Posts Tagged ‘kickstarter katchup’
Have a break, have a Kit-Katchup
By Adam Smith on October 27th, 2012.
There are no losers and lots of new entries this week, which should make for more positive reading but the number of projects clinging to the edge of the abyss is alarming. Space games are the most threatened, with a fantasy MMO also scrabbling for survival. Timber and Strong is in the winners’ column though. The future is voxels. I’ll be etching the memorials in the Losers column next week because I am the King of the Katchup now, so if you have any projects you reckon I should affix my beady eye to then make sure to email me, not John. If you send them to him he has to forward them to me by carrier pigeon and we’re running out of birds.
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Cash For Gold (Code)
By John Walker on October 20th, 2012.
It’s one of those weeks where lots of projects sit on just over a week left, and a million miles to go. It’s kind of a pessimistic read this week, I’m afraid. But don’t be put off – there’s fresh blood in there too, new hopefuls with sparks in their eyes and a youthful spring in their step. And a great big gaping hole in their wallets.
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Kharity
By John Walker on October 13th, 2012.
Er, hello. Um, I’ve completely forgotten how to do this. Where do I put the red wires again? Adam’s been in charge of the Katchup for so long that at this point I’m filling in for him. I think I’ve got it, hang on. Phlurrbbubububububub. Phlurrrbbububuubbb. Phlurbububububububububububububububu…
Got it. So, down below you can see the gaming Kickstarters that have caught our eye of late. I’ve managed to nab one of those weeks where lots that Adam has been following have just ticked over their targets. Thus stealing all sense of closure from him.
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Kapitulation
By Adam Smith on October 6th, 2012.
It’s glum in the Katchup this week and I’ve been spending most of this fine Saturday morning wiping the tears from my eyes with a twenty pound note. If only I’d pledged it to the promise of a game instead of using it as a handkerchief for all these long months. If only! Two of my personal favