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Hast Du Eier?quote:One year ago in Germany, a young woman (my wife) was baking cookies and realized she was short one very important ingredient: eggs. Off she went to the convenience store located across the street - a very busy street, two lanes each way with a bike lane, to boot.
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kazmeyer posted:Just an update on this one; they're at $600,000, and if they reach $700,000 (five days left) he's promising to do a Car Wars kickstarter as well. I am shocked how quickly this is building. Up to $630k! I went for $150 level because it gives a copy of the game and an utter ton of other stuff. This will be a blast, I can't wait to start playing.
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kazmeyer posted:if they reach $700,000 (five days left) he's promising to do a Car Wars kickstarter as well. I've seen this discussed all over, but this is a huge joke. They're going to do a Car Wars Kickstarter whether they get to $700k or not, so taking money for it seems awfully disingenuous (especially since, if you think about it, you're just giving SJG money for the privilege of being able to give them more money later).
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I'm willing to cut them a little slack on the Car Wars thing. First of all, it's what everyone (myself included) has been demanding, and at the same time they keep burning through stretch goals and have to keep coming up with new ones. They're apparently pushing the physical limits of that enormous box, so they can't really add anything else, and apparently the backers whine prodigiously when there's not something new and amazing to strive for. So they just took the easy road and gave people what they were clamoring for. Also, Car Wars as a property is nowhere near as ready to go as Ogre was. For the Ogre kickstarter, they'd already planned on the re-release and prototyped the game. Car Wars has been a toxic property since the Fifth Edition (everyone hated that game, and not without reason), and I think the idea of revisiting it was about as far from everyone's mind as you can get. They've got a lot of work to do to even start working on Car Wars, and the extra dough from piggybacking on the Ogre kickstarter will help. So yeah, I can understand why people might look askance at how they're doing this, but SJG has been really good with the incentives so far, their timetables are relatively short, and I don't think people are going to end up disappointed in the end product like some of these projects have turned out.
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InShaneee posted:I've seen this discussed all over, but this is a huge joke. They're going to do a Car Wars Kickstarter whether they get to $700k or not, so taking money for it seems awfully disingenuous (especially since, if you think about it, you're just giving SJG money for the privilege of being able to give them more money later).  Kickstarter is a donation site. You donate money to ideas and causes, you don't prepurchase a product. The site acting like it exists as a means of preordering products is apparently ruining the attitude towards projects on the site. "Pfft why would I want to donate, I don't even get a t-shirt" The OGRE kickstarter and the Pebble kickstarter are by and far excellent because they keep piling more and more features in, but if they do anything but cram a new feature into the product at a donation level, people are flipping out. It's basically gravy that they decide to add these extras at donation levels, and they're added as an incentive for more donations. It's not your right to get more counters in OGRE if people donate more. Adult Sword Owner has a new favorite as of 16:09 on May 8, 2012 |
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It's not about whatever crap gifts that come with the project you're donating to, it's the fact that he set an incentive (for which people will give him money) based on him starting up a new project (for which people will give him more money). You're fundraising so he can start another fundraiser  If people want to donate, then they should donate, even if there's not an arbitrary "cap" to reach, but don't pretend that 100k will make or break your next plea for money on Kickstarter. That's disingenuous.Anyways, so this isn't totally derailing, here's a goon run Kickstarter: Manos: The Restoration. It's a really cool project that started in Cinema Discusso if I'm not mistaken (or maybe it was The Film Dump?). Anyways, this guy found a bunch of old reel-to-reel film canisters and stumbled across a print of Manos, and now he's campaigning to get it released on Blu Ray.
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Saint Darwin posted:
What Declan said. I would gladly donate for no reward to support a project that I appreciate (and have in the past). Getting together enough money to remake Car Wars is a project I can get behind. Getting together enough money to start a Car Wars kickstarter to get together enough money to remake Car Wars...is not.
