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Posted March 09, 2013
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/terraincognita/terra-incognita-a-retro-inspired-rpg
Terra Incognita: In its last few hours, a game inspired by classic JRPGs and only £1.
Posted March 10, 2013
Here's another Kickstarter KrapDump. :)

Boardgames:
Wild West Exodus - Sci-Fi Western Miniatures Game (Mar 18)
A 19th century-cyberpunk-horror miniatures game - a setting that should offer something for even the most jaded gamer.
Legacy: Forbidden Machines (Mar 18)
Expansion set for Legacy: Gears of Time (original game included at ANTIQUITECT/$75 pledge level). A card game involving time-travel and technology acquisition with a set number of turns, non-violent gameplay with strategic depth and choice.
Hell Dorado Miniature Skirmish Game: Inferno Expansion (Mar 22)
Expansion for Hell Dorado game (included at ZAEBAS/$70 pledge level). New units, miniatures, terrain and rules.
Upon a Fable - A Fairy Tale Board Game (Apr 5)
Realm-building card game set in a fairy-tale setting, with good looking artwork and solo play option.
Sails of Glory - Miniatures Ship Combat (Apr 16)
Napoleonic "Age of Sail" game, with painted ship miniatures and optional Ship Packs and Game Mats.

PC Games:
Whispering Willows - Horror Puzzle Game for OUYA, PC, Linux (Mar 15)
Puzzle/horror adventure game, to be released in 5 chapters.
Homeworld Touch (iOS/Android) and Homeworld 3 (PC/Mac) (Mar 26)
Project aiming to purchase rights to the Homeworld franchise (now available due to THQ's bankruptcy) and releasing Homeworld 1+2 on GOG, porting them to iOS/Android and working on Homeworld 3. Offers money-back guarantee if rights cannot be purchased.
Grump's Quest (Mar 29)
Action RPG with good quality graphics. Unfortunately distribution looks to be limited to Steam.
Fathom (Mar 29)
Steampunk action adventure puzzler involving the exploration of Atlantis.
Strategizer: Art of Defense (Apr 4)
Realtime 3D tower defence game promising a large campaign and lots of depth.

Accessories:
Modular Buildings and Ruins for Wargamers (Apr 8)
Laser cut, unpainted, wooden models of buildings and ruins - 3 scales available.
Post edited March 10, 2013 by AstralWanderer
Posted March 10, 2013
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Starmaker: First episode of Tropes vs. Women is released
Thanks. I enjoyed watching that. I'll be waiting for part two. Now I'm off to save a damsel or two.
Posted March 10, 2013
Skylands of Darmanis, retro-looking 2D platform/top-down shooter
Posted March 10, 2013
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Starmaker: First episode of Tropes vs. Women is released
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ET3D: Thanks. I enjoyed watching that. I'll be waiting for part two. Now I'm off to save a damsel or two.
Tried watching it and the bias is pretty obvious. I'm not really surprised, I wasn't expecting it to be balanced, but ignoring the flip side of the coin the undermining of male confidence and value without comment really undermines the progress.
Posted March 10, 2013
Aterdux Entertainment (responsible for the Legends of Eisenwald Kickstarter) have written a KS Post-Mortem covering what they could have done better.

The most interesting part, in my view, is the statistics at the end. Aside from giving an inside view of the sort of information collected by KS, it also shows where many of their backers came from - GOG.com came 22nd in terms of backer numbers. :) 14% of the pledges had "no referrer information" though, giving the rest of the results a high degree of uncertainty.
Posted March 11, 2013
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hedwards: Tried watching it and the bias is pretty obvious. I'm not really surprised, I wasn't expecting it to be balanced, but ignoring the flip side of the coin the undermining of male confidence and value without comment really undermines the progress.
Of course it's biased. :) This doesn't mean that it's not true to an extent. Games aimed predominantly at males tend to have this bias, and male gamers also have this bias. I've seen people argue that adding support for playing a female in the new Torment is a waste of money.

How would you have balanced this video?
Posted March 11, 2013
Ritual Dementia take two. FUND IT! IT LOOKS AWESOME! ALPHA/BETA ACCESS FOR ONLY $20!
Posted March 11, 2013
this one is for strategy gamers: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/470015043/shackleton-crater
Posted March 11, 2013
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tomimt: this one is for strategy gamers: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/470015043/shackleton-crater
Looks interesting, but I guess they're a lot optimistic with the stretch goals...

Edit: the creator is a veteran of the industry but I never played one of his games
Post edited March 11, 2013 by gandalf.nho
Posted March 11, 2013
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hedwards: Tried watching it and the bias is pretty obvious. I'm not really surprised, I wasn't expecting it to be balanced, but ignoring the flip side of the coin the undermining of male confidence and value without comment really undermines the progress.
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ET3D: Of course it's biased. :) This doesn't mean that it's not true to an extent. Games aimed predominantly at males tend to have this bias, and male gamers also have this bias. I've seen people argue that adding support for playing a female in the new Torment is a waste of money.

