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KickStarter Kickstarter Watch.
- Thread starter Kz3r0
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I know I mentioned this before and nobody was interested, but I must say:
Since the project is already 1000% funded, ~50$ (£35) gets you a ridiculous amount of PDF P&P goodness.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modiphius/achtung-cthulhu-the-ww2-keepers-and-investigators
Since the project is already 1000% funded, ~50$ (£35) gets you a ridiculous amount of PDF P&P goodness.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modiphius/achtung-cthulhu-the-ww2-keepers-and-investigators
Holt Shit!
Just finished 4-level demo on hard. It brings so much fun and
moments, when you are crushed by a meteor or laser. Also - boss fights will give your eyes something to focus on 
, that's what I like.
Kz3r0
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almondblight
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Reminds me of "Moo's Moogley Moo", which was a Kickstarter for a game supposedly designed by a 5 year old:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1441135027/moos-moogley-moo-a-5yr-olds-video-game-design
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1441135027/moos-moogley-moo-a-5yr-olds-video-game-design
Excidium
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Great parenting. Assuming the child even exists.
Studio Fawn
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This is suchhh a scam ~_~ The mother is OBVIOUSLY writing / doing everything ... but trying to pass it off from the voice of the 9 year old? And the tag line is "get women into tech"?? REALLLYY? she is 9....
I could rant about this for a while ~_~
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... ... ... 1147 guys and gals did trust that face with their moolah ... ... ...
Stabwound
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Internet sleuths in the comments figured this out already but lol: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009...t_powerful_women_entrepreneurs.fortune/8.html
Susan Wilson
Founder and CEO, The Judgment Group
More than 80% of court-ordered judgments are never paid, says Wilson. Her 10-year-old company finds out where debtors bank, work and own property--and gets 20% of its targets to pay up.
She recognizes the value of focusing on the details. "I used to get bored and wanted to do the next great thing. And I still do," Wilson says. "But, the mundane, same-day, in-and-out stuff--if you can find that sexy, that's how you build a business."
Next up: a website that enables debtors to make payments and negotiate settlements online. "An individual will pay more when they're negotiating with a computer than they do negotiating with an individual," Wilson claims. --J.S.
Enjoy giving your money to someone who's already a millionaire.
This wasn't even that good of an attempt. Imagine if someone pretended to have a terminal disease and that it was their dream goal of creating a game. That should pull some heart strings and wallets.
Kz3r0
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Enjoy giving your money to someone who's already a millionaire.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/758041862/dream-benders-help-me-make-my-game
FeelTheRads
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Let's see that game comes out of this...
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
By the look of that dude I'm sure he'd like to play a little game with "Kenzie" himself.
Multi-headed Cow
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Jesus Christ.
Edit: God, the more I think about this the angrier I get. Holy fuck.
Edit: God, the more I think about this the angrier I get. Holy fuck.
Grimlorn
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I can't believe how much of a ripoff this all is. And people are just giving their money away. They apparently have too much of it.
I don't like this Veronica Mars movie project. It's going to do 4-5 million and that's all going in Warner Bros. pocket. They get free marketing and advertising through word of mouth and record breaking news. They save 4-5 million on the movie budget. They'll just add maybe 10-20 million to the budget and make that back easy in box office sales. It would be funny if Warner Bros. backed out of doing the movie. It's not like they have a contract and 60k people backing the project isn't really a lot of people/interest. WB would get so much bad press for it I think, so they are going to have to do it.
I really hope we don't see movie studios doing this, but I think projects that studios aren't sure of putting into production will start seeing kickstarters and people will have to pay millions before the movie is released to studios to save the studios money so they'll greenlight the project. It's disgusting.
I have no words for that 9 year old kickstarter. People would rather send 20k to a 9 year old to "develop a game" rather than donate to charity or put someone through college. All that money is going in the mother's pocket to spend on shopping sprees. It won't go into making any game. The 9 year old probably won't want to make the game after the month is over, or after spending an hour trying to do it. People are just so stupid and despicable.
Just read the comments for that kickstarter, and it's a bunch of women buying into her BS about girls needing to be supported and how her brothers are making fun of their sister and mom. There's always going to be that social dynamic and kids are always going to think their parents are stupid. Instead she's playing it up as some kind of battle of the sexes feminist fight where if girls aren't protected and encouraged through this kickstarter, girls will be worse off for it. I don't know if she actually believes it, or it's a scam. It sounds like a scam though, considering she could afford the class herself.
I don't like this Veronica Mars movie project. It's going to do 4-5 million and that's all going in Warner Bros. pocket. They get free marketing and advertising through word of mouth and record breaking news. They save 4-5 million on the movie budget. They'll just add maybe 10-20 million to the budget and make that back easy in box office sales. It would be funny if Warner Bros. backed out of doing the movie. It's not like they have a contract and 60k people backing the project isn't really a lot of people/interest. WB would get so much bad press for it I think, so they are going to have to do it.
I really hope we don't see movie studios doing this, but I think projects that studios aren't sure of putting into production will start seeing kickstarters and people will have to pay millions before the movie is released to studios to save the studios money so they'll greenlight the project. It's disgusting.
I have no words for that 9 year old kickstarter. People would rather send 20k to a 9 year old to "develop a game" rather than donate to charity or put someone through college. All that money is going in the mother's pocket to spend on shopping sprees. It won't go into making any game. The 9 year old probably won't want to make the game after the month is over, or after spending an hour trying to do it. People are just so stupid and despicable.
