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...of SCIENCE! posted:As evil as this is, what's even worse is that actual professional film studios are doing this exact same drat thing and almost nobody cares aside from the actual VFX artists. I'm pretty sure those guys got into legal trouble for doing that.
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PostNouveau posted:Now with gameplay footage! ...why make a video of gameplay that includes no animations whatsoever?
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Aug 7, 2013 18:38
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:T-Shirt Kickstarters are stupid as hell no matter how good the shirt designs are because custom t-shirt printing places are about a dime a dozen. Now, I'm not arguing the merits of this particular shirt Kickstarter, but to say all of them are stupid just because is a bit disingenuous. Yes, custom t-shirt printing place are about a dime a dozen. But it also costs far less per shirt to order a whole lot of them at once, rather than a few at a time. And getting a lot of people to pledge in advance means that you're not out a bunch of money if it turns out you were wrong about how popular your design was going to be and end up not selling any.
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Aug 11, 2013 05:42
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JDM3 posted:Browsing through the "games" offerings and noticed a fairly substantial number of RPG type non-digital games. (Like D&D). Based on the groups I game with, a lot more than you might think. Some gamers like to stick with a few systems, while others will branch out and try as many different systems that they can get their hands on.
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So, you know those peg solitaire games that you can get for around $5? Ever want one in the shape of Virginia or West Virginia? Then have I got the Kickstarter for you! The guy wants $17,000 to make these games and is selling them for $20 each. Why does he want so much money? Because he wants to buy a $13,500 laser engraving machine.
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Aug 14, 2013 03:34
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John Videogames posted:Starcraft Universe: since Blizzard doesn't give us a SC MMO, we'll just make one ourselves!
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Aug 14, 2013 18:07
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Zybourne Clock posted:RPG Maker is still as popular of a tool as it was ten years ago, I see. Pay him five bucks, and he'll let you 'answer a question in the game'. I think this means he'll let you decide on a gameplay feature. If it wasn't a flexible funding campaign I'd donate just to suggest not using the default face icons. Apparently their official music is by someone named Steven Ramon. The update proclaiming this provides no links to this person's work, nor any information about them. Great job guys! WickedHate posted:Why do RPG Maker users even need money? Depends. They could want money so they can work full time on their "masterpiece." Or they could want money to hire someone else to work on the game
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Aug 16, 2013 06:01
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Happitoo posted:For some reason, this one really bothers me: Really, the problem seems to be entirely that they used Flexible Funding instead of Fixed. A theater near me did a Kickstarter for exactly the same thing with similar rewards, and it worked for them.
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Aug 19, 2013 21:19
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3D is a fad, yes, but according to the theater near me who only just recently finished a Kickstarter of their own so they could upgrade, if they didn't then soon they wouldn't be able to screen any new movies, because they're not really making them on 35mm print anymore. So even if switching to digital doesn't save this theater, not switching would pretty much be a death sentence.
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Aug 19, 2013 21:25
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Regalingualius posted:I'd think it to be highly fitting if all that was written in said book was "Step 1: Find idiots on the Internet willing to pay for something without thinking about it." I am reminded of an old FoxTrot strip: http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrotclassics/2010/07/15
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Aug 25, 2013 07:48
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BanjoFish posted:Regarding the spinning glassblowers, the spinning wine glasses seem like a disaster waiting to happen, but I think the spinning decanter is kind of cool. It fulfills the purpose of what a decanter is supposed to accomplish by aerating the wine, so it might make a good gift for the wine-connosiour who already has everything. Yeah, I could see the decanter being a neat thing to break out for parties, but I just know I'd get really annoyed at trying to use the glasses. Edit: I do find the actual idea behind that Kickstarter pretty neat, though. senrath has a new favorite as of 02:24 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Aug 26, 2013 02:22
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Zybourne Clock posted:Isn't that illustration on the T-shirt in the upper right hand corner from Hyperbole and a Half? I guess that's how the project's creator can afford all those expensive printing machines - she can save money simply by not paying any licensing fees. Yes, that's from Hyperbole and a Half. It's like all of those other awful meme related poo poo that shows up on Kickstarter all the time, people just don't realize that individual memes are actually owned by someone.
