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Peas and Rice posted:Apparently backing kickstarters entitles you to the final product at a discount these days. Generally that's true and your 'reward' for backing the project rather than just waiting for it to be launched. Why use the word 'entitled' like that?
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A hat in Time's Kickstarter has about 24 hours more to go, and I'm in at the $20 mark. If someone wants to piggyback onto my order to get a copy for only $5 (as long as you don't mind if I get the pins) feel free to contact me. I'll give it to the first reply, to someone who can contact me via SA forum messages and pay through Paypal. ETA: Given to Blodskur! Catalina fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jun 27, 2013 |
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As expected, barely 3 hours after the game's launch I now have my Legends of Dawn key. Here's what they had to say:quote:Please accept our sincere apologies as things went out of sync and the game went public before we published this update or sent a single announcement. Maybe if this dragged on for several days with no further communication I'd have started getting concerned, but they addressed and corrected the problem within 3 hours. I'm happy, and I really don't understand what angry commenters are so pissed about. Knowing the internet, I'm guessing all will be forgotten within a day.
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Jun 27, 2013 21:09
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaytholen/dropsy-a-surreal-exploration-based-adventure-game Is this the same Dropsy that's currently running in the GBS forums?
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RadicalR posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaytholen/dropsy-a-surreal-exploration-based-adventure-game
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Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm is a new IndieGoGo project from Nyu Media.quote:Help three former SNK / King of Fighters developers complete their indie game passion project: the original 2D fighting game Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm!
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Jun 27, 2013 21:37
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Saoshyant posted:11 now and they are at $42k, 2000 dollars over the goal, so they are fine. I do wonder why Ms. Pratchett stepped in, though. That was... unexpected to say the least. I'd assume after the share of Tomb Raider controversies she would prefer to stay out of videogame writing, but then again, checking her Wikipedia page she has worked on far more than just that one, so I guess it's not that unexpected outside of her interest for a struggling indie game. Most of the controversy surrounding Tomb Raider was the result of a throwaway line from one of the developers during an interview, not from the actual content of the game itself.
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I put up a Kickstarter out there if anyone has any tips (yes I know I suck on camera, you shoulda seen the first video attempt) - I probably should have posted here *before* putting it up, but oh well, I didn't think to look here for a Kickstarter thread. The Kickstarter's for porting my top-down space shooter with Zelda-style exploration from OUYA to PC, while improving the art and polish, and adding more levels. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/858206116/the-secret-of-universe-alpha-directors-cut
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A Hat In Time has 24 hours to go and it's crazy super funded. I didn't realize that Grant Kirkhope had ANYTHING to do with it and it looks like he'll be doing several songs for the game which is awesome. Pretty cool of him to do something like that.
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Jun 27, 2013 21:52
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Yikes. I don't see Dark Matter making it. 2,490 / 50,000 with 20 days left. ... I really do wonder how much having a non-$ currency hurts these. Their presentation has other issues (that splash image, god drat), but the non-$ currency seems to have a real impact. Couldn't Kickstarter swap it out so that it shows converted currency relative to the user, instead of the project?
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Dreamzle posted:I put up a Kickstarter out there if anyone has any tips (yes I know I suck on camera, you shoulda seen the first video attempt) - I probably should have posted here *before* putting it up, but oh well, I didn't think to look here for a Kickstarter thread. The Kickstarter's for porting my top-down space shooter with Zelda-style exploration from OUYA to PC, while improving the art and polish, and adding more levels. This looks so good, I can't wait.
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RadicalR posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaytholen/dropsy-a-surreal-exploration-based-adventure-game Yuuuup. I was just able to pitch it (after a rousing song) on the DoubleFine twitch stream. Heck yessss.
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Hav posted:Generally that's true and your 'reward' for backing the project rather than just waiting for it to be launched. Why use the word 'entitled' like that? No, it's your reward if you back a reward that says you get the game at a discount. Otherwise, you're basically preordering a game and typically getting access to insider forums, updates, and things that the non-backing, waiting public gets to see if they hold off until launch. I've backed some games that advertise a lower price (the $6 early bird on Mage's Initiation for example) but otherwise, I'm pretty much expecting that I'm paying full price, just like I would if I preordered a game through Steam or Gamestop. It just happens that the developers get my preorder money before the game is done, and they reward me by giving me some behind-the-scenes stuff if I want it.
