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whoa, Carmageddon was awesome.

Jeff, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 11:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

(Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

zappi, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 15:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Cream will rise to the top.

Jeff, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

what is that article about

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

there's this game specific kickstarter alternative launching at e3

(Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

would like to see Day of the Tentacle reboot

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 10 May 2012 10:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Friday, 11 May 2012 06:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

zappi, Friday, 11 May 2012 10:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Saturday, 19 May 2012 09:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

thomp, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

(let alone a good one)

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

Nhex, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

well, they have a good team at least

jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

$10,000 to write some gaming columns?

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Crowd funding is the new AdSense

"Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

Nhex, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

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...)

Mordy, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 03:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 03:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

lets start a videogames little magazine

thomp, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 11:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

CraigG, Thursday, 31 May 2012 11:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

thomp, Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

(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.)

emil.y, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

"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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thomp, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

i think 'rolling misogynist gamers' might be interesting tbh. or 'rolling gamers are the most disgusting savages', for broadness' sake

thomp, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

i think we DO have a misogynist gamer thread?

“Argh!” I cry. But I really don’t care. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's called ILG HEYYOOOOOO hey no not really.

Nhex, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

Nhex, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 23:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

thomp, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 01:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

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)?

instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

yup, that's the one.

Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 June 2012 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

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

zappi, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:19 (11 months ago) Permalink

^^^ my first Kickstarter pledge ever

With enduring faith, W. Cunt. (jamescobo), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

zappi, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

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)

Nhex, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 04:06 (11 months ago) Permalink

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.

second dullest ILXor since 1929 (snoball), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 10:15 (11 months ago) Permalink

^^^ my first Kickstarter pledge ever

Me too.

JimD, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 11:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 4 April 2013 11:22 (2 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

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/

Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 04:54 (1 month ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

hrm.

Nhex, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:34 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

YESSSSSSSS

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

(click this)

sleepingbag, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 23:18 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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

the bitcoin comic (thomp), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 23:29 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

he was doing that like three years ago!

i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 23:55 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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

the bitcoin comic (thomp), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:11 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

xps lol @ scott kurtz being involved

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

Nhex, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:27 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

ah, well yes.

i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:00 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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.

Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 03:17 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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

Nhex, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 03:32 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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

sleepingbag, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 03:41 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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

Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:50 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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

the bitcoin comic (thomp), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:06 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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

0808ɹƃ (silby), Friday, 31 May 2013 02:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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.

0808ɹƃ (silby), Friday, 31 May 2013 02:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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

i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 02:01 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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

Random .mdb Memories (NotEnough), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 07:42 (2 weeks ago) Permalink


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