Hey folks, Sol Trader – which looks pretty damned awesome and is kind of a top down Crusader Kings/Elite/Dwarf Fortress thing – has about a day left in its Kickstarter, and could really use a kick in the pants, as it were.
Please check it out, and thank you.
Dragon’s Lair: The Movie
Oh, this is just to fund the demo reel, so they can take it around to the studios and get a real movie made. Good luck.
LMN8R
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The most successful Kickstarter campaigns I’ve seen are pretty straight forward.
“You want <thing>? Ok, donate money to us and we promise to give you <thing>.”
Has there ever been a notable successful Kickstarter with the premise of this?
“We want someone else to give us a shitload of money. Please donate to us so that in the future we might get a shitload of money.”
I know The Pathfinder MMO started with the same premise.
“Fund our tech demo, so we can get more funding!”
Yeah, but it’s actually Don Bluth in there. I might have to not pledge to Battletech and pledge to this instead.
If only this wasn’t their least interesting property… I really, really want to see a new Don Bluth film…
Ha, I was just about to speculate whether anyone at all would kickstart that proposal and hey, there you are Juan. Hey, far be it from me to tell you how to spend your money, but wouldn’t Battletech seem like a much surer bet? You can always just pop All Dogs Go to Heaven in the dvd player again.
Love to see it…though it seems a bit iffy considering Bluth is pushing 80.
Yeah, it’s not so much what’s a surer bet but what I desire more to happen. I’m sort of attracted to Mech combat games, but Battletech is not my preferred cut of tea (give me a Front Mission KS though…). And Don Bluth is one of my heroes.
And yes, might be iffy. But we also got Fury Road from a quite aged director that hadn’t worked in a while :P
George Miller directed Happy Feet in 2006 and Happy Feet 2 in 2011. Before that he made The Babe movies and Lorenzo’s Oil. He was steadily working since Thunderdome.
In contrast, Don Bluth’s last Hollywood movie was Titan AE in 2000. He apparently co-directed something called Gift of the Hoopoe in 2009, but heck if I can find anything about it.
olaf
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Dry Aged Steak!
Seriously. If that thing does what it says it does its a steal at that price. There was a product last year called Steak Locker that did the same thing but it was a stand alone device, and a lot more expensive. I think it was like $600 for the Kickstarter product but its currently ~$1400 at retail.
mok
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So Battletech is in its last 48 hours, and has thus far raised $2.3M. So large KS projects still exist.
Pod
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For really bizzaree bizarre things. Which publisher would have predicated 5 years ago that people want Elite:15 and Mech-games?
Muv-Luv Kickstarter ending soon. It hit all its stretch goals and is over $1 million. Pretty good for a visual novel.
I remember when both turn-based strategy and RPGs were pronounced dead! PC games too!
The only thing pronounced dead more often than turn-based RPGs was PC gaming for sure.
To be fair, there were always arguments that there were markets for these things, but publishers didn’t want to touch them (recall that after Pillars of Eternity came out of the gate like gangbusters, and then one or more publishers approached Obsidian about “hey, we’ll be happy to publish this for you!”). But nobody really seemed to know how big they might be. We certainly seem to have a better idea now. It’s very exciting.
Editer
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Where is my serious flight sim kickstarter?
Red Baron dude. (Too soon, I know)
Editer
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I said “flight,” not “kite.” #WW2orlaterplease
Whatever Speedy, you wanna be all fast and impersonal then whatever, I like seeing my victims up close.
Says the guy with the space thingy review thingy faster-than-light-in-the-darkness-of-space thingy website.
