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Peas and Rice posted:I think the most damning part of that is that he openly admits he had no idea what kind of budget it was going to take to make the game he proposed, and once he realized how in over his head was, he didn't just come forward and admit it but kept trying to drive the Titanic like nothing was wrong at all. Yeah, I mean honestly a lot of indie projects are kind of like this - in uni I watched a lot of folks start up little 'projects' that never went anywhere, so I can't reaaaaaally be surprised about it, and at least they're still working on it. But the communications/etc have been pretty bad.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Mighty no. 9 is over 2million, at this rate even if backing slows down it seems like 2.5mil should be a given and 3mil a possibility. Kicktraq's range for it looks to be 2.4-4mil: I sincerely hope that 4 mil is where it eventually ends up. It is a tricky prospect to keep making as much money as these guys are doing from day to day, but if they keep the updates coming and add more tiers (if possible) they might at least get close. Of course, whichever goal adds Call as a playable character for the main campaign is going to be what I want them attaining.
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Super Retro Squad guy posted:We scrapped all of the code that we were working on and started fresh in early August. [...] To some people, it may seem like a bad decision to completely rewrite our code, but you'll just have to trust my judgement. I think everyone would be happier if they just consider August 2013 the start date of production and that everything leading up to it was a mix of pre-production, learning stuff, and getting ourselves financially stable. I'm sure some people will be upset by this, but I always think it's best to just tell the truth. So there it is. Yeah, this game is dead. I don't think I've ever seen a game actually survive a complete code rewrite. Especially when the justification is basically that a shiny new toy is coming out, in this case 2D tools in Unity.
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The Shantae kickstarter is chugging along and has reached 250K of 400K. I just want them to at least reach the 500K stretch goal - I'm a sucker for extra playable characters. I've actually tried the original now and it's surprisingly fun for a GBC platformer. Renoistic fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Sep 12, 2013 |
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Sep 12, 2013 18:25
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So the Shadowrun guys have launched their miniatures + smartphones Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/golem-arcana Not exactly my thing, but I wish them luck.
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Renoistic posted:The Shantae kickstarter is chugging along and has reached 250K of 400K. I just want them to at least reach the 500K stretch goal - I'm a sucker for extra playable characters. I think they'll be able to hit the $500k stretch goal, at least, probably just from inertia alone.
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Sep 12, 2013 19:03
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Megazver posted:So the Shadowrun guys have launched their miniatures + smartphones Kickstarter: Already at 1/4 of their requested goal. Didn't think it would be that popular!
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pumpinglemma posted:Yeah, this game is dead. I don't think I've ever seen a game actually survive a complete code rewrite. Especially when the justification is basically that a shiny new toy is coming out, in this case 2D tools in Unity. I have seen an example of games coping with a total engine re-write during patches (Arcen Games' AI War switching from a XNA-alike to Unity), and obviously we have a few big AAA games making it out despite many, many rewrites (e.g. Duke Nukeum Forever). However, without a publisher demanding something or an income to fund re-development? Yeah, it's dead.
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Sep 12, 2013 19:21
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Ludo Friend posted:Already at 1/4 of their requested goal. Didn't think it would be that popular! If I had the time, money, and like-minded friends I would be all over that thing. It's a neat idea.
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Megazver posted:So the Shadowrun guys have launched their miniatures + smartphones Kickstarter: Oh that looks like it could be a lot of fun. I wish it were a four-player game instead of just two-player, though. Two players is me and my wife and she wouldn't be interested in that kind of game. Four players is me my wife and two friends and I could get that group together to try it. edit: wait, it says up to eight can play? So you have to buy an extra set of miniatures per person, basically? Or what? Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Sep 12, 2013 |
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Ludo Friend posted:Already at 1/4 of their requested goal. Didn't think it would be that popular! It's already a day old, so the first day rush is over. It's probably 50/50 that they scrape by before the closing date.
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pumpinglemma posted:Yeah, this game is dead. I don't think I've ever seen a game actually survive a complete code rewrite. Especially when the justification is basically that a shiny new toy is coming out, in this case 2D tools in Unity. On the one hand, this is the only (game) kickstarter I've been burned on and for not that much a pledge, but on the other, the guys made a lot of dumb mistakes and continue to plan poorly and make excuses, so I'm done.
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Sep 12, 2013 20:44
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Renoistic posted:The Shantae kickstarter is chugging along and has reached 250K of 400K. I just want them to at least reach the 500K stretch goal - I'm a sucker for extra playable characters. I went and finished the GBC game the other day for the first time. I rarely finish games, but I wanted to do so for this one. It has a few bullshit elements in it such as a few vague clues near the end and some regular enemies being really tough on the early outset when you don't have any equipment bought yet, but I grew up with Zelda II and Battle of Olympus, so I'm more tolerant of that NES-era stuff than others might be. Starting up Risky's Revenge in preparation for when the third game comes out. I want to see the Kickstarter hit the $700k stretch goal. I'm a sucker for goofy alternate cosmetics in my games, I mean I play TF2 and all. Also that Patricia Wagon outfit because I love Mighty Switch Force.
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Sep 12, 2013 20:52
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Mercury Crusader posted:I went and finished the GBC game the other day for the first time. I rarely finish games, but I wanted to do so for this one. It has a few bullshit elements in it such as a few vague clues near the end and some regular enemies being really tough on the early outset when you don't have any equipment bought yet, but I grew up with Zelda II and Battle of Olympus, so I'm more tolerant of that NES-era stuff than others might be. Starting up Risky's Revenge in preparation for when the third game comes out. After replaying Shantae and Risky's Revenge I'm hoping we crack 800k, but I'm pretty sure that won't happen at the rate of growth. If there's one thing that bugs me about about both is just how short they are, I'd love some extra content.
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Hyper Light Drifter just blew up all over my Twitter feed: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter  It's like Zelda meets Sword & Sorcery EP.
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pumpinglemma posted:Yeah, this game is dead. I don't think I've ever seen a game actually survive a complete code rewrite. Especially when the justification is basically that a shiny new toy is coming out, in this case 2D tools in Unity. They said they'd make a documentary. That may actually be the most interesting part of the whole thing... unless the person doing the documentary is as bad at budgeting as the developers are  edit: also this is the most hilariously amateurish logo I've seen in a while. Apply all the photoshop filters! waffle fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Sep 12, 2013 |
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Sep 12, 2013 21:30
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Megazver posted:So the Shadowrun guys have launched their miniatures + smartphones Kickstarter: I really hope they can make it with this. They have a solid product even if it something I personally don't need, unlike their last kickstarter. I just want their company to stay afloat and to keep making cool ideas 
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Yodzilla posted:Hyper Light Drifter just blew up all over my Twitter feed: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter AND it has Disasterpeace on the OST. Dude's going to be busy between this and RCR Underground. 
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Yodzilla posted:Hyper Light Drifter just blew up all over my Twitter feed: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter This looks loving fantastic, I'm sold just from the screenshots.
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I have a question about the Alteil video. What would stop you from moving that pawn thing you deployed back one so that your other two units could attack?
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pumpinglemma posted:Yeah, this game is dead. I don't think I've ever seen a game actually survive a complete code rewrite. Especially when the justification is basically that a shiny new toy is coming out, in this case 2D tools in Unity. If he really wanted to he could easily get started using some other 2D framework in Unity but I guess nope they're just gonna kinda sit on it and hope that sometime in October the new 2D Unity tools will suit their needs and start the coding process from scratch. 
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pumpinglemma posted:Yeah, this game is dead. I don't think I've ever seen a game actually survive a complete code rewrite. Especially when the justification is basically that a shiny new toy is coming out, in this case 2D tools in Unity. What are you talking about? It worked wonders for Duke Nukem Forever!
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waffle posted:They said they'd make a documentary. That may actually be the most interesting part of the whole thing... unless the person doing the documentary is as bad at budgeting as the developers are The documentary died a long time ago. I'm pretty sure it was some film school pal they conned into doing it and then backed out.
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Yodzilla posted:Hyper Light Drifter just blew up all over my Twitter feed: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter The design of the kickstarter itself is uncannily similar to Radio the Universe, weird. the black husserl fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Sep 12, 2013 |
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the black husserl posted:The design of the kickstarter itself is uncannily similar to Radio the Universe, weird. How's that one doing? The updates are backer-only.
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the black husserl posted:The design of the kickstarter itself is uncannily similar to Radio the Universe, weird.
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Yodzilla posted:Hyper Light Drifter just blew up all over my Twitter feed: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter
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SaviourX posted:On the one hand, this is the only (game) kickstarter I've been burned on and for not that much a pledge, but on the other, the guys made a lot of dumb mistakes and continue to plan poorly and make excuses, so I'm done. Kinda like the team from Rainfall: The Sojourn. I'm counting that money as lost now.
