KickStarter Geneforge 1 - Mutagen - remake from Spiderweb Software

[GandGolf]

Do you think that Fyora in the screenshot named 'Lil Burny' is a reference to Bernie Sanders?

 

[Rafidur]

"I am once again asking for your essence"

"I donated 2 points in Dexterity, match me!"

 

[hell bovine]

When Vogel complained about game art being costly, some artists made the effort and gave him advice on how to utilize a low budget, including "pay someone to create a color scheme & guidelines for you". And yet here we are, same atrocious shade of green serving as the gui.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh look, new stretch goals: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geneforge1/geneforge-1-mutagen/posts/2759423

Geneforge is Funded! First Stretch Goal Met!

The first five days of the Geneforge 1 - Mutagen Kickstarter have been very eventful! We funded in less than 24 hours. Even better, we have already made the first stretch goal! We will be adding a new creation to Geneforge, and we will be letting all backers help to design it.

We have added two more stretch goals: Professional sound design and an Android tablet port. We didn't get there for the Queen's Wish: The Conqueror Kickstarter, and we wanted to try again.

Thank you all so much for your support. We already have a good start on this game, and we're going to spend the next year making a really interesting remaster worthy of the series.

- Jeff Vogel, Spiderweb Software

$100K Level - Professional Sound Design

Spiderweb Software has always done our own sound design, because we couldn't afford to do otherwise. If we reach this tier, we will act like real, grown-up developers and hire a pro to work on the game. Things like environmental sounds and key spell effects will actually sound good! We tried to reach this level for our last Kickstarter, and we almost made it. Time to try again!

$130K Level - Android Tablet Version

While Geneforge 1 - Mutagen will be out for the iPad, we don't currently support Android. We're too small a company to support another platform. At this level, we can hire people to handle it for us! This is a chance to get us to return our games to Android tablets at last!

 

[thesecret1]

Things like environmental sounds and key spell effects will actually sound good!

Translation: There still won't be any background music, suck it!

 

[fantadomat]

Why do people care about background music in vogels game?!?! I just put some appropriate music for the theme in winamp and disable all sounds.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I like that his games focus more on environmental sounds than music. Getting better sound would be neat.

 

[Correct_Carlo]

This kickstarter is shit. Geneforge is my favorite RPG series ever, but there's literally nothing I want here. Maybe the original signed dungeon maps, but there were only 12 and they are all gone. It usually takes longer for backers to get access to the game on release, so there's no advantage to investing when you will likely get access to it sooner just buying it day one on steam.

 

[GandGolf]

This kickstarter is shit. Geneforge is my favorite RPG series ever, but there's literally nothing I want here. Maybe the original signed dungeon maps, but there were only 12 and they are all gone. It usually takes longer for backers to get access to the game on release, so there's no advantage to investing when you will likely get access to it sooner just buying it day one on steam.

Don't backers get access to the beta though if they pledge enough?

 

[lobsterfrogman]

winamp

OK, boomer.

 

[GandGolf]

This kickstarter is shit. Geneforge is my favorite RPG series ever, but there's literally nothing I want here. Maybe the original signed dungeon maps, but there were only 12 and they are all gone. It usually takes longer for backers to get access to the game on release, so there's no advantage to investing when you will likely get access to it sooner just buying it day one on steam.

Don't backers get access to the beta though if they pledge enough?

MEH, that would need $200 or more for beta access. If there isn't anything you want from the kickstarter I would suggest possibly going to their forums and posting a suggestion of what you would like as a reward. Just because Jeff doesn't visit the steam forums often doesn't mean he won't see the idea and take it into consideration if it is posted on his own forum.

 

[Fowyr]

You mean like Blades of Avernum? Vogel considered Blades a horrible, horrible mistake, because giving your players a way to easily build adventures with your copy pasted assets meant death of his business model (endless re-using assets and remaking the same games).

I mean, what's even the point tho? Free assets around the Net are of higher quality than anything Vogel uses in his games and his engine isn't hot stuff.

Yup, I remember some of BoE scenarios that were better than Geneforge 3, for example.

 

[GandGolf]

....Maybe the original signed dungeon maps, but there were only 12 and they are all gone...

Good news for you! The souvenirs are back by popular demand! Only seven left so get yours before they are all gone!

 

[Crane]

As a men who has never played geneforge before, this seems like the optimal version to experience the game. I understand being angry about Vogel not working on new content, but this makes geneforge accessible to a whole new generation of gamers.

 

[thesecret1]

As a men who has never played geneforge before, this seems like the optimal version to experience the game. I understand being angry about Vogel not working on new content, but this makes geneforge accessible to a whole new generation of gamers.

So you've never played the game, but are already confident in what the best version of it is?

 

[Dwarvophile]

I like that his games focus more on environmental sounds than music. Getting better sound would be neat.

YES, I can't stand those 4 seconds sound loops anymore. It bothers me much more than the graphics actually.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Accessible to new gamers? You can get the original series on gog with preloaded gog loader/installer. Its cheap and readily accessible as is rather than wait for this lazy remake.

 

[Abu Antar]

As a men who has never played geneforge before, this seems like the optimal version to experience the game. I understand being angry about Vogel not working on new content, but this makes geneforge accessible to a whole new generation of gamers.

There's nothing wrong with the original. It is very much playable for anyone who doesn't suffer from a severe mental disability.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geneforge1/geneforge-1-mutagen/posts/2775520

Geneforge Update - One Week Left!

We are down to one week left in the Geneforge 1 - Mutagen Kickstarter. It's been a really tense month for us, and we are so relieved that the Kickstarter has gone so well. We are already picking away at the code and hiring freelancers to provide art. We're going to make sure that the new Geneforge ships in a reasonable time and is a cool and interesting expansion of the game our fans love so much.

Remasters are tricky. We have to find all the things that people loved most and leave them alone. Then we have to find the things that need improvement and fix them. Geneforge 1 - Mutagen will be very similar to the first game. The story, the characters, the base skills and abilities, these will be largely the same. But then we will add more choices, more quests, more opportunities for role-playing, more ways to customize your characters and monsters. Then we will do a LOT of testing, to make sure the balance is fair and fun.

We've attached some revised art below, to show you some of the improvements we're making.

Thank you again for all your support. Here's hoping we make it to one more stretch goal!

- Jeff Vogel

PS We also want to highlight a great project today:

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[thesecret1]

All of Vogel's new sprites look so goddamn generic.

 

[V_K]

All of Vogel's new sprites look so goddamn generic.

I think that gif is actually from Pathfinder.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Gog sale for Queen's Wish. You know you want it esp the hint book and wall papers sold for $10 separately.

Oh yeah...

 

[Brozef]

He has gone way beyond being lazy or just stubborn at this point. It feels like he is delibaretly taking the piss our of his fans or just trying to see what he can get away with.
Even the first promo still pisses me off

Spoiler

How lazy can you be that you can't be arsed to just stretch the drayk to about double the size so that it fits the scale of the intro drawing. and maybe add three black pixels for an arrow and some blood...

And the fact that he added ipad support to the stretch goals gives the game plan away completely.
abandon all hope ye who enter

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Lordy.... stretch goals.

 

[Correct_Carlo]

All the remaining stretch goals are shit, and the one he just added he was going to do anyway.