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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2985 on: July 13, 2015, 11:59:54 am »
Ahh but you see he wants to write a book and then make it into a game!!!...???

He doesn't address anything. Has he written books before? Does he have any experience with making games? I can tell you that if he plans to hire someone to make his game, 100k is pretty skimpy by itself. If he is also living off of that money full time while writing, it will shrink very quickly.

Just... no.

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I am a big family man who is a nerd in sorts, I am sci-fi crazy and have things I want to put on paper then make games with. I am 48 years old, go to school for a degree in business management! I graduate in August and want to start my own business (restaurant) of some kind, but am A one income family at the moment.
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2986 on: July 13, 2015, 01:27:15 pm »
Also the pledges are amusing. At first it looks like pledge 9 to get the book, but nope. 9 thousand!
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2987 on: July 13, 2015, 01:32:23 pm »
Yeah... for 5,000 USD you get... a premise?

So for 5 thousand dollars, he will send you the PREMISE of his novel/game combo. That is literally what he posted in the kickstarter to begin with.

Then at 9k you'll get the actual book and game once completed. It's just great. No thought went into this at all.
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« Reply #2988 on: July 13, 2015, 07:09:51 pm »
Yeah, those pledges are pretty wierd. How sure are we that this isn't a troll kickstarter?
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2989 on: July 13, 2015, 07:29:10 pm »
There was a successful kickstarter for potato salad.

That was about when I got tired of kickstarter :P

* Iceblaster is not claiming kickstarter is always bad.


On another note, besides trawling through thousands of projects, there any good blogs or video series(es) that look at the worst of kickstarter? I find that stuff amusing.
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« Reply #2990 on: July 13, 2015, 07:30:17 pm »
Well there's Retsupurae's "Kickstarter Nonstarters". The last one was a while ago though.
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2991 on: July 13, 2015, 10:32:11 pm »
Well, there are three classes of bad Kickstarters:

Crap: James The Idea Guy's Novel Idea or System.out.println("I Just Learned Java And Am Making An MMO: Part" + n)* is obviously crap and fun to mock, but it's not really Kickstarter "going wrong" because they're understandably not making any money.

Scams: The Series Whose Name Rhymes With Yemen Mist Sequence Three or +1 to Privacy Defense Enchanted Routers; things where the creator uses Kickstarter to get a bunch of money and then, whether deliberately or unintentionally, fails to deliver.

Trolls: Potato Salad is the most salient example; like the above except that they're doing for the amusement or to make a point and just enjoying the money rakèd in as a side benefit.

*Hell, some of them probably don't even know that much.
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2992 on: July 13, 2015, 11:39:18 pm »
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Crap: James The Idea Guy's Novel Idea or System.out.println("I Just Learned Java And Am Making An MMO: Part" + n)* is obviously crap and fun to mock, but it's not really Kickstarter "going wrong" because they're understandably not making any money.

Let's not forget the patron saint of the thread.
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2993 on: July 13, 2015, 11:43:13 pm »
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Crap: James The Idea Guy's Novel Idea or System.out.println("I Just Learned Java And Am Making An MMO: Part" + n)* is obviously crap and fun to mock, but it's not really Kickstarter "going wrong" because they're understandably not making any money.

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Quote from: FearfulJesuit on January 09, 2016, 10:37:44 am
I assume it was about cod tendies and an austerity-caused crunch in the supply of good boy points.

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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2994 on: July 14, 2015, 01:23:42 am »
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2995 on: July 14, 2015, 08:47:44 am »
Whatever happened to that amazing MMO?

Edit: I see he's had (at least) 2 failed kickstarters since then...
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2996 on: July 14, 2015, 09:23:51 am »
I see he's doing great things with all that lottery money. 
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2997 on: July 14, 2015, 09:30:23 am »
He tried to make a social media site with a bunch of boardgames on it. Not a terrible idea on the surface.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/120873716/mylifebook

He only raised $2 out of $10k requested, and not a single person even commented. That's rough.
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #2998 on: July 14, 2015, 10:12:08 am »
Not just a social media site, one to take over for looking at any of them, with a bunch of really crap looking games and 'over 20k youtube videos'.

Thats what, less than a percent of the videos there?
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« Reply #2999 on: July 14, 2015, 10:43:35 am »
That's why I said it isn't a terrible idea on the surface. The execution though was hamfisted and uninteresting.
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