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Kickstarter is a fairly noble idea: aspiring creatives pitch their ideas to the internet, and people can invest their own money in exchange for varying levels of reward based on how much they pay. It's been used for great things like funding adventure gaming darling Tim Schafer, but by and larger it's a wasteland of stupid ideas and nerd pandering where people with zero qualifications and nothing more than a poorly-editied video pitch panhandle for money. With more and more legitimate businesses and creators jumping on the Kickstarter bandwagon, what better time to dig up all the awful crap that slips through the cracks? B4U: Hipster Battle Game  A wise man once said: "A hipster is someone who likes something that I don't like, a sperglord is someone who doesn't like something that I like." Nothing embodies this quite like Andy Erickson's Hipster Battle Game. A proud tabletop gaming enthusiast and owner of "independent web concept and design company" Eloquent Zombie he has the stones to call out people who, er...wear cowboy hats? Skinny jeans? Glasses? Erickson is a brave voice of reason willing to call out any vaguely popular fashion trend from the past decade.  Bonobo Chat has sadly expired without meeting its goal, so your dreams of monkeys with iPads has sadly been dashed upon the rocks.  Penny arcades and peep shows may be dead but a young entrepreneur wants to bring back "old time 3d burlesque" now that he's single-handedly saved the handlebar mustache.  Ellwood "Bunky" Bartlett may have won $42 million from the lottery but that's not going to stop him from getting other people to pay for his dream MMO! Your World promises the MMO experience that gamers want: namely, hooker bots. So Goons, what other laughable projects have you seen on Kickstarter?
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:20 |
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| # ? May 25, 2013 06:11 |
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Farbtoner posted:
Wasn't there a thread about this guy? Anyone have a link?
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:22 |
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Our forum's own Zorak has thrown around the idea of making a kickstarter to make and eat a sandwich just to see if people'd throw money at any old poo poo.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:25 |
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Douche Bag posted:Wasn't there a thread about this guy? Anyone have a link? Just over a week left for funding. Just over 2% funded. 
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:29 |
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The F Plus podcast did a whole episode about awful kickstarters.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:30 |
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Guavanaut posted:This one? That's still alot of money for people to donate to some random bloke who has no developing experience or possible chance of making a game. I admit I'm not a huge fan of kickstarters, I think it's a really good idea to help small developers get a project off the ground but there's just going to be an awful lot of sore people when all these projects they've donated to don't turn out well. NoneSuch fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 02:37 |
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I can't remember the title, but it was a generic JRPG that was going to be 'old school' according to the Platonic nerd addressing the prompter, with no explanation given for what 'old school' might have meant. I expect it's made millions by now.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:42 |
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gently caress you, Bonobo Chat would have been incredible.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:44 |
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Bieeardo posted:I can't remember the title, but it was a generic JRPG that was going to be 'old school' according to the Platonic nerd addressing the prompter, with no explanation given for what 'old school' might have meant. I don't know about that, but I do know of Thera: a computer game of the bullet hell genre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_rSSOFRviE
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:45 |
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Echoes of Eternia is a game made entirely in RPG Maker VX, and the creator is asking for $10,000 to complete it. Pledging $200 will allow you to design your own character, pledging $225 will allow you to voice your created character, and pledging $400 or higher will allow you to design an in-game shrine dedicated to yourself. It currently has 847 backers pledging $27,028. 
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:46 |
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Zellus posted:Echoes of Eternia is a game made entirely in RPG Maker VX, and the creator is asking for $10,000 to complete it. Pledging $200 will allow you to design your own character, pledging $225 will allow you to voice your created character, and pledging $400 or higher will allow you to design an in-game shrine dedicated to yourself. This looks like some kind of stolen franchise or something - is this original is is he re-appropriating some other videogame series?
