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.

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.

Both the Banner Saga and Shadowrun with several updates over the last few days.

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

Less than an hour left for The Banner Saga.

The two I've backed so far are Police Warfare and Echoes of Eternia.

Echos looks like old school snes rpg.

The only one I've backed is Leisure Suit Larry.

I've backed Double Fine and Wasteland 2 so far. I'm very likely to back Leisure Suit Larry.

I went back and forth on what $50 reward I wanted, the poster or to design a personal in-game crest. I ended up with a crest.

Maybe we all should design a DVDTalk crest?

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

I put in a pledge, but it doesn't look like it's going to make it.

Decided to pledge for Leisure Suit Larry.

Police Warfare Kickstarter suddenly and mysteriously canceled
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/21/po...sly-cancelled/


http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-warfare/posts

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.

Darn, I would love this one to make it. I remember these games only slightly, but think they'd be a blast to play with my girls. I pledged $30 to get the PC and iOS versions.

But Groucho is right, this one isn't going to come close to completing.

I'm guessing they got a publisher

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

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.

I'm guessing it was in reaction to the Penny Arcade article that called them out.

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.

LSL did it, and Shadowrun passed 1.5. LSL now looks to try its hand at $750k (which might be too adventurous) and Shadowrun wants a go at 1.75 million. I think Shadowrun has more of a chance to get to 1.75 million than LSL has to get to 750k but I could be wrong. But then again, there is always that push at the end, so we'll see.

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.

From the article:

"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?

It appears to be the iOS/Android game Star Command. Here's an article about this controversy:
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