Master_Odin posted:

Guess the publishers were right in this case then.

Quest For Glory II posted:

I promise I'll be back with a whole bunch of terrible Kickstarters but I'm busy at the moment. In the meantime here is one of my favorite bad Kickstarters.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1531189219/bloodycastle?ref=search

Give candles to happy strutting skeletons! Make checkers bleed. Open the bonechest. You can even slide tiles!!!! It's so bad yet there's a weird earnestness to it.

Yodzilla posted:

Also found Fist Puncher which looks like it might be a neat River City Ransom style game. Maybe. The reward tiers are a little weird though.

Kaboobi posted:

https://twitter.com/#!/JustinMcElroy/statuses/186328300069715969

"Got a press release for "EA Team Up" where you pay to "jumpstart" games that interest you. EA matches player funding. #GROSS"


dying laughing, can't breathe

Blodskur posted:

Let's hope that the Kickstarter mods takedown those spam comments.

Palpek posted:

"For $10,000, we’ll create a memory that will last a lunchtime. You will be flown (domestic airfare only) to Seattle to enjoy lunch, dinner, or a morning-after breakfast with Leisure Suit Larry’s Mommy’s Baby Daddy, Mr. Al Lowe himself."

Palpek posted:

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AxeManiac posted:

I donated since I worked on the two abortions called Larry at Vivendi, I owe him.

Tsurupettan posted:

The problem with donating to this is that it is another Multiplayer-focused FPS which will likely die within a few months of release.

r1ngwthszzors posted:

This isn't kickstarter, but RamBros looks like an awesome 80's throwback Metal Slug/Metroid game.

http://www.indiegogo.com/RamBros-Indie-Game

Spiky Ooze posted:

Yeah from a realistic standpoint it just sounds like too much to accomplish. And some of the backer comments are just sad:

"I am 13 and I pledged 500 I am pretty sure a lot of the yogscast viewers are not five and they can at least give a dollar for now after all the yogscast has done a lot for u guys and also when I am older I am definenty getting a computer before I get a TV."

Taking money from naive children.

randombattle posted:

The Wasteland 2 videos are all really funny.

Drifter posted:

How nice, her daughter's giving us a live action preview of the new game.

Rebel Blob posted:

So Mythic: The Story of Gods and Men, I guess it isn't really plagiarism, but they copied The Banner Saga's tiers and rewards almost word for word.

Saoshyant posted:

There's a reason for that. Not only is it in indiegogo which nobody knows about and the media offers no coverage of, but "This campaign will receive all of the funds contributed" is the biggest POS and obstacle indiegogo is suffering from one day becoming a proper alternative to kickstarter.

lordfrikk posted:

Hope Indiegogo gets it poo poo together and then gets media coverage because so many awesome games that would be funded in a blink on KS are not getting fully funded.

Saoshyant posted:

If you claim you can make a game if you reach at the very minimum an X amount of money, how do you keep making that game if you don't reach X? What will the money be used for, then? Make half a game? A third of a game?

You don't have a guarantee with kickstarter that if a project hits its fund goal that you'll get a finished product out of it as promised. It's a risk, but a calculated one. Bad projects don't reach their goals most of the time. You don't have this basic protection with indiegogo's way of doing business.

Yodzilla posted:

Fake. Phone. Call.

Al! posted:

At least it's better than.

"Hello, I've been watching you. I've always been watching you."

Rebel Blob posted:

They did release this work-in-progress version of their poster and another song from the soundtrack today.

Yodzilla posted:

Holy poo poo Doug Tennapel's Mothman movie was actually completed and released? That dude was working on that thing for over a drat decade.

Maybe he'll Kickstart a sequel to Sockbaby instead. Or Boom Bots.

Yodzilla posted:

Haha what's wrong with Doug Tennapel? I've never heard about him personally one way or the other but I loved Neverhood and Skullmonkeys.

quote:

21st: Do you honestly believe that every country save for yours is some repressive autocracy devoid of freedom?"

DTN: Just compared to ours. We kick rear end.

21st:"Christianity: 78.5%"

DTN: Again, why we kick rear end.

21st: "You know, if you don't have will and die right now, your wife would inherit your stuff."

DTN: Neither could my gardener, but I shouldn't have to marry him to work those details out. I don't have a problem with anyone visiting anyone in the hospital... but we both know this isn't about hospital visits.

