KickStarter Kickstarter Watch.

[JudasIscariot]

If you like graphic novels then maybe Retrovirus will strike your fancy?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...phic-novel-by-jimmy-palmiotti-and-ju?ref=live

The four highest male backers will get a character each named after them?

How is that any different than havin an NPC named after you or a location made in your honor?

I think it's a cool reward considering how much someone backed the project.

 

[JudasIscariot]

If you like graphic novels then maybe Retrovirus will strike your fancy?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...phic-novel-by-jimmy-palmiotti-and-ju?ref=live

That looked pretty fucking sweet.

The brofist was for you backing that project :D.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Has there been any project like completely ripping off and improving, say Jagged Alliance 2, and giving it a different name. That's about the only genre I see missing so far?

There is only Xenonauts, and it's goint o be X-COM as you will know. I'm still deperately waiting for something like JA3 to come.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Legends of Eisenwald: looks like a King's Bounty/HOMM type of game, except your squad's comprised of heroes rather than units. Graphics are pretty good, and I like the video on the KS page. Backing this one because it looks like it has potential for incline.

These men deserve your money.

 

[Helly]

Legends of Eisenwald: looks like a King's Bounty/HOMM type of game, except your squad's comprised of heroes rather than units. Graphics are pretty good, and I like the video on the KS page. Backing this one because it looks like it has potential for incline.

These men deserve your money.

Well we actually do need some king's bounty-like.
And this one doesn't look too shabby

 

[Kz3r0]

Police warfare canceled.

 

[felipepepe]

BROS, I was checking out the Kickstarter blog to see if I can find something like a graph on how much money kickstarter raised in the last months, the I find this:

The History of #1
Yancey Strickler · April 18, 2012 · 48 comments
On Tuesday, a project called Pebble became the most-funded project in Kickstarter history. This achievement was especially impressive considering the project had launched just six days before.

"What?" you say, "they passed Double Fine?" Yup, just look at this: 39,765 backer gave $5,815,627 of pledged $100,000! And in just 6 days! There's still 27 to go!

Fucking Hipsters and Apple fags...

 

[Kz3r0]

Selling watches seems what Kickstarter has been made for.

 

[Burning Bridges]

o_O

That kickstarter has destroyed my faith in humanity.

 

[JudasIscariot]

You like motorcycles? You like racing? Then take a look at nStaCharge a sci-fi motorcycle racing game being developed first for the hated and evil ipad and the PC/Mac version will be released shortly afterwards.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1758096792/nstacharge?ref=spotlight

 

[Stabwound]

I posted about that Pebble thing a few days ago, and it was around 2 million or so. Crazy shit.

And just think about how much they're getting ripped off by Kickstarter and Amazon. If they hit $10,000,000 which seems likely, they're going to lose a fucking million dollars to fees. There is no way Amazon and Kickstarter are doing enough to warrant a paycheck of half a million dollars each.

I guess being on kickstarter gives you a boost, but these guys would have maybe been better off running their own donation site considering they're going to lose so much in fees.

 

[Metro]

I don't understand... why do people need a watch that simply displays what's on your iphone/android? Can't you just take it out of your pocket and look at it? I mean... wtf....

 

[JudasIscariot]

Whispers from the Void...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charles-d-moisant/whispers-from-the-voidtm

Some of the images presented in the stills didn't grab me but maybe I am a total philistine when it comes to any sort of comic book art. I'll let you guys decide.

 

[Kz3r0]

I posted about that Pebble thing a few days ago, and it was around 2 million or so. Crazy shit.

And just think about how much they're getting ripped off by Kickstarter and Amazon. If they hit $10,000,000 which seems likely, they're going to lose a fucking million dollars to fees. There is no way Amazon and Kickstarter are doing enough to warrant a paycheck of half a million dollars each.

I guess being on kickstarter gives you a boost, but these guys would have maybe been better off running their own donation site considering they're going to lose so much in fees.

This is how Capitalism works, theoretically there shouldn't be any difference with running your own site. in reality there is a world of difference.
It's similar to how shopping malls work.

