ILG Kickstarter Gaming HQ

OK, Kickstarter funding of games is now a thing, and I just discovered this tonight:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again

Al Lowe is coming out of retirement to make Leisure Suit Larry games again. They want to remake the 1st one to show that it can sell, then go from there to make new adventures. As of this post, they're withing 10% of their USD$ 500K goal.

In this thread, we share worthwhile projects and yak about the stuff we've funded.

They're bringing back Shadowrun, with the original crew(of sorts):

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns

And someone who many(read: Old Man Murray) blame for killing off adventure gaming thanks to Gabriel Knight 3:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005365109/jane-jensens-pinkerton-road-2012-2013-csg

I know some would tut-tut at the fact that the big prominent games are either sequels to established titles or mainly from established pedigrees, and to them I say, "I don't give a fuck." If all it takes is some heavy-hitters with proven track records to establish Kickstarter gaming as a thing, then so be it. Anything that delivers quality titles to my rig via Steam or whatever the subsequent d/l service will be, so be it. Hopefully, with crowdsourced funding, gamedevs won't necessarily need to jump thru the ever-increasing AAA hoops with multiplayer or bleeding edge graphics or whatever.

Fuck the current graphical trends, keep things a level or two abstract, just make a good game(with a compelling narrative if at all possible).

Hopefully, enough people working on these projects will prevent any legendary gamedev head from going full-Lucas and disappearing so far up his own asshole he starts doing Lucasian things.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crateentertainment/grim-dawn

Grim Dawn, spiritual successor to and from the guys who did Titan Quest(an action rpg set in classical Greece)

i figured someone would start this thread, as i was too lazy to. thanks fishy

the only one i've supported so far is the Double Fine one, though i was very tempted to pitch in on Wasteland 2. then i realized i'm totally cool with waiting two years for it to come out and just buying it then, rather than taking the risk that it doesn't get made at all

what the living fuck:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1339254269/ron-paul-road-to-revolution

Note: I nicked the idea for this thread from SA

I dumped money into the Doublefine game, but somehow got stymied when I tried to do it for Wasteland 2. Oh well, I get it on Steam when it finally hits.

a handy tracking site: http://www.kicktraq.com/categories/games/video%20games/

they've hit $10 million in finished pledge drives, which is actually kind of depressing

on the other end, you have projects like, uh, this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/120873716/your-world

run by a dude who appears to be a cross between J. Mascis and a David Mitchell character. Online skepticism about his project is running a bit...high.

which is actually kind of depressing

how so?

never mind, i'm sure there's nothing better $10 million could do than continue to gratify the ego of the man who gave us 'Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work'

i know, it's a drop in the ocean, it's .1% of video game revenue in the US, whatever, i just find it ... eh

enh, if it results in a worthwhile game, and improved infrastructure for future game funding from newer gamedevs with worthwhile ideas, so be it.

one of the things people point to as a failing of the game industry is a preponderance of and a reliance on established properties and sequels, so it's sure nice to see that what the fans really want is a marginally different set of established properties and sequels

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okay, there are also games being funded which aren't. hum.

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i don't see how direct funding of games that aren't going to turn a profit otherwise is going to improve the infrastructure of the industry proper. i also don't understand how games companies have trouble making money, it seems kind of a no-brainer, i don't know whether that's unrelated.

making things and employing ppl costs money iirc

Excited about this one... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2

what has surprised me about these - and it held true for the first couple high profile ones at least, i haven't checked every one - is that it isn't loads of people giving small change, but for the most part a few people giving loads of money.

There are rumours of a kick-started Thief 4 too, a game I've been hoping for for a looong time. I'm pretty hopeful about this restoring something like a decent games mid-list.

never mind, i'm sure there's nothing better $10 million could do than continue to gratify the ego of the man who gave us 'Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work'

that's unfair. he also did Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals

super excited for wasteland 2 btw

I didn't realize there were so many of these, it's kinda awesome, though I fear it'll end up like Pixies reunion recordings or other stuff I would have prayed fervently for years ago then found I didn't give a shit about when it actually happened

haha! that's a good comparison

i figured someone would start this thread

Remember OGRE?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847271320/ogre-designers-edition?ref=category

One of the things I like about these projects is that while the big ones are established names, usually, I get a much more personal/hands-on vibe from the creators. It's like, you can have a cool weird niche experience that doesn't have to go thru the AAA publishers or get contarded out or be some megablockbuster. I'm happy with an experience that goes for the vibe i want, but I'm a particular kind of niche hardcore type, as voluminously detailed on countless threads here.

The personal appeals filmed by the creators add to that sense of "here, we're a smaller team, we want to do something cool, and it's more pure & authentic & handcrafted(etc) and not dictated by Sony or EA's marketing departments."