21st: "What argument do you have specifically against letting two adult men who love each other marry?"

DTN: The same argument I have against letting a man take a dump in the ladies room. And office appropriate for one sex isn't automatically appropriate for another, no matter how much a man loves taking a dump in the ladies room.

21st: "Lastly, i'm at least thankful you're not equating gays to pedophiles or zoophiles. That's more respectful than some."

DTN: Give me some time all I'll see what I can do. You realize this conversation is going to be used by your people to justify a permanent boycott of my work. They would probably use this argument to justify me not being able to visit anyone in any hospital while they're at it. THis argument isn't about laws and marriage, it's about cultural witch hunts. THere are a lot worse things than not being able to marry your same sex.

21st: "Right now, some states are, in fact, fighting to remove rights from people. Is that right?"

DTN: America has thousands of people's rights taken away every day. Take a number.

Pyromancer posted:

They should really put carmageddons 1 and 2 on GOG to remind people what it is all about and score some extra cash.
Surprisingly carmageddon 1 doesn't even look that bad if you use 3dfx version in DosBox - pixelated movies and menus will make you cry but race part is upscaled nicely with nGlide.

NINbuntu 64 posted:

Maybe they only got the rights to make new games but not distribution rights to the old ones.

Mq posted:

Malevolence got funded. They released stretch goals which go up to $20,000. Unfortunately, since the game is set to release this year they won't be able to put that stuff into the game, so the extra money will go towards an expansion. I guess the expansion will make it even more infinite?


And in indiegogo news...

Dragons!
http://www.indiegogo.com/dragons

Graphics could be better and they don't even have a website yet but the game looks interesting. Basically you create a dragon, get dropped into a randomly generated world and start loving poo poo up and stealing gold for your treasure pile. There are different factions like wizards, knights and orcs you can do missions for or destroy. You also get some followers you can use to build defenses and traps around your treasure pile as dudes will try to steal it. Once you get strong enough dragon hunters will start coming after you. Could be alright.

Goal: $4,000
You get the game at: $10 drm-free, $20 also all future expansions
Time left: 23 days, $0 raised so far

Axegrinder posted:

Remember Earthworm Jim and The Neverhood?

Their creator, Doug Tennapel has just launched a Kickstarter for a hard-back compilation of his best sketches over the past few decades:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1812253609/doug-tennapel-sketchbook-archives?ref=discover_pop

I had a dream something like this was going to happen.

Fergus Mac Roich posted:

What a broken person. Was going to happily pay for his sketchbook, too.

Mug posted:

I don't really think anyone else should feel bad for wanting the book bad enough to pay for it, but I personally want to see the guy covered in bees.

Shalinor posted:

Wow. A Hat In Time has made 5x its goal so far, and still has a week left. (Mario 64/Banjooie-esque collect-a-thon 3D platformer)

Kyrosiris posted:

Armikrog may not make it. Yay. (91k needed with 30 hours to go.)

Saoshyant posted:

Wow, not wanting to support Armikrog is reasonable, but actually wanting it to fail leading to quite a few people being out of a job because of the opinions of one guy involved in the project? That seems short-sighted if not outright spiteful.

Not to mention the press already had a field day with it, so it's not like TenNapel isn't aware Armikrog could have done much better were he not a bigot.

The Shortest Path posted:

Except the part where he's not. He has strong religious and political beliefs against homosexuals, and while that's certainly a negative aspect to his character from a lot of perspectives including my own, to judge the entire sum of his character from those beliefs, and to then judge his completely unrelated works on those beliefs as well, is just as lovely as those who judge homosexual people solely on their sexuality.

He has significantly contributed to several very good games, and is doing so again. The quality of one aspect of his person has absolutely no bearing on the quality of the product he produces.

Hell, you could probably look into most things you consume on a regular basis, whether it be other entertainment, or food products (like that Chic-fil-a fiasco), or medical care, or whatever else, and find people with similarly distasteful opinions on certain things, from your point of view, contributing to the creation of those products. None of that is relevant, because what you're paying for is the product that you are consuming. The argument "but I don't want my money to go towards a cause I don't agree with" is ridiculous because a large portion of the money people spend already does that through other means, they just don't know about it.