Kommunity Kickstarter Katchup Kollektiv

LarsWestergren 2019-10-09 11:10:45 UTC #182

Going strong, will likely be funded.

Summerfall Games, the new studio formed by ex-Bioware writer David Gaider and a few others seems to have decided to go with Fig instead of Kickstarter for their upcoming campaign because of this union issue. Their upcoming game will officially be unveiled in two days at Pax, the crowdfunding campaign might start then too or shortly after.

LarsWestergren 2019-10-11 05:49:39 UTC #183

Summerfall Games first title is up

And a long interview by Gamespot.

LarsWestergren 2019-10-13 20:13:03 UTC #184

This one looks alright. 11 days left

So does this. 26 days to go, about half-way funded.

davey 2019-10-15 03:06:30 UTC #185

I really love the art of this game. The gameplay is compared to Legend of Zelda, but you can apparently use stealth to do a pacifist playthrough as well.

beneloeffler 2019-10-16 10:49:45 UTC #186

This one should be exciting for anyone who used to play Metal Slug or Metal Max.

LarsWestergren 2019-10-23 12:38:05 UTC #187

LarsWestergren 2019-11-20 13:59:56 UTC #188

This one is going to be big, I suspect.
Edit: And we are past the 50% mark at $80 000 after an hour or two. 29 days to go.

LarsWestergren 2019-12-16 13:57:29 UTC #189

A rogue-like deck building RPG with an anthropomorphic aesthetic that seems to have its fans… 116% funded almost instantly.

3 days left on the Divinity OS board game. Got over 8 times its funding goal, now at $1.3 million.

LarsWestergren 2020-02-04 20:05:32 UTC #190

After a long draught, sudden flood of interesting titles.

The Wonderful 101, a remake of a highly regarded Wii U game (apparently?) from PlatinumGames, and for Switch, PC and a few more platforms. Funded 23 times the original goal, with 31 days to go. Lauren posted about it on the front page.

Aquamarine, the survival adventure inspired by the art of Moebius, which Matt wrote about a year ago. It’s looking better now and has more hints of gameplay, not just “driving around”. Almost funded with 21 days left.

Cyber Knights, a cyberpunk inspired XCom-like which claims to be inspired by Darkest Dungeon. 125% funded with 30 days remaining. Intriguing, but this one is the one I would be most cautious about backing.

Pathfinder: Wath of the Righteous. The first one got middling reviews I think, the amount of bugs was the main objection if I recall correctly. But it got enough fans for a sequel it seems. Just launched a few hours ago and over 50% funded so looks like another success. This new “mythic” campaign apparently has Throne of Bhaal like deicide and absurd power levels.

And over in the world of tabletops, there is a World of Darkness Vampire: Masquerade title with some very sweet looking figures and character tie-ins to Paradox’s upcoming Vampire: Bloodlines 2.

Internet 2020-02-07 16:32:29 UTC #191

I’m probably going to back the new Pathfinder Game. I was violently ambivalent about it, but it doesn’t look like as many of these games are getting made after Obsidian and InExile were taken over. The company seems to have the potential to grow, especially using the same engine.

Internet 2020-02-15 04:56:36 UTC #192

Backed Pathfinder: The Pathfindering. I skipped the first one because of their now severed connection to a Russian megacorp My.com; but the experience was acceptable. Now I have my eyes on Geneforge 1: Mutagen.

If you’ve never played the original, it’s a top notch rpg with bargain basement production values. It has a really interesting hidden gameplay effect with narrative consequences that changes the nature of the game once you realize it. The setting is brilliant and unparalleled, and is particularly well-explored in the first, second and sixth games of the series. The three factions are quite interesting too. My only cause for hesitancy is limited finances and the fact that I already have played this game twice. Will I really play a medium-large RPG for a third time? Then again there will be a new area…

Internet 2020-03-08 23:11:29 UTC #193

Pathfinder Kingmaker just reached its newest stretchgoal. Might and Magic style armies. The campaign has been going like gangbusters and is at $1.7m in its last two days. It’s double the original campaign, which I guess is a vote of confidence from the fan-base. It won me over, despite my many, many issues with the game. Divinity:OS II also doubled its previous total.

Interestingly enough, the other RPGs on kickstarter seem to do about the same or a little less. Pillars II made 10% more on Fig, with the caveat that the investment part makes the financials very different. Wasteland 3 made 6% more. Shadowrun Hong Kong made a third less.

Geneforge hit its goal of a new multi-zone region. Geneforge is on track to make $91,000, which is a relative setback from the past one. But judging from comments, several people were unhappy because the game went on sale for less than its pledge price. A slight few were unhappy that he didn’t fund audio, even knowing he would reuse most of the sound effects and / or music.

LarsWestergren 2020-03-10 18:54:34 UTC #194

More Vampire stuff. The designer behind Subnautica has wanted to do boardgames as well, and now Paradox has given him the chance. Seems to be assymetrical, each vampire clan plays differently.

LarsWestergren 2020-03-26 15:56:13 UTC #195

LarsWestergren 2020-03-30 15:26:09 UTC #196

Sarfrin 2020-03-31 14:43:43 UTC #197

In Other Waters got a Bestest Best! Out on Friday.

Laki 2020-04-16 09:11:31 UTC #198

Sure looks interesting blend of different genres.

LarsWestergren 2020-04-23 16:02:12 UTC #199

Ok so Gloomhaven the boardgame was such as successful Kickstarter it has turned into a PC standalone game (on the way) as well as boards for Tabletop Simulator and others. Now the sequel is funding. Currently at an unbelievable $8.5 million, might break $10M before it is over.

Look at the absurd size of that thing. If this continues, the third game will have a box big enough to park your car in once you have unpacked all the game components. I am very tempted but I have so little time to game with my friends these days (it’s once every third month or so) I have several purchased or Kickstarted games I haven’t even taken the shrink-wrap off yet. If me and my friends start now we probably wouldn’t finish the campaign in this game until we are all together in the retirement home.

Looks a bit like Pathfinder: Kingmaker in that you are ruling over a town and upgrading buildings and doing some choice&consequences as the campaign progresses.

Shadoko 2020-04-25 14:52:35 UTC #200

I’m really longing for RPG-like games that do not take 2 hours and an entire living room to set up. I mean, if FFG did it twice with their Lord of the Rings and Arkham card games, surely it can be done, right?

Paff00 2020-04-29 21:24:56 UTC #201

Escape Velocity revival - back in the 90’s, Ambrosia Software released a series of space RPG / trading / combat games, called Escape Velocity. The creator of the second game, EV Override, is now running a Kickstarter campaign to remake/remaster the game for modern platforms, starting with Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Aside from the base game, the remake of Override will be compatible with existing fan-made mods (which there are already decades of, including some fan scenarios that are full-blown games in and of themselves), and it’s also designed to be easily and extensively moddable.

The Kickstarter is set up as all-or-nothing - it needs to make it to at least the base goal for the project to get funded. There are also stretch goals for a graphical overhaul and the production of a sequel scenario. Here’s a link to the Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-frontier-override/