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Groovelord Neato posted:Jesus christ. 83 I pay good money to crush the dreams of others.
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SaltyJesus posted:Phi Dinh, the guy who made TinyKeep just released an update saying he and his developer buddies from some game jam formed a company to turn their prototype into a real game. It's not really Kickstarter news but I'm a satisfied TinyKeep backer. Phi delivered a cool little roguelite and I promised myself I'd support whatever he'd do next. Holy crap a new Descent! Looks great 
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Feb 27, 2015 02:51
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Groovelord Neato posted:Jesus christ.  
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Feb 27, 2015 10:45
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I want to nominate Hand of Fate as another Kickstarter success. It's a really fun game and I recommend you try it. It has a similar atmosphere and feeling to Darkest Dungeon.
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Feb 27, 2015 11:28
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Dayuuuum, Slain! looks GOOD!  
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Feb 27, 2015 13:54
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Mr Underhill posted:Dayuuuum, Slain! looks GOOD! The areas look sweet as gently caress too.
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Feb 27, 2015 14:09
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Mr Underhill posted:Dayuuuum, Slain! looks GOOD!  The only thing that's sticking out to me is on the pitch video, the melee attacks seem pretty slow and clunky for a hack and slash. Maybe they're going for a more methodical, timed combat system. But this is pretty promising quote:The project is already eighteen months into development and we estimate there are only three months left...
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Feb 27, 2015 14:12
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Is the huge boss-guy 3d or are my eyes playing tricks on me? If he is, I'm mildly disappointed. Too broke to back anything anyway, but I like it when kick-rear end kickstarters like this one pop up.
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Feb 27, 2015 14:20
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I like their style. The look of the protagonist and world make me think of Michael Moorcock books.
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Feb 27, 2015 14:26
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Mr Underhill posted:Is the huge boss-guy 3d or are my eyes playing tricks on me? If he is, I'm mildly disappointed. Too broke to back anything anyway, but I like it when kick-rear end kickstarters like this one pop up. The way features shift around makes me think that it's either 3D with a pixel filter, or sprites generated from a 3D model with a pixel filter.
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Feb 27, 2015 14:29
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If kickstarter has taught me anything its that a handful of detailed sprites, in gif form, is ironclad evidence of a good game that will definitely exist
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Feb 27, 2015 14:37
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Arnold of Soissons posted:If kickstarter has taught me anything its that a handful of detailed sprites, in gif form, is ironclad evidence of a good game that will definitely exist Think how much Star Citizen would've made with ironically retro space gifs.
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Feb 27, 2015 14:39
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 Considering this one pledge also got me keys for two other unrelated minecraft rip offs that both also tanked and are dead projects, that's only :5bux: per failure 
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Arnold of Soissons posted:If kickstarter has taught me anything its that a handful of detailed sprites, in gif form, is ironclad evidence of a good game that will definitely exist The artist obviously uses a methodology similar to FrankieSmileShow's old work, which has a lot of superfluous detail but is rough enough that it isn't time consuming to make. It's not the same situation as that Secret of Mana style game where all the 'screenshots' were obviously mockups that an artist spent way too much time on. That said, I have my own issue with Slain, which is that there's no distinction between background and foreground elements at all. Look at this gif:  The vampire or whatever has less visual priority than anything but the basic wall tile
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Feb 27, 2015 14:58
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Groovelord Neato posted:You people are sick. 
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Slain: That art looks pretty good, but $12k is incredibly low for a project like that. The art reminds me of SOTN.
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Orzo posted:Slain: That art looks pretty good, but $12k is incredibly low for a project like that. quote:The project is already eighteen months into development and we estimate there are only three months left...
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Mr Underhill posted:Dayuuuum, Slain! looks GOOD!  sold!quote:The project is already eighteen months into development and we estimate there are only three months left... Words you don't hear on kickstarter everyday  Hmmmm.... that part where the guy jumps down and gets squished looks really familiar for some reason. Maybe this game was advertised earlier in its development? Is it a goon project or something? I swear I've seen that pixel art before. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Feb 27, 2015 16:38
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Harlock posted:Agreed. Me and my 155 backed projects definitely don't have a problem, no sir -- no way.
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I scored the last $10 tier on Slain!, eat it fuckers. EDIT: Also, I wouldn't be shocked if it was actually 3D psuedo-sprites, that's apparently a really efficient way to do higher res spritework. A Fancy 400 lbs fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I scored the last $10 tier on Slain!, eat it fuckers. I wouldn't really call that high res spritework. Its definitely good though, I'd figure they're probably using 3D models or some kinda references to kinda rotoscope rather than explicitly somehow rendering the 3d to a sprite.
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201. ... I have problems.
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Zaphod42 posted:I wouldn't really call that high res spritework. It's high res compared to the era its emulating.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:It's high res compared to the era its emulating. Yeah fair enough. When I hear high resolution sprites though I think like Blazblue or KoF.
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Mr Underhill posted:Dayuuuum, Slain! looks GOOD! thanks to hyper light drifter artists dont want to put borders around their sprites anymore, so theres millions of these projects with super detailed sprites that wash into the super detailed backgrounds so that everything is an invisible mash of pixels. how does anybody think this is a good idea?
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Sigma-X posted:I like that they're monetizing their youtube videos so I can watch ads and make them money while I determine whether I want to continue watching their ad asking me for money. Why do you let yourself get youtube ads. edit: drat, shame about that toejam game. I hope it makes wya past it's asking amount, I was interested until I got to the rewards and immediately they start throwing trinkets and tchotchkies at you. I wish kickstarters would nix the dumb trash they use to entice you and instead just spend the time and money on the fuckin product at hand. Khanstant fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Feb 28, 2015 |
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Feb 28, 2015 00:42
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DolphinCop posted:thanks to hyper light drifter artists dont want to put borders around their sprites anymore, so theres millions of these projects with super detailed sprites that wash into the super detailed backgrounds so that everything is an invisible mash of pixels. how does anybody think this is a good idea? Plenty of games in the SNES era had borderless sprites. I mean, the point of them bleeding into the background is valid, but the reason isn't because there's no borders its because of poor art direction.
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From the discussion earlier, I was curious to see how many projects have released when estimated, and inspired by the spreadsheet posted earlier, I made this list of some of the major projects (ignoring Early Acces and alpha/beta releases): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11sYRdj3cmb2WKFzikyT7bDGBFjQtdXLQ5YcECNNZKKY/pubhtml So the answer is, a few! Most of those that were ahead of schedule or right on schedule were basically finished at the time of Kickstarter launch, but FTL, Satellite Reign, and a handful of others I don't know much about seemed to do alright for themselves. I'm sure there are smaller projects that have too, let me know of any good ones and I'll toss them into that spreadsheet. Another takeaway from this is you can add, on average, 7 months to any projected release dates  A bigger sample size might edge that one way or the other, but these are the only ones off the Wikipedia list that have actually released a finished project at this point.
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Feb 28, 2015 05:47
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DolphinCop posted:thanks to hyper light drifter artists dont want to put borders around their sprites anymore, so theres millions of these projects with super detailed sprites that wash into the super detailed backgrounds so that everything is an invisible mash of pixels. how does anybody think this is a good idea? The rotoscoped art they're using would in no way work with sprite bordering.
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Khanstant posted:Why do you let yourself get youtube ads. They're outsourcing all that crap to some other company so they don't have to spend any of their own time dealing with any of it. The reason they're doing it to begin with is because people have been asking for TJ&E merch for years now and this was the most obvious excuse to make it happen.
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Kerzoro posted:201. 165.... collected. 81 uncollected. 8 current. Only a little problem, I'm sure.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:They're outsourcing all that crap to some other company so they don't have to spend any of their own time dealing with any of it. Which company? I hope it's not an Indian company; India doesn't really have a gaming culture. It's all well and good to be able to program and know about video games in general but if you aren't part of a society with a gaming culture then you only have 'part of the puzzle'. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Feb 28, 2015 |
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Feb 28, 2015 09:54
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What the gently caress does having a "gaming culture" have to do with making merch?
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Well how the gently caress are you going to screen press Ryu onto a shirt unless you spent your childhood bashing out Hadoukens 
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RightClickSaveAs posted:From the discussion earlier, I was curious to see how many projects have released when estimated, and inspired by the spreadsheet posted earlier, I made this list of some of the major projects (ignoring Early Acces and alpha/beta releases): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D9_aSUwgy77ovgKmh4RdVlF43VikE1vU58Qyz4gfjsA/pubhtml Satellite Reign is still in Early Access.
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Fart of Presto posted:Satellite Reign is still in Early Access.
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That Which Sleeps update post about the scenario builder and recently added mechanic of desperation. http://www.kingdinosaurgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9&start=40#p5652 Also art of the prophet. 
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I have 17 backed, but more importantly, I "backed" 2 kickstarters that had 0 backers on their last day for $1. I should do this more often. Kick them while they're down.
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DolphinCop posted:thanks to hyper light drifter artists dont want to put borders around their sprites anymore, so theres millions of these projects with super detailed sprites that wash into the super detailed backgrounds so that everything is an invisible mash of pixels. how does anybody think this is a good idea? watching the video for the game, you're literally wrong about this instance so I have no idea what you're even complaining about.
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