Kickstarting into 2013
~sigh~
Clearly, I’m in a full fledged writing slump. Not that I’m very surprised by my apparent apathy. The end of thirty days of posting seems to have this effect on me. Pair that with holiday hangover and I can barely manage to drag myself out of bed, much less scrape together the brain power to write something worth reading. (I’m seriously trying here!)
But its time to get back in gear, lest what little skill I do have atrophy, so I’m going the least brain power required route with the Kickstarter update!
Yup, Kickstarter sucked me back in and roped me into supporting two new computer games. I still can’t decide if I’m just being overly optimistic or totally wasting money, I mean computer games are notorious for running late and over budget. Frankly I’m still baffled by how little money all these developers are asking for. Yeah, sure, its millions of dollars, but lets just remember that SWToR cost over $250 million to make. This perspective makes me wonder if these games will ever even see the light of day. Okay, totally rambling. Onward!
Godus is a new God Game from Peter Molyneux at 22cans. The description makes the game sound like a reinvention of Populous with the ability to shape terrain and influence your followers. The main point being that you get to be a god and lead your followers to glory. This wasn’t really an instant sell for me. Curiosity is what finally convinced me to sign up; Peter Molyneux has been making various version of god games for a long time, which speaks to his experience with the genre, but it also makes me wonder what he is trying to achieve. Maybe this version will be the One.
I am actually far more excited about War of the Overworld, which is to be a reinvention of Dungeon Keeper (ironically also a Peter Molyneux game). I was a huge fan of Dungeon Keeper back in the day, so anything even remotely related sounds interesting to me. My only (small) concern is that the developer is a new studio. I really hope this not only gets released, but that they do justice to the fun that was Dungeon Keeper.
Though both of these projects have already been funded, they are offering lots of post-kickstarter ways to still help contribute financially.
Lastly, another one of the projects I funded, Education Abroad: a Korean Drama, has completed and is now airing their shows on the youtubes. =D
Tags: celebrity, industry, k-drama, kickstarter, medieval, silly, strategy, tfg-site, update
January 16th, 2013 at 4:09 pm
… or you could play Rock Band with some people I know who are super cool. Well, one of them.
January 16th, 2013 at 7:46 pm
More distractions!!
January 17th, 2013 at 11:21 am
MOAR G+K! :D
January 17th, 2013 at 3:25 pm
There will be mulitplayer!!!! =D
MOAR WORKERS!
January 17th, 2013 at 6:19 pm
Kickstarter is one big distraction. I’m doing my damnedest not to look at all the cool new projects that I’ll have to wait another year for.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:13 pm
It is one big distraction…..