I'm just hoping that these projects firmly establish crowdsourcing/funding as a thing; a valid source of game production outside of the megacorps and giving indie gaming a proper amount of resources to pull out a developed vision. Is this going to fund a 5-year AAA game? Probably not. Does it need to to be valid?

I'm assuming that there's eventually going to be infrastructure developed so that newer gamedevs get their stuff noticed and thus funded, but I'll take the fact that we need to establish stable capital channels first.

i'm kind of curious about the reception when some of these games turn out to be stinkers

So now the guys from Space Quest are on this thing too:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que

which tbh I can't really see being any good (I think I gave up on SQ6 after about 10 minutes, and I spent money on it) but might still throw some money at for nostalgia's sake, and also because I didn't pay money for the Space Quests which I actually enjoyed as a kid

The Carmageddon guys want 400k to do a reboot. They've got 14k.

haha, ouch. even 400K seems a bit low though

whoa, Carmageddon was awesome.

This is quickly going to reach the point of 'everybody uses it now, so now it's useless'.

if it hasn't already. i think the window passed with shadowrun

eh, lots of projects funded already, don't think enthusiasm will run out for the right project
shadowrun raised $1.8 million, carmageddon already at £112,000 in 24 hours

Cream will rise to the top.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-04-20-game-specific-kickstarter-alternative-to-launch-at-e3

what is that article about

there's this game specific kickstarter alternative launching at e3

would like to see Day of the Tentacle reboot

Another Maniac Mansion game will probably happen in time, but given how all the principles are currently working on other KS projects, I wouldn't expect any announcement for the next 2 years.

Ron Gilberts non-KS game is revealing soon tho
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/05/10/we-solved-this-double-fine-puzzle.aspx

Jason Rohrer's DS game: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1443658586/diamond-trust-of-london

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/forkingpath/the-doom-that-came-to-atlantic-city

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251414413/tex-murphy-project-fedora

is it too late to declare a vintage-game-revival-kickstarter bubble

Idk where I got that rumour about Thief 4 from, but it was nonsense. It's still languishing at Eidos Montreal, no news from them since 2009, though they still say it's 'coming soon' on their website. Bum.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/massiveblack/zombie-playground-zpg-3d-action-online-battle-rpg

i think a more realistic goal for once they reach $100k would be 'hire a coder', but what do i know

really wonder how many of these are going to end up with an actual finished game

(let alone a good one)

(besides this guy http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/120873716/your-world)

man it's a shame because that concept artwork for zombie playground is awesome, but i'm with thomp, 100k seems mad unrealistic

well, they have a good team at least

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2023800195/the-return-of-tom-vs-bruce

$10,000 to write some gaming columns?

Crowd funding is the new AdSense

They made $500 per article? I need to change careers

i don't know Computer Gaming World's advertising numbers from then, but $500 per article is not really a shocking amount for a long piece in a big media magazine (of course video game journalism is mostly horrific so even if normative it's generally undeserved...)

they made $1000 (split), and i was under the impression that it was like, a back-of-book column and not a long feature

still even so, raising $10,000 to write 10 wacky video game articles just seems... misguided

lets start a videogames little magazine

Heard about this one through a podcast I listen to. Think it sounds quite interesting for a $5 investment:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2066438441/haunts-the-manse-macabre

ahah, it looks like ZOMBIE PLAYGROUND is going to make its money. oh god

Mmm, lovely people: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117848-Kickstarter-Video-Project-Attracts-Misogynist-Horde

(Not sure this is the right place to put that, really - not a problem with Kickstarter itself... but I guess we don't have a 'Rolling Misogynist Gamers' thread.)

"Black people are scum"
"Jews are cheap bastards"
"Muslims are the root of all violence"
Replace "black people", "jews", and "muslims" with the word "Men" and somehow you get sentences that are socially acceptable within our society.
Funny how sexism goes both ways.
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i think 'rolling misogynist gamers' might be interesting tbh. or 'rolling gamers are the most disgusting savages', for broadness' sake

i think we DO have a misogynist gamer thread?

it's called ILG HEYYOOOOOO hey no not really.

i think we did have some kind of gamer disgrace thread? i cannot remember, didn't fat ugly or slutty came up

http://www.formspring.me/femfreq/q/299052505793303521

thread started about the reality show where gamers competed and one lady got screamed at about being a fat ugly slut?

There was this thread, which mentioned the incident I think forks is referring to (or maybe not - the live-streamed fighting game competition where a female competitor took a whole lot of very ugly trash-talking):

Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

yup, that's the one.

