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In today's compilation of some of the worst Kickstarters ever I have decided to look back through the 100+ videos in the Kickscammers series and find 5 of the absolute worst Kickstarters and Indiegogos that I have ever covered in the past.
The theme of todays episode is looking at 5 campaigns that stole money from you, then either ran off with it or spent it on some crazy and unbelievable things - all within the video game space...
...All except the last one which isn't a video game campaign, however, it was too crazy not to add to this list. You won't believe what they spent the money on!
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00:00 Intro
01:32 SPONSOR
03:23 Nuia Eyecharm
08:01 Mansion Lord
11:01 #WheresMyBall
15:42 Ant Simulator
21:16 The Craziest One
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SECOND LIFE…look into it
Man, the Nuia Eyecharm Kickstarter is extra frustrating when you realize that software/hardware that allows someone to control a game with their eyes actually would be great tech for gamers with specific disabilities, so that adds an extra layer of scumminess.
There's a device called Eagle Eyes that allows people who cannot use their limbs to do things like use a computer.
There was a disabled girl at my high school who had a screen that was controlled by her eyes that she used to communicate and that was before 2018
There is hardware and software that lets you track your eyes on your screen, a lot of challenge streamers and such have used it for gimmicks. Afaik it just hasn't been implemented well yet.
Mitten squad completed fallout 3 with only an eye tracker, it's a bodge, but the tech exists
Elite: Dangerous youtubers when the game was still halfway relevant sometimes got sponsored by that tobi eye tracker thing. It (supposedly) works.
The peachy printer was able to print out a huge ass house! What more evidence do we need that it works!
One of the Kickstarters I contributed to never amounted to anything, it was for a nature type documentary (and accompanying cook book). The funny thing is I had learned about it from the guys Instagram. A year later after nothing from the Kickstarter he bought a brand new boat and opened a camping business 🤣
I'm 100% sure the boat was a business expense, that would help him film his documentary. 😝
@@Boogie_the_cat oh yeah. Definitely need a boat for a documentary on mushrooms in the forest, agreed 😅
New boats ain't gonna buy themselves.
Thats great, nice to hear someone that is smart!!
Ain’t there like a bunch of nature documentaries out there? Why kickstart one? That to me feels like someone kickstarting starting a UA-cam channel or something, which to be fair, that unfortunately exists too :P
But yeah, another example of what a lot of people need to learn: don’t just give your money to anybody.
I'm surprised no one takes the idea of Mansion Lord and makes it into the actual game. What the scammer gonna do? Show his face up and getting into trouble with all the backers he scammed?
True that
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worse thing that is a kinda cool idea for a game too
There is no way in all the nine hells that peachy printer dude just conveniently didn't notice that much money was missing. Coupled with the meticulously detailed "timeline of events" and that whole Intervention-style video, it's clear as crystal that he was either 100% in on it or the mastermind behind it from the start.
"We all fell for it"
Gonna have to drop a pretty hard: speak for yourself there my friend.
Hahaha yeah, I was defo part of the problem
Yea, this is literally the first time I've ever heard that there was a single person on the planet that didn't think the Kinect was completely freaking stupid.
The most bizarre thing is the seeming inaction by the Canadian Police. I would have thought that just one report by a backer, with all the evidence, would be a no brainer for investigation and prosecution. But perhaps everybody thought that somebody else would make a report but nobody did, resulting in nothing for the Police to investigate.
I think this might be a problem with this sort of thing on the internet in general when it comes to people. When something like this happens everyone will scream and shout hoping it will help but nobody will think to actually do something, or like you said, they will think that there are so many other peoples screaming and shouting, one of them will do it. I remember in an MMO a couple of years back there was someone harassing people in game, it was getting quite out of hand and it eventually made its way to the forums and one of the developers replied with something like "Did nobody think to report this to us?" I guess everyone just assumed someone else did.
