Me in Reverse posted:First off, you make the huge mistake that every "creative" does when they're pitching their pet project -- you are personally invested in your imagined universe and spit out a mile of poo poo that nobody cares about. I have NO IDEA what the plot of this thing is other than "There's an infection, since it's called Infection, and it's a "Sci-Fi Thriller". Work on an elevator pitch -- why do I give a poo poo about this story? I shouldn't have to read Character Bios to find out *anything* about it. Everything in the kickstarter description is just tremendously over-written. quote:A Player Crafted Story - The choices you make in this game all have a depth to them, and really do allow you to craft the narrative. We've made a game that does not take choices lightly. This whole section can be condensed down to the much more easily digestible "We believe your choices will meaningfully impact the game and lead you to one of the many endings we have planned." Instead, it dances around bullet-points and repeats itself over and over, especially in the parts I italicised. I hope to God the one doing the writing isn't the same one doing the pitch. Edit: Okay, they are two different people. Noyemi K has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Came across this, and it just seems particularly bad. LEDGE; A Minimal Wall Mount for iPad & Other Tablets Or, more accurately, put it in a narrow slow on a narrow shelf attached to the wall by 3M Command Strips. You get a minimally-milled aluminum bar for a mere $28! And then you can put your $200-600 tablet in it, secured only by a slight angle and a dollar's worth of adhesive (ok, you can use screws or anchors, but that only secures the shelf; the device can still be easily tipped out). I suspect it will get funded; 20 days left and it's more than halfway there. (Bingo checklist: iAccessory, aluminum finish, minimalistic design, device stand, risks destroying expensive device) Pyroclastic has a new favorite as of 04:47 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Noyemi K posted:Everything in the kickstarter description is just tremendously over-written. This is even more hilarious when you consider that player choices and multiple endings are pretty much part of the definition of visual novels. It's like advertising leveling up in an RPG.
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Waffleman_ posted:This is even more hilarious when you consider that player choices and multiple endings are pretty much part of the definition of visual novels. It's like advertising leveling up in an RPG. Another thing that bugs me about the Infection video is they are trying to be the first english visual novel company or something like that? But several companies have them beat and there are several niche companies that either translate or make their own (Academagia devs and etc)..
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Exmond posted:Another thing that bugs me about the Infection video is they are trying to be the first english visual novel company or something like that? But several companies have them beat and there are several niche companies that either translate or make their own (Academagia devs and etc).. Tinman games is another company that's specialized in Choose Your Own adventure games: http://tinmangames.com.au/blog/ Basically porting over many of the old paper Gamebooks but they also crank out new adventures from time to time.
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Fatkraken posted:And at least they're only charging 7 bucks for international shipping, not FIFTY. Seriously goon dude, 50 dollars to ship me a DVD of your lovely Visual Novel and a press kit (whatever that entails)? You're avin' a larf mate.
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etalian posted:Tinman games is another company that's specialized in Choose Your Own adventure games: They did nothing but their own adventures until they managed to get the Fighting Fantasy license. Another company that does similar games, Inkle, got the license to adapt the Sorcery sub-series (due to copyright shenanigans, the licenses are completely separate). Both licenses were previously held by companies that basically failed at them. Tin Man is also doing the sci-fi gamebooks by the guy behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. BiggerJ has a new favorite as of 07:35 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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So the Life On Bitcoin KS hit their funding goal in June http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitcoinlife/life-on-bitcoin-a-documentary-film?ref=category Cmon people for an additional $20K they can go from buying a copy of Garage Band to hiring a Garage Band producer! KS posted:The baseline for our project and documentary is for everyday necessities to be found and bought using bitcoin. That includes: KS posted:"We'll try to do the following: 1. I hear BFL makes good cars, at least that's what the one guy who his shipped to him says. He just happens to work for BFL 2. The radiator blew up on you 50 miles in? Caveat Emptor I got mine  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9jC0TP-Yug 4. Pay a guy bitcoin to buy you insurance with dirty fiat 5. Well you see we used the fiat we got from the Kickstarter to buy bitcoin which we in turn sold for fiat to pay for a hotel. Therefore we used bitcoin! God I can't wait to see the mental gymnastics they use to skirt the spirit of this experiment 
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Alan Smithee posted:So the Life On Bitcoin KS hit their funding goal in June So they got their food completely independently of bitcoin by dumpster diving, paid for their rent in CRACK, used the free wi-fi in a coffee shop and got furniture from a voyeur by letting him watch them gently caress? Truly the currency of the future. They might as well have ditched the bitcoin and gone freegan/given up money altogether and joined an anarchist collective in a squat, at least that way they'd have had people to talk to and one of the anarchists might have had some basic first aid training or even been a nurse or doctor in their former life
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No-one who seriously thinks bitcoins are anything more than Komedy Kurrency actually talks to other people.