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Saint Darwin posted:Hm, $35 for it. Maybe. That's an awful lot for a card game. What kinda card games have you been playing? 35 puts it at or below the price of card games like Dominion, Ascension, Thunderstone or Eminent Domain.
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I can't believe how much the Pebble watch has banked. Seems likely that they'll pass 10-11 million dollars before the end of the drive. Simply unreal. Also c'mon September. 
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Didn't see any mention of this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table?ref=city It's an IDE that allows you to run programs in real time and watch how it flows and executes functions. It's difficult to explain, watch the video. It looks like it'll happen too.
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^ That's really cool-looking. Thanks for posting it.sirbeefalot posted:I can't believe how much the Pebble watch has banked. Seems likely that they'll pass 10-11 million dollars before the end of the drive. Simply unreal. As a note, yesterday they posted an update where they are changing all rewards to "Sold Out" when they hit 85,000 Pebbles claimed. They were at 75,000 at the time. FebrezeNinja has a new favorite as of 12:42 on May 9, 2012 |
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chumpchous posted:Didn't see any mention of this: I keep thinking about it, because I love the look and functionality, but it doesn't support any language I could possibly use, and I avoid JS like it's AIDS. I know it will support plugins, but I'd really rather have that functionality from the start.
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FebrezeNinja posted:^ That's really cool-looking. Thanks for posting it. I ordered mine when it was near $300k so I'm extremely relieved they stopping at 85,000 because I'm pretty sure with orders of this magnitude that there will be tons of delays. That said, I can't wait.
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Pebble have hit the $10m mark, not many left as rewards. Glad I bit the bullet and pledged this morning.
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Ogre is winding down! Get in now if you want to be a part of it! Very close to $750k http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847271320/ogre-designers-edition?ref=live $738,582 25 hours to go
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New Pictures For Sad Children book John Campbell is one of my favourite artists, so I'm glad this is getting some backing already. If nothing else it'd be nice if he had time to make more videos.
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joedevola posted:New Pictures For Sad Children book I was super excited when I saw this. I love john campbell's work. His higher reward tiers are awesome, too bad they are all taken already.
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True KS underdog Legend of Eisenwald just crossed the finish line with about a week to go http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1684781151/legends-of-eisenwald?ref=live
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How remiss of me not to post last year's successful Detroit Needs A Statue of Robocop! Kickstarter. Their recent latest update March 2012 update says that the small Robocop sculpture has been sent for 3D scanning, resizing and fabrication so he's sloooowly on his way! Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 10:38 on May 14, 2012 |
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Who doesn't love Rubik's cube mosaics? I really hope he gets funded.
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MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyonequote:What's MaKey MaKey? Basically anything that conducts electricty even slightly (and even things that don't if you get them a little wet or whatever) can be used in place of a keyboard or mouse to control programs or webpages, so you can make a banana piano:  Or you can use a plain graphite pencil to draw a usable keyboard:  The product is fully fleshed out, they're just asking for donations so they can do a large first production run which will bring the retail price down. Looks like they made their pledge goal in two days.  It's cool projects like this that make Kickstarter awesome.
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Holy poo poo Tex Murphy!  I did not give a crap about Kickstarter until I heard about this project in late March. Thanks to the copyright being held by Microsoft for a long time, fans have been waiting for this game 14 years. It ended on a cliffhanger and it's about frigging time it was resolved. This game needs to be made. It's being made by the same guys who made the old Tex games, and they are not inexperienced fools and know their poo poo. Chris Jones is the same guy who plays Tex and designs the games. He co-founded Access Software in 1983 and sold it to Microsoft in 1998 or so. He is currently the CEO of a small golf simulator company. Aaron Conners works for EA games. The games had FMV; probably the best live-action ever in a video game. But I don't think they're "FMV" games, really. They had an excellent 3D engine and an interesting story. But Tex himself is the best. He's what makes the game great. You could really see how much the people who made the game loved doing it. They still do. I can't even begin to describe how excited I am.  But if Tex dies, I'll be so sad. 
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Seeing as in about 12 hours they've gotten almost $100k I'd say this is gonna work out well for them.