@@Ajial01 The bystander effect is a helluva drug but that doesn't account for the victims, the ones who should've been doing the reporting in the first place. Assuming witnesses report anything isn't particularly smart.
I call BS on the whole thing. $320,000 would buy you a two hundred-room mega mansion with a thousand acre estate in rural Saskatchewan. But then you'd have to live in rural Saskatchewan.
Preface - not a lawyer, and not Canadian, so possible I’m wrong here. But, there’s actually a good chance there isn’t a crime here, or that it would at least be difficult to prove one.
Kickstarter campaigns are pretty explicit that what you are paying for is *not* a pre order, and the company doesn’t really have to ever deliver anything. So legally nothing was stolen from them.
You could make a fraud argument, but, it sounds like the part where he took the money for his house happened a while after the campaign, making it hard to prove he intended to use the money for that purpose all along, which would be a requirement for a fraud prosecution.
So the backers very likely don’t have a legal recourse here. More likely would be the other owners of the company, since they clearly did suffer harm here. However, I’m guessing that since the guy invested the initial 10k he was probably the majority shareholder in the company (which also explains control of the accounts). At that point issuing himself a “loan” for the purposes of helping to secure his housing would likely be within the scope of his powers as the owner of the company.
Now, assuming he wasn’t, somehow, the sole owner with the actual creator of the printer as an employee for some reason this is still a pretty clear breach of fiduciary duty. That however is a civil thing, and if the other owner(s) if the company don’t bring an action there’s nothing the legal system can actually do. And it’s possible that even if the printer creator brought that action it would be a battle over whether he genuinely thought he’d be able to return the money once the house was built, and as such wasn’t actually in breach (guessing that wouldn’t ultimately fly, but no idea how much actually fighting that action costs all involved)
You could *maybe* argue fraud in what sound like some communications where he said the money was in the bank but inaccessible when it wasn’t but that’s not likely something the police will bring unprompted, and especially without the associated civil matter being brought.
TLDR - there’s a good chance that in this case stealing the money wasn’t actually a crime, and if the printer creator didn’t sue it’s likely he’d just get away with it.
@@MikeGaruccio Given that yes, it's a kickstarter, but also they claim that in the end you get something...
We're gonna take you for a ridEARLY ADVERT
PSYCHE!!! 😂
I work with resin 3d printers on a large scale, nowadays a printer like that would be ridiculous to buy on a practical and also quality standpoint, there's a ton of really good sub 200$ printers nowadays, but i mean damn, even at the time it made more sense to pay 400\500 dollars for something that actually worked and was readily available, that project baffles me hard.
It's a real shame nothing like that printer exists for hobbyists though, I'd have loved one.
20:00 the appropriate amount of a video game's budget to spend at a bar is $0
Mansion Lord was sus from the get-go. I mean, the ones behind it were named after the villains from Kamen Rider Black.
I'm surprised people are acting like Pixel Starships is brand new when it's been around for at least 5 years - on mobile. I should know, I've played it for that long on my ipad. I thought it was cute and that loading music is catchy.
It's JUST this last month been ported to PC as far as I know, I just decided on a whim the last two weeks to see if it was available because I was getting sick of the tiny screen and...!
Yeah sure I've had to restart on Steam but hey I appreciate being able to see most of it now! XD
OK, on with the rest of the vid.
Did the backers of Peachy Printer not know he had a 'business partner' who had access to THEIR money??!!!
Ife I were a betting man I would say 'David' was probably just an actor who existed to take the blame and in fact Rylan was the criminal element.
They were 💯 in it together
Looking at the thing, if it was real, any major company in the business would snap it up for millions. It was a scam from the start.
I wonder if he'll ever cover that Kickstarter for the Chuck Tingle Game. $85K raised all the way back in 2016, but the game never came out and there hasn't been any updates since 2018.
Now that would be an interesting one considering the players involved.
A game where you throw Tingle?! Awesome idea. How do you get Nintendo on board?
