Ultimate Kickstarter Video Games Thread
#26
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It should make it. 13 days and it will probably jump a bit at the end. I would pop in $15 but I'm throwing a lot of money (for me anyway) towards Shadowrun. If LSL is ridiculously close to make it and time is running out, I might reconsider.
#27
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Just watched the kickstarter video of Grim Dawn, Had some gameplay, looked pretty good sort of like a Diablo/Champions of Norrath clone. Looked like a good time.
#29
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So what projects have everyone backed?
I looked at a couple of board games/comics/film kickstarters..close to backing those as well.
For me I've now backed:
FTL
Shadowrun Returns
Wasteland 2
Banner Saga
Thinking about:
Games:
Dead Linger
Grim Dawn
Ravaged
Video:
Dome
Fallout: Nukka Break Season 2
I looked at a couple of board games/comics/film kickstarters..close to backing those as well.
For me I've now backed:
FTL
Shadowrun Returns
Wasteland 2
Banner Saga
Thinking about:
Games:
Dead Linger
Grim Dawn
Ravaged
Video:
Dome
Fallout: Nukka Break Season 2
#30
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Less than an hour left for The Banner Saga.
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#36
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There's a Kickstarter for remasters of the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Adventure Mysteries from the early 90s. For $9 you get the original 9 mysteries (originally released as 3 games with 3 mysteries each):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-adventure-mys
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-adventure-mys
#37
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There's a Kickstarter for remasters of the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Adventure Mysteries from the early 90s. For $9 you get the original 9 mysteries (originally released as 3 games with 3 mysteries each):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-adventure-mys
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-adventure-mys
#39
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Police Warfare Kickstarter suddenly and mysteriously canceled
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/21/po...sly-cancelled/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-warfare/posts
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/21/po...sly-cancelled/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-warfare/posts
Hey Guys,
Thank you so much for the incredible response to the game. We're shutting down the kickstarter account but this is by no means the end of Police Warfare. News will be coming.
-EG TEAM
Thank you so much for the incredible response to the game. We're shutting down the kickstarter account but this is by no means the end of Police Warfare. News will be coming.
-EG TEAM
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Re: Ultimate Kickstarter Video Games Thread
I've backed:
Double Fine Adventure
FTL
Shadowrun Returns
Wasteland 2
Banner Saga
Leisure Suit Larry
Jane Jensen's Pinkerton Road Studio thing
I'm sure I'll go for Tex Murphy next month and whatever the old Space Quest guys do as well.
Double Fine Adventure
FTL
Shadowrun Returns
Wasteland 2
Banner Saga
Leisure Suit Larry
Jane Jensen's Pinkerton Road Studio thing
I'm sure I'll go for Tex Murphy next month and whatever the old Space Quest guys do as well.
#41
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There's a Kickstarter for remasters of the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Adventure Mysteries from the early 90s. For $9 you get the original 9 mysteries (originally released as 3 games with 3 mysteries each):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-adventure-mys
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-adventure-mys
But Groucho is right, this one isn't going to come close to completing.
#42
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Police Warfare Kickstarter suddenly and mysteriously canceled
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/21/po...sly-cancelled/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-warfare/posts
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/21/po...sly-cancelled/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-warfare/posts
#43
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The creators of Space Quest, Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy aka "Two Guys from Andromeda" have gotten back together to work on a new space-themed adventure game. They've confirmed on their first podcast that it won't be Space Quest, and that they'll be starting a Kickstarter to fund it:
http://guysfromandromeda.com/podcast...wo-guys-speak/
DVDTalk user Duran had previously posted about the new game, but that was before it was known there'd be a Kickstarter for it:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/video-game-...res-works.html
http://guysfromandromeda.com/podcast...wo-guys-speak/
DVDTalk user Duran had previously posted about the new game, but that was before it was known there'd be a Kickstarter for it:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/video-game-...res-works.html
#44
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It looks like Leisure Suit Larry will make it, 4,000 dollars and a week to go. It should pass it today. I'm glad. Meanwhile, Shadowrun looks to make 1.5 million easy, if there wasn't only a few days left, I'd say 2 million would not be out of the question. I still need to put in my money for Shadowrun, but I'm making sure $125 won't kill my bank account.
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I'm guessing it was in reaction to the Penny Arcade article that called them out.
#46
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Nice article I liked this part:
“Overall, I want to ‘invest’ in a game that I want to play or made by a guy that I adore,” Dent said. “I spoke to/begged David Jaffe recently about using Kickstarter to make a game. I have no idea where he is on that or if he is going to go down that route. My point is that I love Jaffe’s games, so if I were to see that he was setting that up in Kickstarter, I would instantly support it.” This might be the best, or at least safest, use of Kickstarter: The service allows proven talent to create games with a large audience but limited appeal to traditional investors.
“Overall, I want to ‘invest’ in a game that I want to play or made by a guy that I adore,” Dent said. “I spoke to/begged David Jaffe recently about using Kickstarter to make a game. I have no idea where he is on that or if he is going to go down that route. My point is that I love Jaffe’s games, so if I were to see that he was setting that up in Kickstarter, I would instantly support it.” This might be the best, or at least safest, use of Kickstarter: The service allows proven talent to create games with a large audience but limited appeal to traditional investors.
#47
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It looks like Leisure Suit Larry will make it, 4,000 dollars and a week to go. It should pass it today. I'm glad. Meanwhile, Shadowrun looks to make 1.5 million easy, if there wasn't only a few days left, I'd say 2 million would not be out of the question. I still need to put in my money for Shadowrun, but I'm making sure $125 won't kill my bank account.
#48
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Some general Kickstarter news:
A new, game-specific alternative to Kickstarter is due to launch at this year's E3, called Gambitious:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...o-launch-at-e3
It's launching in Europe first, and the major difference is that it allows profit sharing, making the funders actual investors.
Here's an article critical of the of the service:
http://penny-arcade.com/report/edito...actual-investm
Extra Credits on PATV has an episode about crowdfunding:
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/crowdfunding
That episode references both Kickstarter and Rockethub. I hadn't really thought of Kickstarter alternatives/competitors, so did a search and found this article about 5 various websites for crowdfunding games:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/featur...n_.php?print=1
Kickstarter definitely seems the biggest, both in general and specifically for funding games.
A new, game-specific alternative to Kickstarter is due to launch at this year's E3, called Gambitious:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...o-launch-at-e3
It's launching in Europe first, and the major difference is that it allows profit sharing, making the funders actual investors.
Here's an article critical of the of the service:
http://penny-arcade.com/report/edito...actual-investm
Extra Credits on PATV has an episode about crowdfunding:
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/crowdfunding
That episode references both Kickstarter and Rockethub. I hadn't really thought of Kickstarter alternatives/competitors, so did a search and found this article about 5 various websites for crowdfunding games:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/featur...n_.php?print=1
Kickstarter definitely seems the biggest, both in general and specifically for funding games.
#49
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Here's an article critical of the of the service:
http://penny-arcade.com/report/edito...actual-investm
http://penny-arcade.com/report/edito...actual-investm
"This very week on Kickstarter, one of the projects bought two iPads for a new iPad title. The forums went batshit vilifying them"
Anybody know which Kickstarter this was?
#50
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http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/0...-and-politely/
Here's their Kickstarter page, where they're offering DLC as a reward, but not the actual game, their reasoning being that they need the game sales to get onto the sales charts in Apple and Android App stores:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ory-for-ios-an