I've been thinking about Jane Jensen's Kickstarter. It doesn't look so good right now, but I understand they haven't really started marketing it properly. The thing is, even though I don't like giving money without knowing what I'll get, I also know I'm fine with both Moebius and Gray Matter 2, and it _is_ Jane Jensen we're talking about here. She made Gabriel Knight, and not only that, she was a big part of the development of the only game in the King's Quest-series I would consider a classic purely for its quality, namely King's Quest 6.

So I decided to contribute despite the uncertainty. I really, really want her to make more games. And frankly, as someone said on Adventure Gamers, Tim Schafer said a heck of a lot less about his plans and yet I jumped on the chance to fund his project. At the end of the day I'm much more interested in a new Jane Jensen adventure game than a new Tim Schafer adventure game.

Just over 10% now. I hope they can turn it around, at least they've got plenty of time. Linky for the lazy: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005365109/jane-jensens-pinkerton-road-2012-2013-csg

I'm afraid Necro won't make it either.

No advertising, bad timing (Wasteland 2, Larry, JJ, Shadowrun, Banner Saga) and they not gonna make it.

This game looks like Horde mixed with Dungeon Keeper, I think it's worth to give it a look.

The Shadowrun one is a dream come true for me. I love that all these are laptop friendly too, since I am likely switching to console gaming.

Anyway, Shadowrun better make it.

I"m not wondering about the outcome, it looks like it's not going to make it, not without some serious push. What puzzles me is that it seems to be left to die a quiet death.
D. Marsh looked & sounded quite passionate about in the introduction video, yet seems to not acitvely support the campaign, as if he got disheartened beyound recovery.
A couple of members here tried to attract some publicity on it, maybe they know something more?

Maybe the whole Sherlock Holmes project as his Kickstarter project was a bad call. I think that if his first campaign was for a Shadowgate sequel, it would have been succesful which in turn would make funding the FMV games more easy.
I could be wrong, of course.

Considering that they're already past 50 % of their required funding sum, I don't think that Shadowrun is in any danger. It remains to be seen what happens after they reach that goal. Probably the prospect of more content if the backers keep on pledging.

I wanted to say "over 90%", but I guess a big backer got out, because they're down to 88% again.

O_O I checked less than two hours ago. They were at 56 % then. Damn, that project came out of nowhere, and people are backing it like crazy.

Which I really like. I'm looking forward to a Shadowrun game that might do the license justice.

For me a large part of the value in Tim Schafer's Kickstarter was the video. For $15 you got both a game and a documentary, and no other gaming project had that kind of value yet.

But frankly I think I end up supporting the developer's enthusiasm, willingness to listen to the backers, and how much of a nice guy (or gal) he is. Brian Fargo convinced me with the Kicking it Forward idea, for example.

Yep he no longer seems to be actively promoting the game. If I were him, I'd be all over the place, preparing my credentials, sending them to journalists and asking them to promote my game for me.

At one point, he was pretty active. He even posted on RPGCodex, but about a week or so later, the project just dropped out of everyone's radar --- this is despite the fact that even Kotaku picked up on it. It could have gained some momentum from there, but alas.

The last time we corresponded via PM on Kickstarter, he did indicate that he had plans to put up more updates, so as to inform the audience about the game. That never happened, sadly. I also think he would have at least hit 75% of the pledging goal by now if he'd put up a hard copy reward tier.
It can be done, but since new projects are coming in once every few days, it's rather troublesome. Sorry :3

i wouldn't think being on Kotaku would be a highlight to be honest

That's what I suggested to Dave too. It's all manipulating consumer psychology. Few will look at 9 games and think "Oh, that's going to give me 100 hours of entertainment". The expected hours of entertainment will likely contract below the real value, because even if you market each adventure individually, in the eyes of the consumer, the scale of the package diminishes per adventure. OTOH if you not only market each on its own merits, but also sell the game in a smaller package, you're promoting your product to the fullest extent of its value. People would be more inclined to stretch their expectations, and pay more money per hourly game time.
Why not? Every bit of publicity is good if it helps the project to sell.

Yes, he did go the adventure gamers forums route, but every single thread died off rather quickly. Given the limited apeal FVM games have, he (and anyone else in his shoes) would need to work twice as hard to promote their funding.

I think he also lost some backers to Leisure Suit Larry.
Still, I find it impressive that with no promotion what so ever, it has made 1/5 of its funding goal.

As for Kotaku, I don't know what their target group is, but I don't think Kotaku did him any justice in the first place with the way they covered his Kickstarter. Anyone not knowing about him was left with the impression it was some nobody from the distant past trying to revive some long forgotten "non-game" type of games.They never pointed out things that would have helped him, like his more known work and his intention to work on those afterwards.
The German site was the one that did the best job, but obviously it wasn't enough by itself.

Maybe it's time to move on.

I hope he will set up another Kickstarter if this one fails. Hopefully he puts more effort into drawing out a plan that will attract more backers.

Another role-playing project, based on 1st Edition D&D:

Adventures Dark and Deep™ A Curious Volume of Forgotten Lore

Whats the big deal about Shadowrun? (i am a scifi/fantasy fan....)