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Shalinor posted:If we're calling Winterkewl out for failing to understand the scope of the project, we might as well also call Yogscast out for actively marketing a game that they were refusing to feature/market IN THEIR OWN VIDEOS. Which would have been free, and more effective. That kinda makes me chuckle. Everyone involved in the kickstarter failed to grasp what they were doing, I don't think there's any doubt about that. The Yogscast did try to promote the game in their videos (for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIod3ZUBpys) but it was clear that the game was very poor. There is a noticeable difference between some of the game's artwork (such as the character models which are actually rather good) and the actual gameplay and game mechanics which look extremely simplistic. The game is made in unity and I imagine the majority of the engine and visible mechanics are handled out of the box by that engine, although I am no expert. That said, you can certainly see where someone who doesn't really understand what's involved in making a game can see some of those pretty high quality art assets and think "wow, these game developers are really good!" without realising they had no real game development expertise in house.
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Veotax posted:Creating and shipping physical merch gets expensive fast (...)
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Has Jotun been mentioned yet? If so, I missed it and apologize. I think it looks pretty fantastic, and love the artstyle. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/682108903/jotun 
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Well they say at least one guy on their team can code, so that's better than some already! I definitely like the premise.
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heavy liquid posted:Has Jotun been mentioned yet? If so, I missed it and apologize. This reminds me of the Myth cutscenes. Someone needs to make a (good) Myth reboot complete with wicked animated cutscenes.
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Bel Monte posted:Is it possible to create a kickstarter to kick out this guy by giving the landlord lady all the money she needs for legal fees? It would be amazing if it also somehow made more money than any of this guy's kickstarters. How about a kickstarter to raise funds to have a bikie gang run him out of town? Stretch goals to include a documentary.
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heavy liquid posted:Has Jotun been mentioned yet?  Looks pretty cool. I don't get the opportunity to play stocky chicks too often.
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Pavlov posted:
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That is really good design. Also am I the only one who thinks Mark of Kri when I see this? 26k out of 50 already. I hope this gets funded. Shindragon fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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I never played those games despite Sony's massive marketing push behind them and looking really nice. And wasn't there some famous animator on board for all of that? I can see what you mean though. It's got a great sense of movement even in still images.
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Polygon wrote a story about recent Confederate Express developments. Notorious Airbnb squatter may be the dev behind two flailing Kickstarter games Polygon posted:Reached for comment Thursday afternoon, Andreas Inghe, who is listed as a team member on Confederate Express on the Kickstarter page, said he too hasn't heard from the brothers.
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Oddly, there was an iPhone game made in 2011 called Awesome Chicken that's listed in most places as being made by "Dennis Logan", but elsewhere by Denys Pashanin. It's been removed from the store.
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Mirificus posted:ConEx™ does seem like an increasingly appropriate name. gently caress I'm starting to think this was all a scam from the start, and the name was a gag on it. Dude is a serious conman.  That's just too obvious, right? But I fell for it  Note to self: "really good art and promising design" is no longer enough to back a kickstarter. Returning to my old stringent view of known-teams or playable proof-of-concept games only.
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Zaphod42 posted:gently caress I'm starting to think this was all a scam from the start, and the name was a gag on it. Dude is a serious conman. 
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Mirificus posted:He's appropriately named too: Maksym backwards = myskaM Oh dear, this is the joke that keeps on giving. Sort of like the OUYA but fortunately in a much smaller scale.
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Mirificus posted:He's appropriately named too: Maksym backwards = myskaM   At least I only gave him  
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Mirificus posted:He's appropriately named too: Maksym backwards = myskaM Hate to be That Guy, but I don't get it.
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Unlucky7 posted:Hate to be That Guy, but I don't get it. My Skam
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Kickstarter Gaming - $10,000 buys you My Skam's False2D-engined ConGame.
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I wonder if in his head he really isn't a scammer. He's just so oblivious to the way the world works that he thinks that he is justified in everything he is doing.
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It's a shame because the dude does seem to be a genuinely talented pixel artist, he just too wrapped up in being a terrible person to do anything useful with it.
