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Megazver posted:I think they're only asking for money to pay someone to translate it to English? It's still weird, though. I asked them in the comments. I don't know anything about this RPG series but this feels weird. The link is back to the same website as for the book RPGs which are clearly in a different league from this. Is it a fan game that just happens to be using the same IP, and if so is it official?
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Trapezium Dave posted:Yeah but 100 euros isn't enough to pay for that. Only mates rates would get that kind of fee and if that's the case you could pay with some freshly baked cupcakes instead. Yeah, I know. The game did get mentioned on the Esteren official Facebook, so at least they're aware of it?
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May 27, 2015 13:45
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Maybe it's one of those cases where they want to make sure they get every penny that gets pledged, so they violently lowball it.
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May 27, 2015 13:50
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Yeah but there's lowballing... and there's lowballing. I mean I have no idea how much text they have in the game but that seems absurdly low even for translation only. But it's even a psychological factor, I don't think you can overfund more by asking for 100 EU than if you do 1000. I'm having the same conversation with a friend of mine working on a 3rd person puzzle game for the PC. He wants to Kickstart it and ask for 3 dollars for the game, and set the goal at $15k. He'd need 5000 people to pledge on a first time dev new IP puzzle game to get that funded. He keeps insisting that even if the KS doesn't fund he'll at least get the exposure, but man! When you spend months on end working on a project, then ask for 3 bucks for it but expect the backers to come in droves on cheapness alone... I don't think it's a good idea, and I'm trying to talk him/them out of it. I think it really casts a negative light on what you think your stuff is worth. And the game, while I've yet to play it, looks nice enough.. Nicer than 3 dollars, either way.
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May 27, 2015 14:00
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Are there any kickstarters out there that are somewhat analogous to your friends project? You can point out what they asked for and especially how many backers they got. Unless the game is very simple three bucks seems really low and 5000 backers is extremely generous for anyone without a strong name behind them.
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May 27, 2015 14:23
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Mr Underhill posted:Is this the first military shooter on Kickstarter? It just seems like such a non-Kickstarter-y game to pitch. It's not even close to the first, actually. Takedown: Red Sabre and H-Hour: World's Elite both had successful campaigns.
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Trapezium Dave posted:Are there any kickstarters out there that are somewhat analogous to your friends project? You can point out what they asked for and especially how many backers they got. Unless the game is very simple three bucks seems really low and 5000 backers is extremely generous for anyone without a strong name behind them. Hm, yea, I don't really know. I just pointed out Umbra has around 5k backers, but they're sitting at 180k out of 225, and that game's on a whole other level. Here's a screenshot of the game in question - you control the little robot dude and have to reach the teleporters in a certain sequence, and all the while the modules you're running along on rise and fall out of the lava and someone drops bombs on you from above. My criticism of it was the design looks very early 2000s, but a lot of the textures are placeholders, and from what I understand so's the main character. I'm not sure if he'd want me linking directly to the project since it's all work in progress, just putting this pic to illustrate my point. 3 dollars for a 50+level game seems too low to me.  Great Rumbler posted:It's not even close to the first, actually. Takedown: Red Sabre and H-Hour: World's Elite both had successful campaigns. Seems like a genre you'd put directly in a publisher's lap, color me surprised.
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I didn't see this posted yet, but a bunch of former BioShock/Dead Space developers are making a first person horror game starring a blind heroine: Perceptionquote:Perception is a first-person narrative horror adventure that tells the story of Cassie, a blind heroine who uses her extraordinary hearing and razor-sharp wits to unravel the mysteries of an abandoned estate that haunts her dreams. Doesn't look too bad, though that's a lot of stretch goals put out at once.
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Trapezium Dave posted:Yeah but 100 euros isn't enough to pay for that. Only mates rates would get that kind of fee and if that's the case you could pay with some freshly baked cupcakes instead.
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May 27, 2015 15:44
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SupSuper posted:Seems official. From the looks of it they're just "testing the waters". They're primarily a tabletop company, so they're making a cheap mobile videogame to start off with a Kickstarter just for interest check (they can probably fund that fine on their own), and if it shows promise they'll expand to bigger better videogames based on their IP (they mention they have a point'n'click adventure in the works too). That doesn't feel right to me. I don't know if this has already been linked, an article about how publishers use Kickstarter as a way of gauging interest - it's a nice read, not necessarily pertaining to the situation, but definitely an example of "Kickstarter misuse". I know, I know, there's no right or wrong way to use Kickstarter...
