KickStarter Kickstarter Watch.

[Blaine]

What blows me away is how much money some of the board and card game Kickstarters have raised: http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/tabletop games/most-funded?ref=more#p1

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

What blows me away is how much money some of the board and card game Kickstarters have raised: http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/tabletop games/most-funded?ref=more#p1

It only proves that there is a market for everything (some bigger then others), you just have to find it.

 

[Kz3r0]

these may interest the codex
(although I haven't really spent much time reading their pages)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/richardorr/colonia?ref=category

Single-player space 4X / RTS hybrid strategy game focused on combat. Crush your enemies and expand your empire across the solar system.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maksw/dominion-episode-1?ref=category

The first chapter in an ongoing sci-fi space-combat spectacular!

lots of ideas, very few substance

Unless someone is interested in these projects I am not going to add them, too little substance there in my opinion.

 

[Kz3r0]

These are all the delivered projects in the PnP, Tabletop section:

Chronicles of Skin A scribbling card game, write the history of your civilization from the bronze age onwards, literally.
Gype: Bringing G.K. Chesterton & H.G. Wells' Game to Life.
Puzzle Strike 3rd Edition + Shadows Expansion 2 - 4 player deckbuilding game that uses chips instead of cards for easier shuffling. It simulates a puzzle game such as Puzzle Fighter.
PennyGems II, a Pale Imitation Upgrade for 'gems' to use in board games as alternatives to miniatures and such. Rithmomachia: Battle of the Numbers - Philosopher's Game Medieval board game for theologians.
Roll20 -- Virtual tabletop gaming that tells a story.
Road to Enlightenment The card game of incline.
The Parsec RPG Science-fiction tabletop RPG that sticks close to what is feasible given what we know about the world today - the only big "cheat" is the new technology of faster-than-light travel.
The Reliquary Collection 12 ancient board games recreated for the traditionalist player.
Zombicide Board game with miniatures inspired by pop culture characters, with the involvement of Penny Arcade.

Anyone backed any of them and wants to give his impressions?

 

[Angelo85]

Coming Out On Top
"A gay adult Dating Sim where you play a college student who decides to come out of the closet to his best friend. A dating sim with suspense, humor, & erotic situations."
Already funded by over 200%

Possible love interests revealed so far: a Marine, a Quarterback and a Frontman for a Metal Band

Paging Dr. Jaesun :D

 

[tuluse]

GODUS is still 150k short with 6 days to go, it might yet still fail.

 

[Blaine]

In all likelihood, it will. It needs about £25,000 ($40,000) per day to make it, which is almost double its daily average for the past 24 days. They'd better hope they get an impressive last-minute rush.

I've been resisting the urge to gloat until the last minute.

 

[skuphundaku]

It will be a great sign of incline if both GODUS and Elite: Dangerous fail. But let's not celebrate yet because GODUS is having an increase in pledges over the last couple of days.

 

[Blaine]

Personally I wanted to see Elite: Dangerous succeed, since "multiplayer" isn't always a dirty word in my opinion, and I believe Braben can develop an enjoyable space combat and trading sim. That said, in the span of 40 days they've produced only 12 updates without a whole lot of meat to them, which frankly is a piss-poor showing when you're asking for $2,000,000 minimum.

 

[Kz3r0]

WTF???

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/urealms/unforgotten-quest/?ref=kicktraq

 

[Blaine]

 

[Modron]

WTF???

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/urealms/unforgotten-quest/?ref=kicktraq

That pos gets 100 grand but ars magica can't pull 290 I hate this world.

 

[Metro]

Wow... really... just... how the FUCK did that get $100,000?!?! Something funny is going on... someone bought a $10k tier donation for this game? And multiple $500+ tiers are sold.

 

[Infinitron]

Wow... really... just... how the FUCK did that get $100,000?!?! Something funny is going on... someone bought a $10k tier donation for this game? And multiple $500+ tiers are sold.

Possibly the pet project of some forum community.

 

[Grunker]

Isn't it based on one of those bad cartoons from the escapist?

 

[Aeschylus]

Isn't it based on one of those bad cartoons from the escapist?

I remember it being on Newgrounds years ago. Not sure about the Escapist.

 

[Kz3r0]

It's a game where there is no quest log for you to follow, but when you talk to villagers, they tell you about the nasty poisonous rats in the innkeeper's basement. He wants you to slay them, but when you go down into the basement, you end up in a long conversation with the King of the poison Rats. While enjoying some tea over a game of black jack, the King of Rats claims the innkeeper is a mean, old man and the rat will pay you double if you go back upstairs, slay the innkeeper instead and burn the entire town to the ground.

Oh, hi many-as-one.

 

[Kz3r0]

Skyjacker doesn't back down, one of the best Kickstarter project in my opinion, lots of things to show, a demo, and even if they didn't reach their goal after two failed attempts they relied on the support through their web store from their backers to continue to work on the game and now are making another Kickstarter, SKYJACKER: Starship Constructor, aimed at funding the game in different stages, at the moment they are making the ship building tool that is also a stand alone application for everyone who likes to play lego with their spaceshisps, here the on-line version, requires the Unity plug-in.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Persistent, I like that.

 

[Kz3r0]

This look like an advertisement tool to me more than a game:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...a-discovery-game-for-libraries-a?ref=category

Do people will buy books based on achievements and level ups?

By the way:

Personally, I'm about a Level 14 Medieval Weapons & Combat Reader, because I read a lot of Fantasy novels.

Total retardation confirmed.

 

[mindx2]

This look like an advertisement tool to me more than a game:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...a-discovery-game-for-libraries-a?ref=category

Do people will buy books based on achievements and level ups?

By the way:

Personally, I'm about a Level 14 Medieval Weapons & Combat Reader, because I read a lot of Fantasy novels.

Total retardation confirmed.

That thing is going to get way over $100,000!!! It definitely seems like one of those "feel good, it's for the school kids" kind of project that brings out the liberal wallet quickly.

 

[kaizoku]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...g-setting-for-call-of-cthulhu-and-br?ref=live

shitty pitch, but interesting concept and looks it has decent writers too (by looking at amazon ratings)

already funded and 3 days to go


what does the PNP crowd has to say about it?

 

[tuluse]

Looks like Consortium is failing horrible. Makes me sad. I'd like to see some LGS-esque projects start getting made.

 

[Destroid]

Looks like Consortium is failing horrible. Makes me sad. I'd like to see some LGS-esque projects start getting made.

It wasn't a very compelling video, no surprises here.

 

[tuluse]

Yeah, I mean, I didn't contribute myself, but I think it deserves more support than 9k. Shaker somehow got 200k just by shouting old school over an over again.