Just read the comments for that kickstarter, and it's a bunch of women buying into her BS about girls needing to be supported and how her brothers are making fun of their sister and mom. There's always going to be that social dynamic and kids are always going to think their parents are stupid. Instead she's playing it up as some kind of battle of the sexes feminist fight where if girls aren't protected and encouraged through this kickstarter, girls will be worse off for it. I don't know if she actually believes it, or it's a scam. It sounds like a scam though, considering she could afford the class herself.
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No fucking shit. If this "GAME DEVELOPMENT CAMP FOR 9 YEAR OLDS" exists and actually costs $900 you'd think a seemingly multimillionaire mother could cough up the money if it's something her daughter is genuinely interested in. Even if she wasn't a multimillionaire, a copy of RPG Maker on Steam costs $70 and would be absolutely fine depending on how serious the kid is about this. If she's interested then that would be enough to get her rolling. If she's not, then she dicks with it for a week and drops it because she's 9 years old. It's like buying your kid a flute to gauge actual interest in learning to play music before buying an electric guitar and amp and crap, unless you're rich in which case the cost isn't as much of an issue.
Ugh, fuck. The overwhelming success of it is what really chaps my ass. It's not like they reached $900 and then stopped, it's $21,000. Fuck! Cool looking actual games on Kickstarter like Net Gain have only $25,000, and that's being made by multiple people and you'll get a real game at the end and everything! And there are even stretch goals so going over the funding limit has an appreciable use instead of just "This 9 year old's brothers gave her shit which is uncalled for because normally siblings get along swimmingly, let's boldly make a statement by throwing our money into the void!".
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH COW UPSET. COW TOO UPSET. THINGS GETTING CRITICAL.
Ugh, fuck. The overwhelming success of it is what really chaps my ass. It's not like they reached $900 and then stopped, it's $21,000. Fuck! Cool looking actual games on Kickstarter like Net Gain have only $25,000, and that's being made by multiple people and you'll get a real game at the end and everything! And there are even stretch goals so going over the funding limit has an appreciable use instead of just "This 9 year old's brothers gave her shit which is uncalled for because normally siblings get along swimmingly, let's boldly make a statement by throwing our money into the void!".
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH COW UPSET. COW TOO UPSET. THINGS GETTING CRITICAL.
Grimlorn
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Funny thing is women are patting themselves on the back for donating to this and getting an attitude with people critical of the project. Doesn't matter that you could take the $20k and actually give it to a scholarship for a woman that's actually intelligent and put in the hard work but can't afford the college she got into. Or that you could take that money and feed a thousand children in Africa for a month with it. No lets throw it at a 9 year old daughter of a millionaire so she can learn to create games. GIRL POWER. YEEAAAAAAAAH.
Maybe kickstarter should have a limit for some projects. I wouldn't have a problem with the class being paid for if people want to throw $800 at this girl. I do however have a problem with them throwing an extra $20k that is likely going in the mother's pocket and not going into the project in question.
Maybe kickstarter should have a limit for some projects. I wouldn't have a problem with the class being paid for if people want to throw $800 at this girl. I do however have a problem with them throwing an extra $20k that is likely going in the mother's pocket and not going into the project in question.
If you click on this guy's profile, he's actually a game designer. So I'm guessing he's trying to get his hands on some of that $20k by defending her. Or perhaps offering to tutor her.
Let's see that game comes out of this...
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
By the look of that dude I'm sure he'd like to play a little game with "Kenzie" himself.
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So this rich womyn that nails people who can't pay their debts for a living asks jewgold of the Internet people to make a game for her daughter, yet feminists and man-feminists alike are giving them their jewgold willingly, thinking they're supporting a higher cause? 
For the briefest of periods I actually thought this was just some mom trying to make her kid's dream come true. 
For the briefest of periods I actually thought this was just some mom trying to make her kid's dream come true.
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It's great to see people trolling in the comments.
You can't really expect people to be internet detectives and google stalk every person that puts a KS project up, and everything is obviously written by the mom, but it's not unreasonable to assume the parent might type for the kid. As long as people are throwing money at the screen for kickstarter projects without a second thought this will be possible.
It reminds me of that old school bus monitor granny that got bullied on the bus by kids, and someone set up a campaign for her and people donated $700,000: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lets-give-karen-the-bus-monitor-h-klein-a-vacation--6
Great "SUPPORT WOMEN IN TECH" with the boy wearing a shirt that says "I THINK I'M A LESBIAN" on the front page of that little kid's kickstarter, too.
You can't really expect people to be internet detectives and google stalk every person that puts a KS project up, and everything is obviously written by the mom, but it's not unreasonable to assume the parent might type for the kid. As long as people are throwing money at the screen for kickstarter projects without a second thought this will be possible.
It reminds me of that old school bus monitor granny that got bullied on the bus by kids, and someone set up a campaign for her and people donated $700,000: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lets-give-karen-the-bus-monitor-h-klein-a-vacation--6
Great "SUPPORT WOMEN IN TECH" with the boy wearing a shirt that says "I THINK I'M A LESBIAN" on the front page of that little kid's kickstarter, too.
Excommunicator
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I officially hate the Kickstarter culture
You might laugh (as I did at first) but that kid has almost $22,000 with over 26 days left. Heck, ADOBE gave her a bunch of free stuff and this was apparently mentioned at PAX East.
Holy Ripoff Batman!You might laugh (as I did at first) but that kid has almost $22,000 with over 26 days left. Heck, ADOBE gave her a bunch of free stuff and this was apparently mentioned at PAX East.
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