Vaiti
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Good sign for me. I'm helping some friends from a local company setup a Kickstarter soon. They are actually a case for Kickstarter, in that they have an almost finished game, but have run out of funding to finish it. Company was formed by a bunch of art students from eastern Finland, so they have some really interesting looking stuff. Project I'm helping them to setup a Kickstarter for is kinda of a Tim Burtonish Diablo game.
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I'm not the biggest Fate person around, but it's a damn fine system, and if you're interested in it, here's the new edition - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/fate-core?ref=activity$1 gets you the draft text - NOW I know the people behind this personally, so I don't want to go too fanboy, but they really do run a good Kickstarter. |
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Thrawn
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It's actually tempting to throw together a game Kickstarter with no intention of ever finishing it, but putting together some pretty screen shots and making a video expressing some huge completely unrealistic goals. Take the money and run! Who wants to get in on this?  |
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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Nerf
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It's actually tempting to throw together a game Kickstarter with no intention of ever finishing it, but putting together some pretty screen shots and making a video expressing some huge completely unrealistic goals. Take the money and run! Who wants to get in on this? Monorail? In. |
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Lantyssa
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Sure. Just throw me my cut before you abscond with it.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Sky
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Monorail controlled by your android or iphone.
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Nerf
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Monorail controlled by your android or iphone.
Monorail controlled by your android or iphone in THE CLOUD! |
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Vaiti
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Bluetooth? Gotta have bluetooth.
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Furiously
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Raph, you should totally put up a kickstarter for a music and retrospective talk cd. Talk about uo and swg. Play a few songs. It would all be gravy!
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I suspect that the video game section of Kickstarter will implode in a couple years. Most of the highest-profile projects are going to be garbage.
I can understand Kickstarting in some sectors, but video games isn't one of those. Especially since a lot of projects get funded by making an appealing pitch but without apparently having a plan to deliver other than "Get money, make game". As for that savoury cake stand (which, in itself, is WTF) what people fail to understand is that by providing the money that is all you are doing. You may feel like you should have a say in what the person does with their business, or how they operate, but you don't. To me that is what is going to ultimately undo crowdfunding at the top end - when businesses take that money and deliver something you don't end up wanting, or selling out that business in some way. As I've said, I'm looking forward to the internet storm when some high profile Kickstarted game sells out to EA. |
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Fabricated
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Paelos
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Tactical corsets... |
CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Trippy
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Sewn by his very own hands...
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http://primerlabs.com/developmentcontinuesThe Escapist article prompted Primer Labs to come out with a "we're not dead and development continues" message. Reading between the lines though, the "we're a long way behind schedule and this is is really hard but we will do this because it is important!" doesn't inspire confidence. And also the issue that they've potentially run out of money.
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Sky
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Pezzle
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These could certainly be a scam. They are NOT precision. If you are a dice gamer you should check out these videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR2fxoNHIuUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmkWrDbn34Met that guy years ago at GenCon. I do not think he does Cons anymore. All of my playing dice are now from that company. As a showcase I do have a set of Jade dice that are very nice, but even they seem to lack the precision I now demand! |
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Trippy
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Sky
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I was talking more about running a second crowdfund campaign on the same product. Also, Italy. Trippy that smart young lass makes me feel old. What is she, 14?  |
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Because I need a bag of dice that I can beat people to death with.  |
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Ingmar
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Metal dice are awful, they're incredibly loud and they damage most tables.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Trippy
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I was talking more about running a second crowdfund campaign on the same product. Also, Italy. Trippy that smart young lass makes me feel old. What is she, 14? College student, so probably no younger than 18. |
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Raph
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Raph, you should totally put up a kickstarter for a music and retrospective talk cd. Talk about uo and swg. Play a few songs. It would all be gravy!
Just saw this. I think there is an excellent chance of this failing completely. :) On the low end, I can see succeeding with a KS for another game design book. On the high end, I get requests for a "spiritual successor to UO" KS *constantly* but do not believe you can raise enough dough for it with KS, honestly. |
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schild
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Partner up with Tim Schafer. Fake Indie Sweethearts do well there.
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Lantyssa
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Metal dice are awful, they're incredibly loud and they damage most tables.
But TUNGSTEN! Who doesn't want dice made from wolfram!?! |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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schild
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I like my Iron Die dice. They're metal and don't seem to fuck up tables. No hard edges on the ones I got at least. But let's be honest, I'm waiting for these: http://dicepl.us/ |
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Furiously
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So wasteland 2 is giving away a steam code for the bards tale to all their backers. Merry Christmas.
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Quinton
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The other part of that announcement was interesting too -- apparently they're setting things up so fans can contribute assets for potential use in-game via the unity asset store. No monetary compensation, but you retain all rights to your creations, can sell them in the asset store, and if they choose to use them, you get a "used in wasteland 2" badge on the item in the asset store.
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tgr
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Metal dice are awful, they're incredibly loud and they damage most tables.
But TUNGSTEN! Who doesn't want dice made from wolfram!?! She added damascus steel too, now. |
Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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Furiously
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No copper beryllium?
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Krakrok
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So wasteland 2 is giving away a steam code for the bards tale to all their backers. Merry Christmas.
I already own the game. PM me if anyone wants my download code. |
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Sky
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Adamantium or GTFO
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ezrast
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I just 'started my first Kick. It's a choose-your-own-adventure-styled novelization of Hamlet titled To Be Or Not To Be, written by Ryan North. Ryan North touched it, is all you really need to know. |
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Quinton
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As I said in another thread, I've consistently seen great results from webcomics related publishing projects (and have some really wonderful hardcover editions of some great comics on my shelf as a result). I have every faith Ryan's crazy hamlet-as-choose-your-own-adventure is going to be hilarious and I love that as the money has stacked up he's folded it into improving the existing reward tiers (full color, more illustrations, prequel adventure, extra goodies) rather than just cashing the check.
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schild
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I love that as the money has stacked up he's folded it into improving the existing reward tiers (full color, more illustrations, prequel adventure, extra goodies) rather than just cashing the check. Par for the course for any campaign that wants to be considered "well-run." |
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