Game News Project Eternity Kickstarter Update #23: Documentary, and More

[Crooked Bee]

Tags: Feargus Urquhart; Kickstarter; Obsidian Entertainment; Pillars of Eternity

The latest update to Obsidian's Project Eternity promises the same thing that proved to be very popular with DoubleFine's Kickstarter - a documentary about the development of the game:

Project Eternity the Documentary

The big news for the day is that we are adding a documentary covering the development of Project Eternity.

After getting a lot of requests to do a documentary, like the Double Fine Adventure, we started looking into it a couple of weeks ago. We talked about it more last week and decided that we don’t have a visual history of one of our games, even after almost ten years as a company. We felt it was something we should just do and do it without it being a new stretch goal.

So, we are happy to announce that we are going to include a stream, download, or physical copy of the documentary in all of our Kickstarter reward tiers. At the $20/$25 level you will be able to stream it, at the $35 level you will be able to download it, and at the $140 level (and physical tiers above) we will include a DVD / Blu-ray.​

Aside from that, there's also a new physical add-on - Project Eternity playing cards:

Project Eternity Playing Cards Add-On

As a fun new add-on for Sunday, we are now offering Project Eternity playing cards for $10. Designed by Scott Everts, one of our longtime technical artists who worked on Black Isle’s Infinity Engine games, and does a lot of work on board games, he designed this beautiful set which will feature characters and maybe critters (Kerfluffleupogus, Devourer of the Faithful anyone?) from Project Eternity. Check out the Project Eternity Add-On List on how to add-on items to your pledge. (Please note: Playing Cards only available to tiers including physical items. For digital tier folks, we’ll hopefully sell these as a future store offering.)Project Eternity Playing Cards Add-On

As a fun new add-on for Sunday, we are now offering Project Eternity playing cards for $10. Designed by Scott Everts, one of our longtime technical artists who worked on Black Isle’s Infinity Engine games, and does a lot of work on board games, he designed this beautiful set which will feature characters and maybe critters (Kerfluffleupogus, Devourer of the Faithful anyone?) from Project Eternity. Check out the Project Eternity Add-On List on how to add-on items to your pledge. (Please note: Playing Cards only available to tiers including physical items. For digital tier folks, we’ll hopefully sell these as a future store offering.)​

I also remind you that Monday is the Project Eternity AMA on Reddit day.

 

[J_C]

I want those cards!!!!!

 

[Surf Solar]

Not remotively interested in the documentary, I want them to make a game, not a movie.

Playing cards...

 

[villain of the story]

Playing cards... Meh. If they have invented a new game (eg. Caravan from FNV), I'd be interested but this is boring. Especially if it comes with the shitty DeviantArt-grade concept artwork on it.

Documentary is a nice gesture, however. And good that we'll have a post-mortem peek at MCA-Sawyer-Cain trio at their game.

 

[J_C]

What's wrong with playing cards with the buddies?

 

[Surf Solar]

What's wrong with playing cards with the buddies?

There's nothing wrong with it, I just expected them to actually concentrate on the PC game, not some meaningless fluff gimmicks thrown around. Will you really play that PE card game with your buddies?

 

[Jarpie]

What's wrong with playing cards with the buddies?

Because VotS doesn't have anyone to play with him.

 

[J_C]

What's wrong with playing cards with the buddies?

There's nothing wrong with it, I just expected them to actually concentrate on the PC game, not some meaningless fluff gimmicks thrown around. Will you really play that PE card game with your buddies?

That's not PE cardgame. Look at the pictures, it is a regular deck of poker cards, just with PE artwork.

 

[Surf Solar]

What's wrong with playing cards with the buddies?

There's nothing wrong with it, I just expected them to actually concentrate on the PC game, not some meaningless fluff gimmicks thrown around. Will you really play that PE card game with your buddies?

That's not PE cardgame. Look at the pictures, it is a regular deck of poker cards, just with PE artwork.

In this case I apologize then, should have read more thorough. Still, waste of money and ressources that could've gone to the actual game instead, IMO.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Surf Solar
But if people don't buy the cards as add-on, there would be no extra money and resources in the first place. More likely, the extra donations will cover the cost of making the deck, and you will in fact have more money and resources for the base game.

 

[skuphundaku]

What's wrong with playing cards with the buddies?

There's nothing wrong with it, I just expected them to actually concentrate on the PC game, not some meaningless fluff gimmicks thrown around. Will you really play that PE card game with your buddies?

That's not PE cardgame. Look at the pictures, it is a regular deck of poker cards, just with PE artwork.

In this case I apologize then, should have read more thorough. Still, waste of money and ressources that could've gone to the actual game instead, IMO.

BRO, they already have the artwork for the cards (the concept art they already published). They just need some minor touches here and there and then they just have to get in touch with USPCC (http://www.usplayingcard.com/), which are the gold-standard in playing card manufacture (it would be foolish to settle for anything less than that). That's it: playing cards deck done.

EDIT: here's a list of all playing cards decks projects on KS: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=playing+cards . If you'll take a look at them, most of them are printed by USPCC and most of the work involved on the designer's end is creating the artwork. Obsidian already has the artwork, so they can hit the ground running by calling USPCC.

 

[ghostdog]

I wasn't very happy about the double fine documentary either, but when I saw it I was hooked, very interesting stuff ...and making it is pretty cheap anyway. I'll certainly be waiting for the PE documentary.

 

[villain of the story]

Surf Solar
But if people don't buy the cards as add-on, there would be no extra money and resources in the first place. More likely, the extra donations will cover the cost of making the deck, and you will in fact have more money and resources for the base game.

A single deck costs probably no more than $1 (when produced in bulks) and even that is likely an inflated price. So they will profit around $9 per deck. Let's say 5K people buying a deck = around $45K.

 

[l3loodAngel]

I'll certainly be waiting for the PE documentary.