Crowdfunding Info thread

[onionski]

Out of curiosity, where is the team from? I find it interesting that the Deportation of the Acadians and coureurs des bois are mentioned.

While the team's from all over both the US and Japan, the head honcho Seltaire hails from northern California. They did a bunch of their research by visiting UC-Davis and raiding JSTOR from the library there.

[mpx]

Viktor is croatian point and click video game.

3 guys from Croatia are asking 10 000 USD for finishing this project.

Free demo

Join a wild boar Viktor in his quest to become the Emperor of Austria-Hungary in this lovely hand drawn point-and-click adventure game.

[onionski]

Here's a kickstarter for Theresa Duncan's silly adventure games from the 90s. They're pretty interesting examples of games geared toward young women, something you still don't see too much of. Here's an article about them.

[JDarkside]

An internet acquaintance of mine is making an adventure/puzzle game about a family dog. The game will be made whether the kickstarter is successful or not, but the added funds will help improve the game's quality and add new features and levels. A significant portion of the money is also going towards an animal charity, the ratio growing the more stretch goals are reached.

[derboo]

Indiegogo is not as much on anyone's radar as Kickstarter, so you might not have seen this one. Some people are making a new SNES platformer:

[Joseph Joestar]

This is like, way beyond funded, but for those of you weebs out there like me, make sure and get in on the Clannad Kickstarter, which is done in a day and a half. Because you can actually get some worthwhile shit for your money, kind of like with La Mulana 2. Uguu.

[Digitalnametag]

And Clannad is done. Looking forward to that sweet physical edition. Over half a million dollars raised. With this PC release and Steins;Gate coming to consoles next year hopefully more and more VNs will be brought over here.

Nice to see a Kickstarter that has reasonable goals in mind. Sekaiproject were open about what they could accomplish and they have some simple yet cool rewards planned. Some of these Kickstarters get so big that they could never possibly deliver what people are expecting.

[Scylla]

I backed Clannad yesterday too (first thing I've backed on Kickstarter in years). Say what you will about the ultra moe art in Key's games (I'm not a big fan of the art style myself), but the stories are easily some of the best in galge of the last 15 years. Excellent music too, so I'm glad physical copies of Clannad come with the arrange album as well (the full OST would be nice but ehh I'm good at $50). I'm really hoping Sekai Project will continue to license more Key titles. I'd jump on an Air Kickstarter in a heartbeat.

[Weasel]

Jan 9, 2015 16:52:45 GMT -5 Scylla said:

I backed Clannad yesterday too (first thing I've backed on Kickstarter in years). Say what you will about the ultra moe art in Key's games (I'm not a big fan of the art style myself), but the stories are easily some of the best in galge of the last 15 years. Excellent music too, so I'm glad physical copies of Clannad come with the arrange album as well (the full OST would be nice but ehh I'm good at $50). I'm really hoping Sekai Project will continue to license more Key titles. I'd jump on an Air Kickstarter in a heartbeat.

Having watched the TV adaptation of AIR, I can only imagine how much better the original product would be. The TV series was a little sappy at times, but I did still watch the whole thing. Is Clannad from the same writer?

[Scylla]

Yep, Jun Maeda was the main scenario writer on both, and most (all?) of the other people involved with scenario writing worked on both. Maeda's also one of the co-founders and composers. I get the impression that Key's staff is relatively small (well, that's probably the case with most developers that focus on visual novels), so I'm guessing all of their games have a lot of staff in common.

[JDarkside]

I am not a big fan of Key, as I think all of their works are pretentious garbage that mistake tragedy for depth. Also, an excess of magical bullshit causing everything or solving everything, always one or the other.

I think my favorite series that took a page from their book was Sunday Without God, which actually set up mythology early on that allowed tragedy to develop naturally, along with a lot of unexpected twists that don't feel like deus ex machinas.

[Scylla]

Uh, okay. You're entitled to your opinion. Clearly a lot of people feel differently because Key's games have been highly successful, and whether you want to play them or not, I don't think anyone can say it's a bad thing that the games are being made available in English officially so those who aren't fluent in Japanese can give them a try (especially when there are a lot of established Western fans already, thanks to the localizations of the various anime series/movies based on the games, as well as fan patches for the games).

Personally, I feel like the supernatural elements are incorporated nicely, and I feel the tragedy is developed well. Outside of revised plans, anybody who writes a tragedy sets out with the intent to do so, but that doesn't mean that it's just tragedy for the sake of tragedy with no meaning or depth behind it. The way Key's stories end would mean nothing and leave no impact if not for everything that leads up to the conclusion.

[toadofsky]

I was going to post about Drift Stage, but they've already hit their pretty respectable goal within days. It's a throwback to OutRun and old school racing games. It looks awesome, and there's an alpha build you can check out on their page here

[riverfloat]

Where They Cremate the Roadkill

Visit the project here

One of the most out-there games I've seen on the site. By the creator of Middens. Depending on which tier you subscribe to, you can get a digital download of the game, your name in the ending credits, the soundtrack, various species of both digital and physical art, your choice of dialogue to be spoken by an NPC, an in-game creature based on your personality according to a questionnaire, beta access, a room of your own design added to the game, and more.

[Digitalnametag]

So apparently Sekai Project has the Grisaia games up on Kickstarter too. I went ahead and backed for the physical editions of the games. Good thing my tax return is sizable...