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May 27, 2015 15:56
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Kickstarter just launched the possibility to submit projects from France, and are promoting a bunch of projects, and amongst them is this : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/948135636/alunia A 1 guy project with stolen art "but really guys the artists will totally be on board I swear", no gameplay besides "it's Alundra", and really stupid stuff to say to backers like "Big puzzles that will put your brain to the test and make you realize that you're just dumb". 
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boblemoche posted:Kickstarter just launched the possibility to submit projects from France, and are promoting a bunch of projects, and amongst them is this : I'm not sure about the guy who did the concept art, but the two people they mention wanting to bring on board are the composer for Alundra and scenario writer for Landstalker. *laugh-track*
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Great Rumbler posted:I'm not sure about the guy who did the concept art, but the two people they mention wanting to bring on board are the composer for Alundra and scenario writer for Landstalker. *laugh-track* The "concept art" is just random drawings made by that credited guy in 2008 and earlier.
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May 27, 2015 17:27
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I like the registered domain that leads to a placeholder you-bought our-hostng page.
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May 27, 2015 17:36
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You are not ready for Slender Devil Is Behind You. It features walking around at night by lantern light, collecting pages... Sounds eerily familiar  Come on, French people, you're given an opportunity here, let the good games roll!
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Mr Underhill posted:Come on, French people, you're given an opportunity here, let the good games roll! The world needs more EYE: Divine Cybermancies. Toss a gun that turns people in to exploding werewolves in to this slender clone!
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Count Uvula posted:The world needs more EYE: Divine Cybermancies. Toss a gun that turns people in to exploding werewolves in to this slender clone! Those guys are making Space Hulk: Deathwing now. Other French are also making a sequel to Mars: War Logs, which actually looks decent. Megazver fucked around with this message at 09:59 on May 28, 2015 |
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May 28, 2015 09:57
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May 28, 2015 11:19
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Serpent in the Staglands is coming out later today!
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Leinadi posted:Serpent in the Staglands is coming out later today! Oh poo poo really? That's today? loving excellent, another thing I backed has delivered! Checking my list of things I have backed before Staglands I'm still waiting on Interstellaria, Torment, The Mandate, Paradise Lost and Emerald. I'm half expecting Emerald and Paradise Lost to be vaporware at this point though.
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I'm unbelievably hyped for Serpent in the Staglands. I hope it delivers. EDIT: Aaand looks like it's out on GOG now: http://www.gog.com/game/serpent_in_the_staglands Still waiting for my backer key though. CrookedB fucked around with this message at 13:13 on May 28, 2015 |
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Basic Chunnel posted:Decent quality would put it far ahead of its predecessor Their latest, Bound by Flame, was a very noticeable step up from Mars: War Logs. You've still got to be the kind of person that enjoys the Euro-jank to really appreciated it, though. Leinadi posted:Serpent in the Staglands is coming out later today! Totally didn't realize that this was coming out so soon. A very pleasant surprise!
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The Kickstarter email said they're going through the list of backers (which I checked, there are 1092 of them) manually to send everyone their keys, so we should get them sometime today. I'm excited to try it out as well.
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Huh, apparently Obsidian Entertainment are teaming up with Zero Radius Games to make a Pillars of Eternity card game. I've never heard of ZRG but I guess they make card games. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2081578473/pillars-of-eternity-lords-of-the-eastern-reach-car Not really my thing but whatevs, hopefully they make a bunch of money off of this.
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Did any one pledge for the beta tier for Aegis Defenders? They just sent out Steam Beta keys and I'm really curious how the game plays.
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Chairchucker posted:Huh, apparently Obsidian Entertainment are teaming up with Zero Radius Games to make a Pillars of Eternity card game. I've never heard of ZRG but I guess they make card games. The font and spacing make it look like the name of the thing is "ETERNITY LORDS"
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Kinda disappointed the Staglands guys are sending the keys out manually, by email  Still waiting on mine, won't get a chance to play tonight.
