Ragnar Tornquist is quite possibly the stupidest sounding name I've ever heard. For that reason alone, I can't bear to back that project.
Seriously? Ragnar is a very normal Norwegian name and Törnquist is a very normal Swedish name, though spelled with a Norwegian ø in his case. It would seem a lot stupider if he were to change his name to what's considered an unstupid name in your country of origin for the sake of this kickstarter
Apparently any day now a new Kickstarter will be launched by Himalaya Studios (also known as "AGD Interactive") for their hi-res QFG-style Mage's Initiation game
Their Kickstarter page is up. They're only asking for $65,000, which is next to nothing, really.
I don't know anything about Daniel Stacey, but my first reaction to watching the video was that it seems an awkward choice, from a marketing standpoint, to choose a guy with a lisp to introduce the game.
Second, color me skeptical about the combat. How does tying your level to your score make the combat balanced? How does it affect it at all?
And third, I hope the animated cutscenes shown are as yet unfinished. They look like they could belong to a saturday morning cartoon from when I was a kid. What I mean is, there needs to be more shading and detail to them. They're just... not impressive, I guess.
EDIT: also, looking at this screenshot:
Something about the difference in detail between the background and the sprites just doesn't look quite right to me.
The game looks great. I'm just nitpicking.
EDIT AGAIN: I got in early with the $6 Early-Bird pledge, but I'm very likely going to upgrade to at least $16 simply because Brandon Blume (MusicallyInspired) made the music all himself, and you get a digital copy of the soundtrack at the $16 tier.
I'd really like to draw the community's attention to this kickstarter. Bobby Chiu is one of the greatest creature designers alive, and I generally don't like seeing dream projects of such creative talents unsuccessful. Thankfully, the kickstarter's off to a good start.
For me personally, the idea isn't particularly appealing. I'm a bit overfed with swordfighting children in fantasy worlds, although this seems to have a nice twist to it. Secondly, it's an iPad thing, and I don't intend to buy any Apple product before I'm 70 and generally too dumb to understand all the other new computery stuff.
Love the idea, love the video, and love Will of course. I'd probably be totally lost with the commands, but actually talking to those virtual soldiers and hear their responses... pretty cool.
But I don't fucking finance Steam exclusive games.
But I don't fucking finance Steam exclusive games.
As of today, DRM free copies are announced for There Came an Echo. Just wanted to make this clear in case someone still listens to my steamophobic comments.
I'll probably back this now as their light of wisdom is at least glowing somewhere.
I would suggest to developers on Kickstarter that they might want to consider wearing collared shirts, at least, in their pitch videos. I think it would give them a more professional image. Of course, many may be going for a casual look, but I have just been surprised to see several show up wearing t-shirts, even as they are asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Seems like a show of respect to at least wear a nicer shirt. If you're really well known I think you can get away with wearing anything, and of course your work should speak for itself, but putting forward a professional image certainly can't hurt, in many cases.
People will only give you money if you look like you have a lot already or have none.
Also, it helps to avoid statements referring to the product as already made. It just looks like you're selling through Kickstarter at that point and pisses off a lot of the website regulars and entrepreneurs.
As I said, absolutely nowhere. Certainly not in Sherlock grabbing Watson's red undies. Certainly not in the incorporation of an artist who does practically nothing besides slash fiction. Nonononoooo.
People will only give you money if you look like you have a lot already or have none.
Also, it helps to avoid statements referring to the product as already made. It just looks like you're selling through Kickstarter at that point and pisses off a lot of the website regulars and entrepreneurs.
So hey, Tom Hall (one of the founders of id Software) wants to make a spiritual successor to Commander Keen. [...] Just to clarify - in the video he's talking about creating what is essentially a Platformer Creation Tool.
Can there be anyone with less luck at kickstarters than Tom Hall?!?
This is his second project in a row which fails big time. And this time, I even have to wonder why... nice idea, reasonable goal... pas de supporters.
Black Saturday for the Dreamfall kickstarter yesterday.
Looks like a bunch of idiots have "withdrawn" their high pledges. Kicktraq counts a raise of a mere 3.700$ total yesterday, but at times, yesterday's counter was even negative. :eek:
This 'withdraw' nonsense has got to be abolished. Withdrawing pledges, that is something for indecisive children. I mean, what does "pledge" mean anyway. :mad:
Well as many people pointed out, it's a poor Little Big Planet.
Oh, it definitely is. Still, it's not as if PC players ever had a Little Big Planet to begin with; and after all, kickstarters work through name dropping just as much as the suggestion of an interesting project. Tom Hall's name should carry a bit more weight than that. Poor guy.
I get you. I just wonder how popular Commander Keen really was, and remains. You hear the names of Guybrush and King Graham because they've been kept alive over the years. Keen not as much.
I get you. I just wonder how popular Commander Keen really was, and remains. You hear the names of Guybrush and King Graham because they've been kept alive over the years. Keen not as much.
Same for me. In fact, I only ever encountered Hall's name in connection with Anachronox. And a game in the same vein is about the only project of his that I'd personally back. (A direct Anachronox sequel is almost impossible as Tom doesn't have the rights; and needless, as in my opinion the original only ever needed another fourth or fifth to make a satisfying ending. An extended REMAKE, that'd be the dream).
Red Thread games is spreading more Chapters kickstarter awareness by asking you to vote for the inclusion of the game on gog.com (and, for those of you with the inclination, apparently Steam also has a place for you to decide which games they'd like to sell).
So, Wasteland 2 isn't even out yet, and inXile is Kickstarting their next project. It's their Planescape: Torment spiritual successor, Torment: Tides of Numenera. The goal is set for $900,000.
So, Wasteland 2 isn't even out yet, and inXile is Kickstarting their next project. It's their Planescape: Torment spiritual successor, Torment: Tides of Numenera. The goal is set for $900,000.
There are no words to express how much I personally want this game.:eek:
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Seriously? Ragnar is a very normal Norwegian name and Törnquist is a very normal Swedish name, though spelled with a Norwegian ø in his case. It would seem a lot stupider if he were to change his name to what's considered an unstupid name in your country of origin for the sake of this kickstarter
That reminds me: The name Steve Cook sounds hilarious to Norwegians.
BTW, you can type an ø on US keyboards by holding ALT and pressing Num 0 - 2 - 4 - 8 in sequence. No more mistakes from now on please.
Has anyone even pledged to this kickstarter project? I want to see this succeed. Ralph deserves a second chance. He's only got 12 days left!
Edit: forgot one, this one is two cops Max and Louie. Drawn by Kent Butterworth(who worked on Adventures of Sonic the hedgehog).
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2112639455/mages-initiation-a-classic-sierra-style-adventure
Their Kickstarter page is up. They're only asking for $65,000, which is next to nothing, really.
I don't know anything about Daniel Stacey, but my first reaction to watching the video was that it seems an awkward choice, from a marketing standpoint, to choose a guy with a lisp to introduce the game.
Second, color me skeptical about the combat. How does tying your level to your score make the combat balanced? How does it affect it at all?
And third, I hope the animated cutscenes shown are as yet unfinished. They look like they could belong to a saturday morning cartoon from when I was a kid. What I mean is, there needs to be more shading and detail to them. They're just... not impressive, I guess.
EDIT: also, looking at this screenshot:
Something about the difference in detail between the background and the sprites just doesn't look quite right to me.
The game looks great. I'm just nitpicking.
EDIT AGAIN: I got in early with the $6 Early-Bird pledge, but I'm very likely going to upgrade to at least $16 simply because Brandon Blume (MusicallyInspired) made the music all himself, and you get a digital copy of the soundtrack at the $16 tier.
11 days left people, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ralphbakshi/last-days-of-coney-island-0 fund it.
I'd really like to draw the community's attention to this kickstarter. Bobby Chiu is one of the greatest creature designers alive, and I generally don't like seeing dream projects of such creative talents unsuccessful. Thankfully, the kickstarter's off to a good start.
For me personally, the idea isn't particularly appealing. I'm a bit overfed with swordfighting children in fantasy worlds, although this seems to have a nice twist to it. Secondly, it's an iPad thing, and I don't intend to buy any Apple product before I'm 70 and generally too dumb to understand all the other new computery stuff.
Bobby's DeviantArt page:
http://imaginism.deviantart.com/
It's a voice-controlled real-time strategy game. They have Wil Wheaton doing some of the voice acting.
But I don't fucking finance Steam exclusive games.
As of today, DRM free copies are announced for There Came an Echo. Just wanted to make this clear in case someone still listens to my steamophobic comments.
I'll probably back this now as their light of wisdom is at least glowing somewhere.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iridiumstudios/there-came-an-echo-0/posts/409123
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1351910088/3doodler-the-worlds-first-3d-printing-pen
The mere presence of this completely embarrassing Sherlock/Watson oh-so-not-hentaiish thing makes this entirely unbackable.
...I see your point.
Where's the hentai?
People will only give you money if you look like you have a lot already or have none.
Also, it helps to avoid statements referring to the product as already made. It just looks like you're selling through Kickstarter at that point and pisses off a lot of the website regulars and entrepreneurs.
As I said, absolutely nowhere. Certainly not in Sherlock grabbing Watson's red undies. Certainly not in the incorporation of an artist who does practically nothing besides slash fiction. Nonononoooo.
I see. But isn't that more like Yaoi?
Good points!
Poyaoito, potahto.
In this semantic field, I refuse to gather expertise in nomenclature.
Can there be anyone with less luck at kickstarters than Tom Hall?!?
This is his second project in a row which fails big time. And this time, I even have to wonder why... nice idea, reasonable goal... pas de supporters.
Looks like a bunch of idiots have "withdrawn" their high pledges. Kicktraq counts a raise of a mere 3.700$ total yesterday, but at times, yesterday's counter was even negative. :eek:
This 'withdraw' nonsense has got to be abolished. Withdrawing pledges, that is something for indecisive children. I mean, what does "pledge" mean anyway. :mad:
Oh, it definitely is. Still, it's not as if PC players ever had a Little Big Planet to begin with; and after all, kickstarters work through name dropping just as much as the suggestion of an interesting project. Tom Hall's name should carry a bit more weight than that. Poor guy.
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Same for me. In fact, I only ever encountered Hall's name in connection with Anachronox. And a game in the same vein is about the only project of his that I'd personally back. (A direct Anachronox sequel is almost impossible as Tom doesn't have the rights; and needless, as in my opinion the original only ever needed another fourth or fifth to make a satisfying ending. An extended REMAKE, that'd be the dream).
FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
yes!!!
ITS ALREADY PAST FUNDING THRESHOLD!!!
Got an account and funded it.
I can't wait to get the shorts collection. It's been so long since I've had an internal debate about the gender of Mr. B Natural.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ralphbakshi/last-days-of-coney-island-0
There are no words to express how much I personally want this game.:eek: