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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)