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How similar to Freelancer is this game going to be? I loved playing Freelancer, and if you can combine the mechanics of that with a game like X3 I will be the happiest person ever, and you will get all of my 
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Naughty McGee posted:How similar to Freelancer is this game going to be? I loved playing Freelancer, and if you can combine the mechanics of that with a game like X3 I will be the happiest person ever, and you will get all of my X3 and Freelancer are our highest inspirations for gameplay, in the shipyard demo now, you can use spacebar to toggle into mouse flight, and we will be implementing a key toggle that allows control of turrets in a similar fashion. also  Awful Goons still leading the charge! Though Reddit is gaining.
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| # ? May 1, 2012 14:33 |
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You'll get from me on Thursday, when I get paid. If the shipyard demo is an example of what you're aiming for in the future, I'm really looking forward to this!
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| # ? May 1, 2012 14:39 |
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Thanks for showing us this back-end stuff, I was really interested as to what kind of data Kickstarter shows you. Also are you people going to let those reddit pedophiles beat us?
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ToxicFrog posted:Kicked in some money. Good luck! This is correct, pretty much word for word! WMain00 posted:You'll get It is indeed, keep in mind that what we have shown is only 3 months worth of work, we started development end of January. So we develop quickly, and release weekly updates. Al! posted:Thanks for showing us this back-end stuff, I was really interested as to what kind of data Kickstarter shows you. No problem, we plan to stay as open as possible about the whole thing KS and development, there is no reason to keep people out of the loop, or answer any questions.
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| # ? May 1, 2012 14:52 |
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And that's 3 months of programing. I've only been with them for a little more then a month. I like to make space ships.
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Something else to note, you are not charged by Amazon, until / if the project meets it goal at the end of the Kickstarter. Which is set to end May 30th
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| # ? May 1, 2012 15:55 |
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We broke two thousand dollars!
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I donated my  , I hope that you guys succeed with this project. I love games like this.
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This looks really awesome! The progress you've made so far is staggering. In the demo, how do you build ships? I can only attach things to other red dots and nothing in the shortcut menu seems to help. The direction you guys are planning for this game seems like a 3D parallel to Starfarer, which is great. We need more games like this. Love the project so far, keep at it!
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Looks pretty neat but I'd like to know what'll distinguish this from every other space sim out there before donating. Definitely going to keep an eye on it though.
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Psycho Society posted:This looks really awesome! The progress you've made so far is staggering. Red connectors receive green connectors. Parts can only be attached via the connection points. Be sure to hit F1 to see the keybindings. It will tell you how to rotate parts and cycle through connection points. quote:The direction you guys are planning for this game seems like a 3D parallel to Starfarer, which is great. We need more games like this. Oh man, I love Starfarer even in its currently unfinished state. I wish he'd hurry up with the next update.
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Death Himself posted:That exists but it's 2D: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3465556 Sort of like if you mashed together Gratuitous Space Battles and M&B. But this one is in threeeee deeeee! (Gonna play the poo poo out of both of them after I finish my thesis)
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Mr.48 posted:But this one is in threeeee deeeee! (Gonna play the poo poo out of both of them after I finish my thesis) Same here - I'm aiming to defend in early fall, so hopefully one of them will be playable by then.  (I don't really consider Starfarer "playable" yet either, since the campaign balance is so messed up all it really does is make me want to play Space Rangers 2 again.) (Note to Kinetic Void devs: Space Rangers 2 kicks rear end, you should play it.)
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ToxicFrog posted:Same here - I'm aiming to defend in early fall, so hopefully one of them will be playable by then. I own them both 
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Kicked in . Good luck!
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Lord Yod posted:Kicked in Thank you! I just made a 27 min walk-through video which I will be posting tonight along with a quick patch for a couple issues I found in the demo. and here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YTqwBvxVWw LumberingTroll fucked around with this message at May 1, 2012 around 22:12 |
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24 Hours into our Kickstarter campaign and here are the results Upate #1 posted http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...id/posts/218806 and the breakdown of our backers 
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I've reading your other thread with alot of interest. Kicked in $100 best of luck guys.
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Contributing the 60 bux I would spend on a AAA title, because I am having so much fun with the shipyard. Good luck!
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Looks interesting, the ship builder reminds me of Sword of the Stars. Your OP still doesn't have the kickstarter link right at the top, though, I had to hunt for it.
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LumberingTroll, didn't you start up a table top gaming store? Do you have time to manage that and work on this project at the same time?
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Rabbi posted:LumberingTroll, didn't you start up a table top gaming store? Do you have time to manage that and work on this project at the same time? I backed down from that project due to issues with one of the partners and to focus on my studio. so its not an issue. Volmarias posted:Looks interesting, the ship builder reminds me of Sword of the Stars. hmmm both the banner, and the link seem to work for me?
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LumberingTroll posted:hmmm both the banner, and the link seem to work for me?
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Not really my kind of game, but definitely sharing with friends!
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Donated. Make nice space splosions, goons.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Clicking on "Kinetic Void" takes you nowhere. You have to scroll down to the Kickstarter section. If you mean the very first image, it wasn't a link, but it is now! Professor Cthulhu posted:Not really my kind of game, but definitely sharing with friends! Thanks! We appreciate it! How about some Kickstarter stats from over the night? 
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You have all the money I can spare, good sir. Mostly because we share the same first name, correct spelling and all. Also because this game looks amazing. My only regret is that I can't pledge more money, and also I couldn't spoof my origination site to be Free Republic.
