Since I couldn't find a thread for this, I'll make my own. :) What awesome Kickstarter finds have you seen lately?
This one looks freakin adorable:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sleepninja/monsters-ate-my-birthday-cake
I don't know what I saw... but the name alone is AWESOME!
Agustin Cordes' kickstarter for Asylum!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agustincordes/asylum-kickstart-the-horror
Quote from: KatieHal on February 05, 2013, 08:45:13 AM
Agustin Cordes' kickstarter for Asylum!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agustincordes/asylum-kickstart-the-horror
Interesting - this game has been Greenlit, and it isn't even funded yet.
Also: /|\(;,;)/|\
Cthulhu! :-o
*goes insane...er*
Very nice! Monsters stole my birthday cake looks adorable. And I've seen Asylum videos floating around the internet so I'm glad to see it's moving forward. Not sure whether it can make its high goal, though.
Oh, here's my suggestion:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1599677835/unwritten-that-which-happened?ref=live (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1599677835/unwritten-that-which-happened?ref=live)
It's a game in which you guide a tribe through a harsh environment. The choices you make are incorporated into the tribe's history and culture, which I think is a really interesting idea. :P
Yeah, I saw that one too. :) I usually don't like turn-based strategy games but it's got an interesting story angle. I doubt they'll meet their goal but I hope they continue on!
Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey!!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey
I've gotta go replay those games. Or at least watch an LP!
@Oldbushie: yes, I've not played many turn-based games, but it's the narrative aspect that interests me. Apparently when you make choices, your tribe acquires an attribute which will affect their culture. You can take one attribute per game and send it away to the player's other tribes, and then it will become a legend and will affect all the player's future tribes, except moreso - so any positive OR negative attributes of the original attribute are sort of amplified when it becomes legendary. The twist is, you can only do this once per game, and if you send the attribute away, you (the sender) can't use it again.
So this means you *could* send a really crippling attribute away if your game is going really well and you want to do without it - but then the problem is, all future games will have to deal with that attribute, in a more extreme form. Or you could decide to send a really good attribute back, but since you can only do this once per game, you might want to wait for a better one to come along - and while you're waiting you might get your tribe wiped out. :P
@Katie: yes! I loved TLJ though never got round to playing dreamfall. Hope this goes ahead. :)
Quote from: KatieHal on February 08, 2013, 07:26:41 AM
Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey!!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey
I've gotta go replay those games. Or at least watch an LP!
*ahem* If I may suggest something: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC7FC6404630E8106
And this too!: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL878A01413B0FF354
I have seen his Dreamfall LP, actually. But I could use the refresher on TLJ :)
Quote from: KatieHal on February 08, 2013, 07:26:41 AM
Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey!!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey
I've gotta go replay those games. Or at least watch an LP!
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Fricken finally!
I really want to LP these games in preparation but I cannot get TLJ to work nicely with FRAPS. It just shows black screens when the game is playing a video and it glitches out the subtitles. :-\
You might have to try switching to a software renderer in that case, not sure if that's doable with a game. I did that as an option in my video player once when I was trying to screenshot a movie.
UNWRITTEN GOT FUNDED (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1599677835/unwritten-that-which-happened?ref=live) :D :D :D
*is excited*
I saw!! I was so nervous near the end. Woohoo! :D
Quote from: Oldbushie on February 13, 2013, 08:37:08 PM
I saw!! I was so nervous near the end. Woohoo! :D
Yes, with a week to go I honestly couldn't see it succeeding. But they somehow pulled that rabbit out of that hat, to use an extremely laboured and not entirely appropriate metaphor. :D
Quote from: darthkiwi on February 13, 2013, 06:04:09 PM
UNWRITTEN GOT FUNDED (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1599677835/unwritten-that-which-happened?ref=live) :D :D :D
*is excited*
You're welcome. ;D I upped my pledge after Wildman was cancelled.
Quote from: darthkiwi on February 14, 2013, 05:38:42 AM
Quote from: Oldbushie on February 13, 2013, 08:37:08 PM
I saw!! I was so nervous near the end. Woohoo! :D
Yes, with a week to go I honestly couldn't see it succeeding. But they somehow pulled that rabbit out of that hat, to use an extremely laboured and not entirely appropriate metaphor. :D
Or did they pull a hat out of the rabbit? ;)
Himalaya Studios, also known as AGDI, has launched a Kickstarter for their Adventure/RPG hybrid game, Mage's Initiation!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2112639455/mages-initiation-a-classic-sierra-style-adventure
There's also this treasure, from Tom Hall, the creator of Commander Keen!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/368238381/worlds-of-wander-plus-secret-spaceship-club-game
I doubt he'll make it though. :( But I'm glad to see he's still keeping busy!
Quote from: KatieHal on February 19, 2013, 11:27:52 AM
Himalaya Studios, also known as AGDI, has launched a Kickstarter for their Adventure/RPG hybrid game, Mage's Initiation!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2112639455/mages-initiation-a-classic-sierra-style-adventure
Ooooh YES! I have waited a loooong time for this. Goodbye paycheck, hello noodlesoup. :)
Yeah, I feel bad for Tom Hall. That's two major Kickstart Failures right there.