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Added an update to my kickstater to humanize us and show that we are not a megacorp (though I think it may be a little late). We made liberal use of kittens and babies. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/978065956/alteil-horizions/posts/597174
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Yodzilla posted:Hyper Light Drifter just blew up all over my Twitter feed: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter Wow that is really good looking and they show off a ton of solid gameplay. Interesting that they didn't bother with an explanatory KS video and just went with a trailer. On one of the dev's homepages I found this which also looked cool Samurai Gunn
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Verdugo posted:Kinda like the team from Rainfall: The Sojourn. I'm counting that money as lost now. Yeah, I really shouldn't have backed that.
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Megazver posted:How's that one doing? The updates are backer-only. He's actually been doing pretty solid monthly updates, which is nice. Here's some test footage that's public on youtube, so I assume it's semi-kosher to share. edit: nope, unlisted. diadem posted:Added an update to my kickstater to humanize us and show that we are not a megacorp (though I think it may be a little late). We made liberal use of kittens and babies. Going to be honest, my biggest reason for not backing you is just the flood of Digital CCGs ongoing right now. We've got Hex, Solforge, and a couple others, and I've already sunk a fair amount of money into those.  That being said the backer video's fairly well done, and the UI/etc look really nice. Edit: the other thing is that I'm mostly uninterested in playing against other players compared to playing against the computer, and it sounds like this is just PvP Falcon2001 fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Yodzilla posted:Hyper Light Drifter just blew up all over my Twitter feed: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter Christ, that looks utterly gorgeous.
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Verdugo posted:Kinda like the team from Rainfall: The Sojourn. I'm counting that money as lost now. I'm just really weak to things that look like SNES-era JRPGs, and especially things that resemble Secret of Mana.
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Taxi Journey So, this game showed up in my "recommended for you" queue. They are clearly taking cues from LIMBO and Machinarium (which they acknowledge in the pitch) but the art is whimsical and lovely and stands on its own. I haven't seen any press for it so far, perhaps they did not line up coverage before the campaign. The studio is apparently experienced, I haven't played any of their previous games so I cannot comment on that. The asking price at $130,000 is steep but this may reflect them being more realistic about their budget from experience. They even included a budget breakdown  (Is linking images hosted on Amazon kosher? I'll re-upload if not.) In the same section they also did a rough explanation of stretch goal costs. That's the other thing, I get the impression they have a tight vision of what they want to end up with so there are no "feature creep" stretch goals, instead all of the goals are porting the game to different platforms. The tiers are reasonable but definitely on the expensive side of what an indie game can ask for. They could also be slightly more granular.   (This is an homage to Calvin and Hobbes, right?) 
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Well Volgarr the Viking is out, glad to see another small-time kickstarter project has made good on its aims. The game itself though ... the only way I can think to describe it is Dark Souls reimagined as an early NES action platformer. Movement is slow paced and deliberate, you have quite a few attack options including a 360 slash double jump, a Zelda II-esque downwards thrust and a chargable spear throw but the game demands incredibly precise use of all of them, if you get cocky even for a second you're probably going to get killed, or at the very least lose most of your power-ups (because you lose armour, which gives a hit-point and an upgraded ability on hit) in which case you'll probably die anyway because you just lost your Flaming Sword or your shield. Oh and of course there's no save system of any kind, so you have to complete the entire game in one sitting. If you can stomach that though, it's pretty fun in ultra-retro 'prepare to die a loving ton' kinda way.
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Another small project that's about to make it is Spud's Quest. It's been delayed a little while, but the creator says it should be out tomorrow when he gets back from his holidays.
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Verdugo posted:Kinda like the team from Rainfall: The Sojourn. I'm counting that money as lost now. Wasn't one of those guys a goon? I have no idea if he still posts here, but I'm glad I decided against backing it now.
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Hakkesshu posted:Wasn't one of those guys a goon? I have no idea if he still posts here, but I'm glad I decided against backing it now. Yeah, I actually posted a call-out to him a few months back to see what the hell was going on but he never replied. The project creator posted this in the comments section last week, but at this point, I'll believe it when I see it. quote:Hey everyone, been quite sometime. Things are finally picking my friends as I hired a new pixel artist!
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You never can tell with these things. I though that Sealark (by far the most risky thing I've backed) was dead for a while, then the creator put out a big update talking about the systems she's been implementing. She just updates massively intermittently. Could be that Rainfall's in a similar situation, and it's still chugging along behind the scenes.
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