Warlord posted:

Hey, remember back when Star Marine (developed by Illfonic in CO) was a thing, then it wasn’t – then it suddenly appeared again? The State of Colorado has publicly listed their media and film incentives allocation statement. Between 2011 – 2018, they allocated about $17m, of which $3M was earmarked for fiscal year 2015. In that period, CIG got approximately $764K for Illfonic – which was working on Star Marine at the time. That was out of the $3.8m allocated that year by the State.

As we know, Star Marine was released Dec 23rd, 2016 in the 2.6 patch. Apparently, someone told the State that the money was for Star Citizen – and that it was released in 2015. Considering the fiasco over State funds allocation in the 38 Studios fiasco, this has some major implications in the long term. Wait and see. They are also doing the same thing in other States, as well as in the UK where the actually took out a loan with Coutts bank, against their govt. tax credits.

Quavers posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/997571653705007104






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DapperDon posted:

Paging Mr. BNBL....

Does it bother you that there are times when Derek Smart was right?

Lladre posted:

Right or wrong he is still a narcissistic rear end in a top hat. And that is why some people here do not like him.

Does it bother you that people may not like the guy based on reasons not pertaining to Star Citizen?

Bayonnefrog posted:

"This game totally has 2,000,000 engaged backers"

[~300 avg viewership any given day on twitch]

To Sandi plaything intern reading this: so much for the "best marketing in the world"

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

big nipples big life posted:

300 is a banner day for star citizen on twitch.

big nipples big life posted:

300 is a banner day for star citizen on twitch.

MilesK posted:

So what rewards does the Colorado state government get for backing at the $750k+ level? I assume they at least get the Javelin and Million Mile High Club access.

Quavers posted:

that Colorado's Office of Film, Television, and Media thinks CIG did filming in their state, and didn't just falsify their Film Incentives claims via fraudulent invoices to Illfonic.

Quavers posted:

that Colorado's Office of Film, Television, and Media thinks CIG did filming in their state, and didn't just falsify their Film Incentives claims via fraudulent invoices to Illfonic.

Quavers posted:

Quavers posted:

that Colorado's Office of Film, Television, and Media thinks CIG did filming in their state, and didn't just falsify their Film Incentives claims via fraudulent invoices to Illfonic.

Bayonnefrog posted:

could someone please explain the final line in the DS post "the project has now cost over 740k!!!"

I thought we were at 185+ mil

Hav posted:

James Bond was the Walther PPK. I believe they actually had to build it as it didn’t exist.

Bayonnefrog posted:

could someone please explain the final line in the DS post "the project has now cost over 740k!!!"

I thought we were at 185+ mil

Quavers posted:

Wonder what Colorado would say if they were given Kotaku's write-up of CIG mismanaging and scrapping Illfonic's work, that cost the state $764k

quote:

a scathing audit the program received in June (2017) that said it’s misspent millions of dollars by giving money to ineligible products and agreeing to pay producers who failed to submit proper paperwork.

TheAgent posted:

this is actually an excellent teaching experience re: working in games

it don't get much better and if you're actually decent at what you do, go do anything else, make twice as much and work half as hard

grimcreaper posted:

We need Derek back. Beet your in charge of this one.

Ayn Marx posted:

I'm glad ur family is dead.

Golli posted:

I'm guessing the 'k' should be an 'm'.

185 *4 is suspiciously close to 740.

Quavers posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/997571653705007104






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SpaceCurtisLeMay posted:

Writing CRUD applications ain't sexy, but everybody needs it and it pays well...

MilesK posted:

So what rewards does the Colorado state government get for backing at the $750k+ level? I assume they at least get the Javelin and Million Mile High Club access.

Quavers posted:

that Colorado's Office of Film, Television, and Media thinks CIG did filming in their state, and didn't just falsify their Film Incentives claims via fraudulent invoices to Illfonic.

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The Film Office overpaid one incentive by $36,500, or about 5 percent of the total $764,000 approved amount, in Fiscal Year 2016. The overpayment occurred because the production company improperly included about $212,000 in expenses that were incurred prior to the effective date of the contract. Therefore, the incentive the Film Office paid was more than 20 percent of the production’s actual qualified local expenditures. The CPA report for this project did not identify or correct this error.