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For anybody who hasn't gotten in on it yet, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003106610/the-cucumber-quest-book-project The Cucumber Quest kickstarter is ending in less than a day. Currently $3 from $60k, but there are no more stretch goals to be met.
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I saw this on the Pirate Bay homepage and I just had to jump on it: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1940696606/sullivans-sluggers-baseball-horror-graphic-novel Sullivan's Sluggers: Baseball Horror Graphic Novel. Baseball players vs. monsters in a cursed small town.
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A new one just in basically the below picture made as a game. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/massiveblack/zombie-playground-zpg-3d-action-online-battle-rpg http://zombieplaygroundgame.com/
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While neat, I'm rather annoyed with how they're doing ingame item perks. For a minimum of $100 donated, your character will be better than the characters of people who haven't donated.
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Carmageddon: Reincarnation just reached it's target! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stainlessgames/carmageddon-reincarnation/posts
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I thought this one looked pretty amazing. A 6th grade teacher from Indianapolis has come up with ClassRealm, an RPG/Video Game framework to motivate his classes and is now trying to bring it to teachers everywhere. Having taught myself, I wish I had this program in my classes. He's tested it out with his classes over the past few months in a more basic format, but he now has a team to create artwork, a better website that helps teachers track student achievements, and allow parents to not only check on their student's progress, but create sidequests to help motivate their kids.
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It's incredibly silly, but I really love these Cthulu Tiki mugs. But man, the head guy on that site is so drat goony:   quote:I am a graphic designer, artist, horror fan, geek, and general creative type. I am a family man (my wife is totally on board with this project), a member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity from Georgia Tech, and an eternal member of DragonCon. Geek? Check.  I feel like he doesn't deserve any of my money.
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Here's one for the guitar nerds in the audience The Console II by Devi Ever. Apparently she makes some nice fuzz/overdrive pedals, with reviews on Youtube. I like the idea, but I guess it'll really depend on the number and quality of the cartridges to make it really take off.
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Bitponics: a digitally-enhanced hydroponic growing system For all of us who lack a green thumb and/or live in an apartment, this seems incredibly cool. It's a hydroponic growing system that monitors nutrient levels, temperature, and light while automating the water pump and lighting timers. You can also look at pre-made profiles for various plants and just let the system run on recommended parameters. The software will also let you upload your growing plan and results, then compare it to other users.
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Last Class Heroes A multiplatform, multimedia videogame about highschoolers training for war with their soul-fuelled marionettes. It looks like a combination between Persona and The World Ends With You and it's clear these guys are putting their all into it.
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In the Traditional Games thread, a goon announced his Kickstarter, which is a pretty awesome table-top roleplaying game. Here's his quote:Mikan posted:This seemed a lot more impressive before Dungeon World came around, but my kickstarter Last Stand got up to 1100 in less than two days.
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Clang A bunch of guys in Seattle are trying to create a more realistic version of swordfighting in computer games. I have no idea if it'll be any good but the pitch video (starring scfi writer Neal Stephenson) is pretty hilarious.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Clang The "blacksmith" in that video working on a crowbar and mentioning that things take a long time to make is my favorite part.
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That was probably the best video I've ever seen on Kickstarter, and one of the best videos I've seen in a while out of pretty much anything. Also, I like their definition of IT much better than the standard one.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Clang Oh man thank God he didn't do the "oh I didn't see you there." Totally looked setup for that too
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Clang looks interested. I pledged. This was mentioned in the Games Pinball thread, and it already met its goal, but I really want to see it meet its stretch goal: Pinball Arcade: The Twilight Zone It's already going to be funded, but if they get double, that'll also cover the Star Trek: The Next Generation table. Six days left to reach $110,000. And I rather get two tables from a pledge than one.
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Special effects master Phil Tippet is making an animated movie and you have 4 more days to give him money (for preorder, he already made his funding target). http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madgod/phil-tippetts-mad-god?ref=activity He posted some of his work for the movie.  
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