The Kickstarter Bonanza - Everything Edition
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Dave
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For that many water balloons, not that many hit.
figmentPez
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Honestly, if the price is right, I can see that selling pretty well as a gag gift. I'm not sure if it'll Kickstart very well, since it's not something most people would buy for themselves, but maybe a lot of people plan out their insulting gift giving early.
From the creator of Brawl in the Family, Nefarious! A game where you play as the villain kidnapping princess and outwitting the hero.
GasBandit
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I applaud the concept, but not sure I'd really enjoy the platforming. What I'd really like is "Evil Genius 2," kind of a more fleshed out and sandboxy version of it.
See, I'm the opposite... I already HAVE Evil Genius, which covers the master mind type villian. Payday 2 covers heist movies. Overlord and Dungeon Master cover the medieval evil type stuff. Stubbs the Zombie covers zombie movies. I want stuff that covers other types. I want...
- A game where you play as a horror movie monster/slasher and have to hunt down teenagers without getting taken down by the heroes or the Final Girl.
- A game where I play a a kaiju monster and my goal is to cause as much destruction as possible to a city. Sort of like Rampage, but taken to it's ultimate extreme.
Fair point, I just like the charm of it being a more classic side-scroller with a twist. Also that reverse boss fight looks fun as hell!
GasBandit
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That last one was made back in the 80s. It was made for Commodore 64 called Crush, Crumble and Chomp. A remake for today's systems would be ballin'.
As for Evil Genius, my feeling is the game wasn't really completed, nor was it fleshed out enough. There were only two levels, and the game's progression was pretty much on rails - the ending was ME3 before there was an ME3, really - same ending, 3 flavors. I'd have like to have seen different (or even randomly generated) islands, a wider variety of outcomes, and a whole lot of debugging and rebalancing of traps and rooms. Dungeon Keeper also needs a modern remake.
Yeah, as much as I loved the idea of Evil Genius, it's kind of a broken game because it's not really well polished or balanced.
I'm probably alone here, but you know what I'd love to see get a sequel that's in a similar vein? GHOST MASTER. Man, I still break that game out sometimes.
I'm probably alone here, but you know what I'd love to see get a sequel that's in a similar vein? GHOST MASTER. Man, I still break that game out sometimes.
No, Ghost Master is... an interesting, if incredibly flawed game. It needs a remake, badly.
Oh, definitely flawed. Won't argue that. I'd argue it's at least less flawed than Evil Genius; less flawed enough to play through most of it. I've never beaten the last level, admittedly.
Matchstick - The Streaming Stick Built on Firefox OS
Matchstick is a small, WiFi-connected HDMI stick that plugs into your HDTV or HD Monitor that lets you stream and interact with your favorite stuff from the Internet - movies, TV, music, games, and more! You can even use it in a conference room to get presentations or other media from your laptop to an HDTV.
Seen this before? Well, we approached the Matchstick project with the mindset to to build a completely OPEN hardware and software platform, so we moved forward with Mozilla to create the first streaming stick built and certified for Firefox OS. Matchstick is a entirely new product category for Mozilla, and we can't wait to bring it to you!
Matchstick is a small, WiFi-connected HDMI stick that plugs into your HDTV or HD Monitor that lets you stream and interact with your favorite stuff from the Internet - movies, TV, music, games, and more! You can even use it in a conference room to get presentations or other media from your laptop to an HDTV.
Seen this before? Well, we approached the Matchstick project with the mindset to to build a completely OPEN hardware and software platform, so we moved forward with Mozilla to create the first streaming stick built and certified for Firefox OS. Matchstick is a entirely new product category for Mozilla, and we can't wait to bring it to you!
So the anonabox hit the frontpage of Reddit, and people are calling it out for basically reselling already-on-the-market Chinese hardware.
From what I've read, as long as it does what it purports to it still may not be a bad deal, but the presentation makes the whole thing look pretty shady.
From what I've read, as long as it does what it purports to it still may not be a bad deal, but the presentation makes the whole thing look pretty shady.
Ooooh, it goes on your FINGER... well this is embarrassing.
It's like companies don't take the community manager role seriously, and just toss it to whoever's cousin/sibling/significant other needs a job.Turns out, Nicole He, who works for Kickstarter as a community manager, is a big ol' racist.
Way to manage that community, Nicole.
figmentPez
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Well that's pretty stupid. You know what else works? A mug with a flat bottom.
figmentPez
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Yeah, but I figure this one might be appealing to the Ren Faire crowd. I doubt it's meant to be practical.
The use is very limited but for those of us living in places prone to natural disasters it can be a lifesaver. You may have to use your own 9volt batteries or if times are desperate enough "borrow" one from a neighbor. but it is possible that it could save a life.
GasBandit
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Psht, more like 10,000% funded. Asked for 10 gees, got a million.
"If you wanna be rich, invent something that people will throw away." -King C. Gillette, or a friend of his, can't remember which.
fade
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On the one hand, that's cool, on the other hand, it completely misses the point of pancakes, in which they are simple, quick, and delicious. It's like an even more ridiculous version of Alton Brown's grilled cheese sandwich.
fade
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$9 1 GHz computer. 512 MB RAM. 4 GB storage. WiFi. Bluetooth.
Here's a MAKE article on it:
http://makezine.com/2015/05/07/next-thing-co-releases-worlds-first-9-computer/
I think this is going to be my first kickstarter pledge.
Here's a MAKE article on it:
http://makezine.com/2015/05/07/next-thing-co-releases-worlds-first-9-computer/
I think this is going to be my first kickstarter pledge.