Kickstarter - The Thread.

[Salamok]

For me, Kickstarter is donating money towards something I really want to see made.

Here you go load it up: < a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexcoxfilms/alex-cox-directs-bill-the-galactic-hero">Alex Cox directs BILL THE GALACTIC HERO[/url]

edit: I may have flipped that around into something I want to see made, but hey the cheesiest of space opera done as a college film project for 100k, who wouldn't want that?

edit2: wish more projects offered cool stickers for the low $$ backers, I need laptop candy and a bill the galactic hero sticker would have fit the bill nicely.  Maybe that is the next great kickstarter idea, creating an online service to provide high end low cost stickers (you know the shit that looks like it has a metallic surface on the glue side) for kickstarter projects.

[Ghambit]

Iamsad that he's low-balling his attempt to do Bill The Galactic Hero; it deserves a chance to have a proper movie made.  B&W also??? Fail.  It's a "technicolor" type series.  It's not meant to have some gauche noir feel to it.
Also, how is it that Bill gets made before Slippery Jim gets his chance?  Sense it no makes.

[Salamok]

I agree on the color, bill needs to be psychedelic, but I  wouldn't want to see the rat on a 100k budget.

[Furiously]

Yea - I don't get the b&w bit.  I mean a digital camera is what now days?

[Ghambit]

This is a Kickstarter I missed and I'm seriously pissed about it...  one reason I get so steamed sometimes at the corporate garbage that tends to dominate the site.  Anyways, it's a really cool concept and I'm surprised no one's thought of it before.  It's supposedly a year out, but they may release modules as they come available.

Draw Like a Boss

[Phred]

For me, Kickstarter is donating money towards something I really want to see made.  Its great I get something out of it as well, but the main goal for me is to use my cash to help create a project I want to see out in the world.  I treat it like a donation, assuming I will never ever see anything for that money again.

Exactly. This is what a Kickstarter means to me. All this other consumer concern crap can DIAF, if it's worth it to me it's because I'm old and I'd like to see another one of "" before I die. Thanks for pointing out the Bill the Galactic Hero movie I may just back that too.

[Sky]

This is a Kickstarter I missed and I'm seriously pissed about it...  one reason I get so steamed sometimes at the corporate garbage that tends to dominate the site.  Anyways, it's a really cool concept and I'm surprised no one's thought of it before.  It's supposedly a year out, but they may release modules as they come available.

Draw Like a Boss

No worries :) you can join in via Paypal if you wish..

My details

ashleyedge@hotmail.com
business name : rat and collie

All the best,

Ash

[Sky]

Larian Studios is running a KS for the new Divinity. Game is already near completion, they just want to add some special sauce. I know that makes people nuts here, but it's a solid rpg series from a solid dev house so for $25 I look at it as a pre-order sale. That it might help development is a bonus, a steam sale a year from now wouldn't do that.

Also, the game looks pretty awesome. Drop-in, drop-out multiplayer with each player able to choose different options in dialogue.

[Pennilenko]

Larian Studios is running a KS for the new Divinity. Game is already near completion, they just want to add some special sauce. I know that makes people nuts here, but it's a solid rpg series from a solid dev house so for $25 I look at it as a pre-order sale. That it might help development is a bonus, a steam sale a year from now wouldn't do that.

Also, the game looks pretty awesome. Drop-in, drop-out multiplayer with each player able to choose different options in dialogue.

They lost me at turn based.

[Sky]

I feel that's the best part about it. Diablo sucks.

[Tebonas]

Good find Sky! Already pitched in. I loved the other Divinities, and turn-based fights can only improve my enjoyment.

[Hawkbit]

I might pitch in on this, too.  Larian is proven and we've seen the game working.  I'm not sure why I think they're any different than the others, but I do.

[schild]

Special sauce my ass. It's either a preorder or you can't finish it without Kickstarter.

Also, they gonna have Starforce again? I'm not willing to read it to find out.

[tgr]

They claim that it shall be "DRM free".

[schild]

Ok, now that we've resolved that end. You still shouldn't give money to it.

[Paelos]

Divinity 2 was awful.

[schild]

Yes it was.

[Hawkbit]

I think I might back this - looks solid.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1369622196/the-crabby-wallet-a-wallet-that-is-not-for-everyon

[Furiously]

This worked soooooo well the first time for investors.....

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reloadedprod/all-points-bulletin-apb-vendetta

[schild]

God, that studios other Kickstarter is just hilarious looking. So terrible.

[Margalis]

So apparently the general consensus on Ouya is that it's pretty lame.

Shocking.

[schild]

Runs XBMC and emulators. Were people expecting something else out of it?

[Quinton]

Runs XBMC and emulators. Were people expecting something else out of it?

Nope. Honestly they massively exceeded my expectations here.  It's almost tempting to buy one for an emulator box (given my Nexus 7 doesn't have HDMI out), but given that we're likely to see reasonable "steambox" solutions this year which should have no problem running emulators, no sense cluttering the livingroom with more single-function gadgetry.

[MahrinSkel]

For my next media appliance, I'm trying to decide between Ouya and the Acer Chromebox (a decision that is safely theoretical for now, because neither is available).  Chromebox is more likely to just work for the stuff I want from a media appliance, but an Ouya has more upside potential.

Screw it, I know what I'll wind up doing; buying whichever is available first, and bitching that it doesn't do something the other does.

--Dave

[Margalis]

I don't really get buying a system just so you can emulate other, better systems.

[Viin]

I'll be getting a Ouya soon, though I don't think I will use it. If someone *really* wants one, I'd be happy to part with it for what I paid for it.

[Ghambit]

This is a Kickstarter I missed and I'm seriously pissed about it...  one reason I get so steamed sometimes at the corporate garbage that tends to dominate the site.  Anyways, it's a really cool concept and I'm surprised no one's thought of it before.  It's supposedly a year out, but they may release modules as they come available.

Draw Like a Boss

No worries :) you can join in via Paypal if you wish..

My details

ashleyedge@hotmail.com
business name : rat and collie

All the best,

Ash

Bless you laddie, but uhh... where the hell did you find that?

[schild]

I don't really get buying a system just so you can emulate other, better systems.

Considering I can buy a memory card an put every single rom from every system made between 1980 and 1994 on it - including every language variant of every game - I don't see the reason in owning other, better systems from back then.

[Sky]

Bless you laddie, but uhh... where the hell did you find that?

I just messaged her on KS.

[Merusk]

I don't really get buying a system just so you can emulate other, better systems.

Considering I can buy a memory card an put every single rom from every system made between 1980 and 1994 on it - including every language variant of every game - I don't see the reason in owning other, better systems from back then.

This is a great reason I'm not pissed about my sister selling the SNES I loaned her for my nephews 10 years ago in a garage sale.  It was just excessive clutter, held only for sentimental and emotional value. 

[Fabricated]

Also the SNES has a largely cycle-perfect emulator now. Requires any reasonably modern PC meaning I don't even think the Ouya has the juice to run it, but in terms of all actual games made/sold for the SNES it has 100% compatibility.

[Quinton]

Also the SNES has a largely cycle-perfect emulator now. Requires any reasonably modern PC meaning I don't even think the Ouya has the juice to run it, but in terms of all actual games made/sold for the SNES it has 100% compatibility.

Which one?  Snes9x on Android seems to run quite well on Nexus 7 which is the same hardware platform as Ouya.

You certainly should be able to do cycle accurate emulation of the SNES on a quad core > 1GHz A9 platform with a decent GPU.

[Fabricated]

http://byuu.org/higan/

Higan. It used to be BSNES but it's now a multi-system emulator. The SNES portion is the most developed and the only emu with 100% compatibility. It's most accurate profile is pretty intensive:

"The accuracy profile is my personal favorite. It is extremely accurate, but it is also extremely slow. On my Core i7 @ 4.4GHz, I get ~135fps on Zelda 3 (best case), and ~65fps on the most intensive parts of Mega Man X3 (worst case.) If you have an incredibly powerful, top of the line computer, this is what you should use."

The least accurate one ran on an Atom just fine, so I guess that would work possibly. 1ghz is pushing it since this stuff is mostly clockspeed constrained. the SNES9x ports on Android are speedhack heavy and won't play all games but those should run okay on the Ouya...

[Margalis]

I get the convenience factor but don't you already have 6 other devices that can run emulators of old systems?

[Quinton]

I get the convenience factor but don't you already have 6 other devices that can run emulators of old systems?

On my TV?  Not really.  I've got a PS3 (games, dvd, bluray, netflix, amazon video) and a Sony GoogleTV (not my fault, is okay at playing h264/mkv from the NAS, otherwise doesn't really do anything the PS3 doesn't do better).  I can run emulators on the gaming PC, but console games are best enjoyed (at least to my way of thinking) sitting on the couch, using a controller, and the big screen.

But... since it seems pretty damn likely there's going to be some decent (to my way of thinking, small, relatively quiet, unobtrusive) steambox related entertainment pc options turning up later this year, buying an Ouya just to run emulators against the TV seems overkill.