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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