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Just got my tax return, so I shot 50bux at you, I really hope you guys can make it all the way.
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gobbledygoat posted:Just got my tax return, so I shot 50bux at you, I really hope you guys can make it all the way. Thanks a lot! appreciate it!
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LumberingTroll posted:If you mean the very first image, it wasn't a link, but it is now! It's not at all apparent that it's clickable or that it would take you to the kickstarter page unless you actually knew to hover over it. Can you just update the very tippy top with sirens and "Click here for kickstarter" or something?
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Volmarias posted:It's not at all apparent that it's clickable or that it would take you to the kickstarter page unless you actually knew to hover over it. Sure can.
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Is it wrong that I'm using this entirely sketchy Kickstarter prediction site to get worried that we need to push harder for publicity? 
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Well we definitely need more publicity, there is no question about that! We are very active but I don't want us to come off as spamming. The single best thing that can happen for us, is if our story gets picked up by a major game jorno site, or a YouTube star talks about Kinetic Void favorably. We have threads on SA(Obviously) RPS, Bay12, Reddit, videos on YouTube and GameTrailers, and we have had a handfull of lesser game news sites mention us. We are only 2 days in however, so most news outlets / Tube stars haven't had the time to do anything yet. also for Kicktraq the search preview is more accurate. The indepth one runs on 24 hour increments, and counts the first six hours of our campaign as its own day. Use this link http://www.kicktraq.com/search/?find=Kinetic+Void its showing us at 92% trend.
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Your Kickstarter faq mentions linux support twice.quote:Is there Linux support? quote:Is there, or will there be Linux support?
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LumberingTroll posted:Well we definitely need more publicity, there is no question about that! I don't know how that tracker works exactly, but you have to keep in mind that a lot of KickStarters will start out stronger than usual in the first day or so and then taper off. You've probably got a little bit of that going, with something like 20%-30% of your backing from the first two days coming straight from these forums. As great as we are, the "SA effect" is more than likely done helping. So, yeah, you definitely need a lucky break with the press. This isn't what I do, so don't take me as an expert, but if I were you I'd spend this time digging up every single press contact you can find, linking them the demo, explaining your game's "core fun" in 1-2 very concise and well-written sentences, and offering whatever other incentives you can think of for some coverage. This is pretty important -- a lot of people just resign themselves to being a "niche genre," which is a mistake. Even niche genres are fun for a reason. Explain why they're fun as if your audience doesn't know -- because they probably, for the most part, don't. Just go nuts with this, spend as much time contacting press as you can stand to. There's nothing else more important you can be doing right now. octoroon fucked around with this message at May 3, 2012 around 00:01 |
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Behold, I come bearing bug reports! Not very interesting ones, though. Updating: - The updater is not included in the main download - If the updater is not installed (see above), clicking "check for updates" in game fails silently - If the updater is installed, clicking "check for updates" exits the game even if there are no updates available Design: - If you delete your entire ship (say, by accidentally right-click-Ring the central component), the "starter cube" doesn't come back and you need to completely exit the game to get it back (or load a saved design) - related to the above, there appears to be no way to start from scratch other than exiting and restarting the game Feature requests: - Some kind of symmetry tool - Part scaling - I was actually surprised to find out that there were controls for "rotate" and "next attachpoint" but not "resize"
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octoroon posted:There's nothing else more important you can be doing right now. yes and no! We are also still in development and working on Mondays patch content, we do release weekly patches. But I understand what you are saying, and I will come up with some new ideas. I just hate spamming the press guys. I already pretty much send out an update announcement every Monday, and that makes me feel dirty as is  ToxicFrog posted:Behold, I come bearing bug reports! Not very interesting ones, though. Updating: - The updater is not included in the main download Fixed - If the updater is not installed (see above), clicking "check for updates" in game fails silently Fixed - If the updater is installed, clicking "check for updates" exits the game even if there are no updates available This is going to happen, it has to close the app to run the updater to check to see if there is a patch available. Design: - If you delete your entire ship (say, by accidentally right-click-Ring the central component), the "starter cube" doesn't come back and you need to completely exit the game to get it back (or load a saved design) Fixed - related to the above, there appears to be no way to start from scratch other than exiting and restarting the game - Escape -> Shipyard reloads the scene, but I will look into adding a button that reloads the block, in a blank state Feature requests: - Some kind of symmetry tool - We are looking into this, but its pretty difficult considering our system is not designed around symmetry at all - Part scaling - I was actually surprised to find out that there were controls for "rotate" and "next attachpoint" but not "resize" - This is very intentional as there is size tiers. The size of a module directly correlates to the size of its sub-systems menu, which is in game, but not visible in the public view. Being able to freely scale parts would mean you could make a Dreadnought the size of frigate, and would unbalance things considerably, especially when you take hit boxes and locational damage into account. thanks for the feedback ToxicFrog! LumberingTroll fucked around with this message at May 3, 2012 around 01:44 |
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octoroon posted:So, yeah, you definitely need a lucky break with the press. You can actually help with that. A lot of the news sites have e-mail addresses or forms for news tips. Write into them and they may perceive enough interest to write an article. Just don't start a spam campaign or anything, that may turn them off.
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Harabeck posted:You can actually help with that. A lot of the news sites have e-mail addresses or forms for news tips. Write into them and they may perceive enough interest to write an article. Just don't start a spam campaign or anything, that may turn them off. I already did this for you with RPS and a few others, I would recommend that other posters do the same if they're feeling benevolent and have a few free minutes.
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