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InShaneee posted:They buried it pretty deep, but: I was going to say they were taking the Beasts Fury route (and look what a cluster gently caress that was) but this group has seemingly actually put out games before? So I dunno. Still super leery.
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They can't get a loving loan for 1k???
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Suspicious Dish posted:They can't get a loving loan for 1k??? Why get a loan when you can have idiots give you the money for free?
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Remember the Arkh Project? A game touting itself to be super inclusive to LGBT people but pretty much just stole the money and ran? Well the creator is back with another crowdfunding campaign! But wait, not just any crowdfunding campaign! They need to crowdfund to crowdfund. Also, they've done 400 hours of work but can't show any of it because...uh...corporations are evil or something. Seriously I can't make this poo poo up
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Paging Frodo Baggins to this thread to explain to us how this is actually a really good move on Fig's part tia
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AnonSpore posted:Paging Frodo Baggins to this thread to explain to us how this is actually a really good move on Fig's part tia If it succeeds it will have been a good move but it's pretty hard to see how this will be much of a regular backer success. It could also be way of testing what themes can generate interest or not. Whether that hurts them in the future I guess remains to be seen, from what happens to the next project.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Why get a loan when you can have idiots give you the money for free? if you had to internet panhandle for 1k, no investor is going to give you the rest
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You are getting "market validation" as much as money.
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i just enjoy how fig in the early days would go on and on with this breathless, high-minded "we're better than kickstarter" moral platitudes because it's curated and that means that bad projects won't go through and only the best entries will be on fig at any given time and so far, of the four projects they've launched, one was free to play and the other is a fuckin jay and silent bob sidescroller good curation there guys
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Toxxupation posted:i just enjoy how fig in the early days would go on and on with this breathless, high-minded "we're better than kickstarter" moral platitudes because it's curated and that means that bad projects won't go through and only the best entries will be on fig at any given time and so far, of the four projects they've launched, one was free to play and the other is a fuckin jay and silent bob sidescroller I assumed curation was limited to: Likely to make us money? Y/N It really makes no difference in the long term though, get a big project on there with a media blitz and people will come, even if it's only for that one project.
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Diet Conan Doyle posted:Remember the Arkh Project? A game touting itself to be super inclusive to LGBT people but pretty much just stole the money and ran? I want to make a prototype for a non-profit 2-D fantasy game so people like myself will continue to want to live. 
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Fintilgin posted:I want to make a prototype for a non-profit 2-D fantasy game so people like myself will continue to want to live. I seem to recall a bunch of the wacko poo poo she was saying/doing that got dug up when people were asking where the money went and from what I recollect it's OK if she wants to die, like the world and her causes would be better off without her.
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Can't the ark person just go seek therapy instead of a kickstarter for a kickstarter? And wait, wasn't the Ark artists already involved in that Africa themed RPG or was that this one as well?
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/335326767/machiavillain-horror-mansion-management-game So Machiavillian is a haunted mansion management simulator where you build the said mansion, recruit monsters and slaughter visitors. It kinda looks like a cross between Dungeon Keeper and Prison Architect and I dig it.    
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Sigma-X posted:I seem to recall a bunch of the wacko poo poo she was saying/doing that got dug up when people were asking where the money went and from what I recollect it's OK if she wants to die, like the world and her causes would be better off without her. Lol, Riley's at it again? She's basically a complete psychopath. Mordja fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Yeah the Arkh project person is as big a scamlord as the Confederate Express people. Except they haven't (yet) also squatted an AirBNB.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:01
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Speaking of $1000 campaigns, I guess this was inevitable 
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Feb 24, 2016 22:59
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I just got my key for SUPERHOT in my email. 
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Mr Underhill posted:Speaking of $1000 campaigns, I guess this was inevitable He is 90% finished tho...
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Mr Underhill posted:Speaking of $1000 campaigns, I guess this was inevitable From the same personality that brought you STAR WARS RPG. Not sure what's better. The low ask, the lovely description (including 90% done), or the photo of a movie stub as the only image. Probably the movie stub.
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thedaian posted:From the same personality that brought you STAR WARS RPG. The ticket stub is definitely the cherry on top.
