http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2

Brian Fargo finally put it up a little while ago.  It's almost half-funded even though it just launched.

Also, Mark Morgan, the man behind the original Fallout soundtracks (as well as the Planescape soundtrack) will be doing the score.

Oh, and Michael Stackpole is on the dev team, too, along with Jason Anderson (wrote for the original Fallouts).  Makes sense for Stackpole since he was on the original devteam, and designed the T&T derivative Wasteland was based on (Mercenaries, Spies, and Private Eyes).

Man, a lot of old-school CRPG series making a comeback.  That, and you've even got the Double-Fine old-school adventure game Kickstarter that hit 3 million (when they were only asking for 400k).

I'll chip in for this. Good team, good games. Between this and Baldur's Gate, it's shaping like a good year!

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D'oh!

Quote from: JongWKI'll chip in for this. Good team, good games. Between this and Baldur's Gate, it's shaping like a good year!

Definitely.

And damn that was fast.  1.2 mil in about two days.  I really hope this keeps pace, so they'll be able to really deliver a fleshed-out game.

They still have a month to go. Wow.

I am curious where they end up with it. Wasteland was a great game, crazier and more tongue-in-cheek than Fallout in spite of generally being about the same things, religious sects worshipping atomic wreckage included. In a way it is a very good game to showcase the everything goes feel of Gamma World, and has a lot of very satisfactory violence in it.

How much of it can work today without it being turned into Fallout, or porting over some of Wasteland's less lasting ideas, though? That's going to be a hard line to walk.

Also topical:


(From Married to the Sea)

So in Kickstarter, what happens if you ask for X money and get 3X?  Do you have to prove to Kickstarter you spent 3X on the project and extras, or can you spend X on the project and pocket 2X?

Quote from: CRKrueger;523401So in Kickstarter, what happens if you ask for X money and get 3X?  Do you have to prove to Kickstarter you spent 3X on the project and extras, or can you spend X on the project and pocket 2X?

They pocket their 5 or 10% (I do not remember exactly), and the rest is yours, I believe.

Quote from: Rincewind1;523406They pocket their 5 or 10% (I do not remember exactly), and the rest is yours, I believe.

you're absolutely right - that's the way it works for them.

To be honest I'd say it's down to the person behind the Kickstarter to be clear about what they are going to do with the extra money. (For what it's worth, the Wasteland 2 guys have always been exceptionally clear about this.)

Then again, you also want to consider the rewards you get for funding. In the case of the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter, the $15 tier will snag you a download of the game once it's released, and that's lower than the price point they'll be selling it at once it goes live, so if you already know you'll be picking up the game once it's released there's no point not pitching in, because even if they pocket the extra money they've still openly committed themselves to making the game and you're still getting the swag you paid for out of it.

The more money the initiative gets, the bigger the game. That's one big argument for paying now instead than after the game comes out, IMHO.

I gave them all my monies.

Or at least a good bit more than I'd normally pay for a game, because I have faith in this dev team.

Fountain of Dreams.

Quote from: FASERIP;529321Fountain of Dreams.

The horror....the horror.

61,288
BACKERS

$2,933,147
PLEDGED OF $900,000 GOAL

0
SECONDS TO GO

FUNDING SUCCESSFUL
This project successfully raised its funding goal 15 minutes ago.

:jaw-dropping::cheerleader:

Here is the first screenshot on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, featuring none else but the **SCORPITRON**!!!

Of course, there are now a bunch of people in the comment section who are arguing that giant armoured scorpion robots are unrealistic, or that the environment is too colourful. I assume none of them have ever played Wasteland. :rolleyes:


I hope they go all the way back to Crazyville and add the cybernetic geckos and nucular mutant rabbits.

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Also,

QuoteThere needs to be more pink. There was a lot of pink in the original Wasteland.

QuoteYes perfect, I want my giant robo-scorpions to be as gritty and realistic as possible.

Ha!
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I love whoever did this. Yesssss!

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