[luvcraft]

Hey, party peoples! I thought we could use a thread for ACTIVE videogame Kickstarters, so we can clue each other in to them before they go away.

I'm currently backing Pyrella, which I only found out about because one of the devs asked for feedback on eyes of burning indie. It looks pretty neat!



meanwhile, Christian Nutt tweeted about Temporus today, which also looks pretty neat, although I haven't looked at it enough to decide if I want to back it.



So! What cool videogame Kickstarters do YOU know about? I'm hoping that we can limit the discussion here to active Kickstarters, so we can use this thread to strike while the iron is hot and all that.
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[luvcraft]

between this and "Oh Deer!", could 2015 be the Yeer of the Deer?
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[Riff Rex]

Aw shucks! Thanks luvcraft! That's very nice of you.

We're working on a Pyrella update for Tuesday-ish with levels/enemies/gameplay. That's our weakness right now is lack of "game" on display. The animations/controls in the trailer are pretty rough, but the update will help address this (also might be able to release a little demo the following week...).

I don't want to be spammy about Pyrella around here, but is it cool to link to the upcoming update/video in this thread when it goes live?

We haven't been too successful getting exposure, so any help or feedback is mega appreciated. We're also trying to get Greenlit : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=280224199

Thanks again!
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[CubaLibre]

[Mr. Mechanical]

Wow Pyrella looks pretty hot! I will definitely play it should it appear on one of Apple's iDevices.
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[luvcraft]

Deer God has hit its goal with 6 days left.

Go, Pyrella, go!!
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[Riff Rex]

Good job, Deer God! Man, we have sucked at getting backers so far especially compared to projects like theirs :/ Just gotta keep hammering away with emails/forums posts/reddit/twitter and all that I guess. If y'all have any tips let me know.

Anyway, we did just release a "let's play" kinda video to shed a little more light on Pyrella's gameplay. Check it out:



I'll have to make an update soon with more details about things like magik, upgrades and the torch. As you progress, you can level up your torch strength and eventually find a spell that let's you stoke the flame at the cost of Mana.

Also, we're internally debating whether or not magik spells should drain the flame since they use the torch...maybe in Hard Mode only...

If you all have thoughts/questions, feel free to let me know!
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[Riff Rex]

FYI: Temporus is entering it's last day. The game has heart! Consider backing it y'all.

Also, I seem to remember someone around here talking about Inherit the Earth, a point and click adventure game that came out in the mid 90s. Looks like a sequel is trying to get kickstarted right now:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1867564967/inherit-the-earth-sand-and-shadows?ref=discovery
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[Riff Rex]

Pyrella has a new trailer/KS video. Wahoo!


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[Riff Rex]

Last day of the Pyrella Kickstarter!
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[SuperWes]

I have two things:

A local company that up until now has made licensed kids games is making a 4 player online Spelunky meets Contra in the world of Metroid and it looks stupendous.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/graphitelab/hive-jump-0

And some other local developers are doing a Kickstarter for a festival/conference next month that should be a good time. I'm speaking about GameJams at it!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1824252807/pixelpop-festival?ref=discovery

If you're in St. Louis you have no excuse! Elsewhere you should look into it!

-Wes
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[luvcraft]

I just learned about Ninja Pizza Girl via this Polygon article.



I was on the fence about backing it until my five-year-old daughter made me play the demo over and over again, and then wanted to play it herself and finished it.
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[luvcraft]

Moon Hunters is going gangbusters, and has already doubled their original ask. I backed it because my daughter and I are always looking for local co-op games, and it looks to have a lot of cool little details that breathe life into the world.


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[chevluh]

The Pathologic kickstarter is live (and already pretty much half-funded):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1535515364/pathologic

[Take It Sleazy]

The Pinball Arcade has finally gotten around to The Addams Family if that is a thing you are interested in

[luvcraft]

We've just launched our very own Kickstarter for a digital CCG set in the Battle Realms universe. Check it out, won't you??


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[luvcraft]

Nefarious only has 2 hours to go and still needs $6k, which is too bad because it looks pretty cool, and being from a flyover state myself I'd like to see non-coastal teams succeed.