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Beta access
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kevin smith shoulda made a red state game instead.
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Chakan posted:Beta access That, and the main tier just saying "weapons pack".
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I want to play a game that gives you access to all of Canada. And one city in the US.
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Mordja posted:Lol, Riley's still involved? She's basically a complete psychopath. Yeah it's been a few years so I can't say what Riley's like now, but this sticks out in my memory: http://sf-drama.livejournal.com/3225031.html And a long writeup someone did of Riley being awful Signs point to still awful Combined with nothing ever actually happening with the project, yeah. Last I heard the money got used for programming classes or something Yakiniku Teishoku fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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fishmech posted:Yeah the Arkh project person is as big a scamlord as the Confederate Express people. Except they haven't (yet) also squatted an AirBNB. I'm sorry, I think you'll find that it was NOT as scam: quote:Four years ago, I won internet infamy through The Other Project, as I’ll call it. I don’t want to talk about it much, it still incites panic attacks in me to this day. I’m still being called all kinds of poo poo even though I produced exactly what I said I was going to. There are people around who believed that I actually planned to make a 3D RPG for $3900, despite clearly saying that it was for CONCEPT art, of which I produced much, much more than was requested, in an itemized fashion even. see, now they uh, need money for art... quote:To make a prototype, we need art and design help. Though my partner and I have some art and design knowledge, we’re best at programming and writing. Some things can be programmed without too much front end work, but others really need a lot of testing, and we’re going to overwrite a lot of what we’ve done when we know what it will finally look like. (We’re still going to do it, because we have no choice, but having money for an artist would be awesome right now.) oh i see where this is going.
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Diet Conan Doyle posted:Remember the Arkh Project? A game touting itself to be super inclusive to LGBT people but pretty much just stole the money and ran? http://www.itsalljustaprogram.com/ underprivilegetale
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DatonKallandor posted:gently caress those ex-Starcitizen douches who bought the Descent name for their travesty of a "game". gently caress them forever.
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The Kins posted:Just quietly, I don't think the old devs and Interplay would be able to reach an amicable deal to use the name. Call it a hunch. Or call it Interplay refusing to pay them GOG/Steam royalties since 2007. Christ, gently caress Interplay. How did the devs not sue them earlier?
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MikeJF posted:Christ, gently caress Interplay.
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Speaking of, what's Volition up to right now? I actually assumed they folded after finishing SR4.
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Lady Naga posted:Speaking of, what's Volition up to right now? I actually assumed they folded after finishing SR4.
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The Kins posted:Parallax Software (the studio behind Descent 1 & 2) split into two companies at some point, each run by one of the two co-founders (who reunited for this Kickstarter). One of those studios was Volition, which has been fairly busy over the years, even before factoring in the clusterfuck that was the THQ bankruptcy. Parallax effectively split in two, but apparently it actually still exists as a legal entity, mainly for the purposes of receiving income from ongoing sales of old games. Lady Naga posted:Speaking of, what's Volition up to right now? I actually assumed they folded after finishing SR4. Don't forget that Volition was sold to Koch Media and placed under the Deep Silver game publisher just before SR4 came out. I think SR4 performed respectably well, so Deep Silver's likely gonna let them do 5. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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The Kins posted:They released an SR4 expandalone called Gat out of Hell last year. Nothing announced since, but they've been ramping up their social media activity with weekly livestreams and such, so they probably have something on the boil. Actual Volition didn't have much to do with Gat Out of Hell iirc
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Hat Thoughts posted:Actual Volition didn't have much to do with Gat Out of Hell iirc I want to know if it was Volition or High Voltage we have to thank for this just swerving in out of nowhere halfway through.
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I'm pretty sure High Voltage mostly handled the XB1/PS4 ports. I could be wrong, though.MikeJF posted:I want to know if it was Volition or High Voltage we have to thank for this just swerving in out of nowhere halfway through. The Kins fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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I'm replaying Call Of Cthulhu Dark Corners Of The Earth right now and, at this moment, my dream Kickstarter would be for the Headfirst devs to crowdfund the projected sequel to it (Destiny's End). I'd be over the loving moon.
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