Hey, is there any chance you guys would be interested in keeping a list of kickstarter projects to keep track of? This stuff has some serious potential. Or maybe just link me to a bigger community that already has a pretty decent list going? I am pretty excited about Wasteland 2, but there are probably even more cool things out there, and more cool projects that will be created, and I would like a more centralized place that I can check out every month to check up on updates or something. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2
I feel like I read that Kotaku was going to keep a list around a while back. I never cared enough to go find it myself, but I know they have a "kickstarter" tag you can search for posts on... might turn up something.
I thought I'd post another kick starter in here... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dinofarmgames/auro It's Keith's Auro. And while not everyone here sees eye to eye with him, 100 rogues was actually pretty darn good, and Auro is shaping up to be quite the interesting little game.
Understatement of the century. Anyway, the kickstarter video/page is not terrible this time around, so things should work out better now.
Rock Paper Shotgun do a weekly article on the kickstarter news of the week every Saturday(but only of those that involve PC games) Last week's
Yo keith... This yours? Seems cool, but I'm having a bit of kickstarter exhaustion. I'll still donate the lowest tier. Also this weeks.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2140824020/word-realms One of the ones mentioned in the Rock Paper Shotgun weekly report. They also managed to get the fabled Felicia Day Tweet of Approval https://twitter.com/feliciaday/status/212418013163552768 I'll admit I'm biased because I am a consumer of Assymtetric's other ventures, but I am looking forward to fighting Gramlins and Subjunctors.
Here's the potential new "Godzilla 4" Kickstarter project by Simon Strange and the team who made Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, Godzilla: Save the Earth, and Godzilla: Unleashed. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14214732/kaiju-combat?ref=live Those were rather well-balanced asymmetrical fully 3D fighting games. Godzilla: Save the Earth was tournament-worthy and I played it competitively online for years. Definitely worth looking into.
http://www.indiegogo.com/resurrect-adom-development?c=activity Didn't actually think this had a chance, but there is hope! Adding music, UI improvement, and some other system improvement. Definitely bit into this game for a long time, so definitely worth the money imo.
Adom is fully funded and now has tilesets! Also: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/planetary-annihilation-a-next-generation-rts
Man, I don't know how they are going to make a full fledged RTS game with only 1 mil. Sounds insane. Currently, their plan is just one race type and low variation of maps to get this out, but they still planning to have full AI support and everything. Yeah, I know they worked on Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation, but I feel like that's a huge undertaking to have both a competent AI and interesting mechanics. Apparently the graphics are going to be stylized that way to keep things on the cheap side, and it does look good despite it's cheapness. If they do manage to make a decent chunk of money to fund this (5 mil), I hope they can spend some time refining and creating interesting variance. But for better or for worse, I think they are just going to go do the Mount and Blade route and rely heavily on the community for content and just have it out of the door quickly rather than build an interesting product for release. I think they really should publish their stretch goals (up to 3 mil at the very least) so that they can get a ton more cash.
The Relic Knights kickstarter is approaching its final week: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/relic-knights It's a diceless anime-based sci-fi skirmish tabletop wargame (whew, that's a mouthful). The miniatures look cool, but some of them are too fanservice-y for my taste. Still, the first couple of stretch goals have yielded a lot of free additional minis for the starter sets and the optional extras, so you get some good value by pledging. And the 460k stretch goal will most likely bring even more free minis. The rules (links to the beta rules can be found in the upgrade section) look fine, too. The card based combat is intriguing, the game is fast paced, has a few unique aspects and a bit of resource management.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/378280693/god-of-puzzle A game that me and my team is working on, a Puzzle Fighter inspired game. Thought there might be some Puzzle Fighter fans here would like to see this project successful :)
"Aphodite" veers dangerously close to looking like an unintentional typo IMO. (What did you name your other characters?)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/596618838/the-art-of-brom?ref=live Didn't expect to see this. It's Brom, so beware. Also, Eternity, if you haven't heard about it yet. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity?ref=live
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game Damn, why didn't anyone notify us of this? This thing looks soooo cool. Head mounted display with head tracking? Awesome.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1035580424/blackspace-plan-dig-defend-survive Well, I caught it at the tail end, but it didn't look bad. Graphically, I like it a lot better than planetary annihilation even though the game appears to be a lot simpler... Too bad it's not going to make it.
Here's one for the follow-up to the (really awesome) racing game Nitronic Rush: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1857884659/distance-a-next-generation-arcade-racer
Kaiju Combat is trying again: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14214732/kaiju-combat-giant-monsters-awesome-fighting-onlin I hope it succeeds this time, the Godzilla series was a great true-3D fighting game.
there’s a kickstarter for a sequel to Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/talesofgames/barkley-2-an-rpg-sequel-to-barkley-shut-up-and-jam I... I’m not going to say anything else about it here. I think everyone should look at that page.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/573261866/pier-solar-hd-an-rpg-for-xbox360-pc-mac-linux-and A kickstarter for a HD (and dreamcast) remake of Pier Solar, a 2010 Megadrive RPG... So, so tempting to get the DC version
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/subterraneangames/war-for-the-overworld - a spiritual successor to Dungeon Keeper.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1548272412/radio-the-universe-0 Random extracts: 'Players who die in-game die in real life' 'Pledge $999 or more: I will pray to a star on your behalf. No discernible effect.' I'm sold.