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Aug 26, 2013 15:26
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MBPearls posted:The math isn't adding up on the Kickstarter... doing very quick calculations, I have $73,000ish unaccounted for from backers (all the backer stuff seems t come up just past $5000). What the heck? You can pledge more than the minimum for a tier. Technically, if you wanted, you could pledge $10k and select no reward.
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So, Uwe Boll is trying to raise $500k to make a movie adaptation of Postal 2.The Kickstarter posted:POSTAL 2 will finally destroy the filmindustry and the world we are living in. We could name the movie also HONEY BOOBOO must die ....but so many people deserve to die. Why starting with a child? Did Osama die? We know. And why the Navy Seals were too stupid to land a helicopter on a free field? Why did Building 6 collapse? We explain. Why is Obama is like Bush? We show you. POSTAL 2 by EVENT FILM
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Aug 29, 2013 00:32
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Autechresaint posted:Why would the explosions be tied to your character's facing direction? There are several times where he killed something, turned around and a couple of frames of the explosion follow him. He probably wanted to make the explosions be based on your position, decided it was easier to base it on facing, and then hosed up and had it check for your facing every frame of the explosion animation rather than just when it started.
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Sep 4, 2013 20:59
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Lodin posted:This is a pretty cool idea that will probably end as a huge failure. Cross Plane is a WiiU-pad'ish handheld that can stream pretty much anything under the sky. Sorta like how the the Nvidia Shield handles PC games. The cheapest you can get one from them is $350. I don't know about you, but I don't think I'd want to spend almost as much as I would buying a brand new next-gen system on a new controller.
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Bad Munki posted:Umm, isn't there already such a composition? A rather famous one, at that. I forget what it's called, though, but it's five minutes of full orchestral nothing. Several recordings have been made. You're probably thinking of 4'33". It's four minutes, 33 seconds of silence. That said, there are a lot more than just that one. Edit: Curse me being slow at looking up that URL.
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Blast of Confetti posted:I like this. It's like those YouTube videos where someone does an LP and say they'll only put some effort in to it once they reach a certain number of likes. Bit off on what they're saying, although it did take me a little while to realize what they really meant. See the picture under that line? And how each additional stretch goal has the same line, plus a different picture? They're not saying that at that money they'll make the original minis better, they're saying that they'll include new minis, and are (poorly) stating that the concept art is not final and changes might be made between it and the final mini.
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Sep 8, 2013 23:00
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No, see, they just want to make it easier on the pickpocket to relieve them of everything important in one go.
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First off, the Kickstarter ended in March. It wasn't until last week that it was revealed that any cross promotional backers that backed at the Deluxe level effectively donated $20 more than (at least some of them) would have. Their response to this was to put together a list of everyone affected, and they'd be getting a month early access to something neat! But, oh, wait, after that month it's free to anyone. Then yesterday they revealed that no one would be getting the Rogue card, and declared that it was too late to do anything, sorry, everyone affected also gets access to the neat thing, which turns out to be some music they're making based on the location cards in the game. So to sum up, I'm not too annoyed that the mistakes happened (although one of them could have been prevented if they'd asked about printing costs of their promo stuff ahead of time), I'm annoyed at their responses to the mistakes. Edit: After taking more time to think on things, I no longer feel the way I did when I posted this. Please disregard. senrath has a new favorite as of 20:42 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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Zybourne Clock posted:I haven't seen any mention of this SeaSteading related IndieGoGo campaign in this thread, and I wonder how they managed to fly under our radar for so long considering their campaign started on the third of august. For those of you who don't know, the SeaSteading Institute aims to build a fully sovereign artificial island nation somewhere in the ocean so its inhabitants can be freed from that cruel human invention called 'law'. The project is supported mostly by crazy libertarians, including one of the PayPal founders. In the past there have been threads on GBS about SeaSteading and other libertarian micronations, which have spawned some excellent literature. I take it that no one involved in the project ever played Bioshock.
