Kommunity Kickstarter Katchup Kollektiv

[Sarfrin]

am considering upping my pledge to get the physical companion book

I don’t think I can afford the physical version, but I might up for the digital one. Really pleased this made it.

[LarsWestergren]

New

PC games related - Craig Stern who did Telepath Tactics is now doing a board game which just reached Kickstarter. True Messiah - a game of cult warfare. Really nice art (Dalí and Zdzisław Beksiński mentioned as inspirations), has gotten nominations and praise for how good it is at several conventions. Expensive entry tier, but I’m backing this. The game is finished (rulebook PDF), the Kickstarter is the minimum cost cited by printers to make the smallest possible mass printing of the game. Unless he hits lots of stretch goals, Craig is doing this at a loss. $2500 reached of $30000 goal, 29 days to go. He is also working on a remaster of Telepath Tactics with a new engine and fancier graphics.
Edit: A how to play video of True Messiah

Sleeping With the Third Eye Open. “2D Isometric, choice narrative based RPG - A Hotel vacation trip with Black Art and Mysteries in Southeast Asia” A Noir adventure/RPG. A single developer with no previous documented game experience (?), but great concept. As I said above, SE Asia has a lot of art, mythology and traditions to draw from that we don’t see very often with all the tired Tolkien derivatives in games, so I hope this makes it. Nice art shown so far on the Kickstarter page and the game homepage. AUS $1200 pledged of AUS $40000 goal, 20 days to go.

AREA. A first person shooter/puzzler/platform game. Cites Portal, Bioshock and Prey (the 2006 version) as inspirations. I think they need to do a lot of work on the story and setting if they want to live up to those, but the basic shooting and physics based puzzling using Unreal engine seems to be in place and working at least. £1200 of £15000 pledged, 23 days left.

Tala - An Explorational Puzzle Game. Uses a mix of nature photography and traditional animation, reminiscent of for instance Botanicula and Samarost from Amanita games. AUS $1000 pledged of AUS $17 000 pledged, 29 days remaining.

Ongoing

Lots of successes.

What the Golf!? the wacky party golf game, 112% funded, 11 days left.

Once Upon a Coma. Stylish dark platform puzzler, over 200% funded, 4 days remaining.

Starmancer Dwarf Fortress in space plus graphics, over 200% funded, 4 days left.

Foundation city builder sim, almost 200% funded, 70 hours remaining.

Alder’s Blood Lovecraft meets XCom won’t make it unfortunately, 30% funded with 3 days to go.

[Feran]

for any one that’s interested check out this kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ycjygames/sea-salt-action-rts-hybrid/comments

Pixel/Retro Game these guys already have a sucessful kickstarter under their belt

[Sarfrin]

I just got a Kickstarter update that reminded me it’s working pretty well for me. Although I’ve funded a couple of projects I’m now meh about (Sunless Skies and Underworld Ascendant) I’ve also got a chance of seeing two that would likely never have been funded otherwise (Lifeless Moon and In Other Waters). That seems worth it to me.

[Aerothorn]

Well, you can always sell/trade they keys for the ones you’re not interested in - I know there will be takers for both of those!

[Internet]

In Other Waters

I didn’t have the money to back in Other Waters, but man that was tough to skip.

It’s a bit late, but One Night looks really fun!

[icemann]

Night Dive finally released their next KS update, detailing exactly why the project went completely off the rails.

They’ve been copping it a fair bit in the comments, as it revealed that they’d have gone ahead with their vision of what was a “better” version of the game (which was making it more like SS2) if their verbal agreement with a publisher had gone through. This new version of what the game was to be, was completely different to that of the game pitched on KS.

[Sarfrin]

I’ll definitely play UA. It’s just a combination of poor demo performance and slow progress have dulled the anticipation for me.

[Czrly]

Anyone here know anything about Iron Harvest 1920+?

Iron Harvest

It looks rather good, to me, with its unashamed inspiration coming from CoH – possibly my favourite RTS ever. But I’m wondering. Would like to hear from someone, here, before backing.

[Kiril]

It looks great and the previews have been good. King Art are also good studio, they made The Dwarves and Battle Worlds: Kronos, both strategy games through Kickstarter as well as The Book of Unwritten Tales series and The Raven adventure games. Their games get mixed to good reception, they have great artists but sometimes their games lack a little polish.

For Iron Harvest they have a good team it seems including a ESL Company of Heroes 2 champion to get the multiplayer balanced. Also the game is coming out, they have been working on it for a few years so the question really is do you want in on the beta or a fancy art and design book or can you wait until the end of next year for full release?

[LarsWestergren]

Hello, I’m back from hiatus and back on my Kickstarter addiction. Some new, some “last minute” Kickstarters. Some might make it, some not.

Ecosystem - a life sim game where you modify an ecosystem and there is simulated evolution and natural selection. Looks a bit like the parts of Spore that were hinted at early but were scrapped. 75% funded, 21 hours to go.

