KickStarter Kickstarter Watch.

[TheGreatOne]

Shenmue 3 Kickstarter already made 1.3/2M 3 hours after the announcement at Sony E3

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/description

That’s pretty insane.

Given how much fans have anticipated a final part, you'd expect this thing to break all kickstarter records by the time its finished

 

[Kz3r0]

Shenmue 3 Kickstarter already made 1.3/2M 3 hours after the announcement at Sony E3

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/description

That’s pretty insane.

Already funded, of a set goal of two millions dollars.
Potential for ten millions here.
Mighty N.9
Iga
Shenmue
Infinitron was right welcome to the Japanese Console era on Kickstarter.
Let's hope this will give us old SEGA creativity back.

 

[Abu Antar]

I hope people saying that crowd funding is dying can shut the fuck up now.

 

[Grauken]

I get Mega Man and Castlevania, but can anyone explain the appeal of Shenmue?

 

[Jarpie]

I get Mega Man and Castlevania, but can anyone explain the appeal of Shenmue?

Hipsters, "I love dreamcast although I never owned one! Shenmue is lief!"

 

[stony3k]

Shenmue is an open-world interactive cinema action-adventure video game series

Emphasis mine

 

[Zombra]

I never played Shenmue, but my friends who did spoke of it in hushed, awed tones. To the point I almost considered backing Shenmue 3 (it's releasing on PC so I could actually play it). Then I came to my senses.

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...d-record-for-quickest-video-game-crowdfunding

Shenmue 3 sets Guinness World Record for quickest video game crowdfunding
Reached $1m in 102 minutes.

Shenmue 3 has set a Guinness World Record for being the fastest video game to raise $1m in pledges via a crowdfunding platform.

In a swift 102 minutes the long anticipated sequel joined the double comma club onKickstarter, beating out Torment: Tides of Numenera, which took six hours and five minutes to do the same back in 2013.

Outside of video games, Shenmue 3 is the second quickest overall product to raise $1m on Kickstarter; the Pebble Time smartwatch bested it at a mere 46 minutes.

The question is: will Shenmue 3 topple Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night as the most highly funded game on Kickstarter? Bloodstained raised $5,545,991 in the end.

Comparatively, Shenmue 3 is already at $3,022,960 with 30 days to go before its 17th July deadline.

Besides however many millions Shenmue 3 raises on Kickstarter, Sony will also be bankrolling Yu Suzuki's long anticipated sequel. It's been 14 years since Shenmue 2, after all. People are ravenous for more.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

I tried watching a let's play of Shemnue.

Couldn't get into it. It just looked like regular Japanese shit.

 

[Diablo169]

It is regular Japanese shit. It came out at a time when people were not used to regular Japanese shit. That's why it was so unique at the time. Not so much now.

 

[Jarpie]

Not sure was this here yet but Brian Bagnall is writing book about Commodore's Amiga years and he launched Kickstarter campaign two days ago.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-amiga-years-book
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-amiga-years-book

A beautiful hardcover book chronicling the Commodore Amiga years. First hand interviews, insane stories, and lots of laughs.

Hello! I’m Brian Bagnall and I want to tell you the story of Commodore during the Amiga years. Commodore produced my favorite computers in the eighties and for years I waited for someone to write a book about those incredible times. Strangely, it seemed like publishers were only interested in talking about Apple, Microsoft and IBM. It’s time to give the Commodore Amiga some credit as the first commercially successful multimedia computer.

Take a journey from Amiga's beginnings in 1982 to when Commodore filed for bankruptcy in 1994. Dozens of brilliant and motivated engineers produced a computer with graphics, sound and multitasking capabilities years ahead of Apple and IBM. A lot happened in that decade, and this book will describe to you the most relevant parts in a definitive history of the Amiga story and Commodore’s final descent.

Prior to undertaking this project, Commodore’s trajectory as a company was a huge mystery. Writing this book will allow me to sleuth out what happened, relive those times alongside those who were there, and share the results with fellow travelers like you. That prospect alone is incredibly exciting.

 

[Jaesun]

$40 for the hardcover is a bit.... ouch.

 

[Infinitron]

This is what happens when you end your Kickstarter in the middle of E3: http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival/#chart-daily

 

[himmy]

http://boingboing.net/2015/06/19/sony-admits-backing-shenmue-3.html

Sony admits backing Shenmue 3, which has $3m pledged on Kickstarter
By Rob Beschizza at 9:10 am Fri, Jun 19, 2015

Legendary Sega game series Shenmue is to receive a third installment thanks to a $3m-and-rising Kickstarter campaign. But now we find out that Sony is a 'partner' in the game, investing an 'undisclosed budget' despite no mention on the game's pleas for crowdfunding. What gives?

So working on the basis that Sony is paying, why was it deemed acceptable to run the Kickstarter as it was run, and only reveal this partnership after public money had been accrued via some very large personal donations? I could start throwing around a lot of strong terms here, but – if only because I don’t know exactly how the balance of funding will play out - I won’t. I’ll very carefully draw the line at ‘misleading’, and leave it at that.
Seems the most egregious example yet of using Kickstarter to snooker people into thinking they were funding an independent project.

 

[Zombra]

What? Didn't they say right out that Sony was backing them? If not, how did I already know that?

 

[Infinitron]

What? Didn't they say right out that Sony was backing them? If not, how did I already know that?

By Rob Beschizza at 9:10 am Fri, Jun 19, 2015

0-1 dayz newz only, lamerz

 

[Abelian]

Shenmue 3 has set a Guinness World Record for being the fastest video game to raise $1m in pledges via a crowdfunding platform.

I wasn't expecting this from a series I never even heard of before.

 

[Abu Antar]

Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness is an isometric party based rpg that will have a Kickstarter campaign later in the year.

Link to the game's site
http://www.blackgeyser.com/

 

[himmy]

Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness is an isometric party based rpg that will have a Kickstarter campaign later in the year.

Link to the game's site
http://www.blackgeyser.com/

inb4 being dubbed Black Gay Sir.

 

[Transfiguring Roar]

inb4 being dubbed Black Gay Sir.

That's stuck in my head. Can't take the game seriously anymore.

 

[CryptRat]

From recent updates :

A gameplay video from Project Rain :

Spoiler

A video without any gameplay from Knite and the Ghost Lights :

Spoiler

And some Gifs from Dropsy :

Spoiler

Paradise Lost : First Contact :

Spoiler

Ghost Song: A Journey of Hope :

Spoiler

 

[Destroid]

The visuals and atmosphere in Rain World is pretty incredible.

 

[Crooked Bee]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/100stonesinteractive/the-eyes-of-ara

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1255217702/quern-undying-thoughts

Two Myst-like adventure games.

 

[MicoSelva]

Megaman creator comes back to Kickstarter with another project:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/red-ash-the-indelible-legend

 

[Crooked Bee]

Is Mighty No 9 still looking like crap / hasn't been released?

Thought so.