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Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
In Other Waters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFVAFgVHXtk
This looks cool as helllllll

Genesis Noir seems rad too and I hope it makes it's funding goal :ohdear:

Knorth fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Feb 12, 2018

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Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Hooray! I hope everything goes smoothly for them

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
That last gif with the million balls looks pretty fun lol

also, indiegogo rather than kickstarter but this looks super cute and has a demo apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRolzRf9OFI

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
:agreed: I really hope it makes the funding goal

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
I ended up increasing my pledge, which I think might be a first for me, 'cause that Study of Gliese sounds really cool

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
That's fantastic :toot:

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
https://twitter.com/TalaTheGame/status/973285293020164096

Good luck Tala! Asking for 17,000AUD, has a little teaser/demo thing on Itch.io and looks really nice!

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord

Glare Seethe posted:

This does look really nice, but it's just the slightest bit over my 'insta-back' threshold. I feel cheap as gently caress saying that but my finances are trash and I wish the base tier was just a couple of bucks lower. :( I might still do it if the campaign needs me, though. Actually maybe it'd be better to back now and cancel if the campaign doesn't need me, just to help get its momentum going, but then I'll feel like an rear end in a top hat canceling a pledge.

Don't feel bad about being frugal, there's definitely been a lot of neat projects that I haven't been in a good place to pledge either. Just bad timing

I do hope some bigger outlet like RockPaperShotgun gives it some coverage though, since it's moving pretty slowly :ohdear: Or should the Kickstarter fall through, that the developer is still able to find a way to work on it. It's a really charming visual and it's always nice to see more Australian games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_lyPc9fiac

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord

Project Update #33: Radio the Universe by 6e6e6e posted:

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development will end in 2018:

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Boom.

:toot: heck yes

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Important information about the Tala game
https://twitter.com/TalaTheGame/status/977014098545135616


:petdog:

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
RockPaperShotgun posted an article showing off Tala, talking all about the dev and the project ....a day after the Kickstarter fell through by ~3k :cripes: For goodness' sake

The dev says they're not giving up or anything so I'm glad that we might see more of the game eventually but man it's a bummer

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Oh wow that's gorgeous, I hope they make it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0_lNEcxq2c
KS link again for new page

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
I feel like people are being weirdly obtuse over something pretty obvious... 'narrative adventure' isn't some inscrutable or new genre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBkQ_7ssZC0

Fangz posted:

Stuff like this sound like a poorly thought out game mechanic.

More games should experiment with characters being dishonest in various degrees imo

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Sounds like it's going more for a narrative experience rather than exposed mechanical depth and they don't want to spoil anything, dunno what more you want

Knorth fucked around with this message at 21:34 on May 1, 2018

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord

Wicked Them Beats posted:

Reading their posts it sounds like they're shoving a grab-bag of mechanics in as "twists" but they don't want to cop to that so they're being coy. They're mentioning card games, puzzles, fights, people lying to you, and a bunch of other stuff that will only work if the mechanics are there to make it work.

It might be a game I could enjoy but I won't know until they tell me what the "game" part of it consists of beyond "you'll talk to people and also they'll lie to you maybe," so a pass for me.

If by mentioning card games, you mean this part

quote:

Like a card game changing its rules along the way and adding a surprising mechanism to a unique moment.
I don't think they mean it's actually including a card game. The other things; puzzles, characters fighting or being dishonest in dialogue and such all seem like perfectly reasonable events for an adventure game with more subtle mechanics

All this said, I'd love for them to put up a short demo or something to actually see what some encounters look like and if the writing matches the mood of the art/music

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Sure, if it ends up being as simplistic as that in-game then that one trait would be kinda dumb

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
:toot: I'm looking forward to solving small town mysterious as photographer cat

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Even with well-thought-out budgeting and time management, working on a long term project with a team small enough that a bad cold could completely halt development is always going to hit pretty unique hurdles

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Tala's back! Asking for 15 thousand AUD and it has a new trailer and demo
https://twitter.com/TalaTheGame/status/995240211398279169
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fspTmoS4gRw

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
I think you should just not back anything if the risk of troubled developments is too much for you.

Just, don't spend anything more, financially or emotionally, on Kickstarters, if this is what it makes you think

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord

TOOT BOOT posted:

Why do you guys care though? People rip off popular games all the time. As long as they're not ripping off assets/character designs, who cares?

This, and also the game doesn't sound like it plays like Cuphead at all

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Good video game creator Jack King-Spooner is back with another good video game on kickstarter. I hope it makes it's £7k ask, his previous two games were really cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMXjuSr6xn8

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
https://twitter.com/StudioInkyfox/status/1058026836226117632
This looks pretty neat, asking for €32k to get a solo dev project over the finish line

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Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Wha? Isn't that one of the few ways to actually substantially spread word about your project if you're an indie?

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