Shit. This is a good day; by my count, we've done $50K or so just today (I think it was about $890K when I checked this morning, and currently it's at $942K). Very not bad....

Curse them and their $125 dog tag carrot! I am so week.

I still find it slightly odd that no one's pledged at the $5K or the $7.5K levels...but the three $10K slots sold out in just about no time flat....

Ah well... totally forgot that they opened up Paypal after the first few days. I got in on this with 65 bucks... or 51 Euroes.

Maybe a bit much for a game... But i'd like to join in on sending a signal. (Crowdsourcing is cool)

Also i will get a Docwagon card. A friend of mine had one of those... like 15 years back?

I guess the people with that kind of scratch lying around decided to splurge and game with Mike.

Looking at the Ruined Kingdom graphs it jumped 40k in 4 hours. Sadly it looks like it is slowing down. Fascinating to see how much money an extra reward tier can bring in.

The $5k doesn't especially call out to me compared to the $2.5k. Unlike the $7.5k, the $10k includes free snacks!

Well, here is the capital

Well, we broke a million overnight. Now what?

yay the 1 mil mark has now been surpassed, so linux users can rejoices ^^

now we stil have 14 das left. let us go for 1.2m so we make a clean x3 of the wanted sum

All right! Cleared one million! Now, let's see what they have in store for us next and...

...

EVERYONE CHIP IN MORE!!!

Go for 1.5m, so we can get an extra mission

Will all you guys be happy if the game ends being a sequence of linear mission-after-mission affair, with no meaningful interaction outside of combat ?

Just curious.

Let's get it shipped first. =)

Seeing as the first two games had a bit of non-combat interaction, I'm pretty sure we'll enjoy what's shipped.

Look, it's being done right! That's the part that matters the most. And we got to see the 2007 game guy get pelted, which is a bonus!

Are you serious ? Well, if this doesnt matter for you, its totally relevant for me. If the game ends up being a string of totally linear missions, Im out. Or at least reducing my pledge considerably.

I think the devs should stop promising things, and start talking what theyre gonna do with the things are already present at this moment.

That is what we call 'development'. We're not going to -know- exactly what they're putting in until they have a solid budget and can decide what's feasible. If you're not comfortable with that, you might want to avoid Kickstarter projects and wait for the release.

Then post something to the question thread at the top of the forum.

But basically, I'm mostly with coolgrafix: Let's get development, you know, started. Which won't be for another couple weeks, minimum. Basically, having worked with Mike and knowing his love of the SR property, and knowing Jordan's reputation (and the fact that he, you know, came up with the game in the first damn place), I'm inclined to cut them a little slack.

Me, I'm not a video game player. I backed the project, and I'll give the game a shot, but I'm not particularly worried about how it's going to come out. I know the guys working on it, I respect them more than my meager ability with words can convey, and I trust them to give us something that rocks.

And they cracked the 1 Million goal . .
With 14 days left and about 100k per day being funded it seems we may even make the 1.5 million goal too . .

Already did.


Wasteland 2 and Double Fine are also kickstarter projects, and both have this part of the gameplay clearly stated. Im not asking for the devs to say exactly what will be in final product, becase at this stage its obviously impossible. But I think its fair to ask what theiyre planning to include. As a backer, I consider only fair that they give me a more substantial picture of their own vision. All the other games on kickstarter did that.

"turn-based, 2D, deep, top man" is too vague a statement.

As a note they talked quite a bit about doing legwork and about the old SNES' games dialogue trees and such.

This is going to be an RPG. I don't expect something like Mass Effect or Skyrim (Or FF13), but I do expect to see something like the SNES/Genesis Shadowrun games. And I'm happy with that.

Bull

Thats the kind of thing I would like to hear more from them. And Im happy already to know that they plan on including these.

Thanks Bull.

The compared it to X-Com, this is why we are pretty sure it will be in isometrics like the old Fallout game too . .

Between Shadowrun Returns and the DoubleFine point and click adventure game, I am stoked. Finally, I can spend money on what *I* want to see!

Finally a way to vote with our money and have it mean something.

The slathering vidiots who buy whatever the magazines tell them, or whatever FPS they can swear at people in while being ungodly in skill in, won't affect our RPGs and in depth storytelling, as well as problem solving requirements.

There's also Takedown, The Banner Saga, and of course, my personal favorite, Velociraptor! Cannibalism! Although I might be a little biased, what with being on the design team....

I also picked up FTL: Faster Than Light, just for good measure.

Should we tip in a little more cash so we can get the multiple endings of the adventure in 3 colours?

Okay, spoiler warning obviously:

That only happens in the third installation of the game series "Shadowrun Returns Again and Again". The Horrors are coming back to devour the Earth and a little dragon child will give you three choices: Explode magic, killing everything magical in the process. Merge with Dunkelzahn and destroy the bridge between the worlds with the help of the Dragon Heart, postponing the inevitable coming of the Horrors. Turn every living being on Earth into a thorn-tormented magical creature, so that the Horrors lose interest and go pester the dragons on Mars (so called Alachia solution). Unfortunately every wheel on Earth explodes regardless of you choice... something to do with magic...

In Shadowrun Returns you only get to choose to either save the United Corporate Council of Seattle or let them die and stack the new council with shadowrunners.

That was just awesome spoilers

But which colour will be at which ending?

Backers will be able to vote on this. To my mind that is a mistake though. The colour of your ending is such a fundamental design decision. It literally colours in the emotional impact of your story. No offense but such an important decision should not be left to amateurs.

Clearly it should depend on the level of your Street Cred versus that of your Notoriety.

But that can only be applied if you get enough karma from actual pen and paper shadowrun with friends.

how come?
if both of those rise depending on what you do, then you can do a simple check which is higher and display the apropriate ending O.o

I think you missed the joke.

Who gets to vote is dependent on their street cred and notoriety.

At least, that's how *I* read it.

oy . . yeah, i missed that one <.<

Overall, it was a joke as to the awful ending of Mass Effect 3

ok, i will admit this once and never ever again . .
i haven't played a single mass effect part yet . . .

Me either. And I'm ok with that.

The first game was really good; the second game was more action-gamey, for better and worse, and I haven't played the third one yet.

So... I've been thinking about this for a while.

Black ending will be no one noticing anything. Those buildings and those people never existed.

Pink ending will be trolls bow adepts shooting arrows that are in fact dwarves dual wielding chainsaws at everyone and everything exploding.

Not sure about the third color though.

I did have an idea about the rainbow ending, where everyone become best friends and work together to make the world a better place, but somehow I don't think it fits.

Neither have I.
You can't miss what you are not really interested in in the first place.

This.

Stahlseele, what was this famous game series you have not yet played? I cannot quite remember.

Random generation has it's own problems though, because once you learn the pattern it usually loses its appeal at least story-wise. I have yet to see a game that passes the "Turing test" in terms of algorithmic story writing. Not that there many games with random plot generation to begin with. I think if Harebrained Schemes makes a lot side quest runs and the mission editor enables the community to be make a lot of new ones, we should be set. (By the way I'm a huge fan of random generation and would love to see it working, I just think it is hard to do well.)

Another thought regarding a "living world". Would it bother you if people in the game world start to chat you up on a particularly successful run, because that is a common method of reflecting your character's development or progress through the story back to you? Of course that has always been a contradiction in Shadowrun itself. On the one hand you are SINless and there is this silent agreement to not persecute deniable assets because they are so useful for everyone, on the other hand corporations are vindictive and deniable assets are hunted all the time (as in major plot device). Being available to meeting new Johnsons is risky even if they have been vetted by your fixer. And certainly chatting about your runs on matrix shadow boards or being famous for certain runs in general doesn't seem to be something you want to happen.

One way to achieve a world that feels alive is having lots of news items and populating it with other runners or shadow folk, whose fate you can follow (people come and go, live and die). Both could be run on some form of random schedule.

Lastly, was there ever any mention of a character editor for making new runner companions or does that interfere with the rewards for backers?

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, how did I miss this? Velociraptor! Cannibalism!

Is this like Munchkin with dinosaurs? And by that I mean, "can I get wasted and yell at people while playing this?"

you can get wasted and yell at people playing chess . .

You can smack the everliving crap out of each other.
While playing chess.

Psh. I want to get drunk and yell at LOTS of people. Need a bigger game than chess.

Crap! Over a million bucks? 1,175,990, and 11 days to go.

Do you think that the donation level will hit 1.5 million?

Realistically speaking, even if they only get 50k per day, yes, they will make it.