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03-14-2013, 12:21 PM | #202 | |
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+ SteveW. Agreed. I was mostly pipe-dreaming. But I bet Firefly could raise $10M given the audience and nerd dollars involved. And $10M probably pays for one, stripped down cheap season (10 episodes - max). |
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03-14-2013, 12:40 PM | #203 |
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Plus Joss is deep in the Avengers stuff now - sequel, SHEILD TV series, etc.
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I'm in for a hell of a lot more.. what can I say, Shadowrun Dog Tags that are a USB card with a copy of the game on it? DONE!
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I wanted to be, and I wish I could up my backer right now, but I have been in for the $15 and can't wait for this.
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03-14-2013, 03:50 PM | #208 |
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You CAN up your backer if you want.
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03-14-2013, 06:04 PM | #209 |
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I'm already in for a t-shirt and Doc Wagon card.
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I pulled my money from the Avatar project. After looking over the updates, they're a very long way away from completion and I'm not convinced I like the game direction. When it comes out, I very well may pay full price for it. I probably will. But as for now, I'm just not convinced this is the way to go. The engine looks rudimentary, I don't like the idea of the two-tiered world and I need to hear more about the online aspects.
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03-15-2013, 08:49 AM | #211 |
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How do you do this? I have been all over trying to figure it out.
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03-15-2013, 10:45 AM | #212 | |
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Shackleton Crater by Joseph Ybarra — Kickstarter
Shackleton Crater. I must say I'm interested in the concept even if I'm having a little bit of trouble picturing what the finished product will be about. Could be something that could either be really awesome or a complete turd to play. I'm definitely interested in seeing if it goes anywhere though!
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03-15-2013, 11:07 AM | #213 | |
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Could be interesting, but with 2% after 4 days it looks like it has no chance of funding. |
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I wish kickstarter had an app for Android. :/
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03-15-2013, 09:13 PM | #217 |
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Only seen a few episodes of Veronica Mars and might have backed the movie if you got a digital copy around the $15 level, would probably back a Chuck movie for at least $35 though. |
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03-17-2013, 11:31 PM | #219 | |
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Nailed it. New direction forward for Civitas. Thank you all! — Kickstarter Quote:
I for one totally believe publishers were lining up with their 4 screenshots and secret team of industry veterans. |
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03-18-2013, 01:50 AM | #220 |
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And about that, "on track for funding," they mentioned.
Here are their trending charts after they lost $400 from the pledge total on the 17th. |
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Good call! I'm obviously not surprised. And I don't believe that any private publishers lined up to fund this game. Yesterday there were quite a few posts on the Civitas forums that pointed out misstatements by Brandon Smith and some of his real experience. Some of the information presented was in direct contradiction to some of his claims. That the kickstarter was pulled with 12 hours of this information being posted is very telling. |
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03-22-2013, 10:41 PM | #222 |
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Over $100 Million Pledged to Games » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
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In the past four years, more than 633,242 backers have pledged to more than 4,500 Games projects, nearly 1,000 of them in the past year alone. After the launch of Double Fine Adventure in February 2012, things really took off: Dollars Pledged to Games
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If any of you remember Thul who used to post here back in the day (though he posted a lot more in the HFL forums than here), he's created a kickstarter page for a card game he's developing called Dragon Clash. I know card games are a kind of controversial subject around here these days, but if anyone is interested, check it out!
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03-27-2013, 10:39 AM | #224 | |
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He's got to get that reviewed by Tom Vasel, Joel(eekamouse), or Lance(UndeadViking). I'm subbed to the Left Handed Review guy, but he is a lesser know reviewer. Same with Father Geek. Also, unless I'm missing something, the KS is only for the one deck and not for any of the previous ones which is going to hurt it.
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03-27-2013, 11:16 AM | #225 | |
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Thanks for the plug, Passacaglia and hi all - it's been a long time since my HFL days! Fond memories Great to see that league still clicking along. @Matthean - Yes, the Kickstarter is focused on the goal of expanding the game with new decks and dragons. I think it's important to have one clear mission when asking for funding. If I was to do print runs of all 5 decks (the 4 previously released and the new Red Mauler), the funding goal would have to be MUCH higher than the $5,000 I'm asking for. That said, I do have plans to offer within the scope of the Kickstarter (and perhaps enhance them), if we exceed funding and, whether the KS funds or not, the core 4 decks will be available again at the end of the KS for anyone to grab. Thanks for the feedback.
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03-29-2013, 12:26 PM | #226 |
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And another interesting looking game I went ahead and backed:
Divinity: Original Sin by Larian Studios LLC — Kickstarter It looks like they already have the base game created and just want to add more stuff to it. It sounds pretty impressive. Their timing doesn't appear to be great with Torment still having a week to go and the Ultima project still ongoing I believe though. |
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Played this at PAX East and immediately backed 'em. I recommend y'all do the same, especially if you liked the old NES Zelda II or Castlevania games. Shovel Knight by Yacht Club Games — Kickstarter
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Weird update on Civitas. Supposedly, they got some private backing and pulled out. As I mentioned before, I'm skeptical of that. I can't imagine anyone giving those jokers money. But the longer this goes on the more legitimate it appears. Their website is up and running and the forums are active. Supposedly they're predicting a beta in the relatively near future, which is a head-scratcher to me because they showed nothing during the kickstarter.
It's all a bit weird. I just can't see how these guys are going to pull this off period, never mind the time frames they're talking about. If they were that close, you'd think they'd have showed something during the kickstarter. But if this is all a joke or a scam, they're putting a lot of effort into it for an indeterminant benefit at this stage. Last edited by Blackadar : 03-31-2013 at 03:48 PM. |
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Marc Jacobs, of Dark Age of Camelot fame, and of Warhammer Online Infamy, is attempting to make a quasi successor to Camelot (though he denies it's a sequel, it certainly sounds a lot like it). Some interesting concepts he's got going.
Camelot Unchained Kickstarter opens today. |
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Heh. It's also a very similar principle. Just more singly focused on RvR, which I'm totally cool with.
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04-02-2013, 11:03 AM | #233 |
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Jesus. 100k pledged in 1 minute.
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It's now over $3.7 million with about 30 hours to go. Should easily pass the $4 million mark for another major city. |
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Looks like it's not going to hit this early projection, not following quite the same path as others. After the massive first two days it's not seeing a similar surge over the final two games that other big projects has. Still at $3.97 million so should easily pass $4 million, would be great if it could get another half million in the last 8 hours to hit the final stretch goals. |
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Meh - not interested in RvR MMOPRG
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Torment at $4.27 million with an hour to go.
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Torment finished at $4.188m on Kickstarter, making it the most successful kickstarter game of all time. Add in $127k from Paypal and they're over $4.3m. They ran a fantastic kickstarter campaign...enough that I've been replaying Torment this weekend. Their stretch goals were compelling, the screenshots beautiful, the constant updates interesting, some of the add-ons were useful - just the perfect template for running a successful kickstarter campaign. Avatar finished at $1.91m, but there must have been some good Paypal funds because they announced they hit their $2m stretch goal. I pulled my funds from this some time ago and never re-pledged. This wasn't run nearly as well - what they showed wasn't compelling, the message on the game focus was mixed (single player? co-op? MMO? What is it?), the stretch goals seemed like core gameplay systems and Lord Brittish spouting off about fellow game developers didn't help. They got 200% of what they asked for, but I have to think they left a cool million on the table. A new one has come up: Divinity Original Sin. From the makers of Divine Divinity, this game is very close to complete - the release date is the end of this year. They just want extra funds to make it bigger and better, so they're asking for $400k. They have 18 days to go and they're already at $376k. I'm likely going to fund this one because the game looks pretty damn good. Last edited by Blackadar : 04-07-2013 at 09:09 PM. |
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Played around with the beta for Timber and Stone, which I pledged on a little while ago. Lots of potential this one. Sorta like what you'd get if you mixed minecraft with dwarf fortress (minus the insane learning curve and terrible UI). Still getting a feel for how everything works, but I can picture this being a real time sink.
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Never heard of it prior to your post. Spent far too many hours this weekend figuring things out. Fun game, with lots of potential as you noted. |
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Yeah, their is a fair bit to get a handle on early, mostly that there are a couple of things that can end your game early outside of dying as I've painfully discovered a few times. Running out of stone hammers and pickaxes is a biggie. I'm currently on Day 9 in my first decent run, and right now I've got a settlement that backs onto a river, with a moat circling the perimeter and a large wall with towers running along it. Everyone inside is safe as there aren't any AI siege weapons in the beta yet, but the outside world is INFESTED with goblins. I have no foragers or lumberjacks as it's suicide to venture beyond my walls. My food supplies are fine with the fishing and farming I have, but I'm eating into my wood supplies. Lack of feathers will become a problem once my arrow stocks run out. I have 14 settlers, and have lost 5 total. Once we start seeing the AI build settlements and attack with siege weapons... yikes. This is going to be a fantastic little game IMO.
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After reading some stuff that sounded good and seeing a gameplay video I decided to back Divinity: Original Sin.
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A new Kickstarter project for a new "Jagged Alliance" game. I imagine there are quite a few fans of the old, classic turn-based strategy series.
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Delve: A Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Film
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JA is backed
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JA now has nine updates and is looking very nice - but they are far from their target.
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