The Game Crowdfunding Thread

[Flannel Boy]

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-me-get-these-kids-off-video-games-hunting-for-real-treasure [Fund their trip to the beach!]

Amazing.

"HELP Me Get These Kids Off Video Games"  :krs :ooh :orly :tbslol

[Great Rumbler]

Fatal Frame-esque horror game from Indonesia:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dreadout

They've even got a demo.

[Steve Contra]

Fatal Frame-esque horror game from Indonesia:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dreadout

They've even got a demo.

At what tier do you actually get a copy of the game

[Great Rumbler]

Uhh...starting at $15, where it specifically says "Digital Download Dreadout Game."

[Great Rumbler]

And here's a Kickstarter from Mark Jacobs, the mastermind behind Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13861848/camelot-unchained

It's an MMO.

[mjemirzian]

Let's see what I've backed..

Shovel Knight
Divinity: Original Sin
Battle World: Kronos
Telepath Tactics
Torment: Tides of Numeria
Mage's Initiation
Cryamore
Project Eternity

Paid $10-25 for each. I don't think any of these will end up being unreleased or awful, but we'll see.

[bork]

I backed the GCW-Zero handheld (now pushed back to "shipping at the end of this month") on KickStarter and Skullgirls PC/DLC on IndieGoGo. 

[Great Rumbler]

So far, I've backed:

-Wasteland 2
-Double Fine Adventure [Broken Age]
-Project Eternity
-Dead State
-Torment:Tides of Numenera
-Divinity: Original Sin
-The Banner Saga
-Shadowrun Returns

[Great Rumbler]

Shmup from some former STALKER devs:



http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1166550020/humans-must-answer-an-explosive-2d-shmup

[Don Flamenco]

euroshmups

prediction:  its gonna be slow and everything is gonna take too many damn hits to kill

*watches vid* 


CALLLED IT :yesss

[Damian79]

euroshmups

prediction:  its gonna be slow and everything is gonna take too many damn hits to kill

*watches vid* 


CALLLED IT :yesss

Eh talk like that means you didnt like UN Squadron, Tyrion or Raptor.  You are a bad person.

[Don Flamenco]

the opening scene about the last tree on earth getting cut down in Tyrian or Raptor (forget which one it was) gave me nightmares as a kid.   :'(   

[Don Flamenco]

yeah, UN Squadron is well paced and japanese.  plus you're fighting battle ships and stuff. 

[Damian79]

OK, so you atleast like UN squadron.  You are no longer a bad person.

one of those things is not like the other

Hmm?   They all have things taking a lot of hits to kill and all are slow for the most part.

[Damian79]

actually i guess all three of them aren't european.

and all three of them may have multi-hit enemies, but they aren't anywhere near slow.  if you watch that kickstarter video and look at the speed of the enemy shots compared to any of those three games you listed, it's like night and day.

Well UN squadron has slower enemy shots if you played it on easy, on normal it was about the same.  Gamer mode yeah it was much faster.

As for the other games i dunno. It been a while since i played them.  Atleast Tyrian has slow shots.



In shmups, in my experience the slow shots combined with fast shots is much harder to dodge because you are worrying about the slow ones that take forever to move across the screen and bam the fast shot comes in and hits you.

[Great Rumbler]

The video on the Kickstarter page looks a bit faster than the one I posted in this thread.

[Great Rumbler]

Sidescrolling roguelike:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/riskofrain/risk-of-rain

And the demo:

http://www.mediafire.com/?3igauogkdhllzt2

[hampster]

Well this is something

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2018085223/super-drake-tracker-2000-ex

Satire of terrible kickstarters?
An inside joke taken to far?

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1445624543/anne

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2079547763/jagged-alliance-flashback

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nyumedia/the-tale-of-alltynex-japans-epic-shooting-game-tri

[Great Rumbler]

I just saw a commercial on TV today for Zach Braff's Garden State 2 Kickstarter.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Are you paying attention, W. D. Richter? It's time for Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League!

[close]

[BobFromPikeCreek]

A TV commercial for a Kickstarter? Whut?

[Great Rumbler]

Actually, it could have been a news report that it was just covering the announcement of the Kickstarter. I caught it while channel flipping and then quickly flipped away once I realized what it was.