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Zybourne Clock posted:If you pump 5000 dollars into the bus tour, you'll receive 2000 DVDs, 2000 books, 12 T-shirts, 4 signed posters, 4 tickets to the premier, and the producers will also stick a camera in your face so that you are free to go on an angry rant that will be watched by literally tens of like-minded individuals. That works out to just over a dollar per item. Is the guy behind this project just really pissed off at the IRS because of his own inability to figure out finances correctly?
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Zybourne Clock posted:I've never heard of this particular device before, but after the OUYA debacle you'd think people on KickStarter would be more careful about backing the next Android games console. This was launched minutes ago, and it already has over 700 dollars in pledges. To be fair to them, while the OUYA was supposed to be a games console that happened to run Android, this one seems to be a multimedia center that happens to be able to run a few games. I still wouldn't fund it, but their business model at least seems to be better than OUYA's.
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Jedit posted:My three year old TV already does everything this does other than play a handful of games that I can play on my two year old phone. Way to keep up with the curve, guys! Yeah, but I bet you can't hack your TV 
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Zaphod42 posted:Uh, I'm a backer and they've been doing a really good job of communicating their problems, admitting their mistakes, and finding workarounds. As good as any theoretical kickstarter could do, I'm not really sure what you want. Yes, I really shouldn't have posted it here. There were mistakes made, but it isn't the end of the world, and they've been very transparent about things. I've had more time to think on things now and my moment of anger has passed. The only reason I didn't edit out those posts were because people had quoted them, although I probably should go back and edit in an explanation that I no longer feel the same way I did when I posted those.
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I wonder why he picked such an incredibly specific day to start suing people for no good reason.
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Noni posted:Was Subutai open from the start that the Kickstarter campaign was only for first round fundraising, or was this something they announced after they blew half a million bucks on hookers and swords? They didn't mention that the Kickstarter was only for the initial funds to try and attract other investors until this latest update, I believe.
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UncleSmoothie posted:You've found TimeCube: The Game. That was the response of the TG Kickstarters thread too. The best part is the update it has: History posted:It was taken off a Goa'uld mother ship.
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Zybourne Clock posted:Craig needs your help to make this HTML5 belt buckle a reality. I can imagine someone buying and wearing a piece of pop-culture related merchandise because said person is a fan. But a belt buckle for a markup language? Is HTML5 really that popular of a tool? Not that I know of? And honestly, I didn't even realize that was the HTML5 logo until I looked it up. I could see someone mistaking it as a Superman themed belt buckle from a distance.
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NoneSuch posted:The $1850 pledge confuses me, I can't imagine an adult wanting to go out and ride one of those things so it can only be meant for kids. Sending your kid out to meet some design team and stay a night is creepy. Given that their specs talk about being useable by a 250 lb adult? I'd say they're expecting kids AND adults are going to want to use one.
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Bad Munki posted:You mean a lack of context except for the last, what, ten pages? I believe he's saying that if you take the quote out of context it sounds like a TCC post, not that there's no context.
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MrAptronym posted:Its kind of sad when you admit most of your money is going towards catering to make animators stay with you. Is he hiring the homeless? Sonic fans? Art students. He's literally trying to get art students to work for him for "small incentives" rather than actual pay.
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Talkie Toaster posted:Well, this is their artist's deviantart page. That doesn't fill me with faith that they're taking the piss. Whether or not it still is, it did at least start as a parody.
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Nenonen posted:Someone has already pledged $5000 for a game that doesn't exist. Why would you? Are the developers well-known MMORPG designers, or why would anyone invest such amount of money for a game that may be poo poo? I'd guess it's called "being friends with the dev team."
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Waffleman_ posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1330754003/bear-simulator It's awesome and the creator actually registered to answer some questions in the Kickstarter Gaming thread.
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Waffleman_ posted:Keep in mind, this is this guy's second attempt at this KS. He has the same number of backers and over twice the amount pledged, now.
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quote:Pledge $6,000 or more Someone on that project can't do math.
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Tim Chuma posted:In all honesty I was going to try to do something on this site, but too many people are posting stupid poo poo or want support just to run things that should be a hobby. I have poured all my money for the last ten years and most of my time into my own work and thought I might be able to get some support. Bollocks to that idea then.... So because other people are getting money for poo poo things you're not going to try for what you feel is your own not-poo poo thing?
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