Aaron’s debuting a new series on Leviathyn – The Pants List, and the inaugural episode is near and dear to his heart as he counts down his Top 5 Things that the 7th Guest 3 Kickstarter is doing wrong.
Cliqist returns with another Quest Of The Week. This week the team shares the Kickstarter video game pet peeves that frustrates them the most.
My least favorite thing is when there is just a up wall of text with no images or ways that they have broken it up. It's almost like why even bother?
People jumping on the Kickstarter-hate bandwagon is what I hate most. It's a great tool for developers and a huge boon to gamers despite some obvious and calculated risks inherently involved with any type of backing. The risk outweighs the reward--that's why I back. Anyone who is angry they backed something can only blame themselves, I've never been angry, simply disappointed, but that's rare because I don't just back anything and everything.
The trick is to back what you think is cool, and put as much in equal to how much faith you have in the final product coming to fruition as intended. Also, try to go for unique ideas with simple goals, and small, passionate developers. I did back Shenmue and MN9 but those were special cases.
Serena Nelson writes: "Ever since I joined Kickstarter three years ago I've seen a lot of things to make a project succeed spectacularly or fail miserably. Back in 2012 you could easily get an idea funded on just a basic concept and still rake in six or even seven digits. Today a project creator can struggle to make a successfully funded game on even five digits unless you have a big name behind you like Ron Gilbert.
Trilobyte has started a crowd-fund campaign for The 7th Guest 3: The Collector, which will bring the series into the modern age of gaming through touch-screens, mobile and high definition visuals of today's PCs.
The actual gameplay of The 7th Guest 3 will "fairly closely follow" that of The 7th Guest and 11th Hour. They also want full motion video with real actors, and real-time puzzles.
