KickStarter Kickstarter Watch.

[Kz3r0]

Police Quest Creator Tentatively Plans Kickstarter For A New Game

 

[Zed]

Tom Hall of OLDSCHOOL RPG KICKSTARTER fame gives it another go. This time without bitter recently self-discovered feminist Brenda Romero. And also this time it's a platformer engine for kids, not an RPG.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/368238381/worlds-of-wander-plus-secret-spaceship-club-game

 

[Helly]

Oh god that picture...
"I'm gonna put things in your holes and you'll like it "
" "

 

[Modron]

Oh god that picture...
"I'm gonna put things in your holes and you'll like it "
" "

I cannot imagine this getting 400k; a lot of these smaller scope ideas seem to bottom out at ~100-125k. Platforming is the currently most over saturated genre there is and a $25 dollar entry fee kind of cuts him off at the knees. Outside of niche/under-served genres kickstarters tend to crash and burn lest they be <30k. Poor Tom Hall.

 

[Davaris]

I cannot imagine this getting 400k; a lot of these smaller scope ideas seem to bottom out at ~100-125k. Platforming is the currently most over saturated genre there is and a $25 dollar entry fee kind of cuts him off at the knees. Outside of niche/under-served genres kickstarters tend to crash and burn lest they be <30k. Poor Tom Hall.

I think it will get the money. It has a very good pitch, the idea is a good one and he has an impressive prototype. Not something I would want, but it has a huge market, all the way from little kids, to grown ups.

 

[Minttunator]

Days of Dawn has relaunched with a lower goal:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bumblebee/days-of-dawn-discover-the-magic

 

[Kz3r0]

Tom Hall of OLDSCHOOL RPG KICKSTARTER fame gives it another go. This time without bitter recently self-discovered feminist Brenda Romero. And also this time it's a platformer engine for kids, not an RPG.

After the Shaker half scam I am not going to include anything made by him or Brenda, except for the shit list, and who is interested in this game here?

Days of Dawn has relaunched with a lower goal:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bumblebee/days-of-dawn-discover-the-magic

Asking for half of the sum that you supposedly needed priorly is reason enough to ignore it and I don't think that the codex is more interested in this game than was before.

 

[Minttunator]

Days of Dawn has relaunched with a lower goal:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bumblebee/days-of-dawn-discover-the-magic

Asking for half of the sum that you supposedly needed priorly is reason enough to ignore it and I don't think that the codex is more interested in this game than was before.

You're probably right, it currently looks on track to miss even the new, lower goal.

 

[Jaesun]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461687407/kickstarter-open-source-death-star

 

[Davaris]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461687407/kickstarter-open-source-death-star

I am so tempted to put in 100 grand. lol

 

[tuluse]

The only risk is the power of the Force.

And that guy has 178 kickstarters backed, wow.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

£543,000,000,000,000,00 ($850,000,000,000,000,000) to secure full funding for actual construction.

Also new KS At The Gates from Jon Shafer.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonshafer/jon-shafers-at-the-gates

 

[Jaesun]

designer of Civ 5

I'll pass.

 

[Kz3r0]

Does anyone remember Zero Charisma?
They ran a successful campaign on Indiegogo, now they are running another for the final stages:
http://www.indiegogo.com/zerocharismathemovie


This time the trailer is made from actual footage, the problem is that semms sub par compared to the original mock up, that it's now unavailable:
http://www.indiegogo.com/zerocharismamovie

 

[Jaesun]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1599677835/unwritten-that-which-happened

Missed this. Sounds interesting:

Unwritten is a turn based strategy game for PC to be released in August 2013.

Delve into a turn based strategy game with meaningful, permanent decisions
Play as successive generations of a nomadic clan, passing stories and legends down through the ages
Experience infinite novelty through randomly generated maps, units, abilities, and enemies
Make decisions that become a part of your personal "story", affecting your ability to barter and ally with rival clans
Make the trek to "God Mountain", a place of final judgement and potential glory
Experience a rich, exotic world inspired by international traditions of story-telling
Make your own game modules using the same tools the developer used to make the game

Doesn't look like it is going to make it though (6 days to go).