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Gaspy Conana posted:Yuuuup. I was just able to pitch it (after a rousing song) on the DoubleFine twitch stream. Heck yessss. May I say, your hair is fabulous! Backing just on the hair alone. 
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Massive Chalice finished with over $1.2 million, not bad at all.Great Rumbler posted:Most of the controversy surrounding Tomb Raider was the result of a throwaway line from one of the developers during an interview, not from the actual content of the game itself.
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Peas and Rice posted:Apparently backing kickstarters entitles you to the final product at a discount these days. It should definitely be expected. It goes back even to the alpha Minecraft and Mount & Blade days. If I'm going to take a leap of faith on some company to keep them going while they're in development, it should at least be an affordable one and not an attempt to sell me the game at retail price early.
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Dreamzle posted:I put up a Kickstarter out there if anyone has any tips (yes I know I suck on camera, you shoulda seen the first video attempt) - I probably should have posted here *before* putting it up, but oh well, I didn't think to look here for a Kickstarter thread. The Kickstarter's for porting my top-down space shooter with Zelda-style exploration from OUYA to PC, while improving the art and polish, and adding more levels. Out of curiosity, does this mean the game's sales fell short of your expectations so now you need to run a Kickstarter to keep going, or is it the reverse, that it's doing so well you've decided to try expanding it? This is purely about the Ouya and your expectations for it, not a knock on the game at all. Actually, it looks pretty nice, and I wish you the best. Also, we live in the same town, so hit me up if you want to collaborate on something or go get a beer. 
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seorin posted:Out of curiosity, does this mean the game's sales fell short of your expectations so now you need to run a Kickstarter to keep going, or is it the reverse, that it's doing so well you've decided to try expanding it? This is purely about the Ouya and your expectations for it, not a knock on the game at all. Actually, it looks pretty nice, and I wish you the best. Well, I had always had a PC (and other platforms) port as a "Plan B", though I didn't come up with the idea to get a Kickstarter to help fund it until recently. I didn't totally count on the OUYA sales because as a Kickstarter it wasn't even guaranteed to actually ship anytime soon in the first place. Though I didn't expect the OUYA to take so dang long to ship devices to the Kickstarter pledgers once it did start shipping, rather than all 60,000 plegders getting them within a couple weeks it took 4 months to trickle them all out. Really my expectations didn't start until retail launch, so we'll see how sales go now that it's actually out (my sales until launch have been about 1 sale per day). Dreamzle fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jun 27, 2013 |
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I'm glad Our Darker Purpose made it, it will be nice to play a binding of Isaac type game where the theme isn't "poop and abortions lol".
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Shalinor posted:Yikes. I don't see Dark Matter making it. 2,490 / 50,000 with 20 days left. I certainly don't donate to projects listed in moon dollars.
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mikemil828 posted:Also to let people know, Armikrog just hit it's stretch goal as well, so it's heading to the Wii U too for those so inclined. I'm hoping that the partnership thing with Nintendo that they got ends up somehow getting Earthworm Jim into SSBU. I know it's ridiculously unlikely, and the roster was probably finalized months if not years ago, but I can still dream, right?
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Apologies beforehand because this thread is quite large. I've been flip flopping on A Hat in Time at an insane rate for the last couple days, I really don't know if I want to back them. On the plus side, the game looks ridiculously charming and adorable, and having not played a collectathon in years makes me interested. But on the other hand, reading their kickstarter page, they're really riding hard on the "BRINGING MAGIC BACK TO GAMES" nonsense that I think is dumb. Plus I'm really reluctant on throwing money at a team I have no knowledge about. Also, glancing at a couple pages previously, the head is kind of an rear end in a top hat, or something? I'm sorry if this has been talked about ad nauseam previously.
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RuBisCO posted:Apologies beforehand because this thread is quite large. Yeah the thing that's worrying some people (me included) is that the project lead has shown himself to be a man of... low moral fiber. Namely he stole assets for at least one of his projects and is a huge drama queen. e: Here's the post Saoshyant made on the matter. Saoshyant posted:Tell me about it. Someone at that neogaf site listed these: dijon du jour fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jun 28, 2013 |
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RuBisCO posted:Apologies beforehand because this thread is quite large. Well, it's going to be funded so you may as well just watch the development progress if you're on the fence.
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I was really surprised that they presented themselves as a collectathon, and that people were excited by that. I always thought that the collecting loads of random bullshit was the worst part of those games. Like, Psychonauts is great, except for the loving figments you have to collect a million of.
