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Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

littlebluellama posted:

Somebody post something piss related, or a thing that like defaces or breaks an object you already have.
Well it's not a kickstarter, but here's a stupid as gently caress product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJhAR5tQg0

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Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Collateral Damage posted:

Well it's not a kickstarter, but here's a stupid as gently caress product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJhAR5tQg0

Sometimes you need a product to help maximize your ball sweat.

Garrand
Dec 28, 2012

Rhino, you did this to me!

Collateral Damage posted:

Well it's not a kickstarter, but here's a stupid as gently caress product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJhAR5tQg0

Yes, because my couch needs to be full of even more ball and rear end sweat.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

Collateral Damage posted:

Well it's not a kickstarter, but here's a stupid as gently caress product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJhAR5tQg0

in billy mays voice IT BAKES YOUR BALLS! IT COOKS YOUR oval office! IT TORCHES YOUR TAINT! IT BURNS YOUR BUNS! IT'S THE AMAZING SAUNA PANTS CALL NOW WITH CONFIDENCE!!!

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




I can't even look at those things without imaging the Prickly Heat/diaper rash that would inevitably follow if I tried sitting around in hot sweaty sauna pants while watching TV or whatever. Damp heat is not a friend to your nether regions.

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Count Uvula posted:

Low production cost, low shipping cost, simple easy-to-make designs, and just a general popularity among consumers of random individual artist products.


...If you order like 10000+ copies then yes. Its actually surprisingly difficult to find a reasonable pricetag for making a customized production run of ~couple of hundred enamel pins, at least was a couple of years ago when I was trying to come up with a small give-away present for our research project participants.

ravenkult
Feb 3, 2011


Der Kyhe posted:

...If you order like 10000+ copies then yes. Its actually surprisingly difficult to find a reasonable pricetag for making a customized production run of ~couple of hundred enamel pins, at least was a couple of years ago when I was trying to come up with a small give-away present for our research project participants.

You can get 100 made for about $180. You then sell them for $10 each.

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

Collateral Damage posted:

Well it's not a kickstarter, but here's a stupid as gently caress product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJhAR5tQg0

It must be rough going with an "expensive" $65 sauna experience. :v:

On the upside, guys who wear those sauna pants probably aren't going to have (more) kids. Those heating neck/back massage pillows/blankets have a "DON'T PUT THIS poo poo ON SENSITIVE AREAS OR EXPOSED SKIN AND FOR FUCKS SAKE DON'T USE PRESSURE TO HOLD IT IN PLACE" among other warnings that those pants ignore completely in their concept.

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
I'm gonna go back in time and murder the inventor of enamel pins

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1765478260/bobs-burgers-x-kpop-enamel-pin-collection?ref=newest&ref=discovery

evobatman
Jul 30, 2006

it means nothing, but says everything!
Pillbug

Do they even have the Bobs Burgers license?

working mom
Jul 8, 2015

evobatman posted:

Do they even have the Bobs Burgers license?

Lol

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

This game was banned from Kickstarter but apparently it managed to be completed anyway. It's about to be released on Steam in a week.

Behold the unholy union of FMV and PUA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5MfGJG_ndA

The MSJ has a new favorite as of 11:01 on Feb 28, 2018

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

The MSJ posted:

This game was banned from Kickstarter but apparently it managed to be completed anyway. It's about to be released on Steam in a week.

Behold the unholy union of FMV and PUA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5MfGJG_ndA

The game is fantastic. There are already let's plays on youtube, and basically it's always the same thing. You approach a girl and have several dialogue options:
a. I'm going to rape you (serious) - wrong option!
b. I'm going to rape you (joking) - wrong option!
c. Sometimes I cry at night when I remember I'm still a virgin - wrong option!
d. Hey, how are you doing? - correct option, you've mastered women!

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Paladinus posted:

The game is fantastic. There are already let's plays on youtube, and basically it's always the same thing. You approach a girl and have several dialogue options:
a. I'm going to rape you (serious) - wrong option!
b. I'm going to rape you (joking) - wrong option!
c. Sometimes I cry at night when I remember I'm still a virgin - wrong option!
d. Hey, how are you doing? - correct option, you've mastered women!

Some sample gameplay shots:

Palpek posted:

Ummm



drat, man don't tell her YET, that's like 5th date material.

Edit:



I'm starting to see a pattern here.

I brought my Drake
Jul 10, 2014

These high-G injections have some serious side effects after pulling so many jumps.

Guy Goodbody posted:

I'm gonna go back in time and murder the inventor of enamel pins

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor_(law)

I stopped selling pins on Etsy because I couldn't compete with people infringing on copyrights, reselling Alibaba merch, or both.

I really hope these crowdfunded folks outsource to China and then get scooped.

Max Coveri
Dec 23, 2015

by Athanatos

The MSJ posted:

This game was banned from Kickstarter but apparently it managed to be completed anyway. It's about to be released on Steam in a week.

Behold the unholy union of FMV and PUA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5MfGJG_ndA

Because we were all clamoring for a Man Enough sequel.

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.

The MSJ posted:

This game was banned from Kickstarter but apparently it managed to be completed anyway. It's about to be released on Steam in a week.

Behold the unholy union of FMV and PUA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5MfGJG_ndA

While I think it's funny that the content of this thing is so bad that it'd be for sure proper to ban it on its own merits, isn't it also against KickStarter TOS to just use a Kickstarter page as a storefront for a completed product? Because, uhhh...

quote:

The game is fully-funded to completion irrespective of reaching the target goal. The Kickstarter donations work both as a pre-sale of the game and also to provide a global translation, marketing and PR budget for the title.

It's pretty obvious that this isn't really kickstarting it at all. It's selling a finished game.

