KickStarter Kickstarter Watch.

[Yaar Podshipnik]

For some reason I feel compelled to signal this unsuccessful project:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/218695393/alone-a-zombie-short-film

Obviously, you want to turn our attention to the nice aviator glasses featured prominently in this picture.

 

[CappenVarra]

For some reason I feel compelled to signal this unsuccessful project:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/218695393/alone-a-zombie-short-film

Obviously, you want to turn our attention to the nice aviator glasses featured prominently in this picture.

And what nice glasses they are - why, I feel compelled to go downtown and get my hands on a pair just like that!

 

[sgc_meltdown]

That stumpy tree-bush thing looks shifty. I do not trust that fucking thing in the slightest.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1493481645/democrats-vs-republicans?ref=category

Democrats vs. Republicans caters to the worst stereotypes from both sides of the political divide. It's a PC based real time strategy game along the lines of StarCraft or Age of Empires. That means each team has several different buildings and units, each with unique strengths, weaknesses and abilities that interact together. The game is played on a map with the goal of gathering resources like money and votes, building up a base and creating armies with which you can find and destroy your opponent’s base.

Features

• 20 different Democratic Units including Union Workers, Welfare Moms, EcoNuts and Hippie Vans, media figures like Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann, and political leaders like Clinton, Gore and Obama.
• 20 different Republican Units including Red Necks, Tea Baggers, Religious Fanatics and Survivalists, media figures like Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly, and political leaders like Bush, Cheney and Romney.
• Every unit has their own unique attack strengths and weaknesses.
• 5 Democratic building structures (such as Solar Cells and Ivory Towers).
• 5 Republican building structures (such as Oil Pumps and Churches).
• Campaign play against the computer AI with 20 different map levels (each corresponding to a different state).
• 2 player head-to-head network play.
• Unaffiliated units like Suicide Bombers and bank-spawned Vampire Squids.
• Units with special abilities like cloaking, stealing, harvesting, healing and freezing enemies into ice blocks.

 

[wizardbox]

Hi, I'm the programmer behind Fall of Eternity... Thanks for your suggestions and (constructive) criticism.

It's OK if you don't like the idea. It's a radical experiment and it's going to be a freeware game. We're really not asking for much...

We'll be sending a copy to The Escapist and letting Yahtzee rip it to shreds if he so pleases. We made it as apparent as possible that this game was inspired by his article from last year.

After listening to some input from our backers, we recently decided to open up the world a bit, and change the view to a TES-style first/third person (sorry to the user who wanted it to be isometric :/).

You get in-game bonuses for backtracking to high-level areas. There will be a HUGE easter egg for players who can successfully get through the first dungeon at level 1.

The villain has placed wards across the map to keep powerful beings away. A good chunk of the game will be open to explore from the get-go, but important events will be restricted by quest events and/or player level.

The "level down" system works on a number system similar to deteriorating weapons in countless other RPGs. On top of dealing with weapon deterioration, you'll also be managing character deterioration.

The "failed quest" system is simply a story device. Like plenty of other RPGs, you will have to complete quests to advance the game and explore new areas. For all intents and purposes, in terms of game logic, you'll successfully complete each quest. It's purely aesthetic - you'll get a disappointed blurb from the NPC instead of hearing how awesome you are, and the story will move on.

Instead of building choosing a class at the beginning, you'll be chiseling away at a full template, gradually specializing in certain fields by removing others from the equation. You literally start the game in god mode as an overpowered omni-specialist, and end the game with a handful of skills you really like. The dungeons have numerous paths for players with different skill sets.

There is a surprise ending. The "rat quest" towards the end is meant to mislead the player... I revised the statement on KS, had no idea it would be a deal-breaker (we thought it was pretty funny)...

 

[Kz3r0]

wizardbox, Create a new thread in the RPG section of this forum, you could present your project better in doing so.

 

[Marsal]

Very interesting game wizardbox. Best of luck!

 

[Kz3r0]

Not many interesting projects at the moment here some LLULZ:

Kicked Out is an addictive Facebook game that trains financial literacy skills!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kicked-out/kicked-out/?ref=kicktraq
Only 300.000$

Are you ready for the best iOS game ever?
The time has come!

