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Mojo Jojo posted:$10 is a solid price for a punt on this, but I'm slightly concerned about their lack of ambition. Lack of ambition as far as the funding goal, or something else? The game they're going for seems fairly ambitious to me. They've explain that they all plan to sink their personal resources into this; that and the fact that they live in Poland, which is apparently very cheap, is their explanation for the low initial goal.
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Sefer posted:Lack of ambition as far as the funding goal, or something else? The game they're going for seems fairly ambitious to me. They've explain that they all plan to sink their personal resources into this; that and the fact that they live in Poland, which is apparently very cheap, is their explanation for the low initial goal. To me, their project comes across as trying to replicate MoO2. I'd like them to shoot for something more than a 3D remake of an old game really. Even if it happened to be a bloody excellent old game.
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Mojo Jojo posted:To me, their project comes across as trying to replicate MoO2. I'd like them to shoot for something more than a 3D remake of an old game really. I'd honestly be pretty happy if it were just that. Back when I heard MoO3 was being made, I commented to a friend that I'd be happy if it were just MoO2 with better graphics and more diplomacy and espionage options. I'm pretty sure we'd all be happier if MoO3 were more like that than it turned out to be. However, MORE seems like a lot more than just a remake. Their stated goal is to replicate the experience and feel of playing MoO2, not copy the game directly. There are 189 different galaxy types, there are 20 races that each interact differently with the 15 planet types, each race has a unique branch on the tech tree, you build spaceships by assembling 3d pieces... it feels to me like they're building a lot on the ideas MoO2 had rather than simply remaking the game.
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There are two hours to go for Sword of Fargoal 2 and after herculean effort in the last few days are just over 10k from goal. I hope they make it - the 1982 original (by the same programmer) is a classic early Roguelike and it should translate perfectly to modern devices. Link is below if anybody wants to pledge - you'll get the iOS version for as little as $8 or the desktop version for $15. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fargoal/sword-of-fargoal-2-classic-dungeon-crawler-adventu?ref=live
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Oct 13, 2012 20:52
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Fargoal 2 made it with $50,161. Skin of the teeth!
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Scorchy posted:Fargoal 2 made it with $50,161. Skin of the teeth! There was barely one and a half minute left in the kickstarter as it hit its goal. I hope that after fees that's still enough for what they needed.
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Baronjutter posted:Why is kickstarter so horrible to navigate? You should see the back-end interface. The editor ... oh god, the editor.
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evilmiera posted:There was barely one and a half minute left in the kickstarter as it hit its goal. I hope that after fees that's still enough for what they needed. Sensible people set their goals to account for the fees. I believe Kickstarter actually warn you in advance to do this. Great to hear that it made it though - they had to make up something like 40% of their tally in the last 48 hours. My $19 was well spent.
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That pulp sci-fi game Jack Houston and the Necronauts had one of its $10,000 pledges fall through, putting it under-budget. They're currently trying to raise the remaining money through Paypal here.
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Oct 14, 2012 15:21
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I was about to ask, 'What the gently caress, again?!', but then I realized that link is from the end of August and they've since managed to claw their way back past their minimum. Not very far past, but past.
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Oct 14, 2012 19:02
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It seems literally unbelievable to me that Blackspace isn't going to make it's goal. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1035580424/blackspace-plan-dig-defend-survive
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Urdnot Fire posted:That pulp sci-fi game Jack Houston and the Necronauts had one of its $10,000 pledges fall through, putting it under-budget. They're currently trying to raise the remaining money through Paypal here. Haha, yeah. It's definitely a thing that can happen and it sucks, but it's a bit disingenuous to speak of that instance as though it were happening currently.
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Whoops, sorry, saw it in another thread and didn't look at the date of the article  The Vampirate posted:It seems literally unbelievable to me that Blackspace isn't going to make it's goal.
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The Vampirate posted:It seems literally unbelievable to me that Blackspace isn't going to make it's goal. For me, it's probably because this is the first I've ever heard anything about it.
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It looks like a reasonable goal for the game they want to make, but I think they'd need to have a bigger rabbid community than they currently do in order to fund something like that.
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Here's the stream of the Fargoal 2 guys watching their campaign getting funded at literally the last minute (and then watching the total start dropping and freaking out): http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/10/15/sword-of-fargoal-2-is-surely-the-closest-kickstarter-yet/. Tense as hell.
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Scorchy posted:Here's the stream of the Fargoal 2 guys watching their campaign getting funded at literally the last minute (and then watching the total start dropping and freaking out): http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/10/15/sword-of-fargoal-2-is-surely-the-closest-kickstarter-yet/. Tense as hell.
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There's a new Kickstarter by the team behind the racing game Nitronic Rush. They're asking for $125k to make a larger-scale spiritual successor to their first game. It's looking pretty good so far, and they've certainly have a history of good games behind them. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1857884659/distance-a-next-generation-arcade-racer
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The Vampirate posted:It seems literally unbelievable to me that Blackspace isn't going to make it's goal. I'm backing it, but they probably should have let it percolate on Greenlight a bit before putting up the Kickstarter. This thread is the only place I've ever seen anyone talk about it.
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Thewittyname posted:I'm backing it, but they probably should have let it percolate on Greenlight a bit before putting up the Kickstarter. This thread is the only place I've ever seen anyone talk about it. EDIT: Not that their game looks bad, just, you generally want to hold off on your Greenlight run until you've got the fanbase to push it. Kickstarters, on the other hand, can be re-run as many times as you like, with the second push usually doing better than the first. Shalinor fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Oct 16, 2012 |
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I know it has its own thread, but it seems worth reminding the thread here that Project Eternity is only a few hours to close, if you wanted to wait until the last minute to see if they made all their stretch goals (they did) before backing. Also noteworthy is the fact that they sent out an e-mail about a new awesome $350 tier, and even though I had my inbox window open, clicked on the e-mail, got excited and went to consider changing my pledge, the 30 they offered were already sold out before I got there. Opulence: they has it.
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Quarex posted:see if they made all their stretch goals (they did) Not true! There is one last stretch goal at $4m, and that's to make Chris Avellone play through Arcanum. I seriously want that stretch goal more than I wanted any of the others, but I don't think they're going to make it. 
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Would Chris Avellone's Arcanum playthrough be streamed or anything or would he just play it?
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:Would Chris Avellone's Arcanum playthrough be streamed or anything or would he just play it? They haven't said. That goal also comes with live orchestra for the soundtrack and  developer commentary for the entire game , though. In-game developer commentary is like crack for me. I hope they hit it.
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They make it sound like playing Arcanum is a punishment, I liked that game, combat aside of course. Okay, maybe I just liked playing a mentally challenged dwarf with a magnetic top hat.
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seorin posted:Not true! There is one last stretch goal at $4m, and that's to make Chris Avellone play through Arcanum. I seriously want that stretch goal more than I wanted any of the others, but I don't think they're going to make it.
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:Would Chris Avellone's Arcanum playthrough be streamed or anything or would he just play it? He was joking on the stream they'd film Tim Cain's face while he played it.
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AxeManiac posted:They make it sound like playing Arcanum is a punishment, I liked that game, combat aside of course. I enjoyed being a grenade-chucking steam punk hero, said grenades being made from bits scavenged from rubbish bins. I also enjoyed that chucking a grenade took no movement points, meaning you could grenade spam anything that gave you trouble. Those golemn things that gave everyone trouble? Pfffffft. Shalinor fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Oct 17, 2012 |
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This looks... amusing. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mythstarter/mythstarter?ref=recently_launched A Kickstarter for Myth 4, a series which seems to be much beloved by goons. It doesn't seem to be official, though. Be warned.
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 How on Earth do they think they'll raise $450k in 15 days? Why would they choose such a short timespan? It's because it ends on Halloween for dumb reason, isn't it?
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Yeah, this one's a no. If only because of the use of caps here: It's like nails on a chalkboard.
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NmareBfly posted:Yeah, this one's a no. If only because of the use of caps here:
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There is nothing about that Kickstarter that is not poo poo. From the awful spreadsheet/chart they have that attempts to show what you get for pledging at various levels to the horrific art on all the images to the semi-literate writing style... yeah... I think I won't be pledging.
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Oct 17, 2012 06:20
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Any game that lets backers design a level is a game I immediately don't want to play.
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CottonWolf posted:Any game that lets backers design a level is a game I immediately don't want to play.
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Urdnot Fire posted:You don't want all the levels to be filled with ponies and Homestuck trolls? You make a convincing argument, but I'll pass.
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So these people are just modders? They didn't have anything to do with Myth 1&2? Isn't that why Myth 3 sucked?
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NmareBfly posted:It's like nails on a chalkboard. It's like jagged chewed-off nails on a chalkboard mounted directly in my inner ear. Ow ow ow ow ow.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilaliens/orbitor Here's a somewhat interesting looking space action adventurey game. Appears to be nearing the end of its run and struggling to get close to what it needs, which is a shame because the concept seems kind of neat. The game itself appears to be almost finished, apparently they're just kickstarting for things like licensing costs and stuff that I don't really understand. Also they're based in the same city as me so I kind of want success for them on that basis.
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