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Here's an oddball KS that a friend came across. No idea what else to say other than it seems set for Steam early access already: Spaceflux: Arena FPS in the 5th Dimension Or just the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcr9NEIAiGY
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 09:49 |
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 02:54 |
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Looks like a videogame adaptation of Bumble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba2IRyq3dyE
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 12:26 |
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Wicked Them Beats posted:That is correct, but they didn't mention the weird farming game until the very last day of the campaign. So the first $4 million they got was before anyone had heard anything about this. Also, speaking as a Suikoden fanboy, we are sheep and would have bought it if they said it was made by Payless Shoe Source.
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 01:08 |
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Andrigaar posted:Here's an oddball KS that a friend came across. No idea what else to say other than it seems set for Steam early access already: Spaceflux: Arena FPS in the 5th Dimension Oh goooddddddd I loving love this. I've been asking for a trippy shader FPS for years!!!!
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 01:25 |
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Too bad it’s a multiplayer game. Indie mp fps is basically dead on arrival.
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 01:34 |
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Goddamned Corona, didn't even realize eight (!!!) months had gone by without an update on the physical goodies. Gif-heavy update posted If you're one of the goons who's in for phsyical goodies, we're doing our utmost to start shipping them this month. Pictured: "You and what army?" "This one."
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 11:37 |
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Lemon-Lime posted:I can't remember if it was there at launch but they have a big section on their KS campaign where they outright say they have a publisher and the KS campaign is to demonstrate interest as a condition to getting publisher funding, so they're not exactly hiding it: Yeah, I backed in the first half hour and remember seeing this. I don't think they've hid the ball on that.
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# ? Sep 3, 2020 03:36 |
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Hollandia posted:Witchmarsh is a Kickstarter I backed in 2014, with an expected release date of 2015, stopped updating in late 2019, and has out of the blue updated today to say they're still working on it and are not compromising their vision. As I was browsing my Steam library, I remembered I backed the next game from the maker of Immortal Defense 11 years ago. Some kind of Legend of Zelda like / shooter / exploration game / ecosystem simulation It was greenlighted on Steam in 2016, a bit later he sent keys for the beta. Since then he's been regularly saying he's still working on it part-time but he will definitely finish the game somewhere in 2021/22 But when I go on his facebook page he's just posting social media crap every 30 min It's really a shame because the game looks really unique and not too far from completion. And the guy clearly isn't a newbie in game development; Immortal defense is a very good game and was well received. It's just I think the scope of this one was a bit too big (he claims there are 1000 game zones/screens) and around 50 hrs of gameplay. I still hope one day in 2025 I will receive a message with the steam key for the release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjDvXvyFqjo SpaceGoatFarts fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Sep 9, 2020 |
# ? Sep 9, 2020 14:40 |
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lol loving 11 years ago Well, we knew what we signed up for
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# ? Sep 9, 2020 14:58 |
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Phlegmish posted:lol loving 11 years ago Yeah and when he launched the KS (it was just to pay the fees to the IGF) he had already been working on it for 2 years.
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# ? Sep 9, 2020 15:11 |
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On top of backing Witchmarsh I also backed another game at the same time using the same art style called Galactic Princess, it's a kind of a weird space ship game. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/19027642/galactic-princess/description They stopped updating back in 2017, this one is particularly sad because they actually released a playable build on steam that let's you play the tutorial, I still have it installed since I'm afraid if I delete it I won't be able to download it again.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 23:08 |
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I always wonder what is going through their minds, if it were me I would either give up completely and refund everyone, or put in a Herculean effort to release a playable game. The worst thing would be to have it hang over my head for all those years.
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 13:02 |
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:But when I go on his facebook page he's just posting social media crap every 30 min social media is the devbane well it's the humanbane really but still by extension it turns out it's also very bad for video games getting made
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 19:45 |
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The Unsung Story Devs sent out an email to backers today indicating they are making the playable Alpha available to higher tier backers: quote:Dear Backers, Kind of hard to believe this might actually be a real game one day (for better or for worse).
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# ? Sep 18, 2020 21:29 |
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the insane amount of transparency the new devs have been creating has made me pretty confident that unsung story will defintiely come out at some point. whether or not it's good remains to be seen, but it definitely sounds like we'll get something at some point
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# ? Sep 20, 2020 08:16 |
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Rise, thread, and back this weird french indie thing! Antimatter quote:Antimatter is a sandbox strategy game, colonise planets, build your city on the surface or the underground. Build your spacestation and design your own spaceships to explore a huge and lively galaxy !
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 21:46 |
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I find all of the bad English charming.
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 22:02 |
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Thread is dead. Also, for that particular project, I might look at it if he managed to get it to release on his own, but that's a hell no on crowdfunding it from me.
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# ? Sep 30, 2020 09:09 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Rise, thread, and back this weird french indie thing! Glad to see some people actually enjoyed their Covid lockdown. Yeah it looks great, but I'm a bit worried that he says he is really ambitious for his game and hence why he needs funding. Heck I would already play something that looks like the current stage of development; I'm afraid he will try to cram always more stuff in his game like a living economy, working ecosystems, erosion, etc, etc.. and never finish it.
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# ? Sep 30, 2020 09:27 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Rise, thread, and back this weird french indie thing! Kickstarter Gaming: more funds will basically means more contents, in a very flexible way E: or 'I will need to hire some talents in areas I am lacking skills'. It's a great pitch, thread content wise.
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# ? Sep 30, 2020 12:08 |
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Megazver posted:Thread is dead. I'm still following it, just not much that interests me since the CRPG revival moved on from KS.
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# ? Sep 30, 2020 15:20 |
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The guys who made the Long War mod for XCOM have started their own project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/terrainvicta/terra-invicta It seems like a good idea with some big scope. My only criticism is that their "publisher" seems really sketchy.
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# ? Sep 30, 2020 18:35 |
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Demiurge4 posted:]It seems like a good idea with some big scope. My only criticism is that their "publisher" seems really sketchy.
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# ? Sep 30, 2020 19:02 |
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The game itself seems fine but I am not into the "low-budget eastern european pc game from 2010" character portraits. poo poo just looks bad.
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# ? Sep 30, 2020 22:53 |
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:The game itself seems fine but I am not into the "low-budget eastern european pc game from 2010" character portraits. poo poo just looks bad. Strong "... and our South America correspondent joins us live from the scene" vibes from those portraits.
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 00:06 |
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For those of you who remember the Retro VGS/Coleco Chameleon debacle, someone has written a book about it and wants to get it released, just needs to pay for the legal fees: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikejames/smoke-and-mirrors-0 If you listen to the Retro Gaming Roundup podcast you've seen this play out for years, they were investors in the project who got screwed over and have been covering it from the beginning so there should be a lot of good and entertaining inside info that they're ready to finally release. If you haven't really followed the project other than the occasional news story talking about it being a scam, you'll be amazed at just how big a mess this project was. Should be a good read either way!
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# ? Oct 8, 2020 00:16 |
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Original_Z posted:For those of you who remember the Retro VGS/Coleco Chameleon debacle, someone has written a book about it and wants to get it released, just needs to pay for the legal fees: So people involved in a project which was a kickstarter scam, want people to back a kickstarter project about the scam.
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# ? Oct 8, 2020 00:23 |
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Star Command was funded in july 2012 and has yet to see a full release, but the developers just released an update saying that they are essentially bugfixing at this point. After 8 years I am not sure what to expect, but I respect that they are still working on the game after all this time. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starcommand/star-command-kickstart-part-2-the-pc-mac-space-adv/posts/2870291
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# ? Oct 8, 2020 13:27 |
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Anyone else remember Octopus City Blues? It funded around 2013 and was initially looking to be a simple little retro-style pixel art adventure game about a weird tentacle city. Several years and many hilarious themed updates later, it seems to have blossomed into some kind of much more complicated affair with day/night cycles, a gossip system, and who knows what else at this point. The latest update put out a call for demo testers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ghostinabottle/octopus-city-blues/posts/2974930 There's a short slice they're looking for feedback on. Based on this quick look, it definitely seems to have developed the kind of awesome, development-crushing feature creep that's been hinted at in fragments throughout the years. I don't think they're being strict at all about who to send it out to. I'm a backer, but didn't have to confirm it or anything, and the dev was really appreciative of the short video playthrough I did and uploaded to Youtube.
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# ? Oct 11, 2020 22:29 |
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i can only hope i'm still alive and own a computer when octopus city blues finally releases
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# ? Oct 12, 2020 06:19 |
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Here's another weird interesting game kickstarter: https://twitter.com/playthroughline/status/1315586578677366784
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# ? Oct 12, 2020 15:12 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Here's another weird interesting game kickstarter: That one actually does look like kinda interesting. Also I have to wonder just how big the Sonic The Hedgehog pages will have grown in another three decades
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# ? Oct 12, 2020 15:31 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Here's another weird interesting game kickstarter: I just backed that one. It seems like the rare project that you can't really imagine getting funding to exist any other way.
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# ? Oct 12, 2020 15:37 |
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neocore/king-arthur-knights-tale/description looks interesting. They are a proven developer with a decent track record, offering a really interesting, fun sounding game. I've thrown £20 their way. It sounds like it'll be worth that at least.
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# ? Oct 13, 2020 14:36 |
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skydevilpalm/victory-heat-rally Super scaler style racing game in the vein of Power Drift. Seems fun but holy poo poo the AI in the demo they offer is not a cakewalk. I was able to beat them but could only manage podium. Zeether fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Oct 14, 2020 |
# ? Oct 13, 2020 19:40 |
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Remember these? https://www.kongregate.com/games/ConArtists/the-last-stand https://www.kongregate.com/games/ConArtists/the-last-stand-2 https://www.kongregate.com/games/ConArtists/the-last-stand-union-city https://www.kongregate.com/games/ConArtists/the-last-stand-dead-zone Well now they're back, in isometric 3d rogue-lite form. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tlsaftermath/the-last-stand-aftermath/description twitter full of gameplay gifs here https://twitter.com/ConArtistGames 1 week out and on track to be 65-70% funded at end of KS, $40 gets you a beta key to play 6-8 weeks from end of KS (~8 months ahead of general release). MRA PUA Tay-Tay Fan fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Oct 14, 2020 |
# ? Oct 14, 2020 17:50 |
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Countryballs Heroes - Polandball ethnic jokes meets HOMM3, in a union designed to perfectly appeal to Eastern European edgelords in their thirties. (I am an Eastern European edgelord in my thirties.) Megazver fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Oct 16, 2020 |
# ? Oct 16, 2020 16:08 |
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It is impressive just how unappealing they've designed this campaign to be.
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# ? Oct 17, 2020 07:16 |
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yeah why is Trump fighting the Russians?
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# ? Oct 17, 2020 07:34 |
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 02:54 |
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"We want a HOMM3 successor!" *monkey paw finger curls*
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