You have to point out that the $1 reward is exactly the same as the $999 reward, or it loses something.
Okay, anyone following Kingdom Death? Should be relevant to this forums cause boardgaems! Also, every single fetish and depravity you can think of.
I follow the updates closely, but I am not pledging. The game somehow fascinates me, but in "poke it with a stick, see how it reacts, yet don't come too close" kind of way. When I say "the game", I don't mean the boardgame though, I mean the setting and the miniatures. Most of the monsters are pure nightmare fuel fused with body horror. I knew that putting squirming tentacles, monstrous mouths and additional eyes on humanoid bodies creates repelling creatures, but putting (a seemingly random bunch of) human hands and faces on bestial creatures turned out to be even more horrific. The female pinup miniatures bother me a lot less than other in-your-face fanservice figures that I've seen. Must be because they are overall well-endowed, almost rubenesque, instead of thin super models with giant tits. This puts them closer to art and further away from cheap softcore porn. (Link for reference: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poots/kingdom-death-monster?ref=live)
The monster designs are amazing. I find the pinups so jarring exactly because of this. It's like you make a gritty, Berserk-like world and then and these impossibly endowed female eyecandy characters. It just ruins the seriousness. Then again, the main game itself seems to be devoid of this stuff and the most armors are the same for both genders. So it's almost as if it's limited to pledgers.
I agree with LoneKnight. The monsters look fantastic, the girls look devoid of soul and do not seem to be related to the world.
The pinup models are completely optional and don't have any game rules attached. They are, as LoneKnight said, just eye candy.
That game actually looks pretty fun, once you get past a lot of the off-putting thematic elements. I'm not terribly sure about models that need to be glued together when you're going to be changing gear during the game, never mind additional games...
I'm gonna skip this one, looks incredibly fun but: a) saving money b) not sure who I'm supposed to play it with. I might make a note for future.
On models and glue and stuff, if I'd buy the game I'd use magnet paint/magnet strips instead of glue. You are supposedly each playing and leveling up a single survivor as far as I can tell. The game has 2 phases, one where you got out and hunt some monster for materials, and one where you build your settlement. Also, I see no reason why there wouldn't be a single player mode. It may not be that much fun but it should be difficult enough to be challenging.
It sounded like a campaign type game, so you probably decide how you're upgrading your guy at the end of the session, and take your bits home with you to assemble and paint before the next game. Did I miss a link to the game rules somewhere on the page? Because that seems like #1 most important thing to me to figure out whether it's even a type of game I would like to play (and should at least be in top 3 most important things for normal humans)
Yeah, theoretically you go home and assemble and paint between rounds. But it looks like if your survivor dies, you just take over a new one from the settlement, and you might even opt to leave your main survivor home if his or her gear isn't appropriate to the current hunt target. I don't know why Kickstarters for games don't supply the rules. I guess they're afraid of knock-offs or something? This applies to video games as well, and to more than Kickstarters. I want to know what the gameplay experience will be like before buying a game.
Well, they got 2 videos (one for demonstrating combat, the other for settlement and hunting events) demonstrating a very brief summary of the gameplay rules on that kickstarter page. I was curious about magnetic paint cause never heard of it before. How effective is it? My search into it being not very strong (most often best people get is magnetic poetry kind of stickage.) My research on rare earth magnets seems to be a better choice. EDIT: Found this as I was researching rare earth magnets on miniatures. http://adventuresinminiaturegaming.blogspot.ca/2010/03/magnetizing-tyranid-warriors.html?m=1
I did watch the videos, but they left a lot unexplained. Magnetizing is a clever idea. A cleverer idea is to just use tokens and save yourself ten bajillion dollars on overpriced miniatures, of course But yeah, that would probably work if these figures are large enough.
I dunno, thought the videos explained enough for me, despite leaving a lot of details out. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XmA2jYwBF...Dfg/XPtAn2d0kDg/s1600/010 Size Comparison.JPG - and for fun, scale comparison to a warhammer space marine (was originally trying to find out big a tyranid is.)
Not a 40k person, but I think the tyranids as a species are basically the zerg, and the warriors mentioned in the thing about magnetization are ultralisks
The Zerg are actually Tyranids. Warhammer came first. Zerg are Tyranids, Protoss are Eldar, and Terrans are Space Marines.
Weeeeell, afaik original tyranids were basically all gene-stealer greys. Ther's some debate if new-school bug tyranids or SC zerg came first.