I remember hearing about the Peachy Printer years ago, StopDrop&Retro did a video on it in 2016, it was a big mess.
Yeah, it's just such a redic tail
Sometimes I feel like I should go and make a Canadian kickstarter to get an extra $320,000
I love that the add playing during this is a Kickstarter for a coffee machine that looks like a moon lander.
Never heard about the eyecharm, but in general, eye tracking could work. Some VR games got pretty awesome features for eye tracking if your headset support it.
Not sure if covered in the past episodes, but unfortunately Jools Watsham from Atooi. Made plenty of games up through 3ds. Took thousands to make an HD port of Chicken Wiggle Workshop and hasn’t shown anything in years and years. Updates have stopped.
i was gonna bring up the same thing
@@krauserzeroI think he’s honestly just stuck since he’s works on the art side and less code. He’s been just pushing out rehashes of old games. Maybe the money was mismanaged. Who knows but there has been no update and he never responds to questions about it.
@@keyboard_g then he needs too explain what happened then instead of hiding it
@@krauserzeroagreed. Talking about it would help a lot. Until then I have completely written off looking at anything from Atooi or Jools.
@@keyboard_g only thing I bought was the atooi collection for 3DS. I hope LRG just doesn't work with him anymore until he addresses the KS stuff
I wonder who made all the pixel art for mansion lord and if he will ever be identified. It can't just be some random dude and if it is he's wasted his talent.
Wasn't expecting to see Mansion Lord on here after all these years. Heck, I'm still mad about that one. I backed it at a very difficult time in my life when I probably shouldn't have invested in a game, but I wanted SOMETHING fun that I could look forward to. They got me good.
We are all mad about it in our own ways.
If you own a computer there are hundreds of great little games to play from cheap to free.
Just play Sim Tower
I'm gonna start a kick starter, make money and then say my friend stole it... sorry!
Wait I have a conscience.
26:07 Guy couldn't be any more dramatic if he tried.
For the next episode I'd like to see "Unknown Realm" (Kickstarter, promoted by lots of gaming luminaries)
“we’re still working on it”
grrrrrrr!!!! 🤬
Sounds familiar, didn't he already cover that?
The last dude 3d printed a house lmao
Hahahaha I doubt he used that tiny little salt water printer in order to do so
The Pokéball controller sounds like a bad idea all around. Like, you throw the ball, but you're gonna have to go pick it up over and over. So much fun.
I’m addicted to the kick scammers stories 😅
Glad ya like them buddy. Working on quite a few atm
Have never put money into any of these funders. So many horror stories. I would need to counter balance with some success stories first but if it bleeds it leads i guess
Perfect use of the thieving lil elf thing music from Golden Axe also haha.
Glad others noticed this xD I chuckled a fair bit picturing those little elves stuffing 3D printers into their little bags with dollar signs on them.
... okay I am officially a eternal virgin, I read "my free implants" and my first thought was "oh wow, free prostetics and pacemakers for people who can't afford em? that's pretty cool.. but why is that plankton looking at the website name so weirdly"... it took me over half a minute to figure it out....
I did a kickscammer video called "erotic kickstaretrs" or something. i briefly talk about it on that site... mate, it's a minefield!
@@slopesgameroom that sounds a lot like "sites to run away from very fast" should be a tag XD. it sounds like you had to endure a lot of very uneappealing things to make that kickscammer video, I should let it run in the background to pay you back in views. XD
Cheers Holmes. The site has long gone now. But in a nutshell it's ladies beging sugar daddies to buy them new boobs.
What's crazy is that if you look back far enough you can find loads of videos of successful ladies teaching others how to manipulate men into buying them new boobs... MENTAL!
@@slopesgameroom i don't even.... but i recently learned that "discord kitten" is a thing so i should not be surprised XD
@@slopesgameroom I surrender, the description starting at 4:00 was so bad I gagged and had to stop XD I regret everything
Ahhh yes Mansion Lord ,I backed this project and they just simply ran with my money. Nowhere to be found. I'm still salty about it today
Was busy raging at the Ashens megadrive mess then up pops a Slopes to make it all right.