If Ron Gilbert did a fundraiser for making his version of Monkey Island 3 i would totally kick in $$$. The real one was such a letdown after 2.

fascinated by this, $99 for a hackable Android console & controller?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console

^^^ my first Kickstarter pledge ever

meanwhile Penny Arcade want their fans to pay for removing their site ads. i don't even ...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575109064/penny-arcade-sells-out

i see no problem with this - there are several long-running webcomics that survived this way long before kickstarter. good luck to them. (it's just kinda weird that they're doing this after publishing a load of books)

They come across as dicks in the pitch video. And the items in the pitch are backwards - does anyone care about the advertising on their website? It isn't the intrusive screen filling pop-up blare-y video kind. As I understand it, the real core of this idea is that if they get enough money, they'll be able to turn down corporate commissions and have more time to make additional comics for their website.
It's an experiment really. And they're probably the only webcomic that could do this without a lot of risk - if they don't get the funding they'll carry on as before, if they get funded for a first year but not a second, they'll go back to the model they use now.

^^^ my first Kickstarter pledge ever

Me too.

All of the Penny Arcade "joke" gifts are seriously unfunny. It's just like "AHAHAHAHA HE'LL CHASE A DUCK! A DUCK! MY WHAT AN ABSURD NOTION". And I'm having to give them the benefit of the doubt that the "we'll follow you on twitter for a year for $500" is also a joke, because if not... Jesus, man.

The joke gifts are a reference to this comic.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/5/23/
Not that that makes them any less unfunny.
This article explains things a bit better: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/penny-arcade-kickstarter-creators-aim-for-an-ad-free-site--and-dont-sweat-the-backlash-updated/2012/07/10/gJQA0nS4bW_blog.html

https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/status/222741109204463617

As much as I dislike the Penny Arcade guys, I dislike snarky attention seeking tossers even more.

i backed the OUYA as well. cool idea.

I hate Penny Arcade but if nerds want to throw their money away to help make a website they enjoy less visually cluttered, it's fine by me.

jesus christ almost three million in two days huh?
yeah, i'll buy one too. I think OUYA needs its own thread

The only kickstarter that should happen is Ron Gilbert making his version of Monkey Island 3.

Oh well, I guess I am on this hype train. Pledged for the box + 2 controllers.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/995085580/bring-divekick-to-pc

No way this costs $30K

yep, i went for the box. let's see if i regret this.

that's what he said

we've all said it

that said i don't see much point in paying for this now, as they're planning to retail it at $99, no?

looks like Divekick's gonna make its fund tho. i get it though, Keits is a likeable dude

xp yeah - i'm going to wait and see what kind of games they get on this thing. certainly not going to sign up for the chance to play minecraft on a 7th platform

Funding hasn't started for this one yet, but I need to remember to keep my eye on it. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07/06/mulling-mode-7-mans-management-centric-maia/

interesting outcome to a kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/995085580/bring-divekick-to-pc

Though we cannot honor game pre-orders or mail out T-shirts without taking money in, we do want each of the 800+ of you willing to back our game to be able to have some ownership in it.

...

Pledge Level 1 - $10 – Though we cannot honor a pre-order, we would like to thank you all by letting you suggest a “Tip From Uncle Sensei” for our loading screen.

Pledge Level 2 - $25 – Because we are letting people who pledged $10 submit a Tip, we are going to let anyone who pledged $25 or more suggest up to 3 “Tips From Uncle Sensei”.

i have no idea what divekick is or what it's about, but i too would like to suggest a "tip from uncle sensei"

i got a tip from uncle sensei right here

just the tip

1 weird old tip

this Kickstarter HATES

Sensei's hate this uncle and his one weird tip...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

( = that gaffertaped VR helmet that Carmack's been demoing recently).

Divekick looks pretty hilarious, tbh. This is actually a pretty good outcome! The game comes out and nobody had to pledge any money.

good grief, how is this even a thing
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/343248998/cheetahmen-ii-the-lost-levels?ref=live

Obsidian isometric party-based RPG. The biggest developer to bypass publishers through Kickstarter so far?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity

mac or GTFO

Yeah, excited about that and I've chipped in even those these people have a great track record when it comes to releasing games that I start, really enjoy for 10 hours, then give up on.

just wait until they put up a kickstarter for the patches

I bought in and watched the video. While I watched the video, they raised twenty thousand dollars.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/343248998/cheetahmen-ii-the-lost-levels

lol linked to that a month ago
Obsidian funded $1.1 million in just over 24 hours wow

i gotta get windows set up on my mac

the problem with kickstarter and also the economy at large is that nerds have too much money

― max, Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:42 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol that cheetahman link was right above the split

ugh i'm gonna get sucked in and donate to this crap, aren't i. curse my eternal love for those guys

1.3 million now.
also: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/343248998/cheetahmen-ii-the-lost-levels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2QpaHjO-Q

there's gonna be a mac version of project eternity btw

it looks like they're 150k away from mac version. also, i'm so burnt on out developers promising mac support and then not following through. i guess that if they promise it on kickstarter they won't be able to put it off indefinitely... have any of these kickstarter games actually been made yet?