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:50 |
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Farbtoner posted:
I hate this guy. I hate this guy just so much. Everything about him is just the worst * His smarmy face * He won the lottery in my state, whereas I have not * He invested in a loving NEW AGE SHITGOODS SHOP where he used to work. Because that's what he was doing before. He worked at a new age shop. * His ideas on the Kickstarter are 99% horrible I am too mad at a fat gently caress I will never, ever meet, because my jealousy knows no bounds. edit: He's wearing an upside down cross. He would probably give the smug story of why there are upside down crosses and while they're not actually offensive all the while being smug and fat and stupid. Dead Inside Darwin fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 02:57 |
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text editor posted:This looks like some kind of stolen franchise or something - is this original is is he re-appropriating some other videogame series? The latter. The name is slightly different than some other game (something of Eternia) and the art style is the same. The whole thing is retarded.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:56 |
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I can't remember the title, but there was a Kickstarter for this RPG whose only point was to push the LGBT agenda, and they had nothing to show for it except a bunch of concept art, then the developer raged out at Double Fine because of all the support they were making compared to the noble gesture of their own game.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 02:57 |
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Farbtoner posted:I don't know about that, but I do know of Thera: a computer game of the bullet hell genre Oh my lord, that is painful. quote:Music just makes you want to sit in a dark corner
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:00 |
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How exactly does pledging to these people work? A pledge isn't normally handing over money straightaway, so if you do pretend to give them money is it taken from you immediately or not until the project is actually completed?
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:01 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:I can't remember the title, but there was a Kickstarter for this RPG whose only point was to push the LGBT agenda, and they had nothing to show for it except a bunch of concept art, then the developer raged out at Double Fine because of all the support they were making compared to the noble gesture of their own game. What's wrong with a game with the only point of pushing the agenda of a minority? There are lots of edutainment games. The Ron Paul game is particularly horrible. As the SA article shows, there is nothing at all original in it, and the guy got over 10k to make it.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:02 |
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Snoop Rocket posted:Oh my lord, that is painful. Holy poo poo the video. Let me find my wallet. The music is just...just incredible.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:02 |
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DrinkMoreBeer posted:How exactly does pledging to these people work? A pledge isn't normally handing over money straightaway, so if you do pretend to give them money is it taken from you immediately or not until the project is actually completed? The money isn't taken unless the funding goal is reached. After that, though, I believe it's all good faith.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:03 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:I can't remember the title, but there was a Kickstarter for this RPG whose only point was to push the LGBT agenda, and they had nothing to show for it except a bunch of concept art, then the developer raged out at Double Fine because of all the support they were making compared to the noble gesture of their own game. The Arkh Project, which failed because The Man was conspiring to keep queer people of color down and not because it's being run by someone with zero experience making games and nothing but some vague promises and commissioned concept art to back it up. Raere posted:What's wrong with a game with the only point of pushing the agenda of a minority? There are lots of edutainment games. It's not so much that a person is trying to make a game with a message as it is that they've written pages and pages of backstory for their Mary Sue characters and then for the actual gameplay there's two sentences about how it's a linear action-RPG. It's a classic case of an "idea person" trying to get their totally yooneek game idea made by other people. Farbtoner fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 03:07 |
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Farbtoner posted:why does this man look like a pufferfish
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:07 |
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Noones linked to Political Cartoons thread darling Ted Rall, who created a Kickstarter for people to give him money to travel the world talking to Neo-Maoists and Arab Spring Revolutionaries? I'd find it myself but I'm posting from my phone.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:08 |
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Raere posted:What's wrong with a game with the only point of pushing the agenda of a minority? There are lots of edutainment games. I guess I worded it a little aggressively/incorrectly. The failure part of the project was it being lead by someone with about as much game design experience as Ellwood Bartlett (and maybe just slightly less ambition).