[Great Rumbler]

As the Divinity: Original Sin Kickstarter is nearly done, enjoy this video of the Larian team messing up while trying to film update videos [also includes random glitches and bugs in their games]:

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

So Zach Braff's kickstarter hit its goal with 26 days to spare.  There is no God.

Garden State was one of the shittiest, most overhyped movies of the 2000s.  Anyone who backed this turkey should feel bad.

[ManaByte]

Penny Arcade wants your money to do podcasts. Really.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pennyarcade/penny-arcades-podcast-downloadable-content-the-ret

[Positive Touch]

zach braffs cottonelle commercials made me hate puppies

[Don Flamenco]

Penny Arcade wants your money to do podcasts. Really.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pennyarcade/penny-arcades-podcast-downloadable-content-the-ret

really?  they can't afford some fucking microphones?

[Stoney Mason]

At least its an actual "product" this time.


That one where they were going to remove the ads on the site seemed like the shadiest shit ever.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pennyarcade/penny-arcade-sells-out

And idiots on GAF were all over their nuts kissing them on that one.

[Joe Molotov]

Penny Arcade wants your money to do podcasts. Really.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pennyarcade/penny-arcades-podcast-downloadable-content-the-ret

Money well spent IMO to see GAF pitch a spergfit over it.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=555318

OMG won't someone think of the poor hapless fans?! 

[ManaByte]

[Great Rumbler]

Penny-Arcade mocked Kickstarter there for a while, before they realized it was a magical money tree.

[Flannel Boy]

At least its an actual "product" this time.


That one where they were going to remove the ads on the site seemed like the shadiest shit ever.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pennyarcade/penny-arcade-sells-out

And idiots on GAF were all over their nuts kissing them on that one.

Pledge $7,500 or more

2 backers All gone!

Intern at Penny Arcade for a day! You'll be put to real work under the supervision of Khoo. (you will need to arrange travel)

[Steve Contra]

Penny Arcade has the perfect audience for this type of thing.  They have disposable income because they're gamers and willing to piss away money, they're probably childless and unmarried, thus have no one to tell them no they shouldn't spend money on podcasts (see first reason for why this is) and they're dumb, because they read Penny Arcade.  Professional Wrestling could get away with the same thing, except for the disposable income part.

[pilonv1]

Professional Wrestling could get away with the same thing, except for the disposable income part.

Wrestling Observer site subscription is $11 a month and you get all the newsletters and podcasts (dozen+ shows a week).

[Steve Contra]

I'm glad I didn't know that.

[brob]

Pledge $7,500 or more

2 backers All gone!

Intern at Penny Arcade for a day! You'll be put to real work under the supervision of Khoo. (you will need to arrange travel)

this is mad impressive/abhorrent. I don't know.

[pilonv1]

I'm glad I didn't know that.

I love the Observer, Dave Meltzer is my idol

[Sho Nuff]

Pledge $7,500 or more

2 backers All gone!

Intern at Penny Arcade for a day! You'll be put to real work under the supervision of Khoo. (you will need to arrange travel)

this is mad impressive/abhorrent. I don't know.

[cool breeze]

After rich woman's daughter scam, everyone else needs to step their game up if they want to impress me.

Yet Dyack thought Kickstarter was too legitimate for his company's business

[archnemesis]

Kickstarter isn't available in Canada yet, IIRC.

[Great Rumbler]

After rich woman's daughter scam, everyone else needs to step their game up if they want to impress me.

Yet Dyack thought Kickstarter was too legitimate for his company's business

Which has currently scammed $125k from 2100 people.

Kickstarter isn't available in Canada yet, IIRC.

That's easy enough to get around, and they could have used Indiegogo.

[Don Flamenco]

but if they used indiegogo they couldn't do this completely on their own ambiguous terms.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Wow. I'd call this scummy if it wasn't so successful.

[Rufus]

It's scummy regardless.

[Stoney Mason]

The more I look into it the more hilarious it is. They only set a limit of $10. So they made sure this had no chance of failure. It's all literally just free money. I'm shocked there isn't any Kickstarter rules against that. They would have reached whatever goal they set anyway but you would think there would be funding minimums based on scope and scale of project.

Part of me thinks its scummy but then part of me respects them a good deal also for purposely trolling their fans. If you are just fleecing video game nerds then honestly I have to applaud them a bit. 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

If people want to give them money for nothing I say they'd be crazy not to take it.

[cool breeze]

You can knock the project, but the pitch is fair.  If you're funding it based on that pitch, well, I have some tycho-cosplaying-as-a-rock collectable statues I'd love to sell you. One cost $15; two cost $40.

[Stoney Mason]

If people want to give them money for nothing I say they'd be crazy not to take it.

I don't think anyone disagrees with that.  I think its the disconnect between what Kickstarter kind of pretends they are and what they really are which creates these kind of situations. For people on GAF it was like some holy grail of innocence. It's just a money making scheme like any other that happened to have funded some games, people want. It was never nirvana.

I mean personally I think its shady in that I think they know its shady but don't give a fuck. But then I don't give a fuck either so its not like anybody is being hurt except the idea of common sense. It's like a millionaire walking up to me on the street and asking for 50 dollars and saying he will think good thoughts about me. I mean that's scummy and dumb but If I willingly give him the 50 bucks then I'm the problem not him.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

It's like a millionaire walking up to me on the street and asking for 50 dollars and saying he will think good thoughts about me. I mean that's scummy and dumb but If I willingly give him the 50 bucks then I'm the problem not him.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Kickstarter is only what the people who actually fund things allow it to be. Can't say they're misusing the platform when they have fifty-four thousand fucking dollars already.

[Don Flamenco]

 

[Great Rumbler]

It's like a millionaire walking up to me on the street and asking for 50 dollars and saying he will think good thoughts about me. I mean that's scummy and dumb but If I willingly give him the 50 bucks then I'm the problem not him.

I felt exactly the same way about that 9-year-old making her first RPG Kickstarter. GAF was [and still is, I guess] up in arms at Kickstarter for not pulling it. People went in knowing how shady it was and there was a ton of evidence to show it was nothing more than a pointless scam. If people want to support it with their money after all that, then I put the blame on them for being willfully stupid.

[Steve Contra]

But let's be fair here, we can still draw a line between being a scumbag and acting ethically.  I can sell all sorts of shit to people that'll buy it, but that doesn't mean I'm absolved of being an asshole.

[Eel O'Brian]

hmmmm

[Don Flamenco]

But let's be fair here, we can still draw a line between being a scumbag and acting ethically.  I can sell all sorts of shit to people that'll buy it, but that doesn't mean I'm absolved of being an asshole.

true.  seems to be one of the main points the "nobody put a gun to your head" folks are missing.   I mean, bill gates could put up a kickstarter to manufacture #2 pencils and it would get funded just cause people know who he is. 

[Great Rumbler]

Oh, don't get me wrong, they're still being scummy by putting up a Kickstarter like that, no question, but I'm not going to absolve the poor, unfortunate souls that wasted their money on that nonsense.

[Stoney Mason]

But let's be fair here, we can still draw a line between being a scumbag and acting ethically.  I can sell all sorts of shit to people that'll buy it, but that doesn't mean I'm absolved of being an asshole.

true.  seems to be one of the main points the "nobody put a gun to your head" folks are missing.   I mean, bill gates could put up a kickstarter to manufacture #2 pencils and it would get funded just cause people know who he is.

We aren't missing it. We just realize that shady people are gonna be shady. Making a 10k count post thread on GAF ain't gonna change that. They already had one phony kickstarter before. Its not like people haven't been warned. They still choose to do it.

[Flannel Boy]

The Internet: where people refuse to pay for content unless it's already free.

[Don Flamenco]

But let's be fair here, we can still draw a line between being a scumbag and acting ethically.  I can sell all sorts of shit to people that'll buy it, but that doesn't mean I'm absolved of being an asshole.

true.  seems to be one of the main points the "nobody put a gun to your head" folks are missing.   I mean, bill gates could put up a kickstarter to manufacture #2 pencils and it would get funded just cause people know who he is.

We aren't missing it. We just realize that shady people are gonna be shady. Making a 10k count post thread on GAF ain't gonna change that. They already had one phony kickstarter before. Its not like people haven't been warned. They still choose to do it.

i'm not trying to stop it or whatever, just syaing it's not a moral justification and people can comment on it being shitty without getting the "well that's just how the world is, son" line.   i agree it's gonna happen regardless.