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https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/26/oculus-engineer-dov-katz-arrested-in-sting-after-allegedly-soliciting-sex-from-a-15-year-old-girl/ Looks like he has a new startup now, though!
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NTRabbit posted:https://www.fig.co/campaigns/homeworld3 It doesn't need crowdfunding:  
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DoctorTristan posted:It doesn't need crowdfunding: lol
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DoctorTristan posted:It doesn't need crowdfunding: I wonder how much of that Randy Pitchford's going to embezzle.
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Aug 31, 2019 12:17
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Yeah I know, and I'll be waiting for retail and seeing if it turns out any good first, but I'm still excited for an actual proper RTS rather than another it's really a MOBA designed by venture capitalists thing
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Aug 31, 2019 12:39
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How about some long shots with nifty ideas, hopes against sense and reason given at least one of these is just out there all hopeful like it is the earliest of KS days? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skaggsoft/golod-a-dark-fantasy-dungeon-crawler/description 2 Brothers making a dungeon crawler, part traditional and part parting ways with just that. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/picklefeetgames/the-wind-and-wilting-blossom/description Ancient Japan FTL'ish with a demo slice at that~ Still insane about Soule though---I suppose now the world's only hope for a True MIDI Successor rests (partially) in the hands of the Imitone guy who is at least still semi-steadily delivering on his own KS from years on back...
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RagnarokZ posted:I wonder how much of that Randy Pitchford's going to embezzle. The majority of the crowdfunded money. And then the majority of the money they get for becoming Epic exclusive. (provided Epic is still buying exclusives in the same manner in 2022, which seems doubtful.) Or maybe Gearbox is pulling a Borderlands 2, and the crowdfunded money for Homeworld 3 gets redirected into Borderlands 3 DLC.
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Aug 31, 2019 20:03
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Aug 31, 2019 20:21
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Foglet posted:Alec Holowka too, seemingly (thread-appropriate since Night in the Woods was Kickstartered) Follow-up on this: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/08/31/night-in-the-woods-developer-accused-of-sexual-assault-dies
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That Strength of the Sword guy isn't doing well, he just posted a meltdown after a marketing firm offered to buy his email list.
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I can't read that update but I read the last public one and it's a shame, it seems like the game itself is pretty much as promisedso it sucks that all the over-commitment at the beginning took such a toll on them: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1145990096/strength-of-the-sword-ultimate/posts/2604388 EDIT: and yeah, it doubly sucks that the update I linked to immediately attracted vultures
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Promising a WiiU and Vita port must have made sense back in 2015...
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Not cancelling them years ago doesn't make sense, however - yeah, they wanted to commit to what they promised, good for them, but if they'd killed them ages ago they could have saved their sanity and probably not lost a lot of goodwill.
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Sorry to break the current conversation, but is anyone else playing the Blasphemous beta? It's pretty good, visually amazing, but I think I'm missing something because I can't work out how where to find the double-jump thing for the spots with embers. Again though, the game's beautiful! I guess inching towards the main conversation, none of these guys did anything horrible, right?
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HerniaFlange posted:Sorry to break the current conversation, but is anyone else playing the Blasphemous beta? It's pretty good, visually amazing, but I think I'm missing something because I can't work out how where to find the double-jump thing for the spots with embers. Again though, the game's beautiful! I have seen a few folks streaming the backer beta for Blasphemous and it seems you can find an item towards the end that can reveal a bunch of hidden platforms. Maybe that's what you need.
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wielder posted:I have seen a few folks streaming the backer beta for Blasphemous and it seems you can find an item towards the end that can reveal a bunch of hidden platforms. Maybe that's what you need. That's probably what it is, there's little swirls of embers you can see in spots that would be where you'd put platforms to reach the out of reach areas above them. Guess I need to figure out where I'm missing that piece. Thanks!
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Someone posted this in the Baldur's Gate 3 thread. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tacticaladventures/solasta-crown-of-the-magister It has a demo on Steam, which I just played through. Demo is short and has some rough edges, but it shows a lot of promise.
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https://twitter.com/PCGamesN/status/1169665282115325957 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/posts/2602855
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StrixNebulosa posted:Kingdom Come Deliverance. It's made by a gamergate supporter. Kinda late but it's a bit more than that. The devs are essentially pushing the whole "Europe was a peaceful monoethnic culture before ISLAM destroyed BYZANTIUM and also non-lilly-whites didn't exist" white nationalist narrative poo poo under the guise of "historical realism."
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C.M. Kruger posted:Kinda late but it's a bit more than that. The devs are essentially pushing the whole "Europe was a peaceful monoethnic culture before ISLAM destroyed BYZANTIUM and also non-lilly-whites didn't exist" white nationalist narrative poo poo under the guise of "historical realism."
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The clothes are wrong, the armor is wrong, the fighting styles are wrong, the local politics are wrong, the local flora and fauna is wrong - but it's ok, historical realism means we can't have black people.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Kinda late but it's a bit more than that. The devs are essentially pushing the whole "Europe was a peaceful monoethnic culture before ISLAM destroyed BYZANTIUM and also non-lilly-whites didn't exist" white nationalist narrative poo poo under the guise of "historical realism." And it's especially hilarious because the Bohemian region was a god drat trading hub, so people from all over the world routinely came there and that was one of the notable locations in medieval Europe that were quite diverse. So A++ gamergate dudes.
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Like they put tons of effort into making sure their armor system was at least layered realistically (but still had errors in terms of what armor was around) and had the player character just get trounced by actual soldiers for most of the game, then manage to gently caress up things like "this ethnic group of people are actually marauders and look like turks" when they had mostly integrated and become overt Christians by the 1400s, not to mention apparently had blue eyes and blonde hair. But that wouldn't make them good antagonists because, uuuuh...
