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duck monster posted:GBS's favorite slightly-insane robot inventor, Jamie Mantzel has a kickstarter up for DIY toy robot kits. I'm in for the Ultra Mega Tool Kit (All the weapons, plus the tools). So excited to be getting one of these robots! Also the tiny Jaimie action figure! Woooo! Comes with his World Domination Throne™! More wooooooo! Please help it pass so I can have my robot  Also this shouldn't be here, should it? Where did the Jaimie thread go? 
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From gamer webcomic guy's KS bio:quote:Mike Kirouff has been writing, drawing and creating comics his whole life along with engineering other social media sites like Gamer Dater and creating Video Games like Final Phantasy 1: The Search for God & Dragoon Princess. I can't recommend checking out his Design Website highly enough. Also, what's this about SA having previously picked up on his "mega giant" dating site for videogame people?
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Mammal Sauce posted:I can't recommend checking out his Design Website highly enough. Also, what's this about SA having previously picked up on his "mega giant" dating site for videogame people? Everything looks like it's built on templates. The only one that actually looked like it was hand-coded was the Haiti one. Also, I'm not seeing those ABC, BET, MTV, or EA Sports sites.
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Mammal Sauce posted:From gamer webcomic guy's KS bio: Young Freud posted:Also, I'm not seeing those ABC, BET, MTV, or EA Sports sites. It's easy - Google "American Badminton Congress", and at the bottom of that page there's a link to his "Badmintoners of Eastern Tennessee" site. From there.....
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mks5000 posted:Why is he producing comics about Chrono Trigger in 2012? Hasen't every single joke that can be made about that game already been made?
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Mammal Sauce posted:From gamer webcomic guy's KS bio: I think we've made fun of a few gamer dating websites before, probably one of those.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I think we've made fun of a few gamer dating websites before, probably one of those. I guess he'll probably update his KS project as being "featured on somethingawful.com!!!" now that we've discussed how lovely it is in this thread.
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You might have noticed a banner ad on SA for a Kickstarter iPhone game project called DinoWars Evolution. The game itself and the goal they've set are fairly modest and not really noteworthy for this thread but I just thought I'd point out that all the incidental art in their KS pitch was traced from Ricardo Delgado's 'Age of Reptiles' comicbooks:    The thieving jerks don't credit Delgado for the art. 
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Jul 20, 2013 10:09
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It's not stealing is you only use the silhouette! 
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Jul 20, 2013 13:58
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What a lovely project. No feathered dinos? Pffft c'mon. Their artists seem okay but budgeting 1k just for the cards is ridiculous - even the lowest paying card illustration jobs pay at $100 per image.
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Mammal Sauce posted:From gamer webcomic guy's KS bio: That website is real bad and the forums are bizarre and creepy as gently caress (gamerdater.com).
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Jul 20, 2013 18:05
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The Oxnard centennial was 10 years ago. Is it common to display old work in a portfolio?
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:What a lovely project. No feathered dinos? Pffft c'mon. Their artists seem okay but budgeting 1k just for the cards is ridiculous - even the lowest paying card illustration jobs pay at $100 per image. I'm going to feature feathered dinos in my game- just because of how much this thread has taught me. One character is going to have a poster of a dinosaur and  over how it does not have feathers. Illustrations are very expensive, which is why I'm so lucky to have two artists who will work on the cheaper side. Speaking of... I wonder how my ads for my dead project will go over. Like, must be a mind screw.
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StevenM posted:Humor me here - why post this in the AWFUL Kickstarters thread? I wasn't aware there was another one. For reference, I agree its an excellent kickstarter, if perhaps a little out of my pricerange!
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pathetic little tramp posted:Jesus Christ those tits he draws, her nipples must have a really high iron content and there are gigantic magnets above her directly to the left and right all the time. I wondered how his writer Gwyneth felt about all the terribly-drawn boobs flopping around, but then I noticed the pink-haired girl is her stand-in. (That character is "Hrist," Gwyneth uses the name "Hrist" to sign her posts.) THEN I noticed the Hrist character often gets into retarded fetishy stuff in the comic, and that Gwyneth's writing has the same run-on, ham-fisted quality that Kirouff's has. I think... I think Kirouff made up Gwyneth. 
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ZnCu posted:I think... I think Kirouff made up Gwyneth. I think you're right. There's some weird singular/plural confusions in the description. ("we don't have a day job")
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There are two Facebook profiles for Gwyneth ("Gwyneth"?) One is for /gwyneth.landale, though the display name is "Gwyneth Terezi Londale"; one is for /hristyy, display name "Hristy Valkyrie". I don't even know what's going on, except that at least one person is boring and bad at both writing and art.
