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Cryohazard posted:Because it's an interesting premise for a game, and not everyone is a programmer/artist/musician/space marine. Seriously, if a project seems promising, and the guy has the integrity to use the donations to directly improve his game, why does it matter? What is the money going to though with such a high percentage of it being assets pillaged from the community? I don't think there was anything in the trailer I hadn't seen before when I screwed around with RPG Maker a couple years ago, aside from the main characters sprite. It's not like it's costly to read some tutorials on basic scripting and download someone elses battle system.
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Wendell posted:I'm glad Hero U ended up reaching its goal, it was really cutting it close. Yeah. I didn't have enough faith in the project to give them money, but I'm glad we'll get to see if they can actually make a good game. Thorvalla, on the other hand, has zero loving momentum whatsoever.
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Wendell posted:I'm glad Hero U ended up reaching its goal, it was really cutting it close. I'm not going to lie, I wanted this to fail. 100k stretch goal for a Companion Meep, no thanks.
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Phew, Hero-U did indeed reach the set goal, even when I lowered my pledge for walletary-reasons. Now to somehow find 5000 bucks to pledge to Spud's quest to get them over the line, and then see about adding more money to the Shadowgate kickstarter out of my magical infinite moneypit that Quarex so neatly provided.
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Dragonrah posted:I'm not going to lie, I wanted this to fail. Well that's pretty pointlessly spiteful.
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Wendell posted:Well that's pretty pointlessly spiteful. I have zero confidence they can produce anything worthwhile. For the record, QfG4 is my favorite game. It's not like I have irrational hate or anything, I just think they are past relevance. More than anything, I think they are wasting 400k. If I’m wrong, I’ll gladly buy the final product.
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Tarquinn posted:On the topic of Guido Henkel; he's actually the guy on the cover of the Planescape: Torment box. evilmiera posted:Now to somehow find 5000 bucks to pledge to Spud's quest to get them over the line, and then see about adding more money to the Shadowgate kickstarter out of my magical infinite moneypit that Quarex so neatly provided.
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Spuds quest will never get funded because it doesn't have enough concept art!
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TLG James posted:I'm so glad it made it. Honestly if it's an enjoyable game is all that I'm hoping for. I backed their project. The Cole's come off as old school software hippies, but I am curious as to what they can deliver. I have never played the QFG games, are they worth $10 on GoG? My only experience with old school RPGs was 'The Bard's Tale' on the Commodore 64.
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THE PWNER posted:What is the money going to though with such a high percentage of it being assets pillaged from the community? I don't think there was anything in the trailer I hadn't seen before when I screwed around with RPG Maker a couple years ago, aside from the main characters sprite. It's not like it's costly to read some tutorials on basic scripting and download someone elses battle system. Well, it depends. Free art is fine for a prototype and the Kickstarter funding might be going towards replacing those. There is nothing inherently bad about a Kickstarter in prototype stage that features some generic assets, as long as the plan includes specifics for how the funding will be used to replace those as development progresses. Personally I'd much rather fund something that shows the good-faith effort to have at least taken the game to a prototype stage before advertising on Kickstarter, and free assets are great for that. Compared to 90% of terrible Kickstarters which don't have anything to show besides concept, it's a step up. speng31b fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Furry Hunter posted:I backed their project. The Cole's come off as old school software hippies, but I am curious as to what they can deliver. I have never played the QFG games, are they worth $10 on GoG? My only experience with old school RPGs was 'The Bard's Tale' on the Commodore 64. Yes, they are worth every dollar. They rank up there with Star Control II in terms of originality, writing, and humor.
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TheBuilder posted:Yes, they are worth every dollar. They rank up there with Star Control II in terms of originality, writing, and humor. Thanks, just grabbed them at GoG, This means they will be on sale next week.
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Furry Hunter posted:I backed their project. The Cole's come off as old school software hippies, but I am curious as to what they can deliver. I have never played the QFG games, are they worth $10 on GoG? My only experience with old school RPGs was 'The Bard's Tale' on the Commodore 64. The first four are solid, funny adventure games. The puzzles could be difficult, though not in the cat-hair mustache vein, but they're well worth a tenner. The fifth was late, shed a lot of interesting design ideas and at least one quest, had some really annoying bugs (including one that would wreck the game if you were fast enough not to need NPC help), and was generally a huge step backward. Hm. I misplaced my QFG Collection disc years ago. I think I'll drop by GOG and pick that up myself.
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Guido Henkel (Mr. Thorvalis Kickstarter) just followed me on twitter.  I guess he's just following everyone who's even remotely connected with video games. I have not backed Thorvalis, nor have I tweeted about it, nor have I done anything remotely connected to it except tweet at rope kid weeks ago, which I guess means I must like RPGs. I feel honored to be one of the 60,000 that Guido is following.
