I think it sounds kind of cute. I think my 3 year old would like this. OK, maybe in a couple years.
The cover art is nicely subversive, in a double-negative sort of way: “No Thank You, No-Evil!”
For anyone interested in a cooperative ‘marines defending against alien swarms’ type game that kills the alpha gamer (and potentially solo) element dead with simulataneous real time play, Project Elite looks fairly interesting. It has about a week to go. It can get a little Yahtzee like, but then watching the four player video of the developers playing on the kickstarter page made me realize that you need to be strategic and adjust rolling (to the point of everyone stopping at times) during the real time phase rather than go, go, go looking for symbols.
Here is a gameplay run through that probably sold me on the game:
Gedd
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Project Elite looks very much the next evolution of games like Escape: The Curse of the Temple. Anyone who likes Escape will probably like Project Elite. Rahdo’s runthrough looked great, but while we like Escape (and would probably enjoy this), we don’t play a lot of real-time games because we tend to prefer a bit calmer pace when we sit around at the table.
Crysis: Analogue Edition.
It’s a board game. Yes, it’s that Crysis.
Hansey
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Got word of this from a friend from my TTLG days who previously worked on Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite, but is currently working on this. This seemed like the thread to boost the signal for him.
Perception
It’s a narrative horror adventure, but with the twist that your character is blind, and all interaction with the environment is through echolocation. I am intrigued!
Clanan
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The Bard’s Tale IV by inXile. Apparently pledging in the first day nets you a copy of Wasteland 2 or Witcher 1 or 2.
Galaxy Heist. Spaceship assault combined with Payday 2. You fight ship to ship, then you board the enemy ship when it’s crippled in FPS mode to disable the ship’s systems and take it over.
PvP MP, co-op vs AI, or offline singleplayer.
This is what got me:
Blow out windows with a vacuum canon and watch the decompression rip nearby players out into space.
Galaxy Heist seems fun;
The first person mode looks better than the stuff I’ve seen from Star Citizen so far at least.
A couple-few months back, I posted about a KS for a gaming-themed relationship podcast/project my friend Joe and his lovely wife were setting up. They made their goal, got to work, and are now 5 episodes deep into the show, and just introduced a new section of the site, where a friend of theirs does short vlogs on scifi/fantasy/graphic novels.
It’s pretty cool stuff. Still a little cheeseball, and probably targeted a bit under the age demos for Qt3 as a whole, but it’s wholesome, uplifting stuff, too. Plus his Twitch stream is pretty great.
Anyway, for anyone interested, stuff’s here: http://heartpiecepodcast.com/
Alright, so this isn’t a game related kickstarter, but I figure I’ll post it here anyway, just in case someone here is interested. This is for people who are studying Chinese or who already know how to read Chinese and would like to know more about the etymology of Chinese characters or have an interest in Chinese paleography.
So anyway, a new company called Outlier Linguistic Solutions are making a character dictionary in which they intend to break down each character into its basic constituent components, in order to better help learners understand and memorize the character. It’ll be released as an add-on for Pleco, so you need Pleco to run it, although I believe the free edition should be enough. It will support both simplified and traditional characters, and it’s expected to feature 2000 characters at release, but will be expanded later to 3500+ characters. Backers will get that upgrade (and any others that might come along) for free. They’re talking about maybe doing a Japanese version down the line, and I think (but I’m not entirely sure) that backers will also get that one for free, assuming it happens.
There’s also an experts edition in which the evolution of each character is traced and explained, from oracle bone script onwards, complete with pictures and long-winded explanations, for those interested. I’m mainly excited about the way they break down and explain the characters, as I’ve always felt characters tend to be rather poorly explained in most textbooks, and let’s face it, radicals were never much help in memorizing characters and they’re becoming increasingly irrelevant for using dictionaries.
Here’s the Kickstarter page, for anyone interested.
In case no one is interested, I apologize for posting this here. At the moment they have 9 days to go and it looks like they might make it, but they also might not, so I figure they could use a bit of exposure. :)
That is a nice bit of psychological warfare, er, marketing to entice fencesitters to jump in from the get-go. I haven’t looked at the kickstarter page yet, but do they explain the CDPR connection? Hooking the campaign to Wasteland 2 or Torment in some way is predictable, but giving away copies of the Witcher 1/2 seemingly comes out of left field.
Maybe it is more of a gog.com relationship?
Auro from Dinofarm Games has a new kickstarter for an expansion.
Currently has a pretty challenging (for me) Play mode, the inclusion of the new Quest mode would add to an already great game. No vested interest here besides I enjoy their games and would love to give the Quest mode a shot.
Editer
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I was bummed that I missed the deal, then I checked the page and they extended the offer until 6 am on 6/4.
Pledged! $20 for Wasteland 2 (which was on my list to buy anyway) at the end of the KS campaign, and Bard’s Tale IV someday down the road, is a pretty killer deal.
The Hero-U ickstarter made their target: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/transolargames/hero-u-adventure-role-playing-game. Unless it sells really well, I won’t be surprised if this is their last non-shoestring game, what with taking out another mortgage and what not. The whole adventure game Kickstarter revival is starting to look like a farewell tour.
The Coles are pretty weird. Their day job for the last 10 years appears to have been web design, so I guess they’ll go back to that.
I Day 1 backed Hero U, but I’m pretty surprised it’s actually getting made. They’ve been pretty transparent about the process, and seem committed to following through on their promises, but I can’t help but think they would have done things pretty differently if they had the chance.
mok
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Bard’s Tale has funded. I am sure people are shocked. $1.25Mil made, need only 100K more to hit the two posted stretch goals, so those will be met.
Razgon
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Bard’s Tale is the weirdest kickstarter I ever saw. The first day saw them getting almost a million, and then for a week or more, nothing happened…at all! And now that they have funded, they are standing completely still as well.
