mood at work is already very "oh God not another fucking Kickstarter"
But this one is probably the best one and (arguably) matters a lot.
Bullet points of why people should fund Jane Jensen's new studio:
*The amount she is asking for is reasonable ($300k)
*This is because she is putting 300k of
her own money into it, to make $600k. So she has a dog in the fight to make good profitable games for her studio.
*She has a game pretty much DONE, that was the studio's starter game (cheap iOS adventure game), so they've already made one and you'll get it very soon
*She is going to outsource the development on the real adventure game to one of the small outsource studios she's worked with in the past and has completed adventure games with in the past. So she knows the cost and time.
*She has already design doc'd the potential game(s) to fit the budget. Around the size of GK1, smaller than Gray Matter with ~60 rooms total. She says she's learned from her experience of 20 years of adventure game making where you can cut the fat and how to make a full solid adventure story with a game size like that.
Basically this is very professional, she's a professional, and if you put the money in, she'll put the money in, you'll get a fun little iphone adventure game in a few months, and in a year you'll have a real new adult supernatural thriller adventure from Jane Jensen (hopefully Gray Matter 2).
I put $250 in because I'm a big enough Jane Jensen fan that I'd make a vacation out of flying out to their farm and see a Scarlet Furies concert. I'm not asking other people to do that, but if you like her stuff and would like another Jane Jensen adventure game, this is a good one to put in on.
*also worth noting, Jensen says if the studio makes a game and it actually makes any money so the studio has a cash fund, they're going to try to purchase the Gabriel Knight license from Sierra and do GK4.