I haven’t watched the Ashens video yet. What happened?
Good question; What happened? I didn't even know Ashend was still putting out content.
What Ashens megadrive mess?
I'd like to add the Megatokyo Visual Novel to this list. Fred Gallagher announced the VN almost 6 years ago (July 2017) and raised just shy of 300k (20k goal) and much like his webcomic (which has been on life support for over 10 years) updates came few and far between. Thank goodness it never reached its 500k goal; Excessively Romantic Content.
The web comic eventually morphed into a love Hina-esq fan fiction so that should tell you everything you need to know. Full of self insert characters, outdated references and female characters that all look the same.
Good lord I haven't thought about neotokyo in decades. I remember reading the physical prints of the webcomic in middle school in the mid 00s. Crazy.
@@UA-camCommentor1 you haven't missed anything. Book 6 came out in 2012 IIRC. I give up waiting for book 7. Sold my 6 books on eBay years ago.
How do you always find all these Kickstarter stories, Always been curious about it.
Great video as always Slope's!
The plot twist is...HE'S THE SCAMMER!!! 😮
Once you get big in a space like this, I would imagine you become inundated with tips that are relevant to your niche. He probably has random people sending him potential stories all the time and then he just has to research and make the video.
None of them are new though? As with most videos he uploads, they are re-runs.
@@PikaLink91I’ve been noticing that, even as a new watcher.
I don't understand why anybody would want to pay money for a Pokeball that you have to throw on the ground and walk over and pick it up 50 times just to catch one Pokemon when you can just sit there and flick your finger every couple seconds.
Ant Sim was such a wild ride to follow with so many mixed emotions.
Of course Ryan was involved... you don't make a video years before hoping that the money will be returned and act so nonchalant about your friend taking $300,000.
The fact Ant Simulator guy's partners call spending development money on booze "part of operating budget, NOTHING that was excessive (wink wink)" tells me they're 100% lying
But that's not THAT bad. Sometimes, you meed to take a load off during development. Game design is hard and stressful.
@@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307 Taking company money (and so much so to the point where you actively harm the project) is gross and a scumbag thing to do. Yeah, devs need a load off but not at the expensive of everyone involve.d
@@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307uh, using company money is 100% illegal. The practically admitted to committing theft.
"we all fell for it"
Speak for yourself, I literally remember people going "we don't want this" over and over.
You can just HEAR the fake tone of Ryan's voice, when he starts the Talking to backers video!
Peachy printer saga was so hilariously staged
I give them A for effort though, if only they put that effort into actually developing their stupid printer
7:55 See I feel manipulated here, and when I feel manipulated I become a contrarian. At that point it doesn't matter how good your product is, I want no part of it.
I put money down on Mansion Lord nothing too much but it kind of sucks that it was a scam.
Yeah, a massive shame. Crazy how quickly they just vanished
Wonder if you could do one about Meifumado. Game looked like an amazing metroidvania but almost a year later with no updates past the one thanking everyone for hitting the funding goal. the kickstarter at one point got dmca'd because some of the music in one of the trailers was used without payment or even notifying the guy who made it. Looked more into the company behind it and they may possibly be overseas but lied about having their HQ in the states. the comments on the ks are depressing at the very least.
21:10 *Is that Jet, from Gladiators?* _I was in love with her..._
I remember that pokeball kick starter, I feel like Nintendo used that idea for let’s go since you could control the game with it.
Elysian Shadows and Paprium are at the top of my list of "never delivered the goods" after collecting much more than their goals to release even a single form of their project.
@@ScottWozniakvery limited release of the first batch, then opened for a new order of a second batch to be released by April 2020 and never delivered and postponed that and closed their website.
@@ScottWozniak as I recall they never fully fulfilled their first orders, then continued to open for more orders to rake in more cash?
