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duck monster posted:Gimme. I'm trying to limit my kicksterter impulse spending (i'm a bit broke atm), but I've thrown you a tenner, because that poo poo looks fun. Try and bring it to mac if you can! Its already on mac  the download is just below the windows one, and I have been sending press releases, but I don't want to over do and get put on a spammer list. If our supports want to send emails, I wont stop them obviously.
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macnbc posted:Their website is solid gold. Ah yes 1 million uses, a conservative estimate.
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Yodzilla posted:Ah yes 1 million uses, a conservative estimate. Conservatively, %0.01 of the planet will be playing my game that nobody's ever heard of from me, a person nobody's ever heard of who has never made a game before.
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Holy poo poo the top two reward tiers on the Yogscast KS are sold out. 10 nerds pledged a combined $75,000.
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I also like the whole "MMO from nothing to public beta in 8 months." Good luck with that, Millionaire Eggman.
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Unormal posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1354795482/battle-chess?ref=recently_launched The Rook isn't a golem formed from a tower. That isn't Battle Chess at all. 
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GruntyThrst posted:I also like the whole "MMO from nothing to public beta in 8 months." Good luck with that, Millionaire Eggman. With the help of the Chaos Emeralds, anything is possible.
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Unormal posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1354795482/battle-chess?ref=recently_launched
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LumberingTroll posted:I've set up a google dock to start organizing. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmC3HKYxUU_fdHhhNWxFVGd1VHpmWW9LcllObFhTb3c I'm not 100% sure but this appears to be read only?
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DBFT posted:I'm not 100% sure but this appears to be read only? doh, my bad, its fixed.
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LumberingTroll posted:They have an interesting pledge tier that we as a community could take advantage of, if we get 50 people, which pitch in $50 each, we can all get alpha access and lifetime subscriptions... I am very interested in this, and would be willing to organize it if there is interest. I'm interested in contributing, but I will not make a pledge until I secure the necessary cash. I'm also very concerned about a Kickstarter project failing, considering that there is no "refund" process within the system. I do know of a project that would probably want this middleware system though and I really am interested in these sorts of automated GMing systems. Then again, my interest has caused me to see two similar projects that collapsed horribly...which, again, makes me very concerned about this Kickstarter project failing horribly as well. The worst part is, one of those projects (StoryTron, made by Chris Crawford) actually managed to release a playable version...only for the back-end coding to be so complex that Chris decided to close down the project. Servant fucked around with this message at 17:15 on May 3, 2012 |
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Anyone who has given the Republique kickstarter a pass should probably take a 2nd look at it. Not only have they expanded their original mobile-only plans to include PC/Mac, but today they announced that they've gotten David Hayter (Solid Snake), and Jennifer Hale (FemShep, 11 billion other characters) on-board. I'm worried though because it's looking like it's going to be a tall order for them to hit their target.
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macnbc posted:Anyone who has given the Republique kickstarter a pass should probably take a 2nd look at it. Seems like they made their already overly-ambitious and costly iOS game into an even more ambitious and costly multiplatform game.
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I thought they already had a VA for the main female protagonist, are they just going to oust her or something? The other option is to put Hale to some minor role in which case it's a total waste of money and talent.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:How is getting big name VAs a high priority at this point anyway? Name recognition = Visibility = Priority in getting more funding.
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I guess you could see it that way. I lean more towards flailing around for something that will raise them more than $300,000 in a week's time. It isn't charitable, but their Kickstarter has been a mess from the beginning. As I see it announcing the PC/Mac version was a desperation move after their Kickstarter had stalled for over a week. Maybe I'm overly harsh, but I don't see much reason to support Republique. Especially since it is another project based around giving them money up-front to prove there is an interest for their game when they approach big investors, I strongly dislike this type of Kickstarter. They have committed themselves to what they call a AAA game with mo-cap and top-tier voice actors, and is going to be backed mostly by investors. Personally I see it as a waste of my money, let the investors they plan to work with anyway pay their costs, or maybe they could have tried something less ambitious for their first time out.
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macnbc posted:Their website is solid gold. Your World Executive Summary posted:We will sell a collector’s edition (physical copy) with in game perks for $49.99 (which is $20 to $30 below market value) Your World Executive Summary posted:We define our market as Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG). These are online games that have 1000s of users playing together on the same server. The total market size was approximately $1.5 billion in 2011, and is expected to grow by 5% in 2012. We believe we can capture 25% of it by 2014. Your World Executive Summary posted:Competition
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GruntyThrst posted:I also like the whole "MMO from nothing to public beta in 8 months." Good luck with that, Millionaire Eggman.
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duck monster posted:But theres plenty of australian kickstarter projects? Why do you think you can't do australian projects on kickstarter? You can open a Kickstarter from anywhere in the world. However, you're completely hosed if you don't have a friend with an Amazon payments account, which is US only.
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Unormal posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1354795482/battle-chess?ref=recently_launched  All these Kickstarters aiming straight for my nostalgia bone, wow, how do they even manage to dig up all these ancient licenses?(also thank gawd this one will take one month or I'd go broke)
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LumberingTroll posted:They have an interesting pledge tier that we as a community could take advantage of, if we get 50 people, which pitch in $50 each, we can all get alpha access and lifetime subscriptions... I am very interested in this, and would be willing to organize it if there is interest. I'm very intrigued by this. Storybricks sounds pretty cool but I'm also a little confused. Will it end up being sorta like Neverwinter Nights, i.e. potentially a huge base for user-created content but no real way to port that content to anything else(and good luck making it look pretty)? From what I can tell it seems like it's a different approach to the end goal of populating NPC towns with sandbox environments, which sounds incredible, but I'm not sure exactly how useful that'll really be.