The Good Life, second attempt by SWERY and Yukio Futatsugi, this time on Kickstarter instead of Fig. Dominic Tarason wrote about it on the frontpage. They have lots more gameplay to show now, and thankfully they scrapped the idea of having two different editions, one with dogs and one with cats, with different puzzles and characters. Approaching 50% funded, 23 days remaining.

True Messiah, the cult warefare boardgame by Craig Stern who did the turn based Fire-Emblem inspired Telepath Tactics. He found a printer that could do it cheaper, but Kickstarter don’t allow the creators to lower the goal, so he scrapped the ongoing campaign and started a new one. 75% funded with 53 hours to go, if you like boardgames please check this out because it looks pretty good IMO.

Sentinels of Freedom. VERY inspired by Irrational Games awesome classic Freedom Force games, but turn based instead of real-time with pause. Which is a pretty awesome inspiration, I’ve waited for someone to do this for a long time. Over 100% funded, with 23 days to go.

Myst - 25th anniversary collectors box. 200% funded, 42 days to go. Dominic wrote another front page article about it.

More beloved nostalgia - Oddworld: Abe’s Origins, a hardcover artbook and collectors game box of the classic series that started in the Playstation 1 era… Over 200% funded, 9 days to go.

On Fig, we have Pig Meet Ball, an action-adventure game that mashes up lots of arcade classics and console games like Pong, Q*Bert, Pac Man, Super Mario Galaxy, Katamari Damacy, Super Monkey Ball, and wrap them in a barfing pig wrapping. I think some of the people who did Fat Princess are involved. 4 player co-op couch mode and a level editor. 100% funded, 26 hours left.

Just finished, and barely made it: The best of Point&Clickbait 2016. The satire site, in print.

[LarsWestergren]

True Messiah made it, 6 hours left if you want this boardgame with some great Dali meets Dune art and award winning gameplay.

Iron Harvest the real time strategy game has 15 hours left, over $1.2M pledged.

And in other news, one month left until Cultist Simulator is released, so they have a new trailer.

Also it turns out I’m a murderer. Is this the right place for a “And in the game” joke?

[Sarfrin]

Also it turns out I’m a murderer. Is this the right place for a “And in the game” joke?

Absolutely. Congratulations on being great and possibly real.

[LarsWestergren]

Two Fig news. Apparently Fig is working with the estate of Gary Gygax, one of the original creators of Dungeons & Dragons, to create a computer RPG based on a big unfinished campaign of his. So they are looking for a development team, and I presume a Fig campaign will be created once a suitable one is found.

So an indication Obsidian are fully booked even after Pillars of Eternity 2 is done maybe? Since they are on the board of Fig they could have picked it up themselves. Or maybe they are just completely done with working on other people’s licences.

Also just started on Fig, Jengo, a point & click adventure game. Seem to have some decent artist and animators working for them. If the writing is good and the characters really charming this could be good I guess? But I get more “insufferable jackass” vibes from the main character design to be honest so I think I’ll pass on this one.

[Aerothorn]

I had the exact same reaction to Jengo, was honestly surprised to see it on Fig, since the whole “TOTALLY POLITICALLY INCORRECT” angle is pretty juvenile and, in the context of gaming, often toxic.

[Internet]

Don’t forget, they wanted to do more with Pathfinder than just the Lords of the Eastern Reach. I don’t know if Pathfinder is as gung-ho now that Kingmaker is being made (and made well it looks like).

[LarsWestergren]

You meant “do more than Pathfinder: Adventures” I presume? Lords of the Eastern Reach is the pretty awesome boardgame based on Pillars of Eternity.

[Nekit404]

Hello. My name is Zuev Nikita, I’m an Indie-Game Developer.
Recently I’ve started my own game project on KickStarter, here is the link

Nikania

Support me please
At the moment, just a few games have really valuable and fascinating plot about a “semantic core”. Unfortunately, developers forget it at all sometimes. It isn’t surprise that the older generation, your mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers consider you just burning time at the computer and many of them grow up on theaters and books.
They can’t feel the sense in ordinary “to level up a hero” or "a zombie-meat grinder at the electro-tower”. And they are right. A game, just like a book or a movie, must bear sense in themselves. Teaching you something that will make you stronger as the personality.

NIKANIA - is more than just a game. The system of the principles and moral values in Nikania shows to player how much important today such qualities like dedication, honesty and courage. You will see how destructive today’s principle “think only about yourself” is. At the same time, the game contains elements of mysticism but the scientific facts of the game will make you doubt… “Is this a fictional story or a direct parallel with reality?”

[Internet]

Hey, a new isometric RPG approaches. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grapeocean/black-geyser-couriers-of-darkness.

I really don’t know about an early bird price of $19. The developers have only done one other game, an rpg for cellphones, and most of the reviews there are from paid advertisers.

[icemann]

is more than just a game.

This line may get you into potential copyright issues with a particular TV show over here in Australia, called “The Footy Show” which has the line “it’s more than a game” as it’s catch phrase. It’s a long shot, and I’ve never heard of them going after anyone. But just alerting you.

It also is part of the shows intro song. As soon as I read that line in your description, the show was the first thing that sprang to mind.