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Waffleman_ posted:This is even more hilarious when you consider that player choices and multiple endings are pretty much part of the definition of visual novels. It's like advertising leveling up in an RPG. Moreover, with the way it's written, it's like if an RPG kickstarter was like: quote:Level up and increase your strength. If the player gathers the experience and fights enough monsters, s/he will gain unimaginable powers and amazing skills. Progress through the game, and your levels will climb higher and higher; the numbers are on your side! Strike your foes down and increase your power at the cost of their lives!
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Fatkraken posted:So they got their food completely independently of bitcoin by dumpster diving, paid for their rent in CRACK, used the free wi-fi in a coffee shop and got furniture from a voyeur by letting him watch them gently caress? Truly the currency of the future. They might as well have ditched the bitcoin and gone freegan/given up money altogether and joined an anarchist collective in a squat, at least that way they'd have had people to talk to and one of the anarchists might have had some basic first aid training or even been a nurse or doctor in their former life To be fair I added all the bolded stuff, I probably shouldn't have presented it in the actual quote box since it comes across as truthful but you just know they are going to circumvent actually using bitcoin in pretty much every scenario
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Exmond posted:Another thing that bugs me about the Infection video is they are trying to be the first english visual novel company or something like that? But several companies have them beat and there are several niche companies that either translate or make their own (Academagia devs and etc).. Hanako Games is another great place for original English VNs*. They're clean, so you don't have to worry if the kiddies are watching, well-written (The Royal Trap especially) and visually competent (though The Royal Trap's backgrounds could use a little work). This is your base competition, Rapdawg, and that's not counting the many, many Japanese VNs that have been translated. From what we've seen, there isn't much you can offer that your competition hasn't yet done better. Does Kickstarter allow project creators to take down and repost stuff? If so, then I suggest you do so, and take a little extra time to polish your proposal before coming back. *I can heartily personally recommend The Royal Trap and Magical Diary, if you don't mind a little viral marketing.
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CommissarMega posted:Does Kickstarter allow project creators to take down and repost stuff? If so, then I suggest you do so, and take a little extra time to polish your proposal before coming back. KS won't let them take it down once it goes live (especially since it's already received a few pledges) so at this point their options are to ride it out or cancel it. It's wayyyyyy too early to predict exactly how the project will end but Kicktraq currently has them trending to only 20% of their goal.
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Alan Smithee posted:So the Life On Bitcoin KS hit their funding goal in June They've received 6 pledges of $10,000 each 
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cyberia posted:They've received 6 pledges of $10,000 each cyberia posted:Suzy is a serial entreprenuer from Texas. She founded the multi-million dollar brand Poo~Pourri (Poopourri.com) with a mission to make everyones poop smell good when we use the toilet—it is a noble quest.
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Totally real testimonials from poo-pourriquote:I was so skeptical about this product! I purchased it due to the cleaver name thinking it would make a funny gag gift. The joke was on me… This totally works! I never leave home without it!
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Alan Smithee posted:So the Life On Bitcoin KS hit their funding goal in June So the whole using bitcoin concept in real-life is actually finding other people to act as a 3rd party and getting them to use real dollars. What a useful currency since it can not be used to directly purchase basic necessities in the US.
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Watching my less experienced drug dealer friends have to jump through a million hoops to get bitcoins to use on the silk road has probably been more entertaining then that documentary could ever be.
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prahanormal posted:Watching my less experienced drug dealer friends have to jump through a million hoops to get bitcoins to use on the silk road has probably been more entertaining then that documentary could ever be. Isn't that more of an end user type of uh service? Your friends are dumb.
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Honey, sorry we can't buy a house after the wedding since I put the whole joint bank account into Bitcoins.
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Awful Kickstarters Vol II: Reach for your Fusion Wallet! The fusion wallet actually doesn't look that terrible to me but then I have terrible taste. I'd probably buy one of them if I was young and had less sense than money.
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Alan Smithee posted:So the Life On Bitcoin KS hit their funding goal in June They'll have no problem living off of Bitcoin because its cult-like followers will want to see them succeed so their movie about how awesome Bitcoin is can push the price higher. If they need a car, some weirdo will beg them to buy his car for Bitcoin. If they need rent, some weirdo will let them live in his extra room for a song. This whole experiment will be a cakewalk for them.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:KS won't let them take it down once it goes live (especially since it's already received a few pledges) so at this point their options are to ride it out or cancel it. Isn't that the same thing? It's what I meant, certainly- can't they just cancel the KS, spruce things up a bit and come back?
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Since someone else was asking advice here, I was wondering - do we have any kind of Goon kickstarter help thread? I mean, something for like advice and constructive criticism for campaigns before they're finalized and posted up?
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That drat Satyr posted:Since someone else was asking advice here, I was wondering - do we have any kind of Goon kickstarter help thread? I mean, something for like advice and constructive criticism for campaigns before they're finalized and posted up? SA has forums for tons of creative outlets. Odds are there are groups of goons in all of them willing to help regardless of KS.
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That drat Satyr posted:Since someone else was asking advice here, I was wondering - do we have any kind of Goon kickstarter help thread? I mean, something for like advice and constructive criticism for campaigns before they're finalized and posted up?
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Necros posted:Isn't that more of an end user type of uh service? Your friends are dumb. There couldn't be buyers if there weren't sellers.
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Necros posted:Isn't that more of an end user type of uh service? Your friends are dumb. You'd be surprised. The site they were using that was a straight money -> bitcoin thing got shut down, so now the only sites they've been able to find make you do a bunch of poo poo with bank account authorization. Not to mention the kind of people who sell drugs on the silk road are not exactly good about getting things to people.
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Yeah, but what I was saying was I don't think people on silk are sending serious weight through the mail. I mean I've never checked it, but from what I've heard thats the case. What are they buying a quarter ounce of weed and diming it out to people?
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PostNouveau posted:They'll have no problem living off of Bitcoin because its cult-like followers will want to see them succeed so their movie about how awesome Bitcoin is can push the price higher. If they need a car, some weirdo will beg them to buy his car for Bitcoin. If they need rent, some weirdo will let them live in his extra room for a song. This whole experiment will be a cakewalk for them. Yeah but the key word here is weirdos. I hardly consider dealing with weirdos to be a cakewalk, taking advantage of their generosity or not. Let's peruse the Kickstarter's comments shall we?  Bitcoins.txt Why oh why won't the free market support this Randian superman?
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I think this is the best place to post this. Not a kickstarter, but a pretty hilarious crowdfunding situation. Girl Jumps Off House, Breaks Feet, Crowdfunds Recovery, Gets Jeered
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Necros posted:Yeah, but what I was saying was I don't think people on silk are sending serious weight through the mail. I mean I've never checked it, but from what I've heard thats the case. What are they buying a quarter ounce of weed and diming it out to people? They use it for psychedelics. Mostly sheets.
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Just came across this wonderful train wreck of a man, and I just knew I had to share it. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/82653245/druggies-and-bullies-beware-bullyproof?ref=recently_launched In short - It's a man who is using his talents in making animal noises to make an educational game about bullying and drugs. It is just as great as it sounds.
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Alan Smithee posted:I dunno, there's something just so It's also for a good cause too (well, the drugs thing is debatable, but the rest is nice).
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PostNouveau posted:They'll have no problem living off of Bitcoin because its cult-like followers will want to see them succeed so their movie about how awesome Bitcoin is can push the price higher. If they need a car, some weirdo will beg them to buy his car for Bitcoin. If they need rent, some weirdo will let them live in his extra room for a song. This whole experiment will be a cakewalk for them. To be fair, an international currency is actually an okay idea if it is implemented correctly. But Bitcoin is not that currency.
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