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Wendell posted:I was really surprised that they presented themselves as a collectathon, and that people were excited by that. I always thought that the collecting loads of random bullshit was the worst part of those games. Like, Psychonauts is great, except for the loving figments you have to collect a million of. Collecting loads of random bullshit is the whole point of collectathon games. And we like it that way. It rewards thorough exploration.  It's like saying "Half-Life is great, except for the loving bullets you have to shoot a million of." 
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RuBisCO posted:I've been flip flopping on A Hat in Time at an insane rate for the last couple days, I really don't know if I want to back them. Here's how to play smart here: sit this one out. It's funded, in fact extremely funded, so your contribution would be meaningless, thus you can just wait and watch. If a game comes out you can buy it -- if it doesn't, shame, but you wasted no money on it.
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Thanks for the advice guys. I'll sit this one out and come back in like a year.
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Wendell posted:I was really surprised that they presented themselves as a collectathon, and that people were excited by that. I always thought that the collecting loads of random bullshit was the worst part of those games. Like, Psychonauts is great, except for the loving figments you have to collect a million of. Games like Banjo-Kazooie (at least the XBLA re-release that made note pickups permanent) were generally good about making the collectibles actually fun to get. Of course you also have your Donkey Kong 64-types where the collectibles are a cheap way to distract you from bad level design, but I doubt A Hat In Time is gonna end up like that. The project lead's shaky history is concerning, but regardless I still think it could turn out really well. At the very least, this means more work for Grant Kirkhope, and that's always a good thing.
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Saoshyant posted:Here's how to play smart here: sit this one out. It's funded, in fact extremely funded, so your contribution would be meaningless, thus you can just wait and watch. If a game comes out you can buy it -- if it doesn't, shame, but you wasted no money on it. Indeed. I took this approach with Massive Chalice. The game concept sounds absolutely great and all, but without any actual concrete information, backing it was a hard sell. Since it was funded before I even heard about it, I just decided I'd let other people play it first and only buy it if it actually turned out to be as good as it sounds. The no stretch goals thing made that choice a lot easier, too.
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The Heavy Gear Assault kickstarter got canceled so the devs can rethink their strategy for it. Probably a good move. http://www.vg247.com/2013/06/24/heavy-gear-assault-kickstarter-canned-crowd-funding-going-in-house/
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Zeether posted:The Heavy Gear Assault kickstarter got canceled so the devs can rethink their strategy for it. Probably a good move. "At the time of cancellation the project received just $44,981 of StomyBot’s intended $800,000 goal." Oh wow that is abysmal. I wonder why they did so badly? Lack of exposure?
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echoMateria posted:Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm is a new IndieGoGo project from Nyu Media. Note that this is flexible funding, so wait until its funded if you're at all interested. Otherwise you're just throwing money away if it doesn't get funded.
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dijon du jour posted:"At the time of cancellation the project received just $44,981 of StomyBot’s intended $800,000 goal." Partly because they originally focused solely on multiplayer, partly because said multiplayer was a fruity highly-constrained cyber-tv arena-deathmatch thing rather than giving players the feeling they were actually raw power unleashed, and partly because the whole thing looked so drat brightly coloured and comical. My opinions only, of course, but I know they're not unique to me.
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So this is certainly more general Kickstarter news but I imagine it'll come up in this thread soon enough, Kickstarter will soon be accepting Canadian projects.
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Kickstarter is coming to Canada, baby!    Only fit that the best game-making country in the world now has access to the most exciting thing happening in the games industry.  ^e,fb
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Dreamzle posted:I put up a Kickstarter out there if anyone has any tips (yes I know I suck on camera, you shoulda seen the first video attempt) - I probably should have posted here *before* putting it up, but oh well, I didn't think to look here for a Kickstarter thread. The Kickstarter's for porting my top-down space shooter with Zelda-style exploration from OUYA to PC, while improving the art and polish, and adding more levels. Is there a reason it's set to ten days? That's slightly...suicidal. Scaly Haylie fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Jun 28, 2013 |
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RuBisCO posted:On the plus side, the game looks ridiculously charming and adorable, and having not played a collectathon in years makes me interested.
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Orzo posted:Out of curiosity and lack of encyclopedic game knowledge, what are some examples of 'collectathon' games? I mean, there's games like Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, and DK 64, but none of those games were ever billed as collection quests explicitly--it's just a feature that happened to be in the game. Spyro and Jak & Daxter are prime examples.
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