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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

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.