Kickstarter-projekter og lignende

Sumez>
Det er efter Minecraft blev populært :P
Men dungeon crawlers har jo tit haft tradition for at være proceduralt genererede, så det giver mening. Det er et spørgsmål om man ønsker roguelike-oplevelsen, eller oplevelsen af et nogle gennemført designede områder med fokus på puzzles og historiefortælling (som eks. Etrian Odyssey og Grimrock)

slk486>
^ Hvorfor tænker du at Sony støtter det?

Luck, though, is something they can’t count on. On May 5th, the studio launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce a new version of Amplitude – a rhythm action game requiring a controller only, still exclusive to Sony platforms. Their pitch video saw company co-founders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy expressing palpable passion for the project, and explaining that many team members who shaped the original are still at Harmonix and raring to go on its revival. Two days later, $170,000 of the $775,000 target had been raised – a great start.

But with four days left on the Kickstarter at the time of publication, over $400,000 is still required to fund this high-definition reboot. It looks unlikely that it will go ahead without achieving its crowd-sourced contribution, around half of total projected development costs.

Bede-x>
Man sidder og tænker, om det er en normal Kickstarter eller noget der er støttet af Sony bag scenerne..

millennium>
Har A.N.N.E. været nævnt før? Jeg er i hvert fald solgt til konceptet. Pixel-art plus Metroidvania, ja tak!

At $150,000, we will port the game to PS4 and Xbox.

At $200,000, you will be able to play Midora on the 3DS.

And finally, at $220,000, Midora will be ported to Wii U.

RJK>
Jeg ved helt ærligt ikke noget om dette projekt, udover at det er noget space exploration lavet af russiske astronauter, men da de her skrevet til os og bedt om lidt omtale, så får de lige et link her.

Who Is Leonid Kovtun? And Who is Maximillian Kovtun?

The list of dodgy stuff goes on and on.

For instance, the developer itself, West Games, was registered in Nevada on May 20th of this year (though the Kickstarter states the company was founded in 2013.) It was registered by one Leonid Kovtun, who is also the recipient of any and all of the Kickstarter’s pledges, though he is not listed anywhere in the Kickstarter as a member of the team.

A user on reddit dug into Mr. Kovtun’s legal past and came up with one case involving him and another man, Maximillian Kovtun, as joint plaintiffs in a case against Harrah’s hotel in Las Vegas. I looked up the same cases, and you can as well by going here.

Maximillian Kovtun was the creator of the Space Pioneer Kickstarter, an unsuccessful project that appears to be littered with uncredited space art from DeviantArt masquerading as concept art.

Like Areal, Space Pioneer has no actual gameplay footage available. That project failed to fund in March of 2014, just weeks before West Games was registered in Nevada. The company, Space Enigma Studios, is still offering pre-orders of the game at their website via PayPal.

No game footage or screenshots can be found. Click on the “gameplay” link and all you get are paragraphs.

The relationship between Maximillian Kovtun and Leonid Kovtun remains a mystery, though certainly both the Areal and Space Pioneer campaigns share a distinct resemblance to one another, and both are based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, and comprised of largely foreign staff.

I’ve reached out to the Areal Kickstarter to ask about the relationship between these men and what Leonid Kovtun’s role in the Areal Kickstarter is; however, at this time, the West Games team does not appear to be responding to anyone in the press.