 

[felipepepe]

Does anyone remember Zero Charisma?
They ran a successful campaign on Indiegogo, now they are running another for the final stages:
http://www.indiegogo.com/zerocharismathemovie

This time the trailer is made from actual footage, the problem is that semms sub par compared to the original mock up, that it's now unavailable:
http://www.indiegogo.com/zerocharismamovie

I saw that when they released the second campaing, and I went to the old one to compare it and was indeed very inferior (the "hipster" actor was way better in the old one), so apparently they got enough complains to hide the old one... not to mention some suspicious stuff like how apparently the DIRECTOR of the movie left the project, and that they originally asked for 15k, got 25k and now want more 30k...

Overfunded kickstarter/indiegogo are responsible for some massive ego-trips backfiring, sometimes I wish they would just close donations after reaching the goal.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

£543,000,000,000,000,00 ($850,000,000,000,000,000) to secure full funding for actual construction.

Also new KS At The Gates from Jon Shafer.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonshafer/jon-shafers-at-the-gates

Jesus Christ, he looks like he's 16. How the fuck did he get put in charge of designing Civ 5? I realize I'm a horrible leech on society barely able to dress myself but how the shit did he get such a key role for such a high budget big name game.
Looked him up on Wikipedia, found this.

Shafer developed fan mods for Civilization III while in high school. Additionally he served as a beta tester for the Civilization III expansion, Conquests, and later Civilization IV. This led to a programming internship at Firaxis and ultimately the position of co-lead designer for the second Civilization IV expansion, Beyond the Sword.[4][5] In developing for Civilization V

Well no fucking wonder. He IS a baby. That still doesn't explain how he got such a plum position out of the blue. Unless Sid's got a penchant for young boy buggery.

Oh...
Oh.

And on a completely unrelated note, where'd the "WHAT THE FUCK COMPUTER" Codex troll emoticon go? I preferred that one.

 

[Minttunator]

I'm one of the weird dudes that actually like Civ V, but I feel that $25 a bit steep for an indie game.

Multi-headed Cow, we should probably invite him over to the Codex - I'm sure he has stories to tell of Sid's orgies and bathrooms full of rubber dildos.

 

[Spectacle]

Jesus Christ, he looks like he's 16. How the fuck did he get put in charge of designing Civ 5? I realize I'm a horrible leech on society barely able to dress myself but how the shit did he get such a key role for such a high budget big name game.

Many of the classics were made by people who were around his age at the time....

And on a completely unrelated note, where'd the "WHAT THE FUCK COMPUTER" Codex troll emoticon go? I preferred that one.

Yeah, I've been wondering about that too. DarkUnderlord, where is our troll? We all paid for that with our WL2 contributions!

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Jesus Christ, he looks like he's 16. How the fuck did he get put in charge of designing Civ 5? I realize I'm a horrible leech on society barely able to dress myself but how the shit did he get such a key role for such a high budget big name game.

Many of the classics were made by people who were around his age at the time....

Generally the classics aren't 5th games in a long running series with a large budget with a publisher and leading a team as large as Firaxis, too. Especially when that appears to be his first paid work on a game. Seriously, he went from Civ 3 mods in highschool, to "Beta testing" Civ 4, to lead designer on 5. It's not like he made a game with 5-10 other people that became a classic and was wildly popular, he somehow leap straight to lead designing a flagship game for a well established company.

 

[garren]

Kickstarter next month apparently



http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/926/feature/7103
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/926/feature/7107

 

[General Maxson]

Now mmorpgs need kickstarter?

 

[Spectacle]

Jesus Christ, he looks like he's 16. How the fuck did he get put in charge of designing Civ 5? I realize I'm a horrible leech on society barely able to dress myself but how the shit did he get such a key role for such a high budget big name game.

Many of the classics were made by people who were around his age at the time....

Generally the classics aren't 5th games in a long running series with a large budget with a publisher and leading a team as large as Firaxis, too. Especially when that appears to be his first paid work on a game. Seriously, he went from Civ 3 mods in highschool, to "Beta testing" Civ 4, to lead designer on 5. It's not like he made a game with 5-10 other people that became a classic and was wildly popular, he somehow leap straight to lead designing a flagship game for a well established company.

Did you miss the part where it said he was co-designer on a Civ4 expansion? He must have done some decent work there since Firaxis trusted him with Civ5. Sure, he fucked up there but I see no particular reason to think that age/lack of experience was an important factor there.

 

[Infinitron]

Now mmorpgs need kickstarter?

They will fail.

 

[General Maxson]

Now mmorpgs need kickstarter?

They will fail.

Hopefully.