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Chairchucker posted:Huh, apparently Obsidian Entertainment are teaming up with Zero Radius Games to make a Pillars of Eternity card game. I've never heard of ZRG but I guess they make card games. While I would love for Obsidian to get more money, Zero Radius Games' previous games look mostly unknown. That doesn't really mean they're not capable of making good games, but I'd be wary of anyone trying to make their name on the basis of a license, rather than mechanics, especially when the gameplay itself seems very eh. You may not also have the security of a big board game publisher either, so who knows what fun snafus they may get caught in. Speaking of board games based on Kickstarted games, whatever happened to Unsung Story, that Matsuno game that was supposed to have a board game designed by one of my favorite designers?
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Das Tal sounds sort of like Rust but I dig the Baldur's Gate/Diablo look; given that all their proceeds are going to art assets I hope they can polish it up. I hate the power gap problem in current MMOs so its nice to see people addressing that conundrum.
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Dean of Swing posted:Das Tal sounds sort of like Rust but I dig the Baldur's Gate/Diablo look; given that all their proceeds are going to art assets I hope they can polish it up. I hate the power gap problem in current MMOs so its nice to see people addressing that conundrum. I've been alpha testing for this and it's pretty cool for what they have. Hard to get people interested though, as the current campaign total shows. I made a thread over in MMO a while ago, but no one really kept interest  .If anyone looked at it before but thought it was too expensive, they added a lower tier for people who aren't so sure about the game. They're also doing this thing on the 31st where anyone who backed gets to playtest what they currently have that day. The 31st is before the campaign ends, so you could pull your pledge after that if you don't like it.
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While I sit here downloading my Kung Fury just-released short  , I got a note that Jenny LeClue has a playable demo out
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Dean of Swing posted:Das Tal sounds sort of like Rust but I dig the Baldur's Gate/Diablo look; given that all their proceeds are going to art assets I hope they can polish it up. I hate the power gap problem in current MMOs so its nice to see people addressing that conundrum. This actually looks pretty badass but holy poo poo what's with all the bolding for emphasis, I feel like you can do that once every 3 paragraphs before you start looking insane.
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Count Uvula posted:This actually looks pretty badass but holy poo poo what's with all the bolding for emphasis, I feel like you can do that once every 3 paragraphs before you start looking insane. I think a lot of people just skim the actual writeup of kickstarters, so the idea is to try and throw their talking-points at people while their eyes just roll over it. It is a tad annoying though.
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Nice to see Staglands out, an actual developer team of two people getting a game out basically on time. Now to see if it's good! Also Stonehearth announced that they're going to be going into Steam Early Access to solicit more feedback and have added a couple more developers to their team. They still say they're on budget, however, and promise a breakdown as to how they're doing. Normally I'd be skeptical but they actually have been really good about constant, weekly updates on the game.
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Intellivision's trying to remake some of their games, and it's not looking too hot. To think, they once managed to swing a deal with Activision to publish a collection of their Intellivision games (although it was in 2001, which was probably before Actiuvision became all cunty).
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Kickstarter disaster Super Action Squad is back (aka Super Retro Squad, aka Super Mario Bros. Crossover w/different pixels), except now it's Operation Pyxel, and the SAS leader is making it by himself. It looks like poo poo, but he's going to save it with  DYNAMIC LIGHTING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Ycy2V91ZQ
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GrandpaPants posted:Speaking of board games based on Kickstarted games, whatever happened to Unsung Story, that Matsuno game that was supposed to have a board game designed by one of my favorite designers? That one was a tactics RPG with a digital card game on the side; I can't remember how hands-on Matsuno's supposed to be with either game, but the card game is being handled primarily by a guy named Christophe Boelinger. The devs (Playdek) are terrible about providing regular updates but the game seems to be coming along okay.
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Is there a thread for Serpent in the Staglands? It's got a cool aesthetic but is buggy as gently caress.
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Shine posted:Kickstarter disaster Super Action Squad is back (aka Super Retro Squad, aka Super Mario Bros. Crossover w/different pixels), except now it's Operation Pyxel, and the SAS leader is making it by himself. It looks like poo poo, but he's going to save it with What is that godawful filter he has over everything. 
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