Not familiar with this but intrigued enough to back for both the “suppliment” book being kickstarted and a copy of Burning Wheel Gold as well. Especially since it’s well past the initial goal.
I do love me a good hardcover RPG book.
Your urls just link to postimage.org which I’m betting isn’t what you intended.
Otagan
3909
I’ve been considering buying the Burning Wheel books for years just to have them on hand, but never did. Now they’re willing to give me everything in hardcover format for a reasonable price? Sounds like a deal.
MrTibbs
3911
IGI are looking for $450,000 for their Deus Ex-meets-Die Hard sequel to Consortium. Unreal 4 and aiming for a June 2017 release.
THAT looks awesome. I’m in for sure.
John Smedley (formerly of Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak) is back.
Hero’s Song
Open-world rogue-like fantasy game done in beautiful pixel art style.
Didn’t he release Everquest Next and Landmark, what happened to those games?
Neither are officially out, though a partially complete version of Landmark’s been in Beta for awhile now. Last summer they announced main development for that was ceasing, shifting full focus to Next. I seem to recall that it was possible to spend some cashmoney in Landmark and that people weren’t necessarily happy, and losing Smedley didn’t exactly calm the waters, but meh, what ya gonna do? Why, start another Kickstarter, of course!!
That strikes me as not a lot of money, for quite a large team, with a very condensed development timeline.
That and Patrick Rothfuss is set to be the next GRR Martin, for all the time he seems to be spending in his day job.
Nesrie
3917
I’m sure the guy is a nice guy, but I don’t think having Smedley on a project right now is a selling point.
Nesrie
3918
I can’t remember if the Zano report was posted or not. I only skimmed it but it’s… interesting.
Link
Basically how do you raise millions of dollars, fail to deliver, and does Kickstarter really care… an investigative report!
Oh and for those of you who want bullet points, they’re at the bottom.
Very. Thanks for this.
I sort of remember the Zano announcement when it first went out. I recall thinking the pitch video was too good to be true.
Nesrie
3920
I’ve mostly stayed away from Tech type projects for a lot of reasons, but mostly I don’t think I understand the industry well enough to know what is realistic or not. Gaming, I don’t know the industry well but I’ve seen enough projects to ponder about some claims.
The thing that kind of bothered me about the Zano investigation is KickStarter basically says their loss in this is their reputation, and he can’t be bothered to maybe think about holding Shipping and Handling fees in an Escrow because what’s 15 bucks compared to a 300 dollar unfulfilled pledge… to which I say, it’s 15 bucks. How rich are you to dismiss that so readily for your users?
Patrick Rothfuss, perma-death, and host your own server with 100’s of players online simultaneously? I’m in for $25, see where it goes…
The guy who made this really clever card game for two players sent me a prototype a while ago looking for feedback and a possible blurb for his Kickstarter campaign. Most of the prototypes I get sent are, uh, kind of awful, so I figured this would be the same and I’d have to politely decline if he followed up and asked for a blurb. Boy, was I wrong. Which is why I Officially Endorse the Kickstarter for Karmaka*. It’s a compact, brief, and brutally interactive head-to-head deck-builder about racing to reincarnate from a dung beetle to a transcendent superhuman.
I’ll be talking to the designer, Eddy Boxerman, about the game and Kickstarter campaign on the podcast next week.
-Tom
- Unfortunately, I don’t Officially Endorse the name. Hoo, boy.
Even better for previous backers, who want to back this:
For all backers of CONSORTIUM that choose to back The Tower, you will automatically get promoted to the reward tier ABOVE whichever tier you back us at (not including limited tiers however…).
mok
3924
Curious Tom, what was wrong with the prototype - were the game prototype components too distracting, were the features limited with an incomplete design, or was it something else?
marquac
3925
Where did Tom say there was something wrong with the prototype?
rowe33
3926
I assume he meant most prototypes he receives are just awful games in general but this one really stood out from the pack as a good one.