whatevs. i pledged

Faster Than Light was a Kickstarter project, I think. Thing about Mac support is, if they promise it at the beginning it's a lot more likely, since they can build for cross-platform from the start (as opposed to taking a year to port the engine/assets over or whatever) so I'm more optimistic in these cases. (That said, COME ON, TORCHLIGHT II, GAWD, you shoulda known better)

Amazing that Cheetahman II went over the goal, though

Dude, they are getting 150k before end of day no doubt

i got the kickstarted Rohrer DS game in the mail recently. Yet to play.
expecting my OUYA any day now!!!!!11111!!!!! ahaahahaha oh i got bilked

have any of the games in this thread actually shipped? (and were they good?)

i got the kickstarted Rohrer DS game in the mail recently. Yet to play.
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Monday, September 17, 2012

(and were they good?)

(Yet to play.
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Monday, September 17, 2012)

I really can't believe Cheetmen II.

i guess that if they promise it on kickstarter they won't be able to put it off indefinitely...

haha

FTL is certainly worth the nine bucks I got it fer on steam. Played it for 20+ hours already, which seems worth it.

xp yeah, i can't help but wonder what kind of recourse ppl have if they just never deliver the product. class action suit???

I suspect that people who are fed up with waiting for things either try to obtain refunds from the project organizers or, failing that, from Kickstarter or Amazon.

crap, forgot that the only the first 25,000 donators got that free copy of Project Eternity for $20. ah, i'll chuck in $25 once it crosses 1.6 mil

Kickstarter's policies on refunds are "GTFO" in blazing 20-foot-high letters, iirc.

Yeah they don't care, and in fact it's against their business interests to want to refund money.

woo! they made it to mac-level.

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/two-men-200000-and-a-successful-kickstarter-how-ftl-did-everything-right

Covering a successful project.

anybody wanna rep for it?

What, FTL? I will. Worth it.

i don't know if other kickstarters are like this, but i'm really impressed at how often obisidian emails me w/ substantive + interesting updates about the progress of the kickstarter, the choices for game design, etc.

we should make a fake one of these for half life 3 and get rich biatch

FTL looks really cool. Maybe I'll buy it off steam this weekend.

it's on mac. always makes me more likely to grab it

I pledged to Project Eternity. They announced they're using the Unity engine, which likely means a near-simultaneous release of the Mac versions (and probably future iOS/Linux versions as well)

I owned 4 out of 6 games in the latest humble indie bundle, so I really really fight my instincts to buy these cheap indie games now

Howard Phillips of Howard & Nester fame now has his own kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1358562997/gamemaster-howards-know-it-all

http://www.nintendojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/art_npcomics_nester.gif

This one looks neat:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/660532831/scrumbleship?ref=category

Project: Eternity at $2.16M now, and the highest stretch goal currently listed is $2.3M

so Project Eternity keeps getting bigger and bigger

Stretch Goals Met - Player House, Mac, Linux, DRM-free option, French, German, Spanish, a Bigger Story, a new faction, 2 more classes, 2 more races, and 3 more companions. All added.

Next Stretch Goal - Expert, Trial of Iron, and Path of the Damned Game Modes plus the Godlike Race at $2.3M.

they're easily going to clear 2.3M i think

kind of depressing to think that they probably couldn't raise three million by, like, selling shares in the game, but by offering THE CHANCE TO HANG OUT WITH THE DEVELOPERS FOR TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS they can

well, yes, the economic disparity in this world is troubling and very sad... and it is a little crazy they got a couple dozen people to donate 1-5 grand each... but for some that's pocket change

Yeah, but box seats always cost more.

http://hive.slate.com/hive/made-america-how-reinvent-american-manufacturing/article/quotkickstarter-is-not-a-storequot

OK! After much team deliberation we have one final ultimate stretch goal. At $4.0m we will be enhancing the whole game. We will use live instrumentation for the soundtrack, add developer in-game commentary, and use every dollar between $3.5m and $4m to enhance the game. Also at $4.0m Chris Avellone will be forced to play Arcanum.

I like the coda

crazy how much they raised for this thing. i hope it's good.

