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General Kickstarter thread, notable projects and info.

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I am seeing these posted about for some games and others not, so I figured why not just make general kickstarter thread to list all the notable kickstarter games?

For those who don't know Kickstarter is basically a crowd-based funding website. You can list up a project you want to do, be it a movie, game, book, music, whatever you can think of. You then set a goal for funding and anyone that's intersted in helping you make it can put in some money in whatever amount they want to.There's a time you can set on it (30 days, two months, etc).

Now you have to set a goal to hit, if your project doesn't meet it's goal for funding (say you set the goal at 2k and it hits 1.3k) you won't get any money. This way no one loses anything, no money changes hands until the end of the time and the goal has to be met. Then the money is collected , kickstarter takes their cut of it and passes the rest to you.

You entice people to pledge by actually showing them things, you creditionals, who you are, what your goal is. Then you set various "rewards" for the tiers that people can pledge at, from getting your game/movie/music (usually hte lowest tier, since they are funding it) then collectibles and even trips to meet and have a studio tour, etc for the higher tiers (1k+ donations usually).

With the recent Tim Schafer project that gained a huge amount of attention and really set kickstarter off there have been a LOT of great old game developers taking notice. This is something that is shaking up th epublishers world, as it's a way for game developers to completey cut out the publisher and go directly to the fans for funding.

So I figured I would make this post and list some game related kickstarters from developres looking to revive older games/genres.

Active kickstarters:

The Banner Saga:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stoic/the-banner-sagausers

Jane Jenson (Gabriel Knight creator) pinkerton road studios kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005365109/jane-jensens-pinkerton-road-2012-2013-csg

Leisure Suit Larry (remake from Al Lowe):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again

Shadowrun:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns

Starlight inception:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/732317316/starlight-inceptiontm?play=1&ref=users

Wasteland 2:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2

Notable closed kickstarters:

Tim Schafer's adventure game:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure

Takedown (tactical shooter, a la old Rainbow six/Swat III/4)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/355932838/crowdsourced-hardcore-tactical-shooter


All of these offered 15$ to get the games once finished. I personally pledged at least 15 to all of them, and 50 to the takedown project (I miss old school tactical based shooters, nothing like playing R6 back on msn zone).

However the way I look at it, 15 a pop each comes to 75 bucks, that's just a tad over the price of a brand new AAA backe dpublished game, and less then the cost of most "limited/collectors" editions.

So you are getting all of these games plus helping send a message to publishers that there IS still a market for these brands/games out there.

I encourage anyone here to post links if you find other games you think should be pledged, and pledge to games you'd like to see make a return.
 
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Thanks. The only one I've donated to is A DoubleFine adventure for $100 though I did support legend grimlock and pre-ordered that.

I plan on supporting Wasteland 2 if I can but moneys getting a little tight.
 
Might be a worthwhile addition to the list to note whether the Kickstarter project is following the "Kicking It Forward" initiative :)
 
Shadowrun reached it's goal in just 28 hours.

I just Wish Jane Jenson's would skyrocket, I want a new Gabriel Knight and she mentions that she'd like to buy back the rights if the game from this is successful.

Kickingitforward isn't too hard to spot, most of those that follow it have a huge logo on their ks page for it.
 
Stiler said:
Shadowrun reached it's goal in just 28 hours.

I just Wish Jane Jenson's would skyrocket, I want a new Gabriel Knight and she mentions that she'd like to buy back the rights if the game from this is successful.

Kickingitforward isn't too hard to spot, most of those that follow it have a huge logo on their ks page for it.
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Wow on the shadowrun but at the same time I mean if you google shadowrun Im sure theres a million forumers who have been crying for a new shadowrun for ages. More so than wasteland or doublefine combined. The recent Shadowrun title was just a real spit in the face for fans of the original. Nothing to do with the quality of the game but complete misuse of the brand appeal.
 
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piscian18 said:
Wow on the shadowrun but at the same time I mean if you google shadowrun Im sure theres a million forumers who have been crying for a new shadowrun for ages. More so than wasteland or doublefine combined. The recent Shadowrun title was just a real spit in the face for fans of the original. Nothing to do with the quality of the game but complete misuse of the brand appeal.
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Yep. Kickstarter is not going to be a panacea, it is not going to be some place any developer hopeful can go and get funding for anything. It has to be something enough people want bad enough to preorder it like a year early. That means some things will get a ton of funding, some things will get very little.

In my case if I go for something or not depends on three things:

1) If I care about it. I'm not interested in charity, I'll only fund projects that look like something I want.

2) Who's behind it. I need to feel like the person who is driving it cares about the project more than just on a "This'd be cool to make," level, and that they have the background to actually make it happen (game development is really hard).

3) How well developed the concept looks. The more vague something is, the less likely I am to ever see it, and the less likely it is to be good if I do. Just how it goes.

Other people have different metrics, but it means that some shit will get lots o' funding, some shit won't.

As you say, Shadowrun is highly unsurprising. That was nearly all I needed to hear. Then when I saw Jordan Weisman was behind it, I was in. Looks like I wasn't the only one.
 
The starlight inception kickstarter is already talking about $DLC and developing simulatenously for the PS Vita, and they expect to be taken seriously? Don't foresee that one meeting its pledge target.
 
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3) How well developed the concept looks. The more vague something is, the less likely I am to ever see it, and the less likely it is to be good if I do. Just how it goes.
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The funny thing is the Double Fine Adventures kickstarter that started this trend was ridiculously vague and raised $3.3 million. The only real details of the game was that it would be a point and click adventure.