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I hope Thorvalla doesn't get funded. If you're asking after a huge amount of money, you better have a drat good pedigree. G3 Studios has so far made:
Turn out a good low-to-tiny budget game like Bastion or Amnesia or Braid or Uplink or hell FTL first, and then we can talk. e: I should say that I was glad for similar reasons that The Old Skool RPG failed. I was - and am - skeptical of Wasteland 2 too, but at least inXile had Bard's Tale and Hunted under its belt. coffeetable fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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This seems alright: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robotloveskitty/legend-of-dungeon
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Speaking of the soon-to-be-launched Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden 2 kickstarter, I've had the pleasure of interviewing Chef Boyardee about it. For those interested, the interview has a lot of exclusive info and a bunch of Barkley 2 screenshots: http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=8632
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CrookedB posted:Speaking of the soon-to-be-launched Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden 2 kickstarter, I've had the pleasure of interviewing Chef Boyardee about it. For those interested, the interview has a lot of exclusive info and a bunch of Barkley 2 screenshots: http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=8632 Oh it's an open world action RPG with persistent character choices affecting the outcome of the game? That seems about par for the course and also let me give them money.
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Urdnot Fire posted:Sui Generis' latest update explains combat a bit more, including a video: I was going to make a joke about the character flailing around like a retard but give me a sword and put me in a group of skeletons and welp that's pretty accurate I guess.
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Apparently the animations are placeholders since part of the kickstarter is meant to help hire a professional animator, which is good news. I thought the flailing around looked pretty dumb, too.
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Those screenshots look really good. It feels like one of those early 90's Amiga games, especially the UI. Looking forward to it.
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Dito. That's some (surprisingly) incredible art right there. I'll be there to pledge the second it's up. In other news, there seem to be two interesting new projects vying for cash: Legend of Dungeon http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robotloveskitty/legend-of-dungeon?ref=category Graphically fantastic, retro-styled dungeon beat'em up thingie. Personally, I'm a bit burned out on the stick figure pixel look, but the lighting trickery looks amazing. Reddit-based, so expect tons of memes (purely personal speculation). Peter's new god game http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/22cans/project-godus That's right, Molyneux and his company are looking for kickstarter funding. I'll just leave it a that. Edit: Actually, I feel this particular comment by 22Cans deserves highlighting. I swear it's not a photoshop. http://i.imgur.com/SIdbK.png miguelito fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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^^^ Beaten so edited.miguelito posted:Peter's new god game A "reinvention of Populous" for £450,000 (US$717,000). Eh, I don't know. It sounds nice and all, and I love these sorts of games, but with the way the dude has waxed poetic about this or that awesome feature in various games over the years and pretty much failed to deliver... Hmm. This has been my feeling about a lot of the KS projects these days, which might mean I'm mentally weary of KS or something. Midrena fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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miguelito posted:Peter's new god game "Peter Molyneux doesn't talk about the game" should be a stretch goal. This does look interesting and Populous was one of those games that should have spawned a lot of other games but didn't, so I'm intrigued. It is sort of weird seeing a Kickstarter not in dollars, though, and I'm also curious as to why the $15 buy in is limited.
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The Black and White games were like my entire childhood so gently caress you I guess??
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CrookedB posted:Speaking of the soon-to-be-launched Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden 2 kickstarter, I've had the pleasure of interviewing Chef Boyardee about it. For those interested, the interview has a lot of exclusive info and a bunch of Barkley 2 screenshots: http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=8632 Consider me hyped to hell and back. I love how they're showing the character's face at the bottom like in Doom.
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All the money I would have given to a Populous remake minus-Peter-Molyneux is gonna go to Barkley 2, sooo, I think I'm gonna come out happy. What are we gonna name the Barkley 2 thread? I'm voting for "TMROTNN:EFN7-ROC:TOGOTM-C2OTHBS Kickstarter" since the full title won't fit.
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But he could just go to any bank and still get the money. I wish kickstarter was more like the old olympics where professionals couldn't enter.
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Orzo posted:I'm gonna call it now, that Peter's GODUS will make funding very easily. It's Peter Molyneux. The media are already covering his every breath. And when the press gives hype to anything it succeeds. Your "calling it now" is just common sense, sadly.
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Boiled Water posted:But he could just go to any bank and still get the money. I wish it was more like an investment platform, so you could get equity in a project instead of just access and gewgaws, but that's legally unfeasible for now.
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MrBims posted:All the money I would have given to a Populous remake minus-Peter-Molyneux is gonna go to Barkley 2, sooo, I think I'm gonna come out happy. Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden 2: When Nothing Else Matters
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Doc Hawkins posted:I wish it was more like an investment platform, so you could get equity in a project instead of just access and gewgaws, but that's legally unfeasible for now. The amount of Due Diligence lawsuits...my god.
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Doc Hawkins posted:I wish it was more like an investment platform, so you could get equity in a project instead of just access and gewgaws, but that's legally unfeasible for now. If you could find a way you'll make quite a killing. KickDragonsDen.
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Populous was cool, but I don't feel like giving money to Molyneux in his current state.StevenM posted:Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden 2: When Nothing Else Matters Shut Up and Take My Money: Gaiden.
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