The Kickstarter Bonanza - Everything Edition

AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Thanks to everyone who supported my friend's kickstarter. She raised over $12,000 and shipped more than 130 detonators thanks to your support! Emboldened by the success of her last project, she's decided to do another. As always, I appreciate any help you guys can give getting the word out!

Hide your Padawans! Introducing the Darkside Holocron!



Thanks for checking out my Kickstarter! My name is Rachel, I'm a designer, and I recently completed a successful collaboration campaign with my friend and fellow artist Preston (found here: Thermal Detonator). That campaign was educational, to say the least, and now I'm moving onward armed with the information and techniques to make this Kickstarter project even better. My goal is to create and provide beautifully sculpted props to the costuming and greater fan communities.

Like the last project, I'll be utilizing the awesome technology of 3D printing to assist in crafting the initial parts needed to start casting. These parts are then finally assembled into an especially cool pyramidal sculpture made for display. This is a design I've always wanted to do, now it's becoming a reality, and I'll be placing one for myself in the living room as an accent light.

Cold cast and polished brass have a very shiny gold-look and it will be well-contrasted by a red translucent interior that will look great with or without lighting. For scale, as planned, the sides of the sculpture have a 10 cm base (~4 in). The plan right now is to set up the sculptures with lighting so they can either be run from battery power or from an adapter you can plug into the wall to give you the option to use it with a costume or to keep it powered up as a show piece!

I have a few possible stretch goals in mind now but I'll hold off on those until we get rolling and wanted to keep the project simple, focus on what was popular last time and cut down on complication for you. The designs for stickers and patches will be forthcoming as we ramp up, and I'm sure you'll love them! Thanks for having a look and lets have a great run!

Risks and challenges

This project is very similar in scope to the one I have just completed, which make the risks low and the challenges few. The final filigree design may need to change slightly based on Shapeways' ability to print the current design, but changes would be very minor and stay true to the original concept.
Because the original design was created using CG technology, the physical result will have a slightly more textured surface than depicted, due to the nature of casting by hand, each one unique.
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Krisken

Krisken

Woot! the game I'm backing reached it's minimum goal. Hopefully some of the neat stretch goals are reached too. Some of the cards for the game.







 
Frank

Frank

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...podcast-downloadable-content-the-ret?ref=live

I know this isn't the first Kickstarter for a podcast (lord knows I've donated to two of them in the past) but for some reason this one leaves me feeling a little disgusted. The 10 dollar goal seems to just scream, "We were going to do this anyway, lets see how much money our fans (who've already made us millionaires) will shovel at us."

I guess if people are willing to shovel dat cash at them, let them.

Wait, 55 dollars for an mp3 of the theme music! SIGN ME UP!
 
Reverent-one

Reverent-one

Eh, there was no way they weren't going to get enough pledges to at least hit their first "stretch goal" (needing all of 2000 fans who want 2 weeks early access to the podcast is nothing), so whatever the original goal is listed as is basically irrelevant. It also fits their sense of humor to go from a kickstarter that was criticized for lack of stretch goals to one that is technically all stretch goals.
 
Frank

Frank

Ugh, Khoo defending it on Twitter talking about how content creation costs money.

The podcast is literally them turning on a microphone while they write the day's comic.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Frank said:
Ugh, Khoo defending it on Twitter talking about how content creation costs money.

The podcast is literally them turning on a microphone while they write the day's comic.
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Didn't you read the kickstarter pitch? It's so much more than that. For instance, Khoo has to edit it. And then, that baby isn't going to upload itself, is it? No, it must be mounted in a specialised marble crate and shipped directly to Apple, where it is painstakingly etched by the world's finest artisans in dozens of languages, preserved for all time in the Obelisk of the Podcasts. Only then can it be released to the foul, unwashed masses, drooling and climbing over each other to listen, just for a moment, just to maybe hear a whisper of the genius behind... shitcock.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

People have been saying the Kickstarters for Veronica Mars or Zach Braff's movie are making a joke of Kickstarter, but honestly? Penny Arcade have been doing a much, much better job of that. I wasn't even remotely impressed with their first Kickstarter and this one's even worse.
 
Krisken

Krisken

The only thing I could see is the bandwidth costs, but wow this is a sad grab for money. Congrats fellas at Penny Arcade, you've finally integrated the worst bits of Kurtz. Maybe you'll give up on it shortly after it starts.
 
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