Not sure how many of you use or know about this service but it basically allows you to give money and provide start-up/continuation funds to people with business ideas. This could have gone in any of our forums but I've helped fund three things so far and they've all been games so I figured I'd put it up here. For some amount you can usually essentially pre-order the product and feel smug in the idea that you helped the product come into existence.
The first thing I helped fund was Wasteland 2 by inXile (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2) where they said if they managed to raise ~$2 million they would bring on Obsidian which I think between the two of them is a fairly large amount of the original people who worked on the first game. Unfortunately the fundraising cycle has ended so you have to wait for this thing to start getting marketed. They managed to raise nearly three million dollars. Not bad. Looking forward to this one even more since Mark Morgan (music for the original Fallout games and Planescape Torment) is on board. Too bad it's a year and a half away. This is the closest gamers as a group will ever get to come to playing a new Interplay game.
Yesterday I got bored and funded Drifter: A Space Trading Game (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cel ... ading-game) and Grim Dawn (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cra ... /grim-dawn). Drifter just seemed like a nice laid back exploration game.. where you trade things in space. It's really all in the title. In any case, it seemed right up my alley so I shot the guy enough for me to get in the early beta and a DRM free copy. Grim Dawn has had (apparently been in development for ~2 years) some of the Titan Quest developers working on it and while I haven't read the MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT that accompanies their Kickstarter page, I have been able to surmise that it's a hardcore, potentially unforgiving action RPG (read: Diablo clone). It looked neat and it was cheap. Why not?
If you've been on there what have you found?
Oh, and yes, Penny Arcade's comic was hilarious.
The first thing I helped fund was Wasteland 2 by inXile (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2) where they said if they managed to raise ~$2 million they would bring on Obsidian which I think between the two of them is a fairly large amount of the original people who worked on the first game. Unfortunately the fundraising cycle has ended so you have to wait for this thing to start getting marketed. They managed to raise nearly three million dollars. Not bad. Looking forward to this one even more since Mark Morgan (music for the original Fallout games and Planescape Torment) is on board. Too bad it's a year and a half away. This is the closest gamers as a group will ever get to come to playing a new Interplay game.
Yesterday I got bored and funded Drifter: A Space Trading Game (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cel ... ading-game) and Grim Dawn (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cra ... /grim-dawn). Drifter just seemed like a nice laid back exploration game.. where you trade things in space. It's really all in the title. In any case, it seemed right up my alley so I shot the guy enough for me to get in the early beta and a DRM free copy. Grim Dawn has had (apparently been in development for ~2 years) some of the Titan Quest developers working on it and while I haven't read the MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT that accompanies their Kickstarter page, I have been able to surmise that it's a hardcore, potentially unforgiving action RPG (read: Diablo clone). It looked neat and it was cheap. Why not?
If you've been on there what have you found?
Oh, and yes, Penny Arcade's comic was hilarious.
