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Bleusilences posted:I gave money to the double fine adventure game, shadowrun, Wastland 2, FTL and the realistic shooter project. After that the fever want down a bit and I realized how easily I could get scam. Out of these 4 project 2 still fail to provide any tangible update. I do not think you should worry too much about being burned if you are pledging some small amount to get a game that could be fun, but might also just not happen--you are getting most games for less than the final release price by supporting them through Kickstarter, so you are probably still saving money by supporting these projects even if some of them take the money and run!
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Really bizarre on the AURO situation, though I shake my head at Burgun's odd tendency to stir things up completely at odds with whatever points in intentions to make----cringer after cringer tends to manifest on the Dinofarm blog that'd just be better off left unsaid as the whole "any publicity is good publicity" thing really doesn't work out for them. All I can think is that they were aiming to recruit from a region with a low cost of living as opposed to the US or some such...but even then there had to be a much more chill way of going about this.
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mutata posted:Haha, he gutted the post and reposted it as unpaid. Wait, has it always said "This is an PAID position" and I'm an idiot or did he change it again? Ah well. Something something the guy's a moron, something.
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wodin posted:For those of you who enjoy TCGs or TCG-alikes (Ascension/Dominion), the SolForge Kickstarter is ticking along pretty well (75/250k the first week) and has released a bunch of new information. There's a half-hour informal discussion of the overall mechanics of the game/Q&A from one of the developers, and they've posted a bunch of screenshots of the iPad prototype that show off the Lane mechanic and card templating. SolForge has an update video (update 3). It looks like a better version of Spectromancer with MTG customization along with better art.
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mutata posted:Wait, has it always said "This is an PAID position" and I'm an idiot or did he change it again? No, I looked at the link you posted, and unless it was some sort of crazy confirmation bias thing I saw unpaid, too. Must have been changed again.
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You know that feeling when something profoundly evil is about to take place and you just can't stop it? This is that feeling.
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evilmiera posted:You know that feeling when something profoundly evil is about to take place and you just can't stop it? Wow, those reward tiers are a loving joke. Surely they will sink this Kickstarter without a trace. Right? Right? 
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"Hey, I made a legendary game 30 years ago*. Here's some uninspired concepts. Give us $900,000." -David "Pitfall™" Crane http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jungleventure/david-cranes-jungle-adventure-0?ref=discover_rec *) OK, A Boy and His Blob (1989) was pretty cool.
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Latest pair of projects I'm really hoping for: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lucid-dreamers/empires-of-sorcery MoM-like d20 attempt after the disaster(s?) that were Stardock's Elemental I pre-ordered into? Yes please. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/21693645/harmonia A freaky combo of online tactical RPG, Roguelike aspects, and a raging obsession with old school Shining Force. Both aiming for modest, low 2 figure amounts as opposed to some 6 figure dream within a dream and neither seems to give off any vibes of being out of their gourd as far as stretch goals if they get that far.
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Kennel posted:"Hey, I made a legendary game 30 years ago*. Here's some uninspired concepts. Give us $900,000."
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Aug 12, 2012 17:43
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Kennel posted:"Hey, I made a legendary game 30 years ago*. Here's some uninspired concepts. Give us $900,000." This video/project came off as incredibly douchey and pretentious.
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evilmiera posted:You know that feeling when something profoundly evil is about to take place and you just can't stop it? I have nearly every adventure game there is on Steam, and I still would never buy a Nancy Drew game. There's like 30 of them as well. (That and I hate the 'window' style adventure games with no onscreen protagonist.)
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Amiga owners - represent! The game of my childhood remastered: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/850516062/wings-directors-cut For those who don't know this game: Wings was an arcade flight sim/shooter set in WWI. The game had three modes: dog fight with standard flight-sim view, strafing which was basically a diagonal shooter and bombing with top-down view. It came with 200 missions each of which was prefaced with a note from the squadron notebook, a newspaper front page on the war progress. There also was a sergeant chewing you out for failed missions or bombarding red cross buildings. All of this on 2 disks. Look at this gem of an intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEU80Anyvbw There was also a version for Gameboy Advance, not a port but more of a remake. Not a good game, but it was still better than Wings 2, released only for SNES. God, I hope they do this one right.
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Oh fuuuck, Wings was an awesome and very ambitious game for its time. Definitely one of the best arcade-like flight games I've played. Edit: Pandering model lady isn't really doing it for me, though. I guess considering how good those other guys are on camera it's maybe for the better. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Aug 13, 2012 |
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Kennel posted:"Hey, I made a legendary game 30 years ago*. Here's some uninspired concepts. Give us $900,000." Hey, don't forget about Night Trap!!!
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Hey, don't forget about Night Trap!!! Why is no one doing Kickstarters for FMV games? Where's my Quantum Gate Complete HD crowd-funded remake?
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zenintrude posted:Why is no one doing Kickstarters for FMV games? Did you miss Tex Murphy's new adventure? It's going to be awesome.
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Fatal posted:This video/project came off as incredibly douchey and pretentious. David Crane deserves a lot of respect for being one of the early pioneers. He could really work some magic on the 2600 (also I love Ghostbusters on the C64  ) but $900K for "not-Pitfall" (thanks TetsuoTW)? I think I'd just rather play Pitfall on my 2600. Also I hate the concept art. (Backing this anyway)
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ExiledTinkerer posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lucid-dreamers/empires-of-sorcery MoM-like d20 attempt after the disaster(s?) that were Stardock's Elemental I pre-ordered into? Yes please.