I hope it ever comes out.

better chance of it coming out than a lot of kickstarters imo

yeah, i agree with that.

haha, i do love the "forced to play Arcanum" bit, as it was suggested by one of the backers

we'll see if this really comes out by April 2014 (that would give it about an 18 month dev period)

Assuming they get the writing done in time, I think they can do it. I mean, the majority of the older employees have done this kinda game several times in the past in the Black Isle era

Too bad, looked interesting (though I didn't fund it):
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/10/haunts-kickstarter-failure-highlights-the-risks-of-crowdfunding/

I am hoping that Word Realms word game from the Kingdom of Loathing people comes out eventually and is buyable in some form, because I forgot to fund it by a dumb mistake (clicked "Fund this project" about 10 minutes before the deadline but forgot to OK the payment in time). iirc it was supposed to be released around now but I realise probably no Kickstarter in the history of ever has actually shipped by the original stated date

well that's the secret right? the final games will absolutely be buyable once the project is funded so kickstarting is more or less just getting a slight discount. would be far more pertinent to wait on all projects.
I think i'm done with kickstarting games, especially where there's obvious funding to be had.
*stares at ouya receipt, cries a little*

Yeah, sorry for recommending Haunts upthread... I only pledged $10, so I won't be too disappointed if it doesn't make it out. That said, it's not as dead as most of the news agencies are making out; the dude basically said if he can't get it finished, he'll release the full source and the community can have at it. So *something* will come of it either way.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1878147873/hero-u-rogue-to-redemption

<3 for the Coreys forever but the pitch doesn't sell me

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous?ref=live

Would love this to be great, but to avoid disappointment the single player experience has to be a lot better than X3, and the multiplayer has to avoid taking on Eve. that's harder than it sounds on both counts.

so they've been working on it for years but can't even show one piece of concept art? weakest KS pitch i've seen.

No way I'd ever give Braben even a penny of my money anyway.

looks like thq might need a kickstarter fund soon. company is going down.

it's been junked from development and they're starting over isn't it (re: elite)

kind of amazing he wrote it as an undergraduate, kind of depressing he never managed anything else

Kickstarter UK launch = sudden influx of British indie games on Kickstarter

Sort of looking at one which makes nods to lots of things I totally adore but where the videos/screenshots make it look perilously close to Tower Defence (nice ZX Spectrum on the wall tho):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1438429768/maia

and one which is in a genre I don't enjoy but looks interestingly done:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1499900830/sir-you-are-being-hunted

but boy howdy, £10 feels like a lot more than $10 in the "can I afford to throw this at something which may never exist and may be terrible, and even if it exists and is brilliant it'll be £2 in a Steam sale eventually" stakes (yes yes we are not preorderers but funders, ok)

the inevitable "he's run off with the money, grab your pitchforks!" kickstarter game project
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primerist/code-hero-a-game-that-teaches-you-to-make-games-he/comments

that Elite game managed to get funded in the end. look forward to buying it in a future Steam sale.

nothing on godus yet?

also, i bought and completed FTL without realising it had ever been a kickstarter thing

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/13/code-hero-the-dangers-of-a-kickstarter-success-story/

"It's totally not abandoned," says Alex Peake, developer of Kickstarter project Code Hero, his face filling the screen of a Google Hangout window ...

HARD HITTING GAMES JOURNALISM

If you have hundreds of dollars that you are going to give to someone, you need to do some research on them or you don't deserve any sympathy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V54GH_GgiMY

If you have hundreds of dollars that you are going to give to someone, you need to do some research on them or you don't deserve any sympathy.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, January 3, 2013 12:53 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cool rule

As part of Project Eternity making so much dough, one of the side requirements was that Chris Avellone had to play Arcanum. They posted a poll as to how he should document this undertaking.

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/63188-chris-avellone-plays-arcanum/

Let's Play Document/Blog (9 votes [13.43%] - View)
10 minute Let's Play YouTube video bites (32 votes [47.76%] - View)

what the fuck is wrong with people

no to actively cast my eyes along some text from left to right would be too much effort, obviously the ideal medium for chris best writer in videogames avellone to do this is via incredibly boring youtube videos so i can stare at his sweaty putz while my jowly face hangs open

http://obsoletegamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chris-Avellone-metal.jpg

fuck yeah, i am going to spend serious hours of my life staring at this

i'm cool with those videos without the unnecessary picture-in-picture of the players themselves

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1320581435/moonbot-studios-next-game-the-golem

cool how they can strip out the pogrom and anti-semitism element and make the golem just a rad defender of the city!

lol otm. i actually just sent them an email ten minutes ago asking them about that!

ha!

Rabbi Loew, along with his smart and eager apprentice, convinces the guilds of Prague to assist him in the creation of the Golem.

would be surprised if jews were even allowed in these "guilds"

putting that aside, tho, they do beautiful work

the guilds? yeah, i guess so

We created the first interactive music video app for Polyphonic Spree’s single, Bullseye.

dealbreaker

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/02/11/at-the-gates-hits-reasches-kickstarter-goal/

not quite kickstarter but very cool looking:
http://www.introversion.co.uk/prisonarchitect/

whoa, i assumed introversion had died by now

Looks like whoever does the art for Yahtzee's reviews

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0?ref=category

Lord British is back.