We'll get Paprium, I'm sure of it. But Elysian Shadows.. Falco ain't ever going to deliver what we payed for 😑
I loved my kinect for one game and one game only. Dance Central. It worked really well for that kind of game but got everything else it just seemed gimmicky. Not sure I would ever feel the need to control a game through just eye movement...
Also...that PokeBall thing seems like something that is great in concept but horrible in actual use. Some pokemon are an absolute nightmare to catch and the amount of times you would have to retrieve your ball controller would be annoying. Also, unusable in certain environments.
Hell yeah I lost a lot of weight from Dance Central back in the day lol.
Regarding the Kinect, we definitely didn't ALL fall for it lol though damn the hype was high, yeah
EARLY ADVERT
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Truly the early advert of our time.
4:39 and I thought my desktop was messy
I'm surprised you've never covered "Astro Slide 5G" - a sliding Android phone that took 2 million dollars and just posted endless delays.
If it ever does ship, the chipset will be so out of date that the Nokia in your office drawer will be faster.
“Woah, take the money and run!” 😂
Its simple the house was built with stilen money. Proceeds pf crime so it should be taken and sold as its not his house. And it be a form of money laundering.
You gotta cover the chicken wiggle debacle
indeed
Love how there is a chain on the door for the David Boe segment. I would do the same thing.
Ah kick scamming its a slippery slope, eh, eh 😁
I love that this guy was literally just told he was scammed, and his response was the Zuko meme.
I never fell for thr Kinect 😂 Skyrim's Kinect ad stopped me from buying. 😂
So you never fell for the thing because of an ad that would have come out roughly a year after the Kinect came out?
@@LaPollaAtomica Yep. They did not really advertise the Kinect for adults till then.
I never fell for the Kinect it lost me when they tried to tell me getting up and moving around was a better gaming experience than sitting on the couch stuffing my food hole. That was the general consensus of /v/ at the time idk maybe normies fell for that but we certainly didn't.
2016: "I've been blown away by how groundbreaking (Pokemon Go) has become"
2023: Literally no one is talking about it anymore
Maybe the Where's My Ball guy should research how long trends last before trying to profit off the vulnerable
For all the no one talking about it, Pokémon Go still manages to rake in nearly a billion every year.
I still play Pokemon Go. Even started playing Pokemon Sleep when it was released last month to.
Pretty sure you can eye-track with a webcam so the notion you needed an addon for the Kinect seems absurd.
Whoa.. Super speed talk engaged......
🙂
Please do Unknown Realm.
I knew Ant Simulator would be on the list
The Eric tutorials helped me learn a lot about unity, blender, gimp. I liked his channel for tutorials wish he never deleted them and never actually followed through with actually continuing to make them witch is why I stopped following him plus this whole thing about not being able to finish a game without large amounts of money to me is just not wanting to have to live responsibly and work harder to make a goal. I have been working for years to reach my goals and soon that work will pay off. I honestly think he got to a point with the ant sim that he wasn’t sure how to progress to make more money or he just didn’t want to be tied to his friends for the work he did and have to share the profits. I think it was a mix of friends partying too much and not all working at the same pace to be successful kinda weird now that Eric is Erica I think now.
What sound is it DJ Slopes uses at the start of each chapter? I recognise it but can never remember what game it's from.
It's been so long I have forgotten too
0:12 Or games made by people who don't want to be burdened with a AAA or AA publisher because the industry is hot garbage.
The Peachy Printer money was all spent on producing a short film announcing that they spent all the Peachy Printer money
Peachy printer - practically unlimited build volume. There's the first red flag. He only shows tiny parts with less than extremely high resolution That's the coffin nail.
It's gone. He built a house with it - If the house is still there, the money is not gone.
That raft kinect game was super fun
Please cover the ProtoMen kickstarter. A project that started in March 2011 for a documentary and NOTHING has happened with it.
That was real? 😅
SGR: The great protector...
The hero nobody asked for
I don't understand the pokeball hype, it will only work somewhere like a park. And what happens if you miss, do you have to run over to the ball, pick it up, run back and try again?
I thought it was attached to your wrist like other standard Wii/Switch controllers and just blue-toothed to your console?
I think, I've remember back in 2014, 2015 or 2016 where there's supposedly a Visual Novel called; But I Love You where there'll be like 4 girls to date? Where you as the protagonist had ended up in some kind of town where there's lack of residents as you'll traverse what's going on and all as the creator made 42K as she promise of releasing a playable demo sometime until no news were made till someone claim that she used the money for stupid things as the game is abandoned.
18:15 is that... BUGZ from SEGA I hear??? lmao
I was 100% subscribed to you
What's up with the title. Slopes... xD
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@@slopesgameroomHaha I thought the same thing 🤣😂
Kinda wish I'd screenshotted the notification, forgot what it said now haha.
Oh wait yup remembered thanks to the comments haha
On the Ant simulator situation, i think Eric was telling the truth because:
1- His ¨friends¨ admitted to be using company funds for booze
2- I'm sorry but 10 people working on Ant simulator is a lie. Unless everyone was sitting around browsing social media, no way it took 11 devs to have that game made. 1 person project? Sure, i can even believe 2 or 3, but not 11.
3- Slander and Taking over their sites and bank accounts ¨because he wanted all for himself¨ makes no sense if he's just going to throw everything away and end the project
27:40 I want Fonzie to invite to me his seedy motel room to tell me that he spent my PAPRIUM payment on a barrel of mustache wax, Euro dance music CDs, and hair products, to maintain his Jesus-like locks of hair. Fonzie, Call me bro!!
It's strange that this Nuia device was seemingly marketed for entertainment. Seems more like a PC accessibility tool for people who can't use their hands or feet to control a regular mouse. I bet almost all of the pledges came from people anticipating that use case and not because they are too lazy to use their hands. Of course that's even worse, there are few things more despicable than giving the hope of freedom to disabled people and then stealing from them instead.
Golgom (or Gorgom) was also the name of the bad guys in Kamen Rider Black, though don't think they ever ran any Kickstarter scams
The last one... man, good actors, when can I watch that show on netflix?
Early advert...🤔
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Easy solution for the Peachy Printer problem. Sell the house if they are truly sorry and want to make things right. Prove it isn’t just lip service to try to keep away criminal prosecution.
Was Code Hero on a previous vid? I swear that was one wild fever dream, then I found a few early releases and need to find out if it ever actually got past the it's a scam, stage
3:19 That is definitely a pay to win game, lol.
Watching kickscammer for years had led me to avoid kickstarter. I've backed D&D 3D printing stuff from someone I know irl that I know has no chance of failing and one single small indie game with such a small scope it was reasonable. And it came outnand was a lovely little puzzle adventure game.
I’m ready to learn like mad😊
1:45 What music is playing in the background throughout the sponsorship?
That's music from the game itself
Kickstarter never stole from me because I'm not giving people money for nothing. Kickstarter is onlyfans that doesn't even have to show anything to get simps to shell out.
Except most of the time, the Kickstarter will put out. The OnlyFans whore never does.
And sites like kickstarter don't care at all they still get paid
Sounds like the ant simulator people had a hell of a time, anyway
4:02 A lot of items that seem obsurd like this are actually intended for greater accessibility for disabled people. I could see this being amazing for someone who has ALS or otherwise quadriplegic.
So do I get a room if I helped build the house?
Blanc face masks is gonna be on here some day 😅
"We only had a normal amount amount of business lunches, and reported them to the IRS" is not the iron-clad defense the ant guy's business partners seem to think.
A tiny start up with no income shouldn't be having ANY expensed "business lunches".
And "reported to the IRS", just means "We counted it as a 'business expense' to get a tax break." So that's not great either.