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Yodzilla posted:Since he's said it's going to be released regardless of how the Kickstarer goes I can't wait to see how the project unfolds. Much like the bottom of his stomach, it will never see the light of day
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lordfrikk posted:I thought they already had a VA for the main female protagonist, are they just going to oust her or something? The other option is to put Hale to some minor role in which case it's a total waste of money and talent. Sounds like she's a secondary character, not minor but definately not the protagonist. It also sounds like he's cashing in on some friendships to get names attached to the game. Hayter in particular sounded like he was just doing this as the guy's buddy than in the work. That said, I'm actually sort of interested in the project. It's over-reaching by a lot, but it's still a really cool concept.
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LumberingTroll posted:They have an interesting pledge tier that we as a community could take advantage of, if we get 50 people, which pitch in $50 each, we can all get alpha access and lifetime subscriptions... I am very interested in this, and would be willing to organize it if there is interest. That is an awesome idea and I'm down. I don't really have the time to make a thread for it and evangelize in proper Quarex fashion, but I think that's a really good idea, too. We can probably pull in some traditional games goons as well. Between the uniqueness of the Storybricks idea itself and the endorsements from people who actually know these guys, I think this is worth the risks (and the cash). It's truly contributing to a completely new idea, and I'm sure they'll turn out something interesting, even if it's not perfect. That's usually how new ideas go anyway - someone makes something interesting, but flawed, and then other people build on it. It's admirable that these guys are aiming for exactly that, hoping other people will build on their idea to make even better things.
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macnbc posted:\today they announced that they've gotten David Hayter (Solid Snake) "This is the end of privacy as we know it!"  "UNBELIEVABLE"
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The pebble e-watch is up to $8,403,181 in funds now. $115 of that is mine  (it's the watch of my dreams).
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NINbuntu 64 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgilq-ryLvo The game looks interesting (In that it looks like a better minecraft without the world's laziest snake-oil salesman at the helm) but I'm wary of pledging given that it is being run by two guys who have no experience in developing a game. What are the general thoughts on yogventures?
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Quodio Stotes posted:The game looks interesting (In that it looks like a better minecraft without the world's laziest snake-oil salesman at the helm) but I'm wary of pledging given that it is being run by two guys who have no experience in developing a game. What are the general thoughts on yogventures? I don't know much about it but I think it would be a much better game without those two incredibly irritating narrators. I like the sandbox elements but I'm not sure I want to play a game that features those awful voices so heavily.
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the black husserl posted:I don't know much about it but I think it would be a much better game without those two incredibly irritating narrators. I like the sandbox elements but I'm not sure I want to play a game that features those awful voices so heavily. Really? Presumably the Yogscast will have some voice acting in the game, potentially even major parts, but how did you make the logical jump from "these guys are talking about a game in a video" to "these voices are going to be so central to the game that I'll probably have to avoid it"?
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Quodio Stotes posted:The game looks interesting (In that it looks like a better minecraft without the world's laziest snake-oil salesman at the helm) but I'm wary of pledging given that it is being run by two guys who have no experience in developing a game. What are the general thoughts on yogventures? You pretty much already summarized the general thoughts on the game.
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the black husserl posted:I don't know much about it but I think it would be a much better game without those two incredibly irritating narrators. I like the sandbox elements but I'm not sure I want to play a game that features those awful voices so heavily. Five people pledged ten thousand dollars to meet these people. Let that sink in.
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seorin posted:That is an awesome idea and I'm down. I don't really have the time to make a thread for it and evangelize in proper Quarex fashion, but I think that's a really good idea, too. We can probably pull in some traditional games goons as well. Maybe my brain is fried from thesis work but I've read the Storybricks KS page twice now and I still can't figure out what it actually is. A set of tools for game developers? A user-editable MMO? A campaign-building toolkit with sample game a la NWN?
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Unormal posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1354795482/battle-chess?ref=recently_launched *Wallet come flying out of pocket and crashing into the monitor* gently caress yeah, I loved battle chess.
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Quodio Stotes posted:The game looks interesting (In that it looks like a better minecraft without the world's laziest snake-oil salesman at the helm) but I'm wary of pledging given that it is being run by two guys who have no experience in developing a game. What are the general thoughts on yogventures? As far as I can tell, simon and lewis (goons, btw, yogs = ye olde goon squad) are really neat guys, but won't be doing much other than just being "producers" (Ie they'll own the game and have ordered it), but its winterkewl directing and putting it together. From my understanding its a smallish studio with some folks who come from the industry in a minor way. However its been mentioned that since they are now basically drowning in cash they can hire some proper game project management and more talent, so it seems the game is in good hands. A few industry pros with a good eye ought clean up some of the amateurism in the unity builds we've seen so far. Honestly I dont mind simon and lewis narating. Simon can be sidesplittingly funny when he's on a roll. The yogscast fanbase however I suspect are largely kids. Which I'm comfortable with as a target demographic for the game. Minecraft is basically just a lego set for overgrown manchildren itself.
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ToxicFrog posted:Maybe my brain is fried from thesis work but I've read the Storybricks KS page twice now and I still can't figure out what it actually is. A set of tools for game developers? A user-editable MMO? A campaign-building toolkit with sample game a la NWN? As fas as I understood it, yes it's like the NWN toolkit but with a lot more options and even more build towards it without as much as the pretension of having an actual existing campaign in there.
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Unormal posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1354795482/battle-chess?ref=recently_launched Fake. Phone. Call. Battle Chess was pretty ownage. I wonder if the charm holds up.
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