Kickstart My Game

[Trebor]

Make sure to get Kinetic Void some mention too. It is getting down to the wire with 32 hours left in the Kickstarter windows for this game to meet it's goal of $60,000. Right now they have $35,000 pledged so far.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...d?ref=category

[J Arcane]

I will have an announcement for this thread very, very soon. I just need to talk to my artists and get a budget in order.

[Ravenlock]

I'm glad Kinetic Void exists, but I don't particularly want a copy based on what they've pitched in their video. Super detailed ship building isn't really my thing.

[Ink Asylum]

Yeah, like I laid out in my ideal space sim thread, I'm looking for a game that takes the next step and lets me explore inside of ships and stations instead of just flying them around and blowing them up.

None of the space sims on Kickstarter has gotten me interested. I hope they succeed and turn out good, but I don't have enough faith to support them at this point.

[Trebor]

Originally Posted by Ravenlock

I'm glad Kinetic Void exists, but I don't particularly want a copy based on what they've pitched in their video. Super detailed ship building isn't really my thing.

That is just part of the game not all of it. But you know that

[Ravenlock]

Originally Posted by Trebor

That is just part of the game not all of it. But you know that

I do. But it's the part they seem most jazzed about as developers and the part they're clearly most comfortable building (since it's what they built and showed off first).

Which is cool for folks who dig that stuff, I'm just not that guy.

What I want from a space game is actually pretty simple, I think. I want Freelancer, with more. Deeper combat, more varied missions, a decent plot with factional conflict, more "loot" (ships, weapons, etc) to play with that feel functionally different.

But not even that much more, really. Honestly now I just want to go play Freelancer again. Maybe I'll do that.

[Ink Asylum]

Much of what I want from a space game is what Notch's 0x10c is planned to feature. And I don't think he needs Kickstarter to fund it.

[muddi900]

Dave Sim has a Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...visual-digital

2012 really is the end of the world.

[Ink Asylum]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Dave Sim has a Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...visual-digital

2012 really is the end of the world.

Is it a special edition with even more misogyny?

[DoctorFinger]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Dave Sim has a Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...visual-digital

2012 really is the end of the world.

are womenfolk allowed to contribute?

[muddi900]

All artists are crazy. Dave Sim is just crazier. A LOT crazier

[Ink Asylum]

Kinetic Void pulled off a surprising rally in their final hours and met their goal.

From KickTraq:


They raised over $26k in their last day.

[Hawkzombie]

Originally Posted by Ink Asylum

Is it a special edition with even more misogyny?

I don't get it...

[Ink Asylum]

Originally Posted by Hawkzombie

I don't get it...

Dave Sim is a notorious raving misogynist.

"Emotion, whatever the Female Void would have you believe, is not a more Exalted State than is Thought. In point of fact, I think Emotion is animalistic, serpent-brain stuff. Animals do not Think, but I am reasonably certain that they have Emotions. 'Eating this makes me Happy.' 'When my fur is all wet and I am cold, it makes me Sad." "Ooo! Puppies!' 'It makes me Excited to Chase the Ball!' Reason, as any husband can tell you, doesn't stand a chance in an argument with Emotion... this was the fundamental reason, I believe, that women were denied the vote for so long."

"Behind this...lies the Greater Void, the Omnivorous Engine which drives every... institutionalised waste of human time and energy, which drives, in point of fact, our entire degraded society. The wife and kids."

"In one of those Poor Us studies for which the Emotional Female Void is notorious, it was pointed out that after a divorce, the average male standard of living rises... the average female standard of living drops... I think the...explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six- foot leech from the surface of a human body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry."

"In labouring to fill the insatiable Void Need for material possessions at home, his time and his energy and his spirit disappear into the Vaginal Bottom Line of the workplace."

"The Male Light and the Female Void: Seminal Energy and Omnivorous Parasite."

"If you look at her and see anything besides emptiness, fear and emotional hunger, you are looking at the parts of yourself which have been consumed to that point."

"It wouldn't be that big a stretch to categorize my writing as Hate Literature against women . . . in this Fascistic Feminist country"

[Trebor]

Originally Posted by Ink Asylum

Kinetic Void pulled off a surprising rally in their final hours and met their goal.

From KickTraq:


They raised over $26k in their last day.

It is a sight to see Glad I was part of it

[Ink Asylum]

There's definitely a pattern of Kickstarter projects that come close to their goal rallying in the final days. It makes me hopeful about some lagging projects which have at least managed to break 50%, like SpaceVenture.

There's a sizable number of Kickstarter backers that wait until the final few days before making a decision.

[Slack3r78]

Originally Posted by Ink Asylum

There's definitely a pattern of Kickstarter projects that come close to their goal rallying in the final days. It makes me hopeful about some lagging projects which have at least managed to break 50%, like SpaceVenture.

There's a sizable number of Kickstarter backers that wait until the final few days before making a decision.

Takedown was like that too. Kicktraq doesn't have data for them, but they were short like 25% of their goal going into the final couple of days, and ended up overfunded by 10%.

[Grifter]

Originally Posted by MosBen

Yeah, I read the page as well, but I still think that they pitch video would be better if it wasn't just an excerpt of in-game footage. Having a real person talk about what the team is trying to do helps humanize the project as well as give some reassurance that there's enough manpower to complete the project as described.

Yeah, I totally agree but the dev's are Russian and while their English isn't bad I think that in this case the game play footage video is a better option.

[crazyD]

Looks like there is now a Kickstarter for awesome looking zombie RPG Dead State. Their reward tiers are terrible, though.

[Ink Asylum]

$15 and you get a copy. That's the only tier level I care about for most games.