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Guess I am the first one to notice:Fig posted:We've lowered the minimum investment amount to $100. Fig Game Shares for The Good Life will be $100 per share!
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Mr Underhill posted:Good to see this game do so well. Sad thing is, if this came from an unknown dev it would probably not even fund. It's a game based entirely on writing. Is it really sad that people will give more money to a writer they know can write? It's not like this is some kind of never before seen super smart mechanics driven thing. It's just a book where you move cards into slots to unlock more pages.
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DatonKallandor posted:It's a game based entirely on writing. Is it really sad that people will give more money to a writer they know can write? It's not like this is some kind of never before seen super smart mechanics driven thing. It's just a book where you move cards into slots to unlock more pages. No, it's more sad that an unknown writer with a cool pitch like this would not have anywhere near the marketing reach to do as well. Alexis is getting so much dosh precisely because he's so high-profile, and Failbetter Games also sent out an email letting people know about him. Compare/contrast Alcyone, a work of interactive fiction that looks cool and has a demo and it still basically barely scraped by only thanks to RPS giving them an article. (Not to say that Alcyone is on the same level of writing quality or graphical quality, but you know that it's not about the skill here but the marketing reach instead.)
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I am happy that years of creating, programming, and releasing games (often for free) have led to the reputation and connections which are helping Alexis's kickstarter.
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Hey I was in no way trying to say anything negative about the dude, all I'm saying is that unfortunately years and years of shovelware being mindlessly thrown onto Kickstarter led to people (justifiably) being more inclined to back well-known names. That, and the press really only reporting about Kickstarter mostly when a well-known author is involved (yeah, I know, exceptions are happening - especially on RPS ).
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quote:Kilobite has sent you a message about Confederate Express So who wants to try this first?
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sgbyou posted:So who wants to try this first? Recommended specs: Air-gapped virtual machine on a disposable PC
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ninjewtsu posted:the new unsung story devs put out an update. turns out they took the game because they were tired of making barbie games, and thought the game sounded like a rad idea. Matsuno is currently working for SE, helping them develop a raid for FF14 based on Ivalice, and given their development schedule he's probably too busy to respond.
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Holy poo poo Sorn looks good. Wasn't this already out alread, or crowd-funded, or is it something different? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1777595379/scorn-part-1-of-2-dasein?ref=category_newest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gug_0mNhg4k
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You're thinking of Inner Chains which looks identical in both artwork and gameplay and was terrible. Here's hoping Scorn is at least a little bit fun but I'm wary now.
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the artwork of Inner Chains is nowhere near being as good as Scorn's
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Might also be thinking of Agony, all three made an initial splash around the same time.
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Holy poo poo yeah I completely forgot Scorn and Agony were different things. I'm just wary of a project with a "gameplay trailer" that consists of 95% slow pans through environments and not much else. That's exactly what Inner Chains did and looking at the Agony trailers it's the same there. It's like all three games are trying to hit the same notes with creepy art but then don't know how to actually make a game out of it. Inner Chains was a walking sim with no story that billed itself as a Painkiller-esque first person shooter and boy did it miss the mark.
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I'll say this much; the actual feedback on the gun in that Scorn video look pretty good, which definitely sets it apart from Inner Chains.
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Agreed, I just want to see more I guess.
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Scorn at least doesn't make the mistake of calling itself a shooter.
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I think I was thinking of Scorn, Agony AND Inner Chains at the same time. Anyway, somewhat unrelated but I have to plug a friends' game here, I just have to. It's also a 1st person horror adventure but with a distinct Romanian / Orthodox theme. I've played it at Games com and I was blown away. Gameplay is no-shooty, just collecty, but holy poo poo all the graphics were made by one dude and they just blew me away while playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LHlTZW13Ik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na8XgNJ7IBg
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Mr Underhill posted:Holy poo poo Sorn looks good. Wasn't this already out alread, or crowd-funded, or is it something different? There's some great Geiger here and I like the Cronenberg gun but I'm worried the combat is gonna be poo poo like most atmospheric horror shooters.
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sgbyou posted:So who wants to try this first? I like that the preview version is 0.7.3, indicating it's FAIRLY close to 1.0 (almost 3/4 of the way there) and they have 2 loving enemies and 4 loving abilities in there. I mean it's all a scam anyway so the whole point is moot but I liked it anyway.
