Kickstarter Items of Interest!

[Iron Dragoon]

Okay, test thread. Let's see if this gets enough movement to be sticky'ed. Kickstarter is posting up lots of games, both PC and tabletop, that frankly, are kick ass concepts.

Unfortunately, there's so many of them, they tend to fly under the radar. So, we're going to (hopefully) toss up links of interest in here. Any game you think is awesome and deserves a shout out, put here.

As an example:

Exalted 3rd Ed.: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/deluxe-exalted-3rd-edition?ref=category

[Dracos]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/girlgenius/girl-genius-volume-12-printing-and-reprint-frenzy

Almost over.  The foglios are effectively turning the 'print stuff' effort into a kickstart their business.

Given they have given away free of charge almost every piece of art they've done in the last two decades, I am a big fan of them, and glad to see that they're able to continue giving away all their stuff to everyone :)

[Iron Dragoon]

I know Pathfinder is of dubious support on the forum, but I came across this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/502760470/conquest-of-the-universe-pathfinder-compatible?ref=category

[Brian]

What are you talking about?  I love pathfinder.

[Rezantis]

Exalted 3rd Ed.: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/deluxe-exalted-3rd-edition?ref=category

This was a joke, right?

White Wolf aren't trying to crowd-source funding to make Exalted 3E - they're already doing that.  This is them securing pre-orders.  They can go and $#@% themselves, as far as I'm concerned.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/502760470/conquest-of-the-universe-pathfinder-compatible?ref=category

Now that's more like it.

[Dracos]

I like pathfinder, but that one is a bit weird.  Namingly, all the value goals in the kickstarter are too low by an order of ten.  2500 to give a raise to the people involved?  My last raise personally was way more than that.  I couldn't imagine that split among any sizable group of people.  "Hey we got 1000 more than we expected, 500 dollar raise for each of us this year!"

1250 toward hiring artists is nothing.  1 maybe 2 weeks pay, tops?  That's 15 bucks an hour for 2 weeks of work, assuming no cut for kickstarter or anything else.  Most artists of quality tend to request a little more than 30k a year.  Especially if they're freelancing and that has to cover their health insurance and other fees.

Whitewolf makes me blink because they're being slimey, no two bits about it.

These guys make me blink because I can't imagine valid finances around what they're saying.  And who makes a setup around printing and selling a product and limits the physical copies being sold?  If a thousand people want to buy your product up front, that's awesome and should be enabled.

[Grahf]

These guys make me blink because I can't imagine valid finances around what they're saying.  And who makes a setup around printing and selling a product and limits the physical copies being sold?  If a thousand people want to buy your product up front, that's awesome and should be enabled.

You're talking about the fact that they've said that aside from the limited editions that are being released via the Kickstarter that all EX3 will be in PDF form and maybe a buy-to-print format for shops?

Yeah, that confuses the hell out of me. Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. Granted, still didn't stop me from pre-ordering one. Not a super deluxe version because I'm not attracted enough to shiny objects to want that shiny object for roughly $200 frigging dollars more.

[Dracos]

No, I was talking about the Pathfinder kickstarter, which is only selling a small chunk of its physical product.  Preordering the real product of any kickstarter endeavor should really be one of the primary methods of funding being employed.  It's basically selling the end product up front to cover the remainder of the product development and manufacturing sales.  An entirely reasonable way to at least not be holding a bag at the end of producing the product.

Making inordinately fancy books is probably a much more complicated thing and frankly, there's so much BS going on in there I hardly pay attention to what limits the EX3 one had.

[Grahf]

Open mouth. Insert bacon foot.

Also, the new Double Fine thing, Massive Chalice may be of interest to some people. If nothing else the video for the page is extremely amusing.

[Dracos]

Mmm, I'm a bit GRAWR DOUBLEFINE as their last creative, clever amusing game that I played, The Cave, just had a lot of blocker type bugs that got through their QA.  It's hard to be forgiving of bugs that block just a primary path completion of levels.

[Dracos]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336486938/goblins-alternate-realities Hmmm.

[alethiophile]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0 This.

Seems they're already doing it as a project, and this kickstarter is just covering the marginal costs of one more unit. Still awesome.

[Dracos]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336486938/goblins-alternate-realities/

Not sure if I'll get this, but it is funded, so pretty much a given that the game can be purchased for 37 bucks.

[Brian]

Hmmm.  Yeah, worth getting.  I think I'll grab that when I get home.

[Dracos]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/168734274/sam-and-fuzzy-two-volume-omnibus

Fuzzy and Sam.  A big book.