 

[General Maxson]

Legends of Eisenwald: looks like a King's Bounty/HOMM type of game, except your squad's comprised of heroes rather than units. Graphics are pretty good, and I like the video on the KS page. Backing this one because it looks like it has potential for incline.

Yeah, I like their video, and what seems to be low fantasy setting. Seems like it could be good. Might back it up, I'm a sucker for HoMM like games. :p But somehow their pledge levels seem to be simple, and their kickstarter page too, so I'm afraid not many people will donate, as unfortunately, sheeple like intricacies... And it might not get funded. I hope it will though. They are modest, so that might help, 50 000 $ isn't that much.

And another problem is media coverage. I don't know how will people find out about projects like this. As I don't think gaming sites will write about this game. Wonder what their first game is like "Discord Times" as it seems they offer it too at the lowest tier.

 

[udm]

Looks like Legends of Eisenwald may not be DRM-free.

Will the game be DRM-free?

While we would like to make it DRM-free, right now we cannot promise that since we don't know yet how the game will be distributed. So, for now the answer to is no, but it might change in the future.

At least they're honest about it, unlike Vigrior, which seems to be dodgy in this aspect. I'm going to bug the Eisenwald team about releasing a DRM-free version, but I've removed my pledge.

 

[Burning Bridges]

This reminds me of something

which is better and why?

 

[Spectacle]

I've enjoyed all the Russian TBS games I've played, so I'm backing Legends of Eisenwald with $25.
The concept sounds a bit like turn-based Mount&Blade.

I'm actually interested in that pebble thing too, but since they have all the funding they need I'm going to wait until the watch is done and see how the reviews are.

 

[Helly]

How more hipster gadget can you get, geez...
And the clock doesn't fit in ? What the heck ?

udm: Oh damn, that sucks. I'll do my codexian job and bug them as well.

PS: White Pebble preordered

 

[General Maxson]

I've enjoyed all the Russian TBS games I've played, so I'm backing Legends of Eisenwald with $25.
The concept sounds a bit like turn-based Mount&Blade.

I'm actually interested in that pebble thing too, but since they have all the funding they need I'm going to wait until the watch is done and see how the reviews are.

Yeah but maybe with some low fantasy medieval monsters like werewolves? :D

 

[udm]

Helly they got back to me. They're most likely going to be using Steam. I asked if they would use GOG, and their response was that they didn't know about GOG's market share, so they're not going to use it. They're hesitant to release a DRM-free game because their logic is that $50K (what they're asking for on KS) only constitutes to a fraction of the development costs; they've drained their own money to cover the remainder, and DRM-free means the project's going to be pirated to hell and will not sell well enough to cover what they have already spent on the project.

 

[Aeschylus]

... They're most likely going to be using Steam. I asked if they would use GOG, and their response was that they didn't know about GOG's market share, so they're not going to use it. They're hesitant to release a DRM-free game because their logic is that $50K (what they're asking for on KS) only constitutes to a fraction of the development costs; they've drained their own money to cover the remainder, and DRM-free means the project's going to be pirated to hell and will not sell well enough to cover what they have already spent on the project.

That logic would be much more sound if DRM actually did anything to prevent piracy. It looks like an interesting project though.

 

[Kz3r0]

City Conquest: Tower Defense Evolved Using AI technology both for gmeplay and design.
Anyone interested?

 

[evdk]

This reminds me of something

which is better and why?

This might just be my inner OCD patient speaking, but the fact that the digital clockface has its sides cut off by the display edges really irritates me.

 

[Commissar Draco]

... They're most likely going to be using Steam. I asked if they would use GOG, and their response was that they didn't know about GOG's market share, so they're not going to use it. They're hesitant to release a DRM-free game because their logic is that $50K (what they're asking for on KS) only constitutes to a fraction of the development costs; they've drained their own money to cover the remainder, and DRM-free means the project's going to be pirated to hell and will not sell well enough to cover what they have already spent on the project.

That logic would be much more sound if DRM actually did anything to prevent piracy. It looks like an interesting project though.

DRM is preventing me for buying those games, If I must get the crack from the high seas to play the game without internet acces and disc in drive I will demo whole game anyway. :D