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AlbieQuirky posted:"Gwyneth Terezi Londale" So he named his female alter-ego/"partner" after trilobite terror has a new favorite as of 03:42 on Jul 22, 2013 |
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Electric Bugaloo posted:So he named his female alter-ego/"partner" after Wow. The /gwyneth.landale profile is mostly friends with Homestuck profiles, and the /hristyy profile uses the same picture as Kirouff's profile. Maybe it's the privacy settings, but it seems like both profiles are almost empty, except for mirroring stuff from the webcomics. I guess it's possible these are just Gwyneth's "professional" accounts and she's not a figment of Kirouff's imagination, but they really do sound exactly alike. Plus, the /gwyneth.landale profile refers to "my artwork," and I thought Kirouff was the artist? Has he really been pretending to have a friend/partner for 6 years? Because that's just amazing. I'm gonna stop looking deeper before this gets too Webdog-y. But this is the Kickstarter that keeps on giving (except for giving money).
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ZnCu posted:I'm gonna stop looking deeper before this gets too Webdog-y. 
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WebDog posted:Nothing wrong with that mate. No! Stop it! Bad dog!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFN4k-AFEbw Canonical wants $32,000,000 in 31 days to make an Ubuntu smartphone. Good luck with that! repiv has a new favorite as of 17:04 on Jul 22, 2013 |
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repiv posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFN4k-AFEbw They certainly aren't going half-assed, are they? Has any group raised even remotely that much? I know Pebble raised $10 million on kickstarter.
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I automatically assumed it was flexible funding, but nope! Seems like they seriously think they can get $32 million.
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fondue posted:They certainly aren't going half-assed, are they? Has any group raised even remotely that much? I know Pebble raised $10 million on kickstarter. I just looked it up: quote:The most successful crowdfunded project is Star Citizen, a massively multiplayer online videogame being developed by Chris Roberts and Cloud Imperium Games, which as of July 2013 had raised over $14 million Note that they only raised $2m on their Kickstarter campaign Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 17:20 on Jul 22, 2013 |
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Wolfsbane posted:I automatically assumed it was flexible funding, but nope! Seems like they seriously think they can get $32 million.  I'll be amazed if they get their 32 megabux, but I would totally use an Ubuntu smartphone if it doesn't suck.
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repiv posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFN4k-AFEbw Is that even remotely enough money to bring a brand-new phone to market?
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deadly_pudding posted:
You can if you fork over $600 (today only). DoctorTristan posted:Is that even remotely enough money to bring a brand-new phone to market?
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DoctorTristan posted:Is that even remotely enough money to bring a brand-new phone to market? If they have software/design/hardware down and only need the money to manufacture/advertise/distribute then it would be reasonable. I don't get why an unbuntu phone would be any different from say developing an unbutnu rom and flash android to it
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I just looked it up: Not to mention Indiegogo has only peaked at $1.6 million. Audience matters.
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They have raised 1.7 million so far with 30 days to go. I think it might be possible.
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bowmore posted:They have raised 1.7 million so far with 30 days to go. I think it might be possible. Not really. Most higher profile crowd-funding projects start with a huge surge of interest than then drops off as the funding period continues. Unless they continue to add things that entice people to come back to the project and pledge more money (add-ons, additional features, etc.), it becomes really difficult to keep up the same pace that the project had in its first few days. For a great example, look at Double Fine Adventure which saw about $1 million in pledges its second day and then dropped down to around $20-40k for most days until the end when funding picked up again (http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure/).
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bowmore posted:They have raised 1.7 million so far with 30 days to go. I think it might be possible. You get the phone for $600 instead of $830 if you pledge on the first day. It's going to fall off a cliff after that.
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I'm amazed they didn't do it on KS since that's where the big money is, especially since they aren't doing flex funding. I kinda hope they succeed and become the Ouya of phones I have nothing for or against Ubuntu, I've never used it personally. I just like comedy
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Alan Smithee posted:I'm amazed they didn't do it on KS since that's where the big money is, especially since they aren't doing flex funding. I kinda hope they succeed and become the Ouya of phones Probably because renderings are prohibited on Kickstarter and that's all they have right now.
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I don't know, Canonical is pretty great. I hope they succeed.
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I think this is the first time I've ever seen a project on indiegogo that wasn't flexible funding.
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Bloodnose posted:I think this is the first time I've ever seen a project on indiegogo that wasn't flexible funding.
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Yeah, the difference between Canonical and, say, OUYA is that Canonical has a decade of successful work behind it on one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world with literally millions of users(Wikipedia says ~20 million), along with other important open source software. Canonical isn't some no name company, they're actually experienced and extremely well known among the tech community. Disclaimer: This post was posted from a computer running Ubuntu. 
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