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:08 |
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Raere posted:What's wrong with a game with the only point of pushing the agenda of a minority? There are lots of edutainment games. The Arkh Project honestly makes me feel really loving dirty thinking about it because of how horrible of a person its creator is. Not only is the thing itself a scam, but the impression I've been getting is that if you aren't a transgendered person of color (and only specific ethnicities at that) who acts a specific way, the creator of Arkh Project actively hates you and hopes you die a horrible, painful death. He is an incredibly lovely and hateful person and likely a thief on top of that. e: The impression I'm getting is based on his various tumblr accounts, notably "poo poo White People Say". The fandom lunacy thread in PYF covered him for a few pages and gave light to a lot of really horrible stuff about him.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:09 |
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I think you could base an entire thread on how horrible the Arkh Project and its creators were. edit: Yeah, what WickedIcon said. There's a lot of indignant rage against pretty much anyone else flowing throughout the whole thing. Imagine the complete opposite of a white supremacist, except not so much for the "violent angry shithead" part.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:10 |
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DrinkMoreBeer posted:How exactly does pledging to these people work? A pledge isn't normally handing over money straightaway, so if you do pretend to give them money is it taken from you immediately or not until the project is actually completed? Kickstarter holds the money in escrow until the funding deadline. If the prject reached its goal, the money is handed over to the guy running the project minus 5% fee. If the goal isn't reached by the deadline, everyone gets their money back.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:12 |
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Dickeye posted:Our forum's own Zorak has thrown around the idea of making a kickstarter to make and eat a sandwich just to see if people'd throw money at any old poo poo. He did submit that. It got rejected.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:13 |
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- All of them
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:17 |
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nightwheat stalker posted:- All of them Cucumber Quest is great  .
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:19 |
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Start a kickstarter to bring back archives search
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:28 |
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nightwheat stalker posted:- All of them Counter-point: Cheese Maps
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:36 |
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Cthulu Carl posted:Counter-point: Cheese Maps $2500 given to someone for them to layer mask pictures of cheese over vectors of countries. The future is now
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 03:39 |
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Farbtoner posted:
I'm not sure this has been pointed out, but most of that kickstarter is from two 10,000 donations. We know he won the lotto so I'm assuming that he bought those himself in order to make it seem like it isn't just some lovely fever dream created by too much pot and Digiorno's.
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nightwheat stalker posted:$2500 given to someone for them to layer mask pictures of cheese over vectors of countries. The future is now I actually almost contributed to that, which is how I knew about it. There's just something so delightfully absurd about a Norwegian lady taking high-res pictures of cheese to layer with maps. The kind of lunacy that should be encouraged more in society. I guess it's a good thing I'm broke at the moment - maybe I'll buy one when/if she starts churning them out.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 04:00 |
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Farbtoner posted:I don't know about that, but I do know of Thera: a computer game of the bullet hell genre This person needs to team up with the Demon Rush guy.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 04:00 |
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Farbtoner posted:Ellwood "Bunky" Bartlett may have won $42 million from the lottery but that's not going to stop him from getting other people to pay for his dream MMO! Your World promises the MMO experience that gamers want: namely, hooker bots. The first sentence on his kickstarter page: quote:A MMORPG Game built by gamer's, for gamer's and funded by gamer's. The man doesn't know when to use a loving apostrophe and he plans to make his own game with other people's money. If he can get money using this site, I guess anyone can.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 04:12 |
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nightwheat stalker posted:- All of them I asked about the viability of a "Make Phantasmagoria 3" kickstarter but no one ever wants to fund cool videogames. gently caress this place.
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Frog posted:The first sentence on his kickstarter page: quote:Reward #1, 3, 4 & 5. Access to a special weapons vedor no one else will have access to. quote:Reward #1, 3, 4, 5, 6. Access to a special armor venor no one else will have access to.
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Hey, I'm all for people funding RPG Maker games. There are some games made in RPG Maker that are legitimately good videogames and I always felt bad not paying for them. The main problem they suffer from is not having a person to do art assets for them. Characters are pretty easy to make, but things like maps and faces for text boxes are difficult and require a meager amount of skill. Still you could probably make custom assets for a game like Dues Card (a game I did some work on), Aurora Wing or Dark Energy and come away with a very good JRPG.
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How about a Brony documentary? Before you throw your money at this project, check out some of the reward tiers! At $50 the creator will call you up and sing the My Little Pony themesong to you. Better yet at $250 he will write personalized My Little Pony fanfiction. Given the tone of the project and the rewards, I'm afraid that the interview in the video isn't meant to be pathetic. By the way, you can't talk about The Arkh Project and not have this gem. 
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