The Kickstarter / crowdfunding thread.

[qptain Nemo]

Seeing as cool projects on Kickstarter appear all the time, I thought it'd be neat to have one thread for all interesting kickstarters we spot. Both so they're all together and that no one has to hesitate and ponder starting a thread just to share one. (But not to discourage actual authors from starting threads about their campaigns if they want) If you don't think it's a such a good idea, well then may the mods just rename this thread into Her Majesty's SPIFFING kickstarter because that's what I wanted to share right now anyway.

So, uh, yeah, Her Majesty's SPIFFING Kickstarter. I found the humour in the pitch video very charming, and having another cute 3D adventure game can't hurt I reckon. Thoughts?

[David Ostman]

SPIFFING looks great visually. I don't normally care for humour games because there's so precious few good ones out there (don't think I've encountered a genuinely good one in the past 10 years), but maybe this can turn out to be a gem.

[qptain Nemo]

A couple more curious things:

• 
  a tabletop game by the designer of the setting of the new Torment game
• very promising Sui Generis is asking for some extra crowdfunding boost

[tzachs]

Sprite Lamp- Dynamic lighting for 2d art.

[CaptainD]

Some cool Kickstarters that have caught my eye recently:

Novus Aeterno - MMORTS - looks pretty amazing
Interstellaria - open world, very retro
Sentris - interesting looking music game - FUNDED
Prime Alien Watch Squad - turn based casual strategy game, promising complex strategy on later levels despite an extremely simple gameplay mechanic
Quest for GridIron - sport, puzzle and RPG rolled into one (IndieGoGo]
The Girl and the Robot - adventure, you have to control a girl and a robot to solve puzzles together
Obuction - Mystalike - I'm not a fan of this sort of game myself but if you are, you're pretty sure to enjoy this - FUNDED

[TheBitPriest]

You've probably all heard about Star Citizen.  I'm sure it's going to be awesome, but I'm still more interested in classic adventure games at the moment.   Then again, I'm not aware of any classic adventure game that has been able to raise 29 million dollars through the crowd!    Million! 

[Chicky]

Sprite Lamp looks awesome! I've often wondered how you could implement clean per pixel dynamic lighting and this guy has the easy answer.

Well, i wouldn't call drawing 4 lightmaps for each frame easy

Lovely results though!

[Ghost]

Sprite Lamp looks awesome!

Really does! That's something I'd actually back; it really looks amazing.

[David Ostman]

Were we supposed to post only adventure game related kickstarters (since the thread is in the adventure related forum)? Would be nice to gather specifically all the interesting AG ones in one thread

[Armageddon]

Just cool games I think. Sprite Lamp looks amazing.

[CaptainD]

Just remembered one that looks very cool and is an adventure game - it's on IndieGoGo.  Well okay it's sort of an adventure game.  It describes itself as "A sci-fi noir, a mystery, a first person puzzle game", but it looks like it has a lot in common with first-person advenure games.

Anyway it does look extremely cool.

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[David Ostman]

Just cool games I think. Sprite Lamp looks amazing.

Then someone can move this thread to the general forum and I can create an adventure game specific kickstarter thread here in adventure talk

[dactylopus]

Just cool games I think. Sprite Lamp looks amazing.

It sure does.

Lots of cool games of all kinds are finding their way to Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.  I'm very happy to see so many people realizing their dreams.

[qptain Nemo]

Were we supposed to post only adventure game related kickstarters (since the thread is in the adventure related forum)? Would be nice to gather specifically all the interesting AG ones in one thread

Personally, I'd post any cool games here. I thought, adventure games would naturally dominate the thread anyway, considering the tastes of the forum audience. And to me there's no real disadvantage to posting some non-adventure games along with them. But whether you make a separate thread or not is of course entirely your choice.

Lots of cool games of all kinds are finding their way to Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.  I'm very happy to see so many people realizing their dreams.

Me too.

[Stupot]

This one looks fun:
Jason The Greek

[Pyke]

Would love to throw my hat in the ring!

STASIS, 2D Isometric SciFi Horror Adventure Game.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bischoff/stasis-2d-isometric-scifi-horror-adventure-game

Currently sitting at $74,391 pledged of $100,000 goal!

There is also a Google Hangout discussion with some of the developers who are currently running Kickstarters!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zShgejAx03E

-C

[EliasFrost]

Sprite Lamp- Dynamic lighting for 2d art.

Wow, that looks incredible and something I'd gladly pay a lot of money to use. Thanks for sharing.

[David Ostman]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreadlocks/dex-cyberpunk-2d-rpg

"A story-driven action/stealth sidescrolling RPG with a fresh new vision of cyberspace."

Looks amazing, this one.

[qptain Nemo]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreadlocks/dex-cyberpunk-2d-rpg

"A story-driven action/stealth sidescrolling RPG with a fresh new vision of cyberspace."

Looks amazing, this one.

It really does amaze. Love the music in the video.

[arj0n]

For those who hasn't yet, help funding this awesome project: Jason the Greek (by Kristian Fosh)