It will be interesting to see in two years how well the kickstarter game idea works. I suspect many of the games won't live up to the initial hype. Even $1 million really isn't that big for a game budget.
 
I'm interested in Takedown. I really haven't played many of the other games that those people were behind.
 
siliconnerd said:
The funny thing is the Double Fine Adventures kickstarter that started this trend was ridiculously vague and raised $3.3 million. The only real details of the game was that it would be a point and click adventure.

It will be interesting to see in two years how well the kickstarter game idea works. I suspect many of the games won't live up to the initial hype. Even $1 million really isn't that big for a game budget.
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mm no they already had the studio ready to go. They have an 8 month timeline and they have a documentary crew thats going to film. It's been ready to go since prep for the kickstarter. They've already put out several titles in the last couple years. I can't say anymore under non-disclosure but the latest backer video went into a ton of backstory for the project and the studio reaction to the kickstarter.

Brian Fargo's wasteland 2 is actually much more vague in that he knows what he wants to do, nothing has been completed prepwork.

Shadowrun had already been licensed so I think they were good to go either way they just wanted to see if they could do it without publishit influence

Honestly the Gabriel Knight Video bored me to tears I lost interest halfway through but thats the definitely the only one I felt least likely to have any kind of weight on it.
 
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Well it probably helps if you played the GK games in the past/other Jane Jenson games.

These people making the videos aren't actual actors or anything and on a shoestring budget it's not bad to get people interested into it. JAnes games are great mysteries/suspense and that's the vibe they wanted to give off for the kickstarter video.
 
you can add this to the list:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/winterkewlgames/yogventures

Apparently, The Yogscast is going all in with their own Minecraft inspired game.
Fan funding a game for a large youtube franchise, which is going to be made by a green indie dev team in California, is a dastardly move :) The game does ooze potential though, judging from the video.
 
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mm no they already had the studio ready to go. They have an 8 month timeline and they have a documentary crew thats going to film. It's been ready to go since prep for the kickstarter. They've already put out several titles in the last couple years. I can't say anymore under non-disclosure but the latest backer video went into a ton of backstory for the project and the studio reaction to the kickstarter.
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Having a timeframe for the game to be done and saying you are going to make a documentary out of it dose not tell me anything about the game. Sure, they might be giving more info to backers of the project now, but that is after they already got the money.
 
The next year or so is going to be interesting to watch as these projects get developed.
 
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no Grim Dawn in the list? It's one of the few answers to Diablo aside from Torchlight or Path of Exile.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crateentertainment/grim-dawnlive
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Grim Dawn is looking pretty good, it's probably the kickstarter project I'm most looking forward to. I loved Titan Quest but it had it's issues, thankfully Crate is aware of those issues and has already promised to fix them. I'm looking forward to Diablo 3 quite a bit but I think I'm even more excited for Grim Dawn. Considering what they've accomplished with an average of 4 guys (only 2 of which are actually working on it full time) and very little funding (most of the cost is being shouldered, out of pocket, by a couple of the devs) I can't wait to see what they can do with more money and a proper team.

Another project that caught my eye recently is Skyjacker, a Space Sim from Russian developer DIGITILUS http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitilus/skyjacker. Like Crate they've been working on this one for a while and will be using the funds in order to allow them to give the game the polish it deserves and add more content. If you like Space Sims i highly recommend, at the very least, checking out their page. They also, at the behest of current backers, released a very early demo of the game. The demo was originally created for in-house use only and they had to do some quick work to get it into a user friendly state so it's a bit rough around the edges but I think it's pretty damn awesome so far, especially the detailed destruction of the ships. All the voices are done by the developers and are place holder, they just wanted to give us a basic idea of what they have planned for the in game dialog so don't be too judgmental there.

Links to the demo:

For US located recipients:

http://download.devkapi.com/skyjacker_install.zip

http://thewebworks.org/skyjacker_install.zip

http://www.believe.vg/skyjacker/skyjacker_install.zip

For Western Europe: http://188.40.83.198/skyjacker_install.zip
 
2 Guys From Andromeda project (creators of Space Quest) - SpaceVenture!

They've already got the following voice actors onboard:

Gary Owens - Narrator from SQ4 and SQ6, voice of Space Ghost, Laugh-in, and many many others in a long and distinguished career.

Rob Paulsen - Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Yakko from Animaniacs, Raphael the Ninja Turtle, and multiple characters from Monkey Island among many other characters he has voiced.

Robert Clotworthy - Jim Raynor from StarCraft 1 & 2, Senator Evran & Supreme Chancellor from Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Narrator of The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series, Big Bang Theory, etc.

Ellen McLain - GLaDOS from Portal 1 & 2, Overwatch from Half-Life 2, Administrator from Team Fortress 2, Witch from Left for Dead 2 and many more.

John Patrick Lowrie - Sniper from Team Fortress 2, Sword Control from Halo Reach, Citizens from Half-Life 2 and author of Dancing with Eternity.

● A Sci-fi adventure from Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe working happily together as a team once again.
● Hilarious death sequences
● Tons of the fresh (and moldy) pop-culture references
● Fun and unique humor
● Art design and direction by Mark
● Dialog that will make you blow nostril Tang, written by Scott along with Mark
● Narration of all this by Gary Owens and the voice acting of other characters by the above mentioned quality industry voice talent
● Game music that will hopefully give you chills and wedge in your main orb for the rest of your natural Earth life and make you wish you lived inside your computer!
● A game that you will feel comfortable playing with your children, but with some entertainment that will safely appeal only to the adult psyche

Kickstarter
 
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