Ultima helped define me as an adolescent gamer, so I'll be throwing in

Dude also reminds me wayyyy too much of Mick Fleetwood, too

Guy is a multimillionaire who went into space. He does not need kickstarter.

^ x 1000000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM109_EbMcs

^ give him $10k and he'll let you in here

Guy is a multi-millionaire who went into space but I might've punted him ten bucks for a kickstarted game, except the game tier is $40. Thousands of dollars for some entirely imaginary (un)real estate in a game which doesn't exist yet, if ever? I'll pass, thanks.

$10 + $30 tiers still open (and the $30 tier comes w/ digital copy of the game i think?)

i'm glad that golem game looks nowhere near meeting their goal

Lord British clearly doesn't need Kickstarter. $1MM is not close to enough to make that game. He's probably just on the bandwagon for marketing reasons, and because nobody objects to a million dollar loan at 0% interest.

Dude deserves it.

The more the happens the more it feels like, Pitchfork getting Pavement to play the full album of "Slanted and Enchanted" or something. Kickstarter is to videogame idols what the classic album concert is to indie rock band.

that video is hella creepy

Also why does he never seem to get called out on the FUCKING AWFULNESS of referring to himself as Lord British? If I decided to start calling myself Sherriff Clint American Jr I'd expect to be laughed off the Internet but nobody ever seems to have a problem with his whole embarrassing schtick.

that actually is kinda Suda 51's gimmick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyMuANAzBY

Iolo & Lord British just shootin' the shit. Iolo actually makes crossbows, and he plays "Stones" on a real lute at around 17:00 in! Squee!

Skullgirls DLC got $400K funded and there's still 11 days to go.

Damn, videogamers have lots of disposable income.

this shit kinda has to stop at some point doesn't it?

is it too late to declare a vintage-game-revival-kickstarter bubble
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, May 15, 2012

^too early apparently

Why doesn't Ron Gilbert just figure out how much it would cost to do his version of Monkey Island 3 and do a kickstarter for that? It would be successful beyond belief.

Really that's the only thing i would have an immediate interest in funding.

i would shamefully contribute yes

doesn't telltale have the rights to that or something?

Disney currently own MI rights after buying LucasArts last year, so that is probably the end of that

Simian Archipelago IV: LeChook's Vengeance
^problem solved

of course on the plus side that means there's a possibility of disney world recreating the le chuck ride from m2 in fantasyland

as much as i love Monkey Island, i would much rather see new IP and characters these days

Skullgirls DLC funding ended with $829K

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-skullgirls-growing

after the 1up website got canned recently the guys behind the (excellent) Retronauts podcast began a Kickstarter & reached their goal in 3 hours
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2005831476/revive-retronauts-your-favorite-classic-gaming-pod

Whoa, I'd kick money to that if Parish is on all the time

I (greatly) prefer Parish in text form only. But, I kind of want to support Ray Barnholt who had that great 1up soundtrack podcast.

early trailer for a game currently being developed by one man, Lionel Gallat, who worked in film for 15 years animating the likes of "Shark Tale", "Despicable Me" etc. like a Disney Demons Souls!
crowdfunding here http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ghost-of-a-tale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOi04BRQI1k

Welp, Shadowrun Returns discounted preorder just went live on Steam. $18 bucks for the game, $31 bucks and change for the deluxo, with soundtrack and background story collection

http://store.steampowered.com/app/234650/

http://gameandwario.nintendo.com/crowdfarter/#2

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1316851183/its-dangerous-to-go-alonethe-movie

hrm.

YESSSSSSSS

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949537745/armikrog/

(click this)

Al Lowe is coming out of retirement to make Leisure Suit Larry games again

he was doing that like three years ago!

it's a quote from the first post in this thread

xps lol @ scott kurtz being involved

then again i guess it makes sense as TenNapel outed himself as a conservative crank iirc

ah, well yes.

Yeah, TenNapel is one of those guys whose personal opinions are absolutely something you never ever want to get near. Games are great, but everything else.....bleah.

i had to share my pain; once you see that stuff you can't unsee it

no idea about any of that but i fukken loved the neverhood

And they made a sequel! On the ps1, I think

Al Lowe is coming out of retirement to make Leisure Suit Larry games again.

Double Fine going back to the well (for an entirely different project)

tbh I totally want the game that I imagine it will be, but considering the ship date is a year and a half from now and it'll reach its goal through the efforts of Other People I don't know that it's worth backing…especially since I've not been digging into the backer-exclusive Double Fine Adventure updates at all.

man, this looks like the sort of thing i would drop three bills on and then have a hard time figuring out where to put after the first month.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-naturally-in-your-favorite-game

Even thinking about playing Skyrim on that thing is tiring me out. All that running...

As a promo event for their latest Kickstarter, the DoubleFine guys are streaming a Small World(the board game) session, with a thinner Tim Schafer, Brad Muir, and Chris Remo(from Idle Thumbs)

http://www.twitch.tv/doublefine

the Kickstarted Shadowrun Returns is out on Steam.

And here's what happened when a dude canceled his project that was fully funded:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/kickstarter-project-canceled-after-dude-spends-all-the-912176282

turns out I met this dude.

and here's from one of the artists stiffed:

http://www.facebook.com/onesmallkeith/posts/10151590058642809

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9

my first reaction was "man, so shameless" but after watching the video and reading the page it's well done... may back this one. no doubt it will be huge by the time it's all said and done (2 days and it's already 55% of the $900k)

One of the most well-done kickstarter proposals i've seen.

From the guys who brought you Fallen London/Echo Bazaar: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/failbetter/sunless-sea

lol, this video
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1997247042/gridiron-thunder-awesome-indie-football-game-for-o?
pretty clearly a money laundering project

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/812/219/0c92f72555db6446191f0e3e49a288bf_large.png%3F1375909213

Currently all the rage:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter
I do dig the Ico meets Swords & Sorcery aesthetic. it's already tripled its modest goal

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/g3studios/deathfire-ruins-of-nethermore

not asking for enough money for the amount of staff they want to carry for the next year, too many physical rewards for a primarily digital product, not a particularly clear-headed risks/challenges section…smells risky to me.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/snowedinstudios/windforge

too many minecraft clones

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/03/jane-austen-game/ !!!

as if

The beta is freely available already

the last project eternity update was pretty nerdlol funny
http://tinyurl.com/pklwcdh

heh, good stuff.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shaq-fu-a-legend-reborn

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/ashen-rift-a-man-and-his-dog/

Star Citizen, born on Kickstarter, passed $40 million in funding pledges today.

I've never played Shaq-Fu, but it's always had a massive amount of hate directed to it. Seems like it was released too late (fighting games being kinda old post-MK2) and also ahead of its time, like it was already the kind of game that could get funded on Kickstarter.

Also it starred Shaq as a kung fu master

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/10/likeable-roguelike-like-see-24-minutes-of-dungeon-fin-soup/#more-200479

THIS is how you properly update your kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity/posts/759232

Funded in a day:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/375798653/superhot

yeah, that game was fucking awesome

looks cool and almost there:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1027299776/witchmarsh

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitsmithgames/franknjohn/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/29211325/sheltered

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/taleoftales/sunset-a-first-person-videogame-thriller

that sounds pretty cool

yeah, definitely. much more interesting to me than dear esther or gone home

hey who would have guessed that giving half a million dollars to some Youtube "celebrities" to fund their own Minecraft ripoff would be a bad idea? certainly not the 5 people who backed at the $10,000 level!

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-17-kickstarter-funded-yogventures-canned-backers-given-steam-key-for-another-game-instead

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/07/30/fritz-kickstarter/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frogdice/stash-no-loot-left-behind-pc-mac-linux

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1067367405/pinball-arcade-the-addams-family

Ha, didn't realize they already successful Kickstarters for Twilight Zone, ST: TNG and T2

Aviary Attorney, love the art style http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1873107026/aviary-attorney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYivUY_msOE

heh - they literally took the character drawings from 19th century cartoons

http://www.polygon.com/2015/2/4/7981193/as-pillars-of-eternity-nears-launch-dev-team-begins-work-on-sequel

i'm still pretty excited for this

kinda sorta too, but expectations lowered a bit

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/midgarstudio/edge-of-eternity-pc-mac-linux-ps4-xbox-one

Pillars of Eternity is live!

or will be tomorrow.

you bastard, getting my hopes up

well i thought i had it! I'm preloading on steam now and i recommend you do.

maybe we should start a new thread for this

i haven't been this excited about a release since fallout 3

I would be more into it if i hadn't just ordered bloodborne, but yeah
Pillars of Eternity: Obsidian's Kickstarter RPG

xp yeah, good point. i went to the backer portal and got my steam key

Oh look, you can pre-load it, too.

Thought I'd be able to roll a character before work but it's not unlocked yet.

Yeah, having the character creator as an early demo plaything would have been a neat advance promotional item

i... don't have the 18 gigs free to install... need to delete a lot of stuff.

That was odd because it told me I'd need 18Gb but then once it was downloading it only pulled 6Gb. So either there's more to come once it unlocks, or that initial 18Gb estimate is wrong.

from the PC Gamer Review:

Almost an hour had passed, and I was still on the character creation screen. That s how I knew, before I d even started, that this homage to classic computer role-playing games like Baldur s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment was authentic.

Little Devil Inside:

"Little devil inside is a story about a college professor who investigates paranormal activities. With you! "

This game looks doooooope, and just got Greenlit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEjRTx_tvnE

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ldi/little-devil-inside

I dig the cheery little tophatted cyclops dude backpacking his way thru the wilderness.

that does look pretty cool

8 hrs to go on Bloodstained

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

$3.3M USD with 27 days left to go.

Coming for Ps4 & PC.

Curious how much Sony will kick in for completion given the fact that this met its (pre-sales) goal the day it was announced.

Considering the first game cost $47 million to make...

I mentioned in the E3 thread that a lot of the stuff in the first game had to be made from scratch, but all of that is included in modern, off-the-shelf game engines.

And oh man they should break out Ryo's original character model, just for kicks

the majority of funding for this game will assuredly not be from the kickstarter

These guys seem like the four guys who could pull it off

http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/18/bailey-schafer-fargo-and-urquhart-create-a-kickstarter-competitor-built-for-games-and-equity/

Justin Bailey has launched Fig, a new crowdfunding site built specifically for games. The former chief operating officer of developer Double Fine partnered with some big names and studios who previously had success on Kickstarter, specifically his old colleague, Tim Schafer (The Broken Age), Brian Fargo of InXile (Wasteland 2), and Feargus Urquhart of Obsidian (Pillars of Eternity). Each has pledged to launch campaigns for new games on Fig.

Fig also stands out from other crowdfunding sites in that you buy equity in a game or developer, meaning you can actually make money from a successful project...

Also, Justin Bailey is actually a real name?!

bound to succeed, born a cheat code

so that's where Masi Oka went!

2D sidescroller inspired by Valkrie Profile, by the team that did Skullgirls.
Mostly notable for the high amount they're asking for...
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/indivisible-an-rpg-by-lab-zero-and-505-games

Psychonauts 2 https://www.fig.co/campaigns/psychonauts-2

Broken Age is the only game I know of that had a 50% off sale before it was even finished. I'll wait.

I think so too, though i am interested in this whole "Fig" thing

Right now it's at $894K investment and $995K rewards - wouldn't have thought the ratio would be so close.
Kinda tempted to go on it as a lark, but probably not worth it given it'll take several years to recoup.

So, Hyper Light Drifter finally launched today. Backed it back in September 2013... Hard to be all that excited after such a long time. On the plus side, I'm finally down to just 1 outstanding Kickstarter (the Bitmap Brothers book) that I've paid for.

I like Hyper Light Drifter a fair bit after an hour or so of playtime, but it's a little tough to tell what to do or where to go since the game works so hard to avoid giving verbal directions. some of the checkpoints are are frustratingly placed, too, although that may just be me learning how not to die. the good stuff (the art style, the controls, the level design, etc) is all really impressive, though - so far HLD feels like a game which occupies the precise midpoint between Another World and Bastion, although I'll obviously need to make more progress before I can decide whether it deserves to be compared to games as good as either of those.

So is Mighty No. 9 really as bad as everyone says? Watched a LP and was kinda shocked that it didn't look that much better than that GameCube version of Megaman from a decade ago.

Bloodstained pushed to 1st Half 2018. Bummer, but I'd rather see a great game late than a mediocre one on time.

if u happen to have an Xbox for some reason, earthlock released on 9/1 as September's free game for live. it's surprisingly fun if you enjoy basically cookie cutter jrpg types. there are a couple of interesting twists on usual mechanics (addicting if mindless agriculture) and the art style is pretty good. im estimating 30 hrs for playthrough.

Obduction, a true sequel to Myst, was excellent. The scenery was beautiful and the story was interesting. The weirdest thing was when I first started this game and realized I couldn't jump and I didn't have an inventory menu. But damn this game was beautiful and it gets you hooked right away. Though, if you aren't much of an adventure gamer or you plan on using hints I might not recommend this game to you. There could of been more puzzles with more variation. Slow load times are noticeable in a couple locations. Overall, I can't complain too much.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/failbetter/sunless-skies-the-sequel-to-sunless-sea?token=6b168ca5

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1144821177/cultist-simulator-behold-our-end?ref=thanks_email_tweet

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrenwall/500-years-later-an-oral-history-of-final-fantasy-v

If this was for FF VI, I would pay in a heartbeat. Still, it was a good article.

50k for a printed out Polygon article?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/isaacfoursouls/the-binding-of-isaac-four-souls?ref=av8kqj

this one is cool:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tommy-maranges/inhuman-conditions-a-game-of-cops-and-robots/description

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/omariakil/rap-godz-the-hip-hop-strategy-and-storytelling-boa

$4k away from their goal

thank god

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/of-pawns-and-kings/of-pawns-and-kings

probably won't make its goal, but I like the look of it - it looks like a 2D graphic adventure but the screen transitions prove it's 3D.