Harveygod
Jan 4, 2014

YEEAAH HEH HEH HEEEHH

YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN

THIS TRASH WAR AIN'T GONNA SOLVE ITSELF YA KNOW

SpacePig posted:

It's pretty obvious that this isn't really kickstarting it at all. It's selling a finished game.

And it's not like they can even pretend to have to develop anything. The video even brags about only having "520 choices." So it's just a program that will play a one of four possible mp4's based on which box you click.

I don't know how to code but I'm certain that I could learn enough to code this game in a week.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

The MSJ posted:

Some sample gameplay shots:

Paragon
Renegade
Jeffrey Dahmer

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Harveygod posted:

So it's just a program that will play a one of four possible mp4's based on which box you click.

aaaaand history once again repeats itself, horribly:

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
Five years after the end of the campaign, the guys behind the Robotech miniatures game have admitted that half the promised products will never be produced. But they are graciously offering to send people more of the stuff they've already received to make up the difference. But they will be pricing the stuff they send at MSRP, not the lower kickstarter prices, and also they aren't covering shipping.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rrpgt/robotech-rpg-tacticstm/posts/2120399

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

SharkTales!
Woo-oo!



queserasera posted:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor_(law)

I stopped selling pins on Etsy because I couldn't compete with people infringing on copyrights, reselling Alibaba merch, or both.

I really hope these crowdfunded folks outsource to China and then get scooped.


Yeah, while the production process is approachable to any artist who knows Illustrator that's what makes it very easy to vector trace a simple cartoon screencap and send it off.

I like buying ones from artists who produce their own designs, though :shobon: .

kjetting
Jan 18, 2004

Hammer Time

Pastry of the Year posted:

aaaaand history once again repeats itself, horribly:



One of the let's players here on SA actually managed to make a working PC Port of that game without any programming, just uploading the source videos to Youtube and connecting them with annotation links.

Bob Smith
Jan 5, 2006
Well Then, What Shall We Start With?

Guy Goodbody posted:

Five years after the end of the campaign, the guys behind the Robotech miniatures game have admitted that half the promised products will never be produced. But they are graciously offering to send people more of the stuff they've already received to make up the difference. But they will be pricing the stuff they send at MSRP, not the lower kickstarter prices, and also they aren't covering shipping.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rrpgt/robotech-rpg-tacticstm/posts/2120399

The even better part is their initial plan for you to pay for your shipping for your liquidation stock sold at RRP (because they have lost the license and have to dump it all) was to send them your credit card number by Kickstarter private message.

SupSuper
Apr 8, 2009

At the Heart of the city is an Alien horror, so vile and so powerful that not even death can claim it.

kjetting posted:

One of the let's players here on SA actually managed to make a working PC Port of that game without any programming, just uploading the source videos to Youtube and connecting them with annotation links.
There was actually a official PC port of the game, which ScummVM now supports, and it basically amounts to just that: audio clips and images tied together by choices.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
Forget YouTube, the gameplay of most adventure games could be faithfully replicated in Hypercard. Zork is actually just one big text file with tags for the wrapper to draw from.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Guy Mann posted:

Forget YouTube, the gameplay of most adventure games could be faithfully replicated in Hypercard. Zork is actually just one big text file with tags for the wrapper to draw from.

I mean, a ton WERE in Hypercard. Including the original MYST.

That's not how Zork works though, Zork uses the Z-machine virtual machine instructions just like all of Infocom's other games and a ton of even modern text adventures. Because they had to sell games on the dozens of platforms available, they use the same data files across every platform which mixes in a bunch of virtual machine instructions, specialty compression methods for the action terms and what the actions do, and a seperate sort of compression for the plain old descriptions.

These days if you want to write games to run on the Z-machine format though, you can use languages like Inform 7 where you can just define the whole game the way you describe, simple tags and text. But you didn't have that sort of luxury back when you're writing the original Zork.

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Guy Goodbody posted:

Five years after the end of the campaign, the guys behind the Robotech miniatures game have admitted that half the promised products will never be produced. But they are graciously offering to send people more of the stuff they've already received to make up the difference. But they will be pricing the stuff they send at MSRP, not the lower kickstarter prices, and also they aren't covering shipping.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rrpgt/robotech-rpg-tacticstm/posts/2120399

Jesus, reading that post is like re-reading "Poorly Made in China."

Command Ant
Aug 9, 2010

I can make you
worth your weight
in gold!

The MSJ posted:

This game was banned from Kickstarter but apparently it managed to be completed anyway. It's about to be released on Steam in a week.

Dunkey played this a couple of weeks back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS6R2Q7eRdg

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Phanatic posted:

Jesus, reading that post is like re-reading "Poorly Made in China."

He's lying about at least some of it. Ninja Division had already made miniatures games before, but they didn't know plastic molds couldn't have undercuts? Bullshit.

C.M. Kruger
Oct 28, 2013
I haven't played tabletop games since like 2009 but it's good to see Kevin Siembieda is still incompetent as ever.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Guy Mann posted:

You joke but a lot of people buy them ~ironically~ so they can walk around with them at anime conventions or pose with them for their selfies for Imgur upvotes or whatever. It's enough of a thing that multiple game studios have done them as crowdfunding rewards.



A goon submission recently won the homestuck body pillow merch contest

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
Another day, another overpriced piece of poo poo that doesn't work that raised a decent six figgies on Kickstarter off of vinyl hipsters and "makers" who don't actually know how to build anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEkj4BVaD0s

It's not as comically inept as the RokBlok but it's still a lovely version of something that already exists.

senrath
Nov 4, 2009

Look Professor, a destruct switch!


And the campaign page is unavailable because of an IP dispute.

JfishPirate
Jun 24, 2006
I have been grossly misinformed about witches.
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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Or ten Nokia 3310s.

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Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
TV SHHOW

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