What would YOU pick - (un)official Kickstarter thread

[fredgiblet]

Most likely they have the game already mostly made, it's not terribly uncommon for that in Kickstarter, they just need to license some assets or license the development tools so they can legally release it or something to that effect.

[fredgiblet]

NECROPOST-post-post-post

Got some unexpected cash lately so I'm backing some stuff.

Kingdom Come
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... eliverance
Think Skyrim without magic. It's an open-world game in a much more realistic Medieval setting.

Space Pioneer
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/16 ... ce-pioneer
Intended to be a grounded-in-reality 4X RTS game made by real scientists, engineers and astronauts.

Starcrawlers
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... arcrawlers
Sci-fi dungeon crawler. Like Legend of Grimrock, with lasers.

Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ar ... -anatomies
Collection of short stories from the Delta Green universe.

[Karst45]

well space pioneer sound a lots like Kerbal but less cartooney with more battle and possibility i may be tempted to go there that is if they actually can do all of what they promise


starcrawlers an interresting genre and seem simple enough that their budget/goal seem legit and seem more likely to come to completion than actually an game made from a crew of russian (not that am raciste but considering what happenned in sochi...


and failed anatomy... that style of game isnt my style.


So if you go for space pioneer tell me i may be tempted to buy it just to crush you civilisation in MP

[discord]

hmm, space pioneers, could be epically awesome, but most games trying for such a scope and width of gameplay usually flops all over, same is true for kingdom come.
problem is that they(developers) ALWAYS underestimate how much work it is to do something like that, i often say, give me a couple of hundred good game devs and about five to ten years and i will deliver an epically awesome game...but that is what it takes if you want to go that broad.

failed anatomy and starcrawlers are much smaller in scope, and that makes me believe it might actually be doable, of those two, starcrawlers is the game i would like to play.
and the crawler could actually go slightly off center and take a page out of the https://www.themightyquest.com/en/welcome playbook, for a interactive MP gameplay....probably wont, but it would be kinda cool to raid other players ships...

[Charlie]

Kingdom Come reminds me of Mount & Blade. I'd like to play it.

[fredgiblet]

Space Pioneer isn't going to be funded at this point. They're about 1/5 of the way funded and 1/2 of the way through their campaign, chances of funding are very slim.

Tales from Failed Anatomy isn't a game, it's a short story collection.

I'll agree that Kingdom Come is ambitious, but with the success that they've had I expect that they will find funding if they run out of money, so I'm not terribly concerned, Charlie if you want to hop in I believe you can still fund them on their website.

[Arioch]

I'm not suprised that Space Pioneer is falling short; they didn't do a very good job of communicating what kind of game it is (whether scifi or near-future Kerbal style rocketry). I think it's hard to get a game funded when you have nothing at all to show... just confusing stock footage of galaxies and Sputnik missions. Even the concept art looks like it was grabbed from DeviantArt and not necessarily specific to the game.

[fredgiblet]

Yeah, they really aren't doing that good of a job of it. It's interesting to look at the different campaigns and see what works and what doesn't, and how often projects go with what doesn't even when they have a bunch of examples to work with. It's REALLY amusing to watch a "How to succeed at crowdfunding" book fail, I've seen that twice so far.

[Karst45]

hmm, space pioneers, could be epically awesome, but most games trying for such a scope and width of gameplay usually flops all over, same is true for kingdom come.
problem is that they(developers) ALWAYS underestimate how much work it is to do something like that, i often say, give me a couple of hundred good game devs and about five to ten years and i will deliver an epically awesome game...but that is what it takes if you want to go that broad.

and by the time you get there, graphic and hardware will have evolved so much that you game will look like crap compared to those new games

[Imbrooge]

Unless you deliberately go the old school route, but then again that's probably Dwarf Fortress meets X in space. In 16-bit!

[discord]

karst: http://www.eveonline.com/ <--- soon 11 years old, does not look like it.

[fredgiblet]

and by the time you get there, graphic and hardware will have evolved so much that you game will look like crap compared to those new games

Because Minecraft's graphics are the best ever am I right?

karst: http://www.eveonline.com/ <--- soon 11 years old, does not look like it.

Is also constantly updated.

[Karst45]

you got me there fred

but you want a space game that look like minecraft?

[fredgiblet]

you got me there fred

but you want a space game that look like minecraft?

If they made Freespace 3 using the same engine they used for Freespace 1 I'd play it in a heartbeat. Not quite Minecraft sure, but graphics are not the most important part of a game.

[Karst45]

you got me there fred

but you want a space game that look like minecraft?

If they made Freespace 3 using the same engine they used for Freespace 1 I'd play it in a heartbeat. Not quite Minecraft sure, but graphics are not the most important part of a game.

yeah the best part is the story.... what... do modern games still have that?

[fredgiblet]

Some of them.

http://stoicstudio.com/

[discord]

karst: http://star-made.org/ <---- minecraft in space?

[Karst45]

karst: http://star-made.org/ <---- minecraft in space?

Much prefer Space engineers: http://www.spaceengineersgame.com/

[discord]

karst: just threw out the first hit i found on google, i don't play either minecraft nor any of it's ilk.

[fredgiblet]

On the one hand it's not directly related to the comic, on the other hand it needs to be posted:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/re ... ld-everywh