EDIT: It made it! Hopefully the devs themselves didn't pitch in that last $6k, because that would be rough.
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[RT-55J]

Nice little exploratory platformer for the NES (closer to a Knytt than a Metroid). Try out the demo. It's pretty nifty.

[The Blueberry Hill]

I'd be pretty happy if 4089 got funded: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/phr00t/4089-ghost-within



Looks like this one's all indoors, and you always have a grappling hook.

[Mikey]

I'm a little surprised not to see Impact Winter in here

http://kck.st/1ncMMyt

[OffalAl]

super happy to see Lizard has made it through!
here are some c00l Kickstarters I have become aware of recently...

Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs: Visionary Videogames for Girls
an effort to preserve Theresa Duncan's super awesome cd-rom multimedia games (including Chop Suey) to be made freely available on the internet




Buck & Miles - A cross-platform 2D platformer
#sb irc gadfly Quackgyver and artist Toadstone (both Tales of Game's allies and general swell people) are making a 16-bit looking, 8-bit playing platformer that smells a little like mario 3 and a little like wario land




The Big Book of Twine: America's Classic Roadside Attraction
it's not about videogames seriously, fuck videogames but our beloved dongle is behind this book and it would be cool to see it happen!


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[dongle]

Thanks for the plug. To help justify your case for posting on SB: I am giving every backer a Twine-themed Twine game.

[Kappuru]

As someone who loves SNK vs Capcom MOTM for the NGPC, this kickstarter for pocket rumble looks great!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardboardrobotgames/pocket-rumble-new-2d-fighting-game-for-pc-and-hand
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[jamie]

The Buck and Miles kickstarter is up, would be cool if you guys could take a look and back that for quackgyver:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/taqutor/buck-and-miles-a-cross-platform-2d-platformer

[Mr. Mechanical]

Wow these all look great. I especially like that Buck and Miles!
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[Mikey]

You folks liked Shatterhand right good here's a spiritual sequel

[Persona mobile]

DRIFT STAGE DRIFT STAGE DRIFT STAGE


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[eigenbom]

I made a game called Moonman. It's sort of a mix of Terraria, Spelunky and Binding of Isaac. :)

[Mr. Mechanical]

[Rud31]

back Steel Assault y'all.
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[Jaihson]

Some friends of mine are kickstarting a little fighting game. It's fun.

A bit of who they are and where they're coming from with this over here.

[Mr. Mechanical]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strafegame/strafe

3 days to go and they're about $55k shy of their goal :/
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[Ronnoc]

Yeah, that is a bummer because that looks like something I would really like

[Talbain]

Kickstarter's become kind of depressing of late. More and more it seems like genuinely interesting projects can't get funded without a big name actively supporting the project. Hopefully the last day bump will help Strafe get funded.
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[Tulpa]

I have mostly followed board game and tabletop rpg kickstarters, but those have seemingly been successful no matter if they had a big name behind them or not. On the other hand, they've been so successful at getting funding that the shortcomings of kickstarter projects are very apparent and at this point I won't begrudge anyone withholding funding because the project is doomed to never come out or if it does come out, it'll be as much less than promised.

For instance, I backed the kickstarter for an expansion to the Resistance in order to get both that and an expansion to Coup. In the end, I managed to get fairly lucky because a lot of the kickstarter backers got cards that were recognizedly different from the base set at a glance. This meant that the expansion was unusable since both games depend on hidden information.
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[Riff Rex]

Spooky Poo's HAPPY HELL is on Kickstarter now! This is my 3D platformer-gonzo-exploration thing. I may release a prototype/demo in the near future.

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[evnvnv]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/131750774/fujian-trader-a-board-game-adventure-in-chinese-hi?ref=video

people here may be interested in this! I am not connected to this game in any way, but I do desperately want it to succeed.
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[jakten]

Semi-related to video games but my girlfriend and I are going to be designing/animating a music video for this project headed by Jake "Virt" Kaufman. It's a series of music videos that use the Occulus Rift. We've got the guy who did music for the 80's Transformers movie to help us out on a song as well.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/916717037/nuren-the-new-renaissance/


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[CubaLibre]

What. That is awesome.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1145990096/strength-of-the-sword-ultimate/

It's already met it's goal, just thought I'd share to spread the word. Still a few days left to go if you want to toss some more money at them though.
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