FrontBurnr: Can we please knock this off already?
I know games aren’t cheap to make, but if you’re looking for a Kickstarter goal of tens of thousands or even millions of dollars to make what is essentially a clone of an old game with a few new ideas, perhaps you’re thinking a little bit too large. Most of us have seen Indie Game the Movie, there’s not a single word about Kickstarter anywhere in the chronicles of Braid, Super Meat Boy, or Fez and that’s terribly refreshing.
To me, crowd-funding was a great idea that has been terribly exploited. It's like saying "Hey, I have 4 tires, so please give me $65,000 so I can build a car to put them on".
OVERRIDER is a new sci-fi roguelite about hoverboarding and smashing robots, and there's a Kickstarter campaign to help get it funded.
Cinnabunny and Time is Honey are currently up to be crowdfunded on Kickstarter right now. They're both adorable.
A Kickstarter campaign for Scrylight, an AR game that lets players hunt ghosts, is launching in October.
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Not a very tasteful article that's for sure. I have to disagree because Kickstarter is the option for many games that would never would have happened without crowdfunding. It's the option for the Alice: Madness Returns sequel, and possibly for games like Shenmue 3. They're not crappy, they're big name games that hit a rough patch. It's also a great option for indie games, and if a game is crappy no one will fund it, so it won't come to life anyways.
I read through it. i agree and disagree.
I think the game has changed, FTL is one of the best games I have played in the last year, it was kickstarted. Unfortunately, I've seen quite a few games not deliver on the scale they have promised before. I spent a few hundred dollars on kickstarters instead of buying new games, I can't say my expiriment was a success, but it also wasn't a failure either.
I'd be more ok with Kickstarter if there were stricter enforcement on the way end results are delivered. How many projects have already passed their deadlines and haven't shown a thing nor updates or anything?
The idea of Kickstarter is great. I love it, I have backed things in the past.
What I DON'T like seeing is major companies and rich people using kickstart. Get some investors or take out some stock for that.