From the creator of Shadowrun... Shadowrun

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Well, a Kickstarter for one, for the time being.

2D, turn based, single player, for PC and tablets. If they get the funding, which at current rate seems likely as they've picked over 30k in a few hours.

[Fabricated]

The first major failure/scandal of this Kickstarter trend is gonna be awesome.

That being said, this is cool and I will likely contribute to it anyway.

[Lantyssa]

Oh gods.  I'm going to go broke with all these Kickstarters.

Also I need to leave work early...

[Tebonas]

Playing 2050 before the screwed up Shadowrun? Sold! 

[Mrbloodworth]

That guy being pelted for making the FPS shadowrun was "The funny".

[Fabricated]

I actually heard the FPS was pretty fun but it wasn't Shadowrun.

[Merusk]

The first major failure/scandal of this Kickstarter trend is gonna be awesome.

That being said, this is cool and I will likely contribute to it anyway.

I'm willing to be that scandal.

Order of the Stick had a kickstarter, trying to raise 60 grand to do some republishes and a few other things.  They raised nearly 1.25 million dollars in pledges.  2127% of goal.

 

WTF universe.. give me a decent kickstarter idea so *I* can has money, too.

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That guy being pelted for making the FPS shadowrun was "The funny".

I'm surprised it wasn't included as one of the tiers, actually. So easy money there.

edit: 85k already. Looks like the Mac port is a go too if it keeps up for just few days.

[Yegolev]

WTF universe.. give me a decent kickstarter idea so *I* can has money, too.

Sounds like you are planning to follow through with your idea.

[Tebonas]

To be fair, you could buy all of the old books with the Order of the Stick kickstarter, if I didn't already have three of them I would have gone to a higher tier myself.

[schild]

I have a good idea, I just don't want to put it on kickstarter because any corporation can clone it overnight. Because it's got nothing to do with gaming.

[shiznitz]

Kickstarter for porn movies!

[HaemishM]

There should have been a tier where they give you a bucket for all the D6's you have to roll. 

I'd be down with this.

[Ghambit]

I cant play Srun if it's not multiplayer.  It just loses too much flavor for me otherwise.
I mean really, all we're looking at here is an old-school turn-based squad-rpg with Srun skin.  Which sounds cool, but not what many have had in mind.

There should have been a tier where they give you a bucket for all the D6's you have to roll. 

I'd be down with this.

I smell a dice-boot/tower in your future.

[Trippy]

Does anybody know why Weisman and a bunch of other people left Smith & Tinker which he started to form yet another video games company?

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He's still chairman of the board for S&T apparently. Maybe it's some sort of bookkeeping maneuver after their toy project flopped? Can't really find anything about it other than a brief mention:

His last company, Smith & Tinker, foundered with its plan to create a toy-like device to go with its web game. That was due in part to the increasing popularity of kid-oriented devices like the iPod Touch, which offered many more game options. After that experience, Weisman decided to start a new mobile game company, Harebrained Schemes, which is making its first game, Crimson, for new mobile publisher Bungie Aerospace.

edit 2: looks he also formed another company, Go Go Kiddo too which is pretty much his wife, him and few other guys. A separate company for each semi-separate audience, or smth.

edit: Kickstarter just shy of 200k. Don't think they'll get it all in one day but it's quite impressive.

[Velorath]

The first major failure/scandal of this Kickstarter trend is gonna be awesome.

I'm not usually one to hope for failure, but I was a little disappointed to see that people were contributing to the Leisure Suit Larry remake.  Anyhow, Shadowrun is the first one of these Kickstarter things I've donated to.

[Fabricated]

The first major failure/scandal of this Kickstarter trend is gonna be awesome.

I'm not usually one to hope for failure, but I was a little disappointed to see that people were contributing to the Leisure Suit Larry remake.  Anyhow, Shadowrun is the first one of these Kickstarter things I've donated to.

What's wrong with the Leisure Suit Larry remake outside of the whole franchise not aging well at all and its audience (teenaged boys who were excited by the hidden nudity/porn in the game) being acclimated to free porn all over the internet?

[Raging Turtle]

245K currently.  Kickstarter is crazy.

[Threash]

Gamers are crazy.

[UnSub]

The first major failure/scandal of this Kickstarter trend is gonna be awesome.

I'm not usually one to hope for failure, but I was a little disappointed to see that people were contributing to the Leisure Suit Larry remake.  Anyhow, Shadowrun is the first one of these Kickstarter things I've donated to.

These Kickstarters are fueled by nostalgia, so any old franchise is fair game.

[Kageru]

If you cast the net widely enough you don't need that much from each person to make an interesting total. And I assume they realise many projects are going to fail.

Exciting times though.

[Velorath]

The first major failure/scandal of this Kickstarter trend is gonna be awesome.

I'm not usually one to hope for failure, but I was a little disappointed to see that people were contributing to the Leisure Suit Larry remake.  Anyhow, Shadowrun is the first one of these Kickstarter things I've donated to.

These Kickstarters are fueled by nostalgia, so any old franchise is fair game.

To me though, the difference between say, Double Fine doing a new point and click adventure game, and a remake of Leisure Suit Larry, is like the difference between getting excited about Ridley Scott going back and doing a movie that's Alien related, and getting excited over something like a shot for shot remake of Porky's.  Not all nostalgia is equal.

[Krakrok]

I put $15 on the Shadowrun one. Seems kind of lame without a physical game box.


You can also buy traffic directly to your Kickstarter from places like AdWords. I saw at least one project doing that which was fully funded (but only around $3k). With the right conversion rate you can fund as much as you need. Better yet post awesome concept art from whatever Kickstarter to Pinterest for the win.


This project also looked interesting (and already fully funded):

http://www.indiegogo.com/CraftStudio

Minecraft meets Second Life?

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aaaand it's pretty much done.

395k at the moment timer switched from "24 days" to "23 days".

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I cant play Srun if it's not multiplayer.  It just loses too much flavor for me otherwise.
I mean really, all we're looking at here is an old-school turn-based squad-rpg with Srun skin.  Which sounds cool, but not what many have had in mind.

Since they're sitting now at over 550k with 22 days to go, they're talking about potentially adding new features to the planned game. Co-operative multiplayer included so you might get your wish, perhaps.

[Mrbloodworth]

Shadowrun Returns First Look - Alpha Gameplay Footage

20 Min of Developer talk while playing the alpha.

[HaemishM]

Can I say HELL YEAH? I think I just did.

[Mrbloodworth]

I'm some ways, as i was watching that, it kinda looked like this would have worked as a MOD for X-com. I have not been following this title, is it multiplayer?

[HaemishM]

I think they've said they could be adding co-op multiplay but I haven't followed it either.

[Fabricated]

I contributed to it; IIRC for right now it's single player only.

Watched the video when the email went out- it's looking really good for an alpha. They did a great job with the art for it to fit together that well.

[sickrubik]

is it wrong that my nipples are hard?

[Yegolev]

It is not.

[Strazos]

I'm impressed.

[Soln]

This was almost enough to turn around my day.  Well done.