This game will totaly change the understanding of the word ''game''. It is a captivating and thriling adventure that will take you around the entire world.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/503265956/airwars-best-ios-game-ever/?ref=kicktraq
A modest pitch this is.

Songmasters : The Music Wars

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/208431038/songmasters-the-music-wars/?ref=kicktraq
Rap battles go galactic in this MMO.

The Living: 30 Days to Survive

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/598052931/the-living-30-days-to-survive/?ref=kicktraq
This looks interesting, MMO focused on survival time in game equals time in real life.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Rend failed to meet its funding goal 2 days ago

 

[Kz3r0]

An interesting game this time, the problem is that is made for co-op of four planers, and a suspiciously low set goal:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...hack-n-slash-action-gam?ref=recently_launched

 

[skuphundaku]

Have you guys seen this: The Hostage Trials - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1238523886/the-hostage-trials-a-real-time-game-for-ios-and-an ?
It's something between an ARG and an adventure game and seems to be quite different from anything else tried before. Might turn out to be a huge turd but, on the other hand, could turn out to be AWESOME.

 

[Kz3r0]

Another miniature game getting hundreds of thousands of dollars:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/kings-of-war/?ref=kicktraq

 

[Jaesun]

$354,997 for a PnP minatures ruleset. Wow.

 

[Ulminati]

$354,997 for a PnP minatures ruleset. Wow.

I'm pretty sure the ruleset has been out for some time (I'm pretty sure I heard about it before). The reason people are throwing their :jewgold: at this is because a) They're getting minis relatively cheap, b) said minis are of a pretty good quality and c) They're offering to have said minis painted by some really, really, really good painters. Some of those painters won golden demons. If you were to commision them to paint, say, your Spehzz Mahreenz, they'd charge hundreds of kwabucks per unit on top of material costs.

 

[Rufus_T_Firefly]

That Paper Sorcerer one I posted earlier has an update with a new gameplay video.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2088045881/paper-sorcerer/posts
Also new screenshots, like this:

 

[Helly]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-i-road-to-recognitio-0?ref=recently_launched
This is gold.
A hoax-based Android/Apple game in kickstarter. By a phony Dr with a phony PhD specialized in the Bosnian Pyramids (sic), a pure hoax that's still very much alive.
Even better, there is blatant art stealing:

which come straight from Starship Troopers with two yellow blobs for the eyes (or something)
The only not phony-looking thing is the dev, whom looks like an honest to goodness dev. Well I didn't look him much, but still.

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-i-road-to-recognitio-0?ref=recently_launched
This is gold.
A hoax-based Android/Apple game in kickstarter. By a phony Dr with a phony PhD specialized in the Bosnian Pyramids (sic), a pure hoax that's still very much alive.

Dude, you should totally listen to the shit Macedonians are telling on their TV/Radio. If you ask them, they've got stonehenge, pyramids, writing, hanging gardens, great wall, etc. at least ten thousands years before other civilizations. And first rocket in space was Macedonian. Balkans for the lulz.

 

[CappenVarra]

 

[Kz3r0]

What do you have against pyramids guys?
It's just a silly game by the way, look at this documentary, 50K$ raised.

 

[Destroid]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dhagar/cult-awakening-of-the-old-ones

This one has been funded pretty generously, and a tech demo is freely available.

 

[RK47]

What do you have against pyramids guys?
It's just a silly game by the way, look at this documentary, 50K$ raised.

ohwow

 

[Kz3r0]

A graphic adventure inspired by John Carter of Mars made using stop motion by special effects professionals:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/warbirdgames/jack-houston-and-the-necronauts/?ref=kicktraq

 

[Jaesun]

Holy fuck that artwork is beautiful! But what do they know about making Adventure Games?

 

[toro]

A graphic adventure inspired by John Carter of Mars made using stop motion by special effects professionals:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/warbirdgames/jack-houston-and-the-necronauts/?ref=kicktraq

10x. backed.

 

[kazgar]

That does look amazing, but stop motion is pretty intensive work, wonder how a whole game would go with it.

Might consider the base level next payday.

 

[HanoverF]

I really want to back that, but I doubt their credentials and the amount needed seems really small, the reason no one uses stop motion much anymore is because the time and money needed for it is so high.