habibi
1681
How do you do stretch goals for this? More music? Acoustics?
According to his FAQ, stretch goals or more money go towards higher quality or more famous venues, more musicians (vs digital simulation), presumably higher quality or more famous musicians. Seems likely you could pump an almost unlimited quantity of money into an orchestral piece in the way of musicians with better reputations.
The Gallery: Six Elements http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/494598080/the-gallery-six-elements
Looks like this is an Oculus Rift + Razer Hydra approach to a Myst-like world. 5 days left and they are 58.5K/65K. Kicktraq is optimistic on their behalf – http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/494598080/the-gallery-six-elements/
Also, if you ever wanted PC’s own waggle controller (that has not much support outside of Portal 2), Razer is having a 50% off sale on the Hydra for either the portal 2 bundle or standalone (some kind of Oculus Rift promo) http://www.razerzone.com/VRpromo
Clanan
1684
Pen and Paper nerds: anyone interested in going in on the What did I blow up?! acrylic AoE marker KS? The $135 tier contains 3 sets of 0.25"=5’ and 3 sets of 1"=5’ markers. If enough are interested, I’ll host it. Comes out to $21 each if 5 of you want in. (I’ll pitch $30 and keep the extra single marker).
If I’m reading the tier correctly, each set is a single color (red, clear, blue or purple) and includes:
- CIRCLE markers: 5ft, 10ft, 15ft, 20ft, 30ft
- CONE 15ft, 30ft straight
- CONE 15ft, 30ft diagonal
- LINE 15ft, 2x 30ft straight (combined to make 60ft)
- LINE 15ft, 2x 30ft diagonal (combined to make 60ft)
It ends in 48 hours.
Clanan, you should’ve used a picture of the actual acrylic markers instead of the cardboard test prototype. $21 for cardboard cutouts seems a lot less of a good deal.
Clanan
1686
D’oh! Fixed, thanks Telefrog. I didn’t even notice those were cardboard - figured they were a shot of the new red colored ones. And my wife wonders why I’m such a sucker for kickstarter…
jpinard
1687
The video is impressive: Theme Park Studio by Pantera: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1011099242/theme-park-studio-create-the-ultimate-theme-park
I really would like to see them hit the $180,000 (not gonna happen) stretch goal to add money management in.
This seems to be Rollercoaster Tycoon without the game. Money management seems odd to put off as a stretch goal. Of course, arguably RCT 1-3 weren’t very good as games, they were mainly appealing because if you enjoyed tinkering with coasters for their own sake. That, and trying to figure out how to fit your coaster to the fairly arbitrary way the game assessed how “fun” a coaster was.
The other thing that struck me is that the Platinum tier is weird. I get the difference between Silver and Gold (mostly the flat-ride editor), but $10 more to get a vegetation editor? What? They really think people are that excited about customizing their trees? In a rollercoaster game?
Nesrie
1689
Love RCT, the whole game myself. It was fun to tinker with rides, but I just loved sitting back and watch the little sims run around and do their thing too. This might excite simulator fans, but man I keep wishing for a new RCT.
corkeh
1690
New update for Consortium with some stretch goals and 3 days to go:
$70K: “EXTREME ZENLIL SIMULATION”. All exterior doors will be able to be shot out, triggering completely simulated decompression events, potentially causing main characters to die. The environment becomes significantly more fragile (lights, computer screens and more can become damaged). Turbulance will feel more real, creating a more immersive and believable feeling of flight.
jpinard
1691
Dang I wish they could it 70k!
Yeah that stretch goal would seem low enough to get to, but the last 5-7 days of Consortium’s drive have been SUPER slow.
The game seems so awesome too, it’s strange to see it not getting momentum.
Uh…
Pretty odd backing pattern.
That too. It was interesting tinkering with anything that affected sim behavior, like non-coaster rides, food stands, benches, queue lengths, and what have you. The problem was really that you didn’t have to, because the money aspects were awfully easy.
habibi
1695
This came in my mail today. I am sad!
To all our contributors: Thank you for supporting the SaveHomeworld.com project,
Homeworld will escape the THQ bankruptcy to a new home, however, that home will not be with teamPixel, LLC. The auction for the Homeworld license ended April 15, 2013, and while we reached qualified bidder status for the bankruptcy auction, we were unable to raise the necessary funds to remain competitive against the other parties at the auction. We hope you will join us in supporting Homeworld’s new owners in building a future for the franchise. We anticipate an announcement of the new owner to be made within a couple weeks and for the sale to be finalized around mid-May. Words cannot describe how honored we are to have been supported by so many in the community.
As promised, we are offering full refunds to all of our generous donors. To facilitate this process, we’ve established a website where you can verify that we have properly recorded all of your contributions, supply us with any special instructions for your donation, and track your refund. As a special thanks, we would like to offer each and every donor a special credit in our upcoming space RTS game. Yes, this means we will still be moving forward with our own Homeworld-inspired space RTS, but under our own intellectual property. We hope all of you will stay in touch and follow us during the production of our game.
Please visit http://teampixel.com/save-homeworld to track your refund using the login credentials sent to your Kickstarter/Indiegogo/PayPal account e-mail. We will provide donors with 5 business days to send us any special instructions before we automatically attempt a refund to your original PayPal or Amazon Payments account. In the event that these accounts are unavailable, you must provide us with an address to send a money order (USA donors only) or an accessible PayPal. Feel free to contact us for any assistance through the refund portal or using billing@teampixel.com. We are here to serve you!
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Nesrie
1696
Well it wasn’t like a true business Sim as say Capitalism, but i thought it offered enough for others to tinker with IF they wanted to. My aunt loved this series… and never created a single roller-coaster on her own. I think she used pre-builts for everything actually, but she loved it. Man I miss the quality tycoon games.
GreaterThanGames, the folks behind the brilliant superhero coop card game Sentinels of the Multiverse, just launched their next Kickstarter, this one for a coop deckbuilding SF game called Galactic Strike Force:
The race names are pretty silly, but Sentinels is more than enough credential for my tastes. $50 gets you the game. More than that gets you…um, some minis to use instead of cardboard tokens. I’m passing on the minis, personally, but I appreciate that they realized that some of us don’t -really- want to tack on $30 to a game’s cost just for some metal figurines that have no gameplay impact.
habibi
1699
True, but I can hope, Brian, I can hope…
This PAR article led me to Bloom, an action-RPG whose KS is almost over - and so far underfunded. I can’t tell if playing Bloom would be any fun, but the art is gorgeous and weird, as are the two music samples.