Bt
Oh did he try before? :/
I've backed both Dreamfall Chapters(huge TLJ fan) and Asylum(loved Scratches) - the only two Kickstarters I've pledged to aside form Cognition. ;)
I really hope Asylum gets funded. I think it will, but just barely. Only a week left. But considering how good Scratches was, and how good this looks, I'm amazed it hasn't gotten more money yet.
All the Kickstarters I've looked at lately have finished, but done so with glorious success!
Obviously, Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption being one but also this Sui Generis (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1473965863/sui-generis) RPG looks amazing!
There were some others but I can't find their pages anymore. Oops. :P
Mages Initiation, I've been waiting for that game forever and oddly enough feels more like a Quest for Glory game then even the game that was meant to feel like a quest for glory game (a game I only supported because I felt guilty for harping on it because I always harp on games).
Ohh yeah Hero-U that was the name of the one that was dirrectly trying to make a call back to Quest for Glory.
I am glad Mages Initiation is still being made.
As for the rest of these. I REALLY don't want to start saying how I really feel about a lot of these (especially Sui Generis) as I want to at least be tollerated here. So off I go into the yonder!
Speaking of Hero-U, when IS Rogue to Redemption coming out anyway?
I would imagine not for at least a year, or around that.
Quote from: GrahamRocks! on February 25, 2013, 04:51:18 PM
Speaking of Hero-U, when IS Rogue to Redemption coming out anyway?
I believe the current schedule says Oct 2013, but to me that looks doubtful. My guess would be beta around then with release Q1, maybe even Q2 2014.
But that's just a guess. The "official word" is still Oct 2013 as far as I know.
I'm just sitting here... patiently waiting for shadowrun returns, shadowrun online and Wasteland 2
... WHERE ARE THEY!?!
Mage's Initiation hit its funding goal in the middle of the night last night. Now they're past 70K. Makes me wonder how well we'd have done if we'd set our goal a bit higher. Of course, they have a lot more games under their belt, too. :)
Nice to see all these old devs still have such a dedicated fanbase.
Oddly enough I only care about the stretch goals up to the 95k
Past that they are entirely uninteresting. Even the animation (since frankly their ingame animation looks better then their cinamatics. Heck if 100k was they would redo their cinamatics with ingame graphics I'd be on the edge of my seat).
Mind you I cannot blame them. It isn't the only game with worse cinamatics then their ingame animation. Which oddly enough is extremely common in point and clicks but basically no other genre I can think of.
One of my favorite RPGs is going to be in full color! And it has a theme song!
Kobolds Ate My Baby! (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/9thlevel/kobolds-ate-my-baby-in-color?ref=live)
This isn't a gaming Kickstarter, but it is awesome, and I am super excited:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-mars-movie-project
Also, I'm going to move this out of the Gaming Talk area, since there are many kickstarters that are both awesome and not in games. :)
@Katie - I just came here to post that! I knew you would be excited about it. :D I really should watch that show at some point...
Playable demo of Mage's Initiation now available here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2112639455/mages-initiation-a-classic-sierra-style-adventure/posts
I'll just add that to my list of games I want to play but haven't yet... :)
Quote from: KatieHal on March 15, 2013, 08:04:19 AM
I'll just add that to my list of games I want to play but haven't yet... :)
Ugh... don't even... I never seem to make it down my checklists! :(
oh nice! they already surpassed the original goal
So has the Veronica Mars Kickstarter. They're at 3.5 Million (goal was 2M). And 27 days to go! :o
Oddly enough the Mages Initiation demo snapped me out of my enamouration and now I am just kinda disapointed.
Not at the parts that are obviously just because this is an early version of the game, but rather the parts of it that arn't part of the demo. Ohh well.
Yet I cannot deny that I am still charmed. It all honestly depends on whether or not there are more then one out of combat spell (and I am not including those split up between the elements). Since honestly one of my favorite parts about Quest for Glory mages was how useful magic was out of combat. There were more non-combat spells in Quest for Glory then combat spells, which is unique.
Quote from: Neonivek on March 17, 2013, 08:49:10 PM
Yet I cannot deny that I am still charmed. It all honestly depends on whether or not there are more then one out of combat spell (and I am not including those split up between the elements). Since honestly one of my favorite parts about Quest for Glory mages was how useful magic was out of combat. There were more non-combat spells in Quest for Glory then combat spells, which is unique.
Pretty sure that's going to be the case. The back story is that there aren't any/many "real" combat spells, because Mage's aren't supposed to be combative. The conductor (the brass knuckles) turn regular spells like "heat" into combat spells like "fireball".
So, the way I figure it is that you'll take your brass knuckles off and then you'll have non-combat spells. Also it looks like to me that the conductor has room for two different types of gems. I wouldn't be surprised if your choice of gemstones in the conductor affects what your spells do. But this is mere speculation. I haven't asked any of the devs about it. Perhaps I will.
Well the "heat spell" slot could be in the final version the "magic slot"
Whelp temptation begone. Apperantly I cannot kickstart this through paypal for some unknown reason.