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Talorat posted:I wonder if in his head he really isn't a scammer. He's just so oblivious to the way the world works that he thinks that he is justified in everything he is doing. I hate playing Internet Psychiatrist but this sort of deliberate planned fraud seems like psychopathy. It takes a certain kind of mindset to pull these kinds of planned shenanigans.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I hate playing Internet Psychiatrist but this sort of deliberate planned fraud seems like psychopathy. It takes a certain kind of mindset to pull these kinds of planned shenanigans. You act as though its some elaborate planned scam, when what probably happened was that he quickly got bored making ConEx, and just decided he would instead work on this new totally awesome game idea he came up with. The AirBnB thing was also probably him just suddenly deciding he didn't want to leave.
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I think filing the counter-lawsuits and deliberately reserving a 30-day time period argue for advance planning. He knew he was reserving a period just long enough to trigger California's laws, and nobody files a lawsuit casually or on a spur of the moment whim.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:You act as though its some elaborate planned scam, when what probably happened was that he quickly got bored making ConEx, and just decided he would instead work on this new totally awesome game idea he came up with. You can be a psychopath and a childish flake at the same time. The AirBnB thing seems to indicate he knows enough about renter laws to purposefully exploit them.
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Not to mention it's at least the third time he's filed a lawsuit for sketchy reasons against a landlord and tried to profit off of it. And there's still the question of who actually owns Kilobite because it sure sounds like the brothers do even if they're now denying it! e: lol http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2702908/Squatters-refusing-leave-apartment-got-Airbnb-horror-story-complain-THEY-ones-harassed.html   
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Seems like it's hard to serve an eviction notice to Salarian councilors.
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Well, Unrest was extremely depressing and ended very abruptly. Not really sure what to make of it other than its WELP THAT'S THAT ending reminded me far too strongly of KOTOR 2. Anyone else been playing it? As Shyman I think I dodged an assassination attempt during the defence of the city by ignoring the messenger's summons and going out into the slums to keep the peace and I think I spared wedding girl's life by having the soldiers turn her loose. The abrupt ending did feel really poo poo though, I think they just ran out of cash but the entire lack of closure to the drought and ethnic tensions kinda makes the whole thing feel pretty pointless except as a guided tour of a demographic no-win scenario. Still, I appreciate what these guys were trying to do and I'd love to see what they make in the future, hopefully with a more substantial budget.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:You act as though its some elaborate planned scam, when what probably happened was that he quickly got bored making ConEx, and just decided he would instead work on this new totally awesome game idea he came up with. Except he dumped ConEx right after he got the cash to start up on knuckle club aka if the scam worked once lets try it again on other folks. Between two bullshit kickstarters and having squatted people and abused Californian law for years, its pretty clear he's a willful con-artist and he knows full well what bullshit he's doing. I wonder if the people "working for him" are his friends or if they're being conned too Ugh some people are so lovely. He may be a psychopath, that would explain it, but we don't have doctorates and even if we did you can't do that poo poo over the internet. But regardless, shitheel.
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Yodzilla posted:Not to mention it's at least the third time he's filed a lawsuit for sketchy reasons against a landlord and tried to profit off of it. And there's still the question of who actually owns Kilobite because it sure sounds like the brothers do even if they're now denying it! Give the guy a break, he's obviously been laid off from his Azkaban job since Voldemort died and he's just trying to get some new projects started.
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Wow, he hid his face so the eviction notice couldn't be delivered. I hate this guy so much!
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I choose to believe that he's not wearing a cap under the hoodie, but it is in fact a plague doctor mask as I thought it was when I first glanced at the picture.
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Man, if only this dude put all that creativity into actually doing something worthwhile instead of researching new and exciting ways of being a huge dick.
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Wendell posted:Wow, he hid his face so the eviction notice couldn't be delivered. I hate this guy so much! I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter if your face is hidden or not. If you're there, you're getting served.
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RadicalR posted:I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter if your face is hidden or not. If you're there, you're getting served. Yeah, but he hid his face so that he could claim not to be there.
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RadicalR posted:I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter if your face is hidden or not. If you're there, you're getting served. It said the guy has to hand deliver it to a person who identifies as the defendant. I'm not sure how that works normally, but there you go  
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Knuckle Club comments, July 17: Kilobite posted:What an embarrassing witch-hunt.
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Comment relevant because he looks exactly like the Witch-King from LotR, right?
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