After Double Fine's success on Kickstarter, more game developers are eager to get on the bandwagon.
First up is Replay Games with their Kickstarter campaign named Make Leisure Suit Larry come again!. The goal is to raise $500,000 for a remake of the first Larry game, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. Their future plans include remaking the other five games in the series as well as making new sequels.
The second one is Jane Jensen and her newly established studio Pinkerton Road with a Kickstarter campaign where the backers can vote on which games they want made, including a sequel to the 2010 adventure game Gray Matter.
Shmargin
Obviously you did. How could I not know?
I hope any Mojo follower knows about LucasArts and Sierra. Seemed pretty obvious to me.
Rum Rogers
Shmargin
And actually Sierras adventures were first, so they werent always chasing Lucas, it could actually be viewed as the other way around.
I obviously knew that. What I really meant is that, as LucasArts became a serious competitor, they were always several steps ahead of Sierra, which was lacking in quality compared to LEC. Sierra's always been chasing LEC: it would be enough to consider the change from using a parser to choosing a point'n'click interface, but there are lots of other things to prove it.
Obviously you did. How could I not know?
Shmargin
And actually Sierras adventures were first, so they werent always chasing Lucas, it could actually be viewed as the other way around.
I obviously knew that. What I really meant is that, as LucasArts became a serious competitor, they were always several steps ahead of Sierra, which was lacking in quality compared to LEC. Sierra's always been chasing LEC: it would be enough to consider the change from using a parser to choosing a point'n'click interface, but there are lots of other things to prove it.
Rum Rogers
koosjebig
@ Rum
You're wrong, Jane (hence Sierra) was first. In December 11, Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller got funded at Kickstarter, for which she's a consultant :p
Oops, my fault :P
And actually Sierras adventures were first, so they werent always chasing Lucas, it could actually be viewed as the other way around.
koosjebig
@ Rum
You're wrong, Jane (hence Sierra) was first. In December 11, Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller got funded at Kickstarter, for which she's a consultant :p
Oops, my fault :P
You're wrong, Jane (hence Sierra) was first. In December 11, Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller got funded at Kickstarter, for which she's a consultant :p
If I had the money I'd be throwing them all hundreds, but the fact is that it was already a lot to give to Double Fine, and now we've got two other great designers trying the same thing...
The positive thing is that we can enjoy seeing our favorite designers suck at acting! Which is good ol' toe curling fun. :p
Also, I don't think its too big of a deal for all the adventure kickstarters to come around the same time, most run for over a month, and I don't think they are necessarily planning on most people donating crazy ammounts all at once. Put $50 or $40 towards one a month, and you should be good and doing your part to help the cause, and youre not spending more than you would on a new video game, and in the end of the kickstarter and the developement window, you DO get a new game, so, seems like a fine deal to me.
Plus the Tex Murphy Kickstarter doesnt start until Jane Jensens is over, so I think developers are at least being a little smart, not trying to step on each others toys.
As long as developers I like but havent seen for years keep trying, I'll keep throwing $50's at them.
DoubleFines ex-LucasArts run 2D adventure awesome, now Jane Jensen, who rocks, and soon Tex Murphy? Holy crap its like everyone on the internet all of a sudden likes what I love again.
I hope they all come out great. Or at least semi-great, since most games I play now I consider not-great. So semi-great is ok too.
For Jane, I liked Gray Matter, and like the fact of the possibility of 2 new original games in the near future. I'm backing Jane with the same amount as for Tim: $110.
But I totally agree: there is too much adventure Kickstarter going on: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Adventure Mysteries, Delaware St. John, and soon Tex Murphy. when does it end ;)
VoodooFX
Well this is exactly what I was afraid of. Everyone wants to jump on the Kickstarter wagon and what's even worse all are doing it at the same time.
There is only so much money that a person can part within a single month.
Yep, that is pretty much my thought exactly. I was fine throwing in some dough for the Double Fine Adventure, Idle Thumbs, and Wasteland 2, but it has to stop somewhere.
(And for me that stop was with Sierra.)
There is only so much money that a person can part within a single month.
As much as I love Larry series, I just can't afford giving any more money at the moment.