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Mr Underhill posted:Holy poo poo Sorn looks good. Wasn't this already out alread, or crowd-funded, or is it something different? I'm 90% sure some of that art is from a supposedly cancelled PS4 (I think) game. I remember seeing it on Neogaf ages ago and I don't think the game had a name back then.
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Boom, outta nowhere, Cyanide & Happiness Adventure Game! Yup, good games appearing on Kickstarter, summer's officially over.
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Mr Underhill posted:Yup, good games appearing on Kickstarter, summer's officially over. Hmmmm.
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wow i hate to be a negative nancy right out the gate but it's like everything i don't like about c&h and its brand of humor condensed into a single image
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historical rts/base builder https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1238022363/neolithic-first-city-states-a-deep-historical-stra
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Davincie posted:historical rts/base builder Looks interesting, I like AoE and Caesar so I tossed the guy  . For a one-man operation it's probably for the better that he didn't hit the stretch goals yet (and most likely won't hit more than one) but fishing would've been cool.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:37
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Well I've only ever seen the occasional webcomic post, so I can't really comment on the type of humor; it does look well put together, and the type of pretty high-visibility project that can indirectly benefit adventure games in general. E: holy smokes, trending toward $2,902,251 according to Kicktraq. Probably gonna be around $1.5 mil but still, dayum! Brb starting my webcomic Oh yeah speaking of web comic based kickstarted adventure games, part I of the homestuck game is releasing in a few days, what, 5 years later? Mr Underhill fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Looking at the trend when the project hasn't been live for 24 hours yet is, as you should well know, isn't exactly productive. Anyway, they're definitely reaching their goal in a day or two but I doubt they're gonna go much further than seven hundred-ish, like their earlier animated show collectathon. Also, their stretch goals are loving hilarious. "Hey, we got three mil for our boardgame, let's put the first stretch goal, some subtitles in three languages, at 500k, we'll crush that within 24 hours anyway!"
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I was basing my 1.5 mil estimate on the fact that if you go to their website you get auto-prompted to back their Kickstarter, and since they have a shitload of readers that might prove to be a very different trending graph than most Kickstarters (in fact, it's very idiotically and annoyingly implemented - every single time you move to another comic page it prompts you again, it's nuts). Who knows, really, but the IP is huuuge.
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Basically Oatmeal fans have more money than taste, as the kittens game demonstrated. So, good for whoever gets to make the game they want, I guess! Probably won't be for me though.
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It looks like a Newgrounds adventure game and it's gonna make bank because lolrandom.
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Mr Underhill posted:Boom, outta nowhere, Cyanide & Happiness Adventure Game! no boobs physics 0/10
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Mr Underhill posted:I was basing my 1.5 mil estimate on the fact that if you go to their website you get auto-prompted to back their Kickstarter, and since they have a shitload of readers that might prove to be a very different trending graph than most Kickstarters (in fact, it's very idiotically and annoyingly implemented - every single time you move to another comic page it prompts you again, it's nuts). Who knows, really, but the IP is huuuge. Yeah, but they had other Kickstarters as well, a 700k animation.one and a 3,5m boardgame one and I bet they promoted the poo poo out of those as well. Boardgames get crazy money on Kickstarter still, videogames struggle and their current pace is okay but, judging by the stretch goals, not what they hoped for, so I bet it'll be closer to their ~700k result.
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I think C&H has funny writers, and less funny ones. So it would depend on who they got on board for this. West of Loathing apparently turned out good, so who knows.
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What do you folks think of Fossil Hunters? From what I'm seeing it seems to be kinda like taking a Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley-ish game and concentrating on the mining aspect. I like what I see, so I put a tenner on it. But can anyone spot any red flags possibly? Only one I noticed is no demo, though apparently they have been showing the game off in recent gaming events.
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Consentacle: A Card Game of Human-Alien Intimacy is the most adorable tentacle hentai boardgame you'll ever play. And the reviews are, somehow, good.    
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The most, actually only upsetting thing about that is the Extremely Dan Clowes Face on the tentacle monster.
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Don't Clowesshame.
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Paul Zuvella posted:what the gently caress am I looking at the future
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