"Tex Murphy - Project Fedora" is now live on Kickstarter.

Only one of the 4 GameStops in my city turned down the flyers/bag inserts I printed up. Tomorrow I shall begin constructing my advertising harness for next weekend's convention and I'll likely stake out an area at the con to play the games so people can stop by and watch. I plan to take my laptop, speakers and projector for it.

Trilaan wrote:Only one of the 4 GameStops in my city turned down the flyers/bag inserts I printed up. Tomorrow I shall begin constructing my advertising harness for next weekend's convention and I'll likely stake out an area at the con to play the games so people can stop by and watch. I plan to take my laptop, speakers and projector for it.

Great! This is the kind of grass roots stuff that can bring in backers.

Yes but Jane's target was lower, and she didn't hit $450 by the end of her kick-starter project. Our number of backers each day now are relatively consistent, they just pledged less overall yesterday than the day before.

I still keep the faith, but would love to see a rush of new pledges soon.

So just out of curiosity, how does this work? If we're at 425,000 in 19 days, do they not get a dime? If not who does? If so, can they just ... extend the time a bit? I mean, because almost 300,000 is a lot of money right now as it is ... if we all just by-passed kickstarter and sent the money directly to Big Finish, wouldn't that be the same? I'd feed them 30 or 40 a month. I could just make it another bill.

I'm not saying this kickstarter thing wouldn't work, but if it didn't, I think we're a resourceful bunch of people that would make this work no matter what. No one waits 15 years to fail. I'll go hold up a bank if I have to.

Mr. Thomas Malloy wrote:If we're at 425,000 in 19 days, do they not get a dime?

They don't get anything. Money is only taken just after the deadline passes if the project is successful.

If not who does?

The project closes and no money is taken so noone gets anything. Kickstarter probably does this different to e.g. a PayPal chip-in that can go on forever to create a sense of urgency. It is scarier but I think it works compared to a PayPal chip-in since:
- It pushes funds forward in a shorter amount of time possibly leading to more cash overall. Wheres something that can go on and on forever may just squeak along here and there and not inspire casual fans of the series either to put money down if they don't know when or if the game will be confirmed, they would likely not donate at all if they think their funds would potentially be tired up for years.

- There are more impulse donations since you only pay if the game is actually going to be made and only after the deadline so there is no issue of trust about whats being paid for.

- With a "this amount at this time or bust" thing there is more of a frenzy to rush and push things by backers who get really involved in seeing the project go forward (as you can see in Backer Comments on the various Kickstarters).

Though after the goal is reached a PayPal chip-in is going to be added too.

If so, can they just ... extend the time a bit?

Kickstarter policy is you can't extend the goal. I think they chose 30 days for a reason though, people often seem to use that amount (some say only Jane chose different I think from the recent gaming Kickstarters). Kickstarter themselves seem to reccomend that amount of days based on results:

Last year, I recall reading on the Kickstarter blog that projects with a duration of around 30 days seem to have the highest success rate. If you go too short, some potential backers might not be able to pledge because they don’t happen to have enough free money (and they don’t have enough time to save up for it). If you go too long, you risk the project losing momentum; discussions might fade out, people might put it off for next month and then forget about it, and so forth. A length between 30 and 45 days is probably best.

http://www.gmsarligames.com/2011/05/18/ ... 8H0u1Jk46Q

I am not sure, if we lost a 5000 backer, but last morning (Central European Time) a huge chunk of money was withdrawn. I remember checking early in the morning, seeing the project at over 274.000, then checking an hour later, seeing it at about 272.000. There were other backers redrawing their pledges too. Maybe it was, because some people finally saw an incentive to pledge for the new Space Venture tiers (Space Venture actually had a very good day).

Either way, nothing of this is unusual. Jane Jensen had a day like this too. But I hope I will never again see Kicktraq showing negative numbers for a couple of hours. Either way, I think we should be fine, if we reach 300.000 by the middle of next week. Usually these projects really get going, once the "mid project dip" is over ... and I think that's definitely where we are at right now.

I think today will be a good one. We're already over a quarter of yesterday's takings. We could possibly make it to 64% today, 63% at the very least.

Meanwhile, Carmageddon has reached its goal.

joliet_jane wrote:Meanwhile, Carmageddon has reached its goal.

...making all the people who cried every time there was no continuous flood of contributors feel rather silly.

Jerry Dan wrote:...making all the people who cried every time there was no continuous flood of contributors feel rather silly.

Considering all the awesome things Big Finish have planned if they go over the 450k, that's what makes me want them to reach the goal ASAP!

- Additional game content, expanding it and making the game even longer.
- More paths (in addition to the already planned multiple endings).
- Bringing up the overall calibre even further for even greater execution
- Casting "very recognisable names" in the film industry (of which they already have contacts for)
List from the RetroNick interview

They say 20% over the goal would allow subtitles being added for other languages. I wonder how much over the goal %-wise would be needed for the above items on the list.

The sooner we reach the goal the more we can raise beyond it for an even greater game!

The Pandora Directive Live Stream of Day 1 starting soon here:
http://www.twitch.tv/sbenrap

joliet_jane wrote:Meanwhile, Carmageddon has reached its goal.

Jane are you crying because another game made they're goal and we haven't yet or because you don't like Carmageddon?

Jerry Dan wrote: ...making all the people who cried every time there was no continuous flood of contributors feel rather silly.

I like to be pleasantly surprised rather than painfully devastated.

Mac wrote: Jane are you crying because another game made they're goal and we haven't yet or because you don't like Carmageddon?

Because they made their goal and we're stuck at 62%. I actually contributed a few bucks to Carmageddon to test out my Kickstarter account, so good for them. Maybe Project Fedora should be more like it?

i think incorporating weapons with complete freedom to shoot NPC`s will increase pledges strongly