bronson look-a-like is dashing enough to make the rest of the cover look alright if at not at least interesting. The only thing you think about when looking at that picture is most likely "is he wearing pants?"
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Saoshyant posted:Sure enough. Example, possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure wiki posted:The game's cover features three nude women and a male waiter in a hot tub. The hot tub is actually that of Sierra's owners, Ken and Roberta Williams. From left to right, the first woman was the company's bookkeeper at On-Line Systems. The second is the wife of Bob Davis, the creator of another Sierra title, Ulysses and the Golden Fleece. The waiter was an actual waiter from a local restaurant, The Broken Bit.  Man I can just imagine what it must be like being Roberta Williams' daughter Roberta Williams: "I am not ashamed of my body, the 70s and 80s were different times, drugs and sex could be had by all-" daughter: "LALALALALALA"
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So here's a game that I would say really really deserves the relatively modest amount of money it's asking for: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/niffler/chucks-challenge-3d?ref=home_location If you haven't played Chip's Challenge back in the day, you really missed out. It's one of the greatest puzzle games out there. Now the original creator is making a sequel and it needs 1K more in the next 2 days and a bit. Also worth noting is that the lowest reward tier that gets you the game is 5bux. Definitely worth it, I would say.
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Panic Restaurant posted:So, it looks like Class of Heroes officially failed, with $96,951 pledged. Kind of sad really. Well, it'd be more sad really if they hadn't managed to completely cock the whole thing up. I mean seriously, if they'd added a reasonably priced digital tier and a less insane goal, maybe 100k-150k at most, there's no reason it couldn't have done well. Honestly, this is the best news I've heard today. I love how it didn't even get to 100k; that's the sign of how much of a miserable loving failure it was, that it couldn't even hit that benchmark. Mojo Jojo posted:And we've seen other projects from established developers get cancelled, so it's not really unique in that respect either. It's more a lesson that while Kickstarter can be an easy source of funding, there are limits. Also it's a lesson in how not to treat your backers/fans and how you have to have at least the slightest hint of a good idea beforehand before committing to a pitch. NieR Occomata fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Apr 27, 2012 |
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Occupation posted:Honestly, this is the best news I've heard today. I love how it didn't even get to 100k; that's the sign of how much of a miserable loving failure it was, that it couldn't even hit that benchmark. Seriously. I don't get what special items that they can't bring over that would have been in the kickstarter anyway. One of those creepy hugpillow things?
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Mordaedil posted:Seriously. If they did that, it'd probably have met its goals. Creepy perverts have loads of money and/or poor business sense.
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