ILG Kickstarter Gaming HQ

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