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torgo posted:It's kinda comical how badly all the ex-Sierra Kickstarter and Kickstarter adjacent projects have gone. I think it's more of a "people who haven't made a game in decades" thing.
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If they had just made their adventure game in adventure game maker, but went real hard on 2d assets and many rooms and puzzles and stuff any nostalgia adventure game redux would have the chance of being better. Have a small, simple, limited palate and make stuff with love. Trust your audience. All these lovely kickstarters that build engines from the wheel up are so so cynical.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Ran into this one via my newsfeed: This is actually a really cool looking project. Imagine if it turned out to be the next Terraria where they just keep updating it, improving it and adding tons of content for years and years. Yeah it's nice to dream
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Okay but Hero-U was an absolute joy. Maybe they had to mortgage their house, but I loved the game.
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antidote posted:Okay but Hero-U was an absolute joy. Maybe they had to mortgage their house, but I loved the game. I liked Hero-U, but its hard to deny it made some really poor design decisions (like how taking the magic class is a worthless trap option).
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It also didn't help that the Hero-U development was essentially restarted and went on Kickstarter a second time as well. I really enjoyed the end result and I'm actually a bit sad that we will probably never see a sequel.
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torgo posted:Jane Jensen's project: Actually, I don't remember how that one turned out. Suffered from the company she was planning to use collapsing into bankruptcy more or less immediately after the kickstarter ended and her having to rely for a lot of work on Phoenix Online which is basically a group of fans not pros. Honestly Moebius Empire Rising ended up OK just very low budget vs her Sierra games which seems to be the real complaint about most of these classic creator projects, they're working with budgets that are a fraction of what they used to have. What didn't go well was the Gabriel Knight remake, which was done at the same time with the same team, and reading between the lines all the issues there were caused by Activision who were funding the project and still own the Gabriel Knight IP being massive poo poo-lords.
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They claimed that the dialogue sources they had weren’t up to standard but I think it was probably a rights issue of some kind. They could have ripped the Curry/Hamill/Dorn/Remini/etc audio from the original and it would have sounded fine. It’s not like it was horribly compressed or anything.
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One of Gaming’s Greatest Writers Is Busy Crafting Romance Novels WIRED talked to Jane Jensen about her prolific publishing, shape-shifting dogs, and the hope of seeing Gabriel Knight 4. I'm mostly glad she's doing well creatively/financially. Megazver fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Sep 19, 2022 |
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Thanks for reminding me about Space Venture, I went to check my email and- This is going to be a great adventure!
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torgo posted:Leisure Suit Larry Remake: I feel like Al Lowe should have realized that maybe leaving this game in the 80's would have been for the best. The whole loving thing was one of the biggest Kickstarter messes. The game was awful, and it was crammed full of truly cringeworthy backer reward poo poo. 
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Humerus posted:Thanks for reminding me about Space Venture, I went to check my email and- Checked out someone's early impressions video and the first thing they ran into is that the Settings button on the main menu doesn't work.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:The whole loving thing was one of the biggest Kickstarter messes. The game was awful, and it was crammed full of truly cringeworthy backer reward poo poo. Those are some clip art looking assets, drat.
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Maybe this will be good. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ansharpublishing/zoria-age-of-shattering Got sent this by the guys who did Gamedec, I think they're publishing this one and there's some of the same people involved. There's a demo on Steam.
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This also looks nice: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primalgs/mandragora
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:The whole loving thing was one of the biggest Kickstarter messes. The game was awful, and it was crammed full of truly cringeworthy backer reward poo poo. This game has been remade wayyyyyyy too many times - and this is a die hard LSL fan here
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So the surprise of no one, Midoria is finally coming clean about being a scam. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/epicmindsinc/midora-0/posts/3623076
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Azubah posted:So the surprise of no one, Midoria is finally coming clean about being a scam. Never heard of this before but I would've thought the trailer being 95% stolen Minish Cap assets might have been a bit of a red flag.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:The whole loving thing was one of the biggest Kickstarter messes. The game was awful, and it was crammed full of truly cringeworthy backer reward poo poo. Every single one of those guys had an alt-right youtube channel around 2016
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How did the Wyrmwood gaming tables go? I cancelled my order long ago but it looks like they have been shipping this year? But their desk kickstarter got cancelled? I always thought they’d get shut down for OHS reasons.