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So! I just realized that Alexis Kennedy, abuser, was going to launch his kickstarter for the Cultist Sim sequel - Book of Hours - and it was supposed to launch on the 3rd. And now it's nowhere in sight. I wonder what happened, huh.
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You only get 2 weeks to say you want a refund? Wow. What a service.
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Welcome to the wild ambitions of Several Years Ago anew on KS, but with a demo even, for something folks have long hoped for---whose best case hope at this point is getting poached by Firaxis or some such outside of some stupidly rich folks throwing down. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/terranshield/terran-shield-edge-of-the-abyss/description
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Hey guys, we're a rando romanian studio and we're going to make an full 3D, destructible environment, above and below water X-Com from scratch. We're doing it for.....90k. This is exactly the kind of poo poo Kickstarter should bring the hammer down on.
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DatonKallandor posted:Hey guys, we're a rando romanian studio and we're going to make an full 3D, destructible environment, above and below water X-Com from scratch. We're doing it for.....90k. This is exactly the kind of poo poo Kickstarter should bring the hammer down on. this was the first time i saw a project that i thought was reasonable, but that they would never reach their goal in a billion years, because KS detected my region and added two zeros on to account for denomination long story short i saw 10,000,000 but didn't look at the dollar sign hard enough
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Even they say 100k isn't enough in the pitch. Which of course they bury all the way at the bottom in the risks and challenges section.Terran Shield posted:Following the completion of the campaign, a healthy budget for Terran Shield would be anything over $700,000. This is necessary in order to deliver the game in accordance with today’s standards and expectations for both visual appearance and gameplay. The campaign budget shall be supplemented by investor funds and funds received during the preorder campaign. Even if we don’t achieve our full budget target, we won’t deliver the final product until it is well-balanced and fun to play. We would rather have fewer environments and assets than provide an unfinished strategy game.
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Actually I am quite confused why this project is so unsuccessful, I mean I can see suggestions that it might not be that good a game, but I'd have thought the "firaxis dumbed things down!" crowd would lap it up. Is it just the art is kinda clumsy? Or is Xenonauts and Phoenix Point enough for those people?
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It looks like they've done no advertising and/or community engagement no posts on reddit, they have a twitter account started in 2018 with 12 followers and their name is garbage and gets mixed up with Starcraft results. Here is them getting eviscerated on the Steam forums "Steam Guy posted:I think by now most people are wary of crowdfunding. It never works. Looking at the "about us" page I see a bunch of concept artists but only one programmer with a genuine track record in the games industry. That doesn't sound good. Judging by this forum thread from only a year ago the programmer doesn't appear to have very good time management skills: Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Fangz posted:Actually I am quite confused why this project is so unsuccessful, I mean I can see suggestions that it might not be that good a game, but I'd have thought the "firaxis dumbed things down!" crowd would lap it up. Is it just the art is kinda clumsy? Or is Xenonauts and Phoenix Point enough for those people?  While there's demand for a TFTD-like and Terran Shield has been around for a year so they're not just pulling the game out of their rear end, it also just looks perfectly average. We already got dozens of perfectly average Xcom-likes, we can wait until it's done.For comparison, Xenonauts was in development for years before running a Kickstarter and they still only made $100k. The sequel, now with a much bigger fanbase and proven track record, barely made double. That is not a crowd that will drop their wallets day one, unless you got Gollop star power.
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ExiledTinkerer posted:Welcome to the wild ambitions of Several Years Ago anew on KS, but with a demo even, for something folks have long hoped for---whose best case hope at this point is getting poached by Firaxis or some such outside of some stupidly rich folks throwing down. These guys reached out to me because they knew I had a successful Kickstarter and asked for my advice. Believe me, I have told them several times NOT to launch until they put together something more competent. Last time we had spoken they said they'd get back to me and ask for feedback before launching. So they did, but it was less than 24 hrs before going live. I at least talked them out of a 3.5 minute text and diving through abstract seascapes introduction running at 15 fps. In case you're wondering about the terrible framerate, it's because it's not a build, they are showing you the game in the Unreal preview window most of the time. Ultimately, you can't fight this kind of Dunning-Kruger, and the best thing is probably to fail miserably and realize Kickstarter (and life) doesn't work that way. I feel bad for them, especially since I'm doing my best to support our meager indie scene any way I can, but I've learned some game design lessons the hard way recently from player feedback and I'm actually grateful for them, so maybe it's not all bad and they realize what they are doing wrong. I hope. I was reluctant to mention them because I don't want to come across as a sufferer of survivorship bias. I'll say this - their heart is definitely in the right place. I don't know much about the gameplay because I didn't have the time to check out the demo, maybe with better assets and some major technical fixes it could amount to some good stuff. Please please please don't launch any kind of crowdfunding campaign without making at least a minimal effort at social media and community building, at least six months in advance. Please. Mr Underhill fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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SupSuper posted:We're also extremely skeptical. Also it's extremely loving hard to make this genre of game work. You can count the good ones on the fingers of one hand. It took Firaxis six years to make XCOM, the first three of which they spent trying to work out what the tactical game was actually going to look like. There have been endless Jagged Alliance reboots that don't hit the mark. Xenonauts came out okay but really only because it stuck to being a tight remake of XCOM with some things that were known to work from Jagged Alliance thrown in.
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This is going to save me a lot of money. https://twitter.com/taylordotbiz/status/1172257828473573377
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