Kommunity Kickstarter Katchup Kollektiv

davey 2018-10-17 15:22:44 UTC #142

$23 may be a bit high but so far hasn’t seem to have deterred people from backing

Btw, while the RB KS doesn’t mention it, it was revealed awhile back that Guido Henkel (producer of Planescape Torment and lead designer of the Realms of Arkania series) was working on the game as a creative director until earlier this year. He contributed a lot to the lore, worldbuilding, and basic story Unfortunately it seems they couldn’t afford to pay him a salary so he left the project in search of paying gigs. I’m kinda hoping that if the KS is a huge success they could bring him back in some capacity. Seems like a smart guy who has a passion for CRPGs and obviously lots of experience.

KeanuRibs 2018-10-24 09:49:45 UTC #143

Time traveling + rpg + exbioware? Looking forward to this Waylanders thing. Any other rpg with those formation mechanics?

LarsWestergren 2018-11-04 18:53:39 UTC #144

New

The beautiful 3D puzzle platformer Omno, which Dominic posted about on the front page.

Lovecraftian point&click adventure:

Ooh, claymation.

Chess, squared?

Ongoing

Off Grid made it with 4 days remaining.

davey 2018-11-12 11:54:29 UTC #145

Well, Realms Beyond Ashes of the Fallen officially met its goal, with 3 days left to go for stretch goals.

icemann 2019-01-23 07:44:22 UTC #146

Considering its been 2 months since theres been any KS games worthy of mention, should we consider Kickstarter dead for gaming?

Internet 2019-01-23 12:02:22 UTC #147

Kickstarter always slows down in the winter, especially around steam sales. I think the bigger problem is that almost all of the AA companies that have used Kickstarter are now owned by publishers.

Kickstarter was successful at filling demand for missing genres (except MMOs). Now there are few genres that apply. I don’t think it will be this way forever though.

icemann 2019-01-25 05:27:29 UTC #148

Well we still don’t almost ever get C&C / Warcraft style RTS games anymore (besides Planet X3). So there’s still that.

Kiril 2019-01-30 13:00:05 UTC #149

Kickstarter lives! Or at least Godhood by Abbey Games is live now on kickstarter. Abbey Games who brought us Reus and Renowned Explorers are in kickstarter for their upcoming God game, Godhood.

As a tribal god, create your own religion, inspire your tribe’s growth, convert unbelievers and become the greatest god of all.
While channeling the titans of yore, such as Black & White and Populous, Godhood sets out to revive the PC strategy god game genre in it’s own unique way: by allowing you to truly craft your own one-of-a-kind religion.

Internet 2019-01-30 23:42:51 UTC #150

$23 for an early-bird tier? $29 for normal? That’s way too much.

Internet 2019-03-02 22:05:44 UTC #151

So, I was looking at Kickstarter and saw a bunch of projects that look good. I’m personally about done backing. Too many groups are using it for an advertisement instead of necessity. Too many of the good campaigns are charging more than I would buy the game for new. Publishers have been creeping in for a while. Anyways, here’s probably one of the last times I take a look:

Space Haven: It looks like a fun rng building sim, and they’ve delivered on the other successful project they made.

Chained Echoes: I may back this one. I love the steampunk jrpg aesthetic, and it looks like the appropriate mix of big and weird to be fun. I definitely see a Chronotrigger influence. Already funded, five days left.

Ada: 60% with 4 days left. It looks like a gothic version of Hyperlight Drifter.

Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands. I love this game.

Arnvidr 2019-03-05 09:12:48 UTC #152

Yeah, price have been the main reason that I haven’t backed anything in a while.

icemann 2019-03-05 11:18:50 UTC #153

I’ve not backed anything in ages as they all suck now. You don’t see all the good things that used to be there, like sequels to old favorites, forgotten genres revisited etc etc.

It’s now just indies making themselves look good enough for a bigger fish to come gobble them up.

LarsWestergren 2019-04-09 13:03:29 UTC #154

More Myst, anyone?

LarsWestergren 2019-04-18 08:07:02 UTC #155

Internet 2019-06-14 12:21:43 UTC #156

I really love the aesthetic of Small Saga, and the demo is great. So I backed it. But now it’s been 7 days and the creator hasn’t released another update. That is not great.

LarsWestergren 2019-06-19 07:21:49 UTC #157

SKATEBIRD! squawk

Speaking of small cute animals, Small Saga which Dominic posted about on the front page and Internet mentioned above got off to a good start but has lost momentum since and could use some help. 15 days left.

LarsWestergren 2019-06-25 11:34:24 UTC #158

Create tabletop games online. Tabletop Simulator but with a more drag&drop toolkit maybe?

Internet 2019-06-25 12:25:53 UTC #159

Small Saga is only half way there with 9 days left, but that’s why you don’t run a campaign with an update a week. Night in the Woods had 11 updates, and they stopped doing stretchgoals early in the campaign! Talespire looks like a great idea. It’s too much work for our campaigns, but lots of DMs would welcome it.

LarsWestergren 2019-07-03 06:18:02 UTC #160

Small Saga actually made it, to my surprise. 36 hours to go.

A cybernoir detective game in a future sovereign nation of an American Indian people, in the vein of games like Oxenfree and The Shiva. Note that the funding goal is just to create a polished prototype, the full game will take many times that.

A third person survival game, where you play as a sugar glider (the flying squirrel). Unlike the game above, it has already been into production for three years, so this Kickstarter is probably mostly to generate awareness and add a little extra polish or bonus features. On the plus side, you are very likely to get a finished game if you back it.

icemann 2019-07-16 08:01:15 UTC #161

The UnDungeon KS has ran into some MASSIVE problems due to the project manager causing

Numerous staff to leave
The project to go 400% over budget
Locking off the source code, so that others could not access it, when they attempted to fire him (they had backups luckily).
Aggressive actions, negative posts on Facebook etc etc.

Quite the disaster. For more details, you could read the detailed version here: