The Kickstarter thread

[Darth Marsden]

Here's an actual link to the Kickstarter page, as opposed to a Google search.

It's interesting, and they'll probably hit their target since it's not that high, but it's not for me. I've never been a fan of first-person adventures. Though credit where it's due, their Kickstarter page is full of information and sketches of what it'll look like!

[Woodsyblue]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

Here's an actual link to the Kickstarter page, as opposed to a Google search.

Whoops, my bad. Fixed.

[Leplaya]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...rt-this-sucker

Here's one for the goon movie. Please fund it like crazy since there's only 9 days left on this. I want this to succeed.

[Rather Dashing]

Please don't fund it. Funding this story reel that backers can't see that will then be used to sell the project to a major studio is not a good idea and this project deserves every single bit of bad press it gets.

While I'm talking about animation projects, I'm backing The Saga of Rex. I also backed Kick-Heart, the first crowd-funded Japan-made anime, but that campaign is done.

[Leplaya]

Dashing this is the kickstarter thread. And as you can see the goon kickstarter offers rewards like any other kickstarter project.

[Darth Marsden]

Most Kickstarters tend to offer the end result to its backers. The finished product, if you will.

The Goon isn't doing that at all.

The closest they get to letting people see the story reel (and that's all it is, mind - it's not the finished film. It's just a STORY REEL) is an invitation to watch it at a special screening night, and that pretty much screws over anyone who can't get to LA (like me, Mr South Coast of England). Unless you pledge 10 grand, in which case you get a private screening. And you'll still have to make your way to California.

Everything else they're offering is just the typical bonus stuff - posters and faux-bronze sculptures. But that's pretty much it.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Leplaya

Dashing

Charmed.

Originally Posted by Leplaya

this is the kickstarter thread.

I'm well aware. That's why we're talking about a Kickstarter campaign and not, for example, conservation efforts to save the Hispaniolan Solenodon.

Originally Posted by Leplaya

And as you can see the goon kickstarter offers rewards like any other kickstarter project.

I don't contest that they offer rewards.

I contest that they are creating something that the backers will be able to see.

I contest that the thing the backers actually want to have made is actually being funded by the backers(that is, the finished film).

I contest that a project meant to create a pitch to have a project funded by corporate interests is not going against the spirit of, if not the actual rules of, Kickstarter as a platform.

I contest that funding this will directly lead to the thing people want to see made(that is, the film) actually being created.

I contest that contributing to this is a good idea.

I contest that this project deserves to succeed.

I disagree with the way this project is being run on practical and moral grounds, and for that reason I have to say I'd be overjoyed to see it fall flat on its face and fail, and frankly I think it doesn't deserve anything better than that.

[Alcoremortis]

I gotta say... that Kickstarter looks really fishy. Four hundred thousand to create a pitch that probably won't even make it to a movie.

It makes me think of the Producers for some reason.

[Secret Fawful]

Think I'm gonna pledge fifty dollars to the Goon project.

[Giant Tope]

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

I gotta say... that Kickstarter looks really fishy. Four hundred thousand to create a pitch that probably won't even make it to a movie.

It makes me think of the Producers for some reason.

Yeah... The studio is essentially asking for money so you can pay to see it, IF it even makes it to that stage, under the guise that the movie is happening for sure. It's a little scary when a studio has to ask people for money so they can pitch an idea for people to invest in when no one was willing to invest in the project in the first place, let alone owing backers practically nothing whether or not the movie succeeds or fails...

I mean, the the only way that investors would be interested in investing in a blockbuster movie is if that movie shows great promise in returning a profit. The project looks really cool, but I honestly don't see it as working out that way, ESPECIALLY when the studio has never undergone anything near this level.

[Darth Marsden]

Here's an interesting article looking at the project.

There's also a follow-up article as the guys behind the project try and defend it.

[Darth Marsden]

Who wants some more Elite? Don't lie, you KNOW you do.

Just don't go in expecting any actual info, because there's not a whole lot there beyond "we're making a new Elite".

[Haggis]

Okay, this is not an actual Kickstarter campaign (since I'm not in the US), but IndieGoGo... and it's for my upcoming dystopian sci-fi/nostalgic book, featuring artwork by Ado Ceric. Please donate and/or tell all your friends!

http://www.indiegogo.com/mothered

[Darth Marsden]

Sadly, The Goon's story reel has been fully backed.

[Jen Kollic]

I would have backed the Goon Kickstarter just because I love the comic, but I already spent way, way too much on the Relic Knights and Werewolf the Apocalypse Kickstarters, so I'm banned from Kickstarter till new year. Which is awful, because that meant I missed out on the Deadlands Hell on Earth Miniatures Kickstarter. Oh well, at least I can buy them when they hit retail, I'm not that fussed about the Kickstarter exclusive figures.

[Darth Marsden]

On a scale of 1-666, how bad is it that I seem to be taking a rather perverse glee in backing projects that I know full well won't make their target?

[Jen Kollic]

Depends on how much you're pledging...

[Darth Marsden]

So, uh, help. I seem to be addicted.

EDIT: And before anyone says anything, I don't back these expecting immediate results. I know full well many of these won't arrive until late next year. Doesn't mean I don't still want them. Well, except the majority of the third row. That was just me branching out and attempting to support projects that looked interesting.

EDIT2: OK, FOURTH row. Stupid film projects.

[Vainamoinen]

Oh FRICK. How many times have those talentless Gods and Men makers now attempted a new ST pitch pilot kickstarter?!? And shoot, it actually looks like they could make it this time... because they lowered their expectations...

[Rather Dashing]

Kaiju Combat

The idea is to create a base game which is an arena fighter with 2-4 monsters. The real draw is that they are in talks to license several real universeses worth of monsters that will be sold as stand-alone games that then combine with each other. Possible licenses include things like Ultraman, Gamera, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters.



Retro Game Crunch

Six small games across six months, with you getting one game per month after the project ends. Neat idea.



The Saga of Rex

The one I'm most excited about, only has 64 hours to go as of this writing. It has met and is about to hit double its initial goal, but it still has a long way to go to hit stretch goals to add another couple minutes of animation to the final short. Michel Gagne is an incredible mind, and the creature designs in this look amazing. Every frame of animation is going to be drawn by hand, frame-by-frame, and the fluidity of the animation shows how amazing this approach can look. I really think you should back this.