How would you have balanced this video?
Watched it, enjoyed it, agreed somewhat but yes, too much bias.

How to make it better? Rather simple to do so - add in a few pieces where it's been done better. Even if it's just to an extend, for example Lara Croft which set new heights regarding "sex sells", but at least gotten the strong woman as main char part right. Or Metroid revealing the main char being a woman as a "surprise ending".
Nothing in that department at all, makes it look as a fundamentalist point of view. I hope they do better in part 2.
Posted March 11, 2013
I absolutely love the idea of Shackleton Crater. I enjoy the multi-stage approach, and the individual stages looks awesome (MULE, SimCity _and_ Seven Cities of Gold? Hell yes!). Plus, it's a set on the moon! How cool is that (answer: very).

But ... they're doing so much wrong with the campaign. An very high goal for something this different, totally insane stretch goals (the first one, at 1.5 million (!!) is an extra copy of the game for everybody? wtf? talk about missing the point!), the PC-version is too expensive, the 500$ tier gives you "industry anecdotes, tips and stories on how one man shaped the industry as we know it" ... yeah, that sounds like it's worth the $250 step up from the last tier.

So basically, they don't stand a chance.
Posted March 11, 2013
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Zeewolf: I absolutely love the idea of Shackleton Crater. I enjoy the multi-stage approach, and the individual stages looks awesome (MULE, SimCity _and_ Seven Cities of Gold? Hell yes!). Plus, it's a set on the moon! How cool is that (answer: very).

But ... they're doing so much wrong with the campaign. An very high goal for something this different, totally insane stretch goals (the first one, at 1.5 million (!!) is an extra copy of the game for everybody? wtf? talk about missing the point!), the PC-version is too expensive, the 500$ tier gives you "industry anecdotes, tips and stories on how one man shaped the industry as we know it" ... yeah, that sounds like it's worth the $250 step up from the last tier.

So basically, they don't stand a chance.
$15 for iOS,Android and Windows 8 tablet
$24 for PC/MAC

Too expensive

Wiki says

Video games produced or designed by Joe Ybarra
Alien Legacy
Earth Orbit Stations
M.U.L.E.
John Madden Football
Dr. J. and Larry Bird Go One on One
Shadowbane[11]
Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor
Starflight
Stargate Worlds
The Bard's Tale
The Matrix Online[7][12]
Seven Cities of Gold
The Shadow of Yserbius

Hmmmm he was part of Bards Tale & Starflight teams?.

His gameography says Wasteland & Age of Mythology but wiki doesnt list it..
Post edited March 11, 2013 by nijuu
Posted March 11, 2013
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nijuu: ...Video games produced or designed by Joe Ybarra
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The Bard's Tale
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Hmmmm he was part of Bards Tale & Starflight teams?....
2 of the spells available in Bard's Tale 1-3 are Ybarra's Mystic Shield (code MYSH) and Ybarra's Mystical Coat of Armor (YMCA). Ybarra isn't listed anywhere in the credits for Bard's Tale 3 (Thief of Fate) though.
Posted March 11, 2013
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Zeewolf: I absolutely love the idea of Shackleton Crater. I enjoy the multi-stage approach, and the individual stages looks awesome (MULE, SimCity _and_ Seven Cities of Gold? Hell yes!). Plus, it's a set on the moon! How cool is that (answer: very).

But ... they're doing so much wrong with the campaign. An very high goal for something this different, totally insane stretch goals (the first one, at 1.5 million (!!) is an extra copy of the game for everybody? wtf? talk about missing the point!), the PC-version is too expensive, the 500$ tier gives you "industry anecdotes, tips and stories on how one man shaped the industry as we know it" ... yeah, that sounds like it's worth the $250 step up from the last tier.

So basically, they don't stand a chance.
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nijuu: $15 for iOS,Android and Windows 8 tablet
$24 for PC/MAC

Too expensive

Wiki says

Video games produced or designed by Joe Ybarra
Alien Legacy
Earth Orbit Stations
M.U.L.E.
John Madden Football
Dr. J. and Larry Bird Go One on One
Shadowbane[11]
Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor
Starflight
Stargate Worlds
The Bard's Tale
The Matrix Online[7][12]
Seven Cities of Gold
The Shadow of Yserbius

Hmmmm he was part of Bards Tale & Starflight teams?.

His gameography says Wasteland & Age of Mythology but wiki doesnt list it..
he was a producer at EA

http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,1745/
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