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Ok, so you all saw the Dominique Pamplemouse Indiegogo, right? https://vimeo.com/46326836 B&W stop-motion musical adventure game? Yeah, I was skeptical too... then she released a demo. I'm sold. Completely sold. I'd always wondered if you could do a musical-as-a-game, and... man, it works. Yeah, the singing is corny, but heck, that almost adds to it. EDIT: VV It was a single sequence, though, and the music got strangely choppy if you did it out of order. Pamplemouse is trying for the full thing. ... and yeah, I doubt she's going to hire anyone for it. It's indie as hell. Shalinor fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Aug 13, 2012 |
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There was totally a musical-as-game sequence in the game your avatar is from. Yeah, technically it does work but I kind of find her voice unpleasant. I guess her hiring someone else to do the singing is kind of out of the question, huh? Al! fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Aug 13, 2012 |
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Shalinor posted:Ok, so you all saw the Dominique Pamplemouse Indiegogo, right? This... is actually good. Too bad Paypal hates me and I can't send her money. Sigh.
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Al! posted:Yeah, technically it does work but I kind of find her voice unpleasant. I guess her hiring someone else to do the singing is kind of out of the question, huh? Yeah that's my biggest issue too but other than that it's kinda neat.
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This thread has had plenty of this sort of thing in the past, so it seems appropriate to ask here--is there somewhere we can go to get examples of what, precisely, constitutes a bannable offense when complaining about how women are depicted in games? Because, like, I am probably going to need to stop posting in Games entirely if merely complaining about it is bannable. Not to mention we will apparently need an administrative exemption to merely discuss Anita Sarkeesian's gaming Kickstarter.
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Quarex posted:This thread has had plenty of this sort of thing in the past, so it seems appropriate to ask here--is there somewhere we can go to get examples of what, precisely, constitutes a bannable offense when complaining about how women are depicted in games? Because, like, I am probably going to need to stop posting in Games entirely if merely complaining about it is bannable. If you want to discuss it further, please feel free to PM me. EDIT: ToxicFrog posted:Looks like it, yeah. Unless someone starts a thread for it in D&D. Shalinor fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Aug 13, 2012 |
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Quarex posted:This thread has had plenty of this sort of thing in the past, so it seems appropriate to ask here--is there somewhere we can go to get examples of what, precisely, constitutes a bannable offense when complaining about how women are depicted in games? Because, like, I am probably going to need to stop posting in Games entirely if merely complaining about it is bannable. Asking in QCS may be a better bet than asking here, though; that's kind of what it's there for, after all. quote:Not to mention we will apparently need an administrative exemption to merely discuss Anita Sarkeesian's gaming Kickstarter. Looks like it, yeah. Unless someone starts a thread for it in D&D. 
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Okay, I've decided to email RPS about the Pamplemoose demo. I suggest you do too, if you liked it.
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That Pamplemouse game is bad. The singer is bad at singing and apparently doesn't know how to pronounce the words she uses. I hope that she goes on about loving "drot" beer and "drot" horses in the next installment! If this were a placeholder or something, it might be acceptable. But if it's any indication of the game's final quality, it's going to be a stinker. I like the concept (and the stop-motion figures aren't bad, and the writing is OK), but the execution is really lacking.
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I scanned the opening post, but it didn't appear the shadowrun online project was on it, just shadowrun returns. Anyway, its on its last day and has 15% to go(out of 500k) if people still want to get in on it.
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Oh hey the Gaymer Con kickstarter just had an update. I wonder what that's about. quote:Hello fabulous supporters. 
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William Shatner posted:Developer here. This is very much what we're going for! Now if we could just get some traction on our Kickstarter. It's difficult getting people to part with their 15 McBucks when we don't have a publisher hammering on PR everywhere! Well shoot, I backed this, it looks fun as all heck.
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quote:$500 We already told you that Ellen McLain, the voice of GLaDOS from Portal, was willing to do a little voice acting just for you. Well John Patrick Lowrie, the voice of the Sniper, was not about to be left out. They're also praying that you don't ask them to recite more letters to someone named 'Princess Celestia'.
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Man, the shadowrun online KS is coming down to the wire. 14 hours, less then 50K to the goal, and they've been barely making the $3,500 per hour they need.
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SirFozzie posted:Man, the shadowrun online KS is coming down to the wire. 14 hours, less then 50K to the goal, and they've been barely making the $3,500 per hour they need. They've certainly picked up the pace. There's only six hours left and they need just 6.5K more.
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Shadowrun Online has made it with with ~5 hours left. Good for them! 
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On the other cyberpunk hand, Project Lodus, another aRPG type game, only has 6 hours left and is at about $28k/$50k. It'd be pretty sad for them to be one of those rare project that actually gets a pretty substantial amount and gets pretty close to their goal but just doesn't quite make it. But it's pretty understandable as they haven't really shown much in the way of gameplay. I think devs really need to get the hint that Tim Schafer was a special situation, and in the real world you're not going to get funded with a wink & a promise, but no actual gameplay to show people what the hell they're actually funding. Hell, even if it's just mock-ups, just make something to show people. edit: I went ahead and kicked in a dollar anyway, though. What they have shown and talked about looks cool enough to be worth at least that much.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/21693645/harmonia Looks interesting. It's a... tactical roguelike MMO.
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Yodzilla posted:That looks like something I would never want to play. Well, it's for the roguelike/MUD crowd, obviously.
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