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[Jay]

Shall we test my hand at a thread for an indie sandbox game in development?

Realm Explorer will be a computer game about creation in the fantasy universe of Gnostaria; your creations.  In perhaps the most dynamic sandbox world yet to be conceived you will be able to dig the soil and mine ore, precious metals and gems all in a beautiful and dynamic 3D world.  The terrain will shape and form to your actions.  Drive a shovel into the ground and watch the earth give way.  Heave your pickaxe into a cave wall and see the stone disintegrate before you; revealing the treasure beneath.  Go on adventures alone or with friends via internet multiplayer and craft weapons, armor, tools and other items.  How you play is up to you.  The possibilities are limitless.

I'm more or less looking at it as a re-envisioned Wurm, in all the best ways. It seems awfully ambitious, but the progress they have already is seriously promising. They're certainly not on track to meet the Kickstarter goal at the moment, though, which is a damn shame.
Kickstarter
About the Developers/Introducing Realm Explorer
Dev Diary 5/14/2012 - NPCs
Preview Video 3 - Character Customization
Preview Video 2 - Skeleton Monsters

[JoshuaFH]

You forgot the youtube videos Jay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mUiTUwnnA2s

It'd be a shame to see such a promising game see failure.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Very niiiice, yes?

Well it's about time, would there truly be anything better than a nicer looking minecraft combined with an mmo?

[Enzo]

Looks pretty cool, but 13 days left and 0.4% funded...

[Aklyon]

Looks pretty cool, but 13 days left and 0.4% funded...

And 345 backers.

[Girlinhat]

Well, they are trying to raise two-hundred and fifty THOUSAND dollars.  That's not chump change!

[Knight of Fools]

The problem is that there isn't a big enough name or fan base behind it to make it work in Kickstarter. Heck, I'm interested, but I don't feel like investing in something I don't know anything about besides an outline of features. It might have had a chance of succeeding if it had started off with some viral marketing and some alpha-testing. As it is, it's a cool idea that people like, but don't want to invest in because that's all it is at this stage: A cool idea with some pre-pre-alpha pictures and videos.

People are going to realize Kickstarter isn't going to spontaneously create an army of Notch clones, even if the project is a good one with sufficient talent and good design behind it. Because that's the problem: We don't know the talent behind the project. Heck, even their profile is a little lacking in details about the people behind the project. It's no wonder they've received so little money for what would otherwise be a potentially good project.

[Jay]

we are presently working on a single player pre-alpha demo that will be ready in the next few days

Yeah...  maybe that's what they need?

[Tilla]

$250,000 is a pretty big kickstarter for an upstart company. Tim Schafer- one of the undisputed and most charismatic legends of the industry - asked for only $400,000 for his game. He's proven and done his time and we know what he can deliver. These guys have some nice video but they're otherwise an unknown quantity.

[Neyvn]

While it looks cool (THE SKELE SPAWNING ANIMATION IS AMAZING!!!) I doubt that it will be Funded by Kickstarter so quickly. They should have started with a Smaller Number that would fund enough to reach Alpha or something early, have those that funded it Get access to said Alpha for testing, and then have those people and maybe more spread the word via vids or even published magazines of the like, then state that they were starting the Kickstarter to increase the ability to reach Beta release, those that fund this get into that Closed Beta as well as the Alpha Funders and then finally have a final Kickstarter to reach Post Beta where those that Pay can get in with a cheaper cost and if its a P2P model a cheaper X month discount to their Payments...

They are unknown, they need more then just Kickstarter to get known...

Though it does look good...

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Another one of these irresistable KS projects? Goddamnit. I wish I had money. I'd give them 240,000 in a heartbeat if it'll be as incredible as it seems from the page. It really does look like a good version of Wurn, which was already pretty neat in and of itself. Not to mention it's actually pretty nice to look at, which is hard to come across in games like these.

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How do we get this more publicity?

[miauw62]

Damn, this may actually be the first kickstarter that i'm going to participate in...
Just looks so irresistable!
If i can get into the beta, i can suggest them to make sure there is not a huge degree of grinding, because that pretty much killed wurm.

Plus, the only game i ever played before full release was minecraft.
And we all know that it was kind of already released before the 'release'

EDIT:
Wow, awesome, looks like there will be no subscriptions and it will rather work with a minecraft system, people host their own servers
(i hate subscriptions, never played a game that has them :x)

EDIT2:
One thing bugs me, it seems they are going to try and do it in a single year.

EDIT3:
Gah, doesnt seem like i'm backing...
KICKSTARTER, Y U NO PAYPAL?

[Virtz]

Involved in Gothic 3

I'm not sure if you should be mentioning that.

I'm backing this, though. The feature list sounds nice overall.