"Business lunches" are for when you're already successful. They're not just a thing you get to do with company money the instant you have more than zero in your business account.
Content begins at 3:24. Impressive.
This is why as a game dev I fear trying to start my own. I swear I ain't aiming to scam, but shit takes a while with 2 people along with life getting involved albeit my main amount is relatively low compared to some I need only like 100 to 150k. That is because my computer is jank and I want a beastly bastard plus a good DAS storage system, that is a huge chunk of it the rest is just software and shit. Once that is done I can make games from here on out as long as everything is stable. It is fun when you go to move your mouse, it doesn't move, and you just here a bugs bunny voice in the back of your head mocking you, then it goes black and crashes, the answer to this crash has yet to be resolved.
Sucks so many people scam people and fuck it for the rest of us. That is how it will always be, once space travel happens we we will have the same shit. Same with anything.
a lot of "scams" are also beginner developers who underestimate how much time it costs to make a game and combined with a fulltime job and perhaps a family it is impossible for them to finish the game. Not really a scam but also a big group of developers who ruin it for everyone else. I'm sure you don't try to scam people but if you want to make games and earn money with it, make sure you have the proper hardware and stuff to begin with, don't rely on backers to fund you so you can buy a better pc to make the games. Have something to show, if it is your first game ever euh...don't go asking money for it, release some small games first, too many wannabe developers make that mistake as well, also adding to a bad reputation for Kickstarter and the likes.
"Once that is done I can make games from here on out as long as everything is stable." Here is your biggest problem, why don't you have games already? A janky PC can't be the excuse cause you say you are a game dev, so shouldn't you have things to show already? If you work for a game company, then surely you can show people what you made there, that should help with kickstarting a game, but again, have things to show for and don't have your future of your own published game depend on backers to finance your PC to work with when that is one of the things you already need to have.
@@Jorendo I gots plenty to show I have plenty of models I made and I could complete th game with what I currently have, just it becomes more of a struggle due to random crashes, and storage getting smaller than expected.
I only have large game ideas and I do not like trying to create anything for mobile because it is just not my cup of tea. How they do DLC etc and I couldn't developed for mobile since my phone was a lot of generations behind.
It is not that my PC can't do it, it's more like my PC is gasping like a dying horse more and more everyday since it has to do all kinds of things besides creating games.
I dunno what is wrong with the thing honestly. My fault for building it instead of getting one that is properly built I feel but then again maybe not.
Right now my coder has vanished on me he does that sometimes so I am left in the air waiting for him to get his ass back here.
You could say a new PC etc is for insurance, if you will to insure that it would get built instead of me relying on a PC that crashes randomly for no reason sporadically nearly once a day. Because nothing like losing progress all of a sudden. Even Auto Saves get corrupted sadly.
If you want to you can see our game pages. One of them is sorta small and could be completed easily and fast but my coder wants to work on the bigger one for now wherever he is. You not wrong we see what AAA is doing and go we can do it then we forget about life, eating, etc.
@@Grimeapertbh this sounds like a mess from the start.
Have you participated in game jams? I would really recommend to gain experience in Jams and getting to know other devs before starting a kickstarter.
It will help you get into the rhytm of things, adapt your teams' workflow, think outside the box, generate New ideas for games you wouldn't have considered before, and make you less dependant in only one programmer to work with.
I've only backed a game once. Kickstarter was created by Disaster Cake for a game called Soul Saga.
I backed the game in 2013, with the idea that the game would be completed a year later in july 2014. I bought the digital version for PS4 (since it was in 2013, there options for Vita and WiiU..)
Game got an early acces in february 2020! a whole 6 years after the game was supposed to be launched. We're in 2023 and the game's still in early access.
No more updates on how and when it'll be released for PS4. Vita and WiiU got axed altogether.
I only backed a game ONCE and never again. I know of some great kickstarter stories out there but my first impression destroyed my faith in crowd funded projects.