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After having spent a few hours building my base and shooting pirates/aliens the ship combat in Halcyon 6 is really fun. The ground combat is somewhat similar but even more limited as it was only added in the last release. The whole vulnerabilities and exploits makes the combat more than just pick the strongest attack to pew pew the enemy ships, it help; the graphic and sound are good.
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Geokinesis posted:Halcyon 6 is heading into Early Access this month. Got my steam key. It's not bad, but the difficulty is cranked up a bit. It definitely forces you to make some pretty hard choices already. Played the Early Access on this. Is quite good.
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kinkouin posted:Got my steam key. It's not bad, but the difficulty is cranked up a bit. It definitely forces you to make some pretty hard choices already. Did you play the 0.0.2.2 update as it was harder in the previous version and it has been toned down (somewhat) since.
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The Shovel Knight devs put up a big new article to celebrate a million digital units sold: http://yachtclubgames.com/2016/04/feat-unlocked-one-million-copies-of-shovel-knight-sold/ I thought this thread would want to see their breakdown of the first stretch goal update they released this year: quote:Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows
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Mr Underhill posted:Say what you want, but Adolph Christ is one head turnin' tilte. It's a book/storyboard about a video game. God bless. His acknowledgements page for his book is hilarious: quote:I would like to thank: He has a lowercase i after using I correctly like 9 times in the acknowledgements, so you know he's a master proofreader. Humbly petition for new thread title to be: Kickstart Gaming - I'm a natural artist and have 216 hobbies.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:The Shovel Knight devs put up a big new article to celebrate a million digital units sold: http://yachtclubgames.com/2016/04/feat-unlocked-one-million-copies-of-shovel-knight-sold/ That's interesting but a little sad considering how good it is.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:The Shovel Knight devs put up a big new article to celebrate a million digital units sold: http://yachtclubgames.com/2016/04/feat-unlocked-one-million-copies-of-shovel-knight-sold/ I honestly wish they'd move onto a new project instead of spending millions of dollars on free content. It'd kind of suck if their next game flopped and it bankrupted them because they decided to spend a lot of time and money releasing quality free content that not a lot of people were playing. Then again, doing so would entail a lot "kill indie game devs" sentiment to deal with. Sivek fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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Apr 15, 2016 04:57
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Sigma-X posted:His acknowledgements page for his book is hilarious: There's a subreddit for this kind of thing. It's called iamverysmart. I read the million dollar figure for shovel knight and I just assumed most of that money was spent on pimping out the office and inflated salaries. They'll probably continue to find creative ways of putting that money into the devs hands and then close down.
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The million dollars figure is just them paying 8 people $10k a month for a year, I don't think there's anything suspect about that budget.
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Sivek posted:I honestly wish they'd move onto a new project instead of spending millions of dollars on free content. It'd kind of suck if their next game flopped and it bankrupted them because they decided to spend a lot of time and money releasing quality free content that not a lot of people were playing. Danger there, though, is pissing off your fan base by not doing the stretch goals that were promised after they were met. Might sour some people into buying a future game. Note I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong in how you feel but it's a bunch of pros and cons there.
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Zaa Boogie posted:Danger there, though, is pissing off your fan base by not doing the stretch goals that were promised after they were met. Might sour some people into buying a future game. Nah, I get it, but I'd rather see them do something new and get paid for it rather than releasing more Shovel Knight stuff over the next two years or so with the hope of a long tail of sales sustaining them. Crowdfunding stretch goals are stupid and I hate them.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:The million dollars figure is just them paying 8 people $10k a month for a year, I don't think there's anything suspect about that budget. Yeah. And not even that; the general rule of thumb is that the cost to a business of an employee is their salary + 30%. So for 8 people, a million bucks will allow you to pay them each $8k per month.
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Sivek posted:Nah, I get it, but I'd rather see them do something new and get paid for it rather than releasing more Shovel Knight stuff over the next two years or so with the hope of a long tail of sales sustaining them. Crowdfunding stretch goals are stupid and I hate them.
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Looking at the global achievement stats of a game on Steam often gives a pretty humbling account of how few people beat the games they buy. The last game I "finished" (Blazblue CS) had around 5% do the basic story completion. And that's just the bare bones "got the true ending". Granted, that's a game with more multiplayer pull, but 6% for Plague of Shadows isn't shocking to me. Of course, a lot of that is just Steam game list bloat with people not playing what they buy, but even those that do rarely finish the game.
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Apr 15, 2016 12:42
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Plague of Shadows is HARD. At least it is if you intend to get every treasure chest. So yeah, I'll probably never beat it either.
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Once I got the bomb component that lets you float slowly down PoS became a lot easier for me. I think I used that throughout the rest of the game without ever changing it out.
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I couldn't get past Plague Knight in the regular game after dozens of attempts. Everything before that was great and Shovel Knight is great but I'm probably not going to try it again for a long while.
