Lord British Presents His Kickstarter

[ManaByte]

http://www.lordbritishpresents.com

[Great Rumbler]

Looks interesting, but I probably won't back it.

[ManaByte]

Livestream going on now:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/portalarium

It's basically UO2 with a single-player mode and no Koster/Vogel to fuck it up.

[tiesto]

A single-player Ultima-esque game?? Shame the graphics look hideous...

[Great Rumbler]

A single-player Ultima-esque game?? Shame the graphics look hideous...

Yeah, I really wish they'd just go 2D [or pulled-back 3D] instead of trying to do full, zoomed in 3D. At that budget it's just not going to look all that great. Oh well, I'm interested to see where they go with this.

[Great Rumbler]

I love Ultima and Lord British is cool but this guy does *not* need to be using kickstarter.

Why use your own money when you can use someone else's?

[ManaByte]

A single-player Ultima-esque game?? Shame the graphics look hideous...

It's early Unity. You can make stuff look really good with that engine. What they showed was just something they slapped together quickly to show they're actually working on something instead of just concept art.

[Barry Egan]

I love Ultima and Lord British is cool but this guy does *not* need to be using kickstarter.

paying the Russian government to blast him in to space probably put a nice dent in his fortune though. 

[magus]

I love Ultima and Lord British is cool but this guy does *not* need to be using kickstarter.

games on kickstarter seems to get a lot more spotlight than just normal games

[Cormacaroni]

I love Ultima and Lord British is cool but this guy does *not* need to be using kickstarter.

Why use your own money when you can use someone else's?

This is basically the first thing any entrepeneur learns. You play with the bank's money, not your own. If the project is a bust, you go bankrupt and your personal assets are protected. I'm sure Lord British loves making games but why on earth should we expect him to put his house on the line, even if it is a mansion. KS brings out some weird moral stances dunnit

[mjemirzian]

Will not make much more than a mil by the looks of things. Were people hoping for 2D?

[Great Rumbler]

I love Ultima and Lord British is cool but this guy does *not* need to be using kickstarter.

paying the Russian government to blast him in to space probably put a nice dent in his fortune though. 

Nah, he got $28 million for being fired by NCSoft after he went into space.

[Cormacaroni]

I love Ultima and Lord British is cool but this guy does *not* need to be using kickstarter.

Why use your own money when you can use someone else's?

This is basically the first thing any entrepeneur learns. You play with the bank's money, not your own. If the project is a bust, you go bankrupt and your personal assets are protected. I'm sure Lord British loves making games but why on earth should we expect him to put his house on the line, even if it is a mansion. KS brings out some weird moral stances dunnit

I dunno, I'm fine with most KS, but it's going to take a little time for me to adjust to a multi-millionaire begging for cash, I suppose.

You can't think he's doing this for cash...it'll never make money no matter what the KS brings in. It's largely a vanity project that employs him and a bunch of designers he likes for a while making a game free of studio bullshit.

Any accountant/lawyer that manages money for a multimillionaire would have him committed if he tried to put a couple of million into something he could go to the bank or a publisher first for funding. Now he has the option of trying for an interest-free loan. It's not begging; it's a business proposition that you are free to take up or not. Like most business propositions from rich strangers, it's a bad one for the guy on the other end of course

[Phoenix Dark]

I love Ultima and Lord British is cool but this guy does *not* need to be using kickstarter.

Why use your own money when you can use someone else's?

This is basically the first thing any entrepeneur learns. You play with the bank's money, not your own. If the project is a bust, you go bankrupt and your personal assets are protected. I'm sure Lord British loves making games but why on earth should we expect him to put his house on the line, even if it is a mansion. KS brings out some weird moral stances dunnit

I dunno, I'm fine with most KS, but it's going to take a little time for me to adjust to a multi-millionaire begging for cash, I suppose.

I'd imagine his personal contributions will increase depending on how much money the project can raise; once it reaches a certain level of certainty he'll commit more. Seems like a rather traditional entrepreneur move.

[Cormacaroni]

ok I get the superficial absurdity of a millionaire begging for a few bucks but that's not actually what's happening here, is it?

I actually think the idea that he fund a game himself more ridiculous really. He may have money to burn but who on earth would pay $5 million or whatever to get a game made. He's not a billionaire. If he was prepared to fund his own games we'd already have half a dozen of them by now

[Sho Nuff]

At $418,000 on day one I think this is most likely going to happen

(I am cheering for this to succeed because I know a few people who would be able to feed their family by being employed for the duration of this project)

[Cormacaroni]

As opposed to having to render their children unto Lord British to break his noble fast upon I trust

[Sho Nuff]

They do things different down in Texas...it's like a whole other world down there

[Damian79]

http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/03/08/ultima-creators-next-game-shroud-of-the-avatar

It has a video of the game.  The multiplayer game is different from the single player game.

[Great Rumbler]

For what it's worth, Brian Fargo agreed to chip in $100k of his own money to the budget for Torment.