Jay G.

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption squeaked by and reached its goal, so it's funded. Shadowgate still has about $20K to go with 4 days left.


30 games for $15
This Kickstarter has an exclusive new game by Keita Takahashi (creator of Katamari Damacy). You can pay $5 for that game, or pay $10 more and get 29 other games, many by established indie developers:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ng-video-games

Thorvalla
An RPG by game designer Guido Henkel (Planescape: Torment, Realms of Arkania, Fallout 2, Neverwinter Nights).
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...y-guido-henkel

Limit Theory
An Infinite, Procedural Space Game. The developer is a bit of a novices (still in college!), but has managed to develop the game enough so far to produce some impressive screenshots.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ral-space-game

Groucho

Thorvalla sounds great, but once again I think it's a game that set their goal ($1,000,000) too high for what it is.

shizawn

Peter Molyneux and co. has a Kickstarter project up, something called Project GODUS. Looks like it's intended to be a reinvention of Populous.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/.../project-godus

Jay G.

The "30 games for $15" Kickstarter for LA Game Space has added 5 classic games to their $15+ tiers:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...s/posts/354902

The games are:

• Noitu Love 2: Devolution
• Aquaria
• Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
• The Basement Collection (7+ game collection)
• Super Crate Box (Xmas Edition)

You still also get the exclusive new game by Keita Takahashi and 30+ new games from other indie developers. That's over 36 games for just $15.

Duran

I plan on pledging $1000, but only actually sending $5.

Jay G.

Have you used Kickstarter before? When you make the pledge, you give them authorization via Amazon Payments to charge your credit card for the amount of your pledge. That charge goes through automatically at the end of the Kickstarter.

That said, you can decrease your pledge at any time before the final 24 hours of a Kickstarter project (and possibly within the final 24 hours as long as it doesn't affect whether the project will be funded or not).

Duran

I know. It was a Peter Molyneux joke.

Jay G.

What's the joke? Overpromising and then underdelivering? Which game project of his is it in reference to?

Duran

Seriously? Fable, Black & White, Project Milo. He's notorious for promising a zillion cool features and delivering 2 or 3 moderately interesting ones.

lordwow

I wouldn't touch a Peter Molyenux Kickstarter with a 10 foot pole.

Groucho

Fable 2 was pretty cool.

Jay G.

Shadowgate got funded at met one stretch goal. With Paypal funding still going they may reach another. Paypal link below:
http://www.zojoi.com/shadowgate_campaign.htm


Pathfinder Online is back, this time funding the actual game. The Tech Demo Kickstarter was apparently successful in getting enough investors to fund the game, but they're using Kickstarter to speed up/expand the development:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...sy-sandbox-mmo


Dizzy Returns is a brand new Dizzy game by the original creators, The Oliver Twins. This was apparently a popular UK game series back in the 80s and 90s (I hadn't heard of it before this kickstarter).
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/.../dizzy-returns


Legend of Dungeon is a 4 Player Co-Op Roguelike-like Beat'em'up with pixel art. They have a playable demo available.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...end-of-dungeon
Interview with creators:
http://www.incgamers.com/2012/11/qa-...botloveskitty/


Alpha Colony is building and trading sim game for iPad and PC that only has 3 days left to get funded:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-and-trading-g

Jay G.

Alpha Colony ended only $28 short of their goal. That has to be the closest failure margin ever:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-and-trading-g


New Kickstarter:
AERO is 3D Bird Flight Game coming from Bill Nye (The Science Guy):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ye-and-gamedes

Groucho

Too bad about Alpha Colony...that's one I would have funded for sure, but I missed Jay Z's post a couple days ago.

superdeluxe

Total Biscuit Interviews the project directors behind two of the biggest crowdfunded games. Project Eternity and Star Citizen:

Project Eternity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-TBCrqERus

Star Citizen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJGOQXzDbgc

Jay G.

Article on Alpha Colony, where the developer is basically relieved the Kickstarter failed instead of barely succeed, as $50K would've left the game underfunded (they were apparently hoping for stretch goals):
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...ter-Goal-by-28
Kickstarter news post that basically says the same thing:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...g/posts/361744


Peter Molyneux talks about Godus and the backlash against his Kickstarter:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...t-is-abhorrent


OUYA is shipping out developer kits, including the dev model of the OUYA, starting December 28:
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/21531-...ting-giveaway/


LA Game Space has reached it's goal, coming back from a dismal beginning. Still 3 days left to pledge and get 36 games for $15:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...g-video-games/


SPORTSFRIENDS featuring Johann Sebastian Joust isn't even halfway yet, and has only 6 days left to go:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ebastian-joust

Jay G.

A new article that talks about a lack of transparency in some game Kickstarters, especially a lack of details when launched:
http://www.1up.com/news/kickstarter-...onest-detailed


An interview with a SPORTSFRIENDS creator, about their in-risk Kickstarter:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/article.../post-144.html


Kickstarter advice from the creator of the struggling Kickstarter for Pro Wrestling X
http://swmichigan.secondwavemedia.co...tling1206.aspx
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ng-ga?ref=live


Two new Kickstarters:

PhoneJoy Play
A compact bluetooth gamepad that expands out to wrap around your iOS or Android phone or tablet (think PSP style). The Controller reward starts at $50 (limited amount, normally $70):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...into-a-console

GameTron 1000
An iOS/Android game that randomly generates retro-inspired games based on a variety of game modes, characters, enemies and bosses, genres, objectives, collectables and environments.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/.../gametron-1000

Decker

With the help of a last minute appeal on the Playstation Blog, the SPORTSFRIENDS Kickstarter made its $150,000 goal by the skin of its teeth. It really didn't look appealing to me at all (and I'm one of very few who actually bought a few Move games in the past). Still congrats for eking out funding.

superdeluxe

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...es-he/comments

Another kickstarter where people might be out of their money. As always folks, know what you are getting into

Jay G.

The developer has responded, saying that the development is continuing, albeit at a slower pace than anticipated, and apologizing for the lack of communication.

Article from Escapist:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...es-Bad-UPDATED

This interview from last month shows part of the problem may have been caused by a shift in focus to something more ambitious than proposed in the Kickstarter:
http://videogamewriters.com/sunday-s...mer-labs-57127
The Kicsktarter originally promised immediate access to a beta version of the game post funding.

Some of the anxiety appears to be because Alex Peake's last company, Tatical Corsets, appears to have imploded leaving many orders unfilled:
http://blog.sinthetik.com/please-re-...ost-the-signal

That said, the only evidence for Code Hero running out of money has been a disgruntled backer claiming such.



In other news, Thorvalla was cancelled a week and a half ago. It wasn't raising money at the rate they felt was needed to reach their goal:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...l/posts/361617

Jay G.

More Code Hero news.

Developer Alex Peake updated his update with some FAQs:
https://primerlabs.com/developmentcontinues
So the Kickstarter got funded, he got more ambitious, and burned through the money making a bigger game than he initially promised/planned for. Sounds irresponsible.


Joystiq article on it:
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/13/co...success-story/

Audio interview with Alex Peake:
http://videogamewriters.com/when-a-k...ex-peake-58309

foxdvd

finally got my ouya username verified...foxdvd it is!!! hahaha


I was the 780th backer apparently....

Groucho

I also wanted foxdvd, but I was backer 781.

Decker

pinata242

Luckily there were less than 242 pinatas in the first 7,060 backers.