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I have more than a thousand games in my library. I beat 33 of them, and not all 100%. I also had some issues stopping me from playing games for a long while (though not buying them!), and just recently I've managed to start playing a bit reliably again.
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Nate RFB posted:Once I got the bomb component that lets you float slowly down PoS became a lot easier for me. I think I used that throughout the rest of the game without ever changing it out. That thing messed with me really hard since I liked to chain bursts and you can't charge a burst while floating down. I never touched it again after I figured out what was going on. I used the one that shot a bullet up until I could get the one that was straight up a screw attack. After I finished Plague of Shadows I only replayed it to do low% speedruns. Plague Knight's huge arsenal is fun but I like the game a lot better if I never go into a menu.
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Is anyone else getting "503 connection timed out" errors on Kickstarter? I thought it was just me but I don't think it's the case anymore.
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Mr Underhill posted:Is anyone else getting "503 connection timed out" errors on Kickstarter? I thought it was just me but I don't think it's the case anymore. Was happening to me earlier but seems to be working now.
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We got greenlit on Steam in 10 days after hovering around the 33rd position in the top 100. That's good. The week-end is coming. People are preparing to go out and party. I'm running a Kickstarter. gently caress weekends. gently caress them forever.
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Kibayasu posted:I couldn't get past Plague Knight in the regular game after dozens of attempts. Everything before that was great and Shovel Knight is great but I'm probably not going to try it again for a long while.
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For those who are eligible, backer keys for Banner Saga 2 are going out today. Looking forward to carrying my poor decisions from the first game forward.
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Geokinesis posted:Did you play the 0.0.2.2 update as it was harder in the previous version and it has been toned down (somewhat) since. Yeah, it was the whole :goatse: level difficulty, I'll try it again.
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kinkouin posted:Yeah, it was the whole :goatse: level difficulty, I'll try it again. I think they have tweaked it even more now with version 0.0.3.0. Although if you fight the Chruul at earth the don't fight them the third time till you have higher tier ships. They haven't added a warning in for the massive difficulty spike for that battle yet.
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Gibbous is more thah halfway there with 2 weeks left to go. We recently broke 1000 backers, and are super excited to be teaming up with Don Thacker of Starr Mazer - he'll be voicing our very own Don R. Ketype. Aaaand the Gibbous / Starr Mazer crossover is now official. SO excited, and Don is an awesome dude! More on that in our 3rd update. E: Oh and just got some kind words from the excellent Ben Chandler, and that means a lot to me! Mr Underhill fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Apr 20, 2016 |
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yay woo fist pump
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 Throwing my hat in here--my studio (Studio Wumpus) is launching our first Kickstarter for our real time digital board game, Sumer. This really is utterly terrifying, but also super exciting. Wish us luck!
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OtspIII posted:
I like the look of that. I will back and wish you luck for selfish reasons (ie I want the game).
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OtspIII posted:
Looks solid and I'm digging the art direction. Kicked a little your way, good luck! E: In The Shadows is a game I've been watching on TigSource since 2014, and it's now on Kickstarter. Yeah, I know plenty of similar games have appeared in the meantime, but for some reason this one really stuck out for me, I love its color scheme and the way it uses lighting.  
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Creepy Castle after going far over its estimated date of delivery (to be expected) with very sparse updates has announced they'll be partnering with Nicalis. I guess they'll be helping with development. The Kickstarter claims they'll now have a Summer release this year.
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nicalis has a long track record of hindering development and introducing massive bugs into ports, when they don't simply erase a game entirely like they tried to do with la mulana. the only reason the west ever saw that remake was playism stepping in with a miraculous eleventh hour intervention that salvaged the game, and that was with them putting together their own translation in about a tenth the time nicalis had invested into it before trying to pull the plug
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binding of isaac rebirth released on pc, ps4, and playstation vita. the expansion pack afterbirth has only released on pc, because nicalis did the console ports and made such a catastrophic mess of optimizing them that the expansion pack can't run on either platform. it has now been seven months since the expansion pack released, and it seems safe to say that, as with all other times nicalis has been confronted with their failures as human beings, they've decided to give up and fleece someone else instead
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90s Arcade Racer is in nicalis limbo at the moment. Updates are very few and far between and usually say something like "it's nearly there but we've totally gotta rewrite the physics for driving" so I'm not super hopeful.
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I had no idea they were so maligned. Well, I wasn't terribly convinced Creepy Castle was going to come out at all, so I'm not too disappointed.
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DolphinCop posted:binding of isaac rebirth released on pc, ps4, and playstation vita. the expansion pack afterbirth has only released on pc, because nicalis did the console ports and made such a catastrophic mess of optimizing them that the expansion pack can't run on either platform. it has now been seven months since the expansion pack released, and it seems safe to say that, as with all other times nicalis has been confronted with their failures as human beings, they've decided to give up and fleece someone else instead They actually announced Afterbirth for PS4/XB1 today! Vita and 3DS are SOL. Nicalis are poo poo.
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