Whoa!
Whoa!Whoa!Whoa!Whoa!Whoa!Whoa!
The main selling point is the developers' resumes:
We are an independent video game developer specializing in role-playing games. We were founded in 2003 by five industry veterans from Black Isle Studios: Feargus Urquhart, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan, Chris Avellone, and Chris Jones. While at Black Isle we worked with BioWare, the creators of the Infinity Engine, on the development of the Baldur's Gate series, and were responsible for the creation and development of the Infinity Engine-based Icewind Dale series and Planescape: Torment game. Also at Black Isle we created the first two titles in the award-winning Fallout series: Fallout and Fallout 2.
At Obsidian we have created great games like Fallout: New Vegas and have many amazing people who will work on Project Eternity, including Tim Cain (Fallout, Arcanum, Temple of Elemental Evil, etc.), Josh Sawyer (Icewind Dale 1 and 2, Fallout: New Vegas), Scott Everts (Level creator on Fallout, Planescape: Torment, and Icewind Dale 1 and 2 and Fallout: New Vegas), Brian Menze (Vault Boy artist extraordinaire, Artist on Planescape: Torment, Creator of Darth Nihilus), Dan Spitzley (Lead Programmer on Planescape: Torment) along with dozens of other talented artists, programmers, and designers.
Together we have been developing computer role-playing games for a very long time, and to this day there is still nothing we love making and playing more than RPGs.
The image representation of their collective resume found on the KS page:
As for the game itself:
Project Eternity will take the central hero, memorable companions and the epic exploration of Baldur’s Gate, add in the fun, intense combat and dungeon diving of Icewind Dale, and tie it all together with the emotional writing and mature thematic exploration of Planescape: Torment.
Combat uses a tactical real-time with pause system - positioning your party and coordinating attacks and abilities is one of the keys to success.
That's probably one of the best sales pitches designed for the older gamers.
Unfortunately, by the time I publish this, the early bird $20 copies should already be sold out or very close to that. This has only opened for less than 24 hours and over 10,000 slots have been taken out of the available 25,000.
The rest have to pay at least $25 for a copy of the game when it's released, but they will also get an item that the early birds don't.
Also because of the big names behind the project, they have attracted some huge donations, with sixty-nine backers at the $500 level, thirty-seven $1000, three $3000, a $5000 and two $10,000.
Within about half a day, it has raised over $625,000 out of the $1.1M they're asking for.
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| Screenshot taken at 9.20am (+8 GMT) on the 15th of September 2012 |
The reason that an established studio like Obsidian is doing this on Kickstarter is that no publisher is willing to fund games of this type anymore.
I just hope they can deliver what they promised.
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It's 16 September Sunday morning 7.40am +8GMT, which technically is still 15 September for the Americas, and it's exceeded its goal by 45k.
There are still 4500 vacancies at the $20 pledge level though.
As for the higher level pledges, there are:
- 62 $1000
- 5 $3000
- 3 $5000
- 2 $10,000
So other than the $1000 level, the rest have remained unchanged. My guess is that the top 3 levels are contributed by the few big-name developers who frequent the site after successfully raising funds from their own KS campaigns.
So they said they were going to publish topless photos of Kate Middleton...
Well, fuck, so am I.
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Romney.
Got my copy of NS2. Now I'll have to wait till the release date next month to play.
The latest iPhone is always better; even if it's not the latest iPhone, it's still better than the latest iPhone.
Have to watch it from the beginning till the end to see what's happening.
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