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Comstar posted:How did the Wyrmwood gaming tables go? I cancelled my order long ago but it looks like they have been shipping this year? But their desk kickstarter got cancelled? https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/23460944/tabletop-creators-are-trapped-in-a-boom-and-bust-crowdfunding-cycle
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Megazver posted:https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/23460944/tabletop-creators-are-trapped-in-a-boom-and-bust-crowdfunding-cycle I couldn't tell from the story- have the gaming tables been shipped yet?
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I think they're mostly caught up. I have one, it's okay.
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Still a feeble kick every now and again from Kickstarter with smaller video game projects. Wormwood Studios, developer of Primordia and Strangeland have a new game up for crowdfunding: Hibernaculum. It's the brainchild of Wormwood's artist, Victor Pflug. The Basics posted:Hibernaculum is a retro-inspired dungeon crawler that sets out to recreate the engrossing labyrinthine experiences of the classics of days gone by, whilst also building a modern, deeply unique & explorable world of survival, mystery and macabre intrigue."     Only just became aware of Hibernaculum because of Grim Beard's video, though his persona might be a bit much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ38psBZbms
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Oh no, it looks like an Amiga 500 game
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The_Doctor posted:Oh no, it looks like an Amiga 500 game You say that like a bad thing 
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Captain Hygiene posted:You say that like a bad thing Not even slightly! 
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Rebel Blob posted:Wormwood Studios, developer of Primordia and Strangeland have a new game up for crowdfunding: Hibernaculum. Looks very cool but $30 for the base tier? I'd blame inflation but crowdfunding prices were trending upwards before, too. I guess it's better than asking for too little. I'm glad it didn't need me to get funded. Out of curiosity, how many projects are people itt still waiting on? I basically never back anything nowadays cause I feel like I've been priced out of even the base game tiers, but I've still got six I'm waiting on. One is as close to a guarantee as you can get I think (Near-Mage), two are quietly trucking along and I'm pretty confident about them even if it's gonna take a while still (K'nossos, Cosmic Frontier: Override), and three that I think are probably either dead or dying (Tala, Selling Sunlight, Consortium: The Tower).
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Sway Grunt posted:Looks very cool but $30 for the base tier? I'd blame inflation but crowdfunding prices were trending upwards before, too. I guess it's better than asking for too little. I'm glad it didn't need me to get funded. I know the Selling Sunlight devs! Game's not dead, but the pandemic and subsequent burnout have slowed things down a lot. They're stubborn, though. Don't give up on them yet 
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mycelia posted:I know the Selling Sunlight devs! Game's not dead, but the pandemic and subsequent burnout have slowed things down a lot. They're stubborn, though. Don't give up on them yet That's good to hear! That was the one I was saddest about. I do remember from the updates that yeah, Covid really did a number on them sadly, and right off the bat too considering they were all in Italy at the time. I still absolutely love the idea for the game as well as the beautiful art so hopefully it eventually comes to fruition.
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Most of mine came through, still checking up on Sui Generis. Its demo Exanima came out in 2015 and has.. yearly updates?
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My big misses are Moon Intern, which ran into trouble early on and was last heard of literally 10 years ago. I think it was a solo project and way too ambitious but those were the wild early days of Kickstarter. What really upsets me is Unbroken, a solo board game. The project itself went fine, but as the game was about to release the publisher posted that they had accidentally calculated their shipping costs all wrong and are basically holding the games hostage by only offering them to people who pay extra shipping. The last anyone heard of that project was before the pandemic so I'm not holding out much hope of ever getting my game. Not the first scummy, scammy thing that publisher has pulled, sadly.
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I still feel bad for backing Radio the Universe
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I don't, it took like a trillion years but it is still inching closer and closer to release. It's going to be the final game of the great kickstarter gold rush to actually get made
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:My big misses are Moon Intern, which ran into trouble early on and was last heard of literally 10 years ago. I think it was a solo project and way too ambitious but those were the wild early days of Kickstarter. Oh, same! I think that's the only Kickstarter I backed that hasn't delivered in some form. I've had others that were partially delivered, or I just didn't like the end result (Double Fine Adventure). The System Shock remake and Firmament, an adventure game from the Myst people, were looking like they might have been failures, but both of those are supposed to be releasing later this year. System Shock even has a backer beta out that I've been playing, it's good!
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No Dignity posted:I don't, it took like a trillion years but it is still inching closer and closer to release. It's going to be the final game of the great kickstarter gold rush to actually get made I played the Demo and hated it. That's the reason.
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Waiting on (most are Swiitch) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sunhaven/sunhaven, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/squarehusky/everafter-falls,and https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3l1/wanderlost. Sun Haven is most irritating as it's out on Steam and out of EA already.
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