Star Citizen
As a rule, I distrust crowd-sourcing of funds. Things like Kickstarter are just wide open to exploitation, a siren's song that con-men and flim-flam artists simply cannot resist. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule. In my case, the exception is Chris Roberts.
Mr Roberts is the creator and producer of the various Wing Commander games from the 1990s, one of which I consider to be the greatest PC game of all time: Privateer. He has been trying for some time to get a Privateer-style, sandbox MMO developed, but he can't get funding from the major publishers. That's because he wants it to be exclusively on PC (where it belongs), sporting a realistic Newtonian physics engine, as well as supporting high-end hardware and an array of peripherals like HOTAS systems, TrackIR, and the Oculus VR headset. All the vulture caps want to hear about is consoles and tablets and quick ROI. So Roberts is bypassing those room-temperature I.Q. suits and going straight to the only people who really matter: those who want to play the game.
If you're at all interested, please go to his site and have a look round. There's lots of details about the game, and a video wherein he shows current progress. If you like what you see, please consider tossing some coins his way. In just the few hours since the site went public, he's already garnered $150,000. In fact, in the time it took me to type this (about five minutes) it went up over five thousand dollars, so looks as though quite a lot of people are interested.
Eat that, console queers.
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UPDATE: The site is experiencing extremely high traffic volumes, so you'll have to keep trying or come back later.
Mr Roberts is the creator and producer of the various Wing Commander games from the 1990s, one of which I consider to be the greatest PC game of all time: Privateer. He has been trying for some time to get a Privateer-style, sandbox MMO developed, but he can't get funding from the major publishers. That's because he wants it to be exclusively on PC (where it belongs), sporting a realistic Newtonian physics engine, as well as supporting high-end hardware and an array of peripherals like HOTAS systems, TrackIR, and the Oculus VR headset. All the vulture caps want to hear about is consoles and tablets and quick ROI. So Roberts is bypassing those room-temperature I.Q. suits and going straight to the only people who really matter: those who want to play the game.
If you're at all interested, please go to his site and have a look round. There's lots of details about the game, and a video wherein he shows current progress. If you like what you see, please consider tossing some coins his way. In just the few hours since the site went public, he's already garnered $150,000. In fact, in the time it took me to type this (about five minutes) it went up over five thousand dollars, so looks as though quite a lot of people are interested.
Eat that, console queers.
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UPDATE: The site is experiencing extremely high traffic volumes, so you'll have to keep trying or come back later.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 13:12
1 Comments:
Very cool! I shall have to pay it a visit when the site will load for me. They really seem to be getting hammered right now.
I'm actually cool with Kickstarter. Its very much an experiment in very Laissez-faire, Caveat emptor marked capitalism. I think the benefits of the concept are worth the risk of swindlers.
The Kickstart I bough into was Monte Cook's Numenera RPG project. Monte has been doing RPG game design since the 80s' with Iron Crown Enterprises and TSR with alot of good work to his name and a sterling reputation. And it helps that I've actually met and talked with him before. So when he left WotC to do his own thing and announced Numenera I knew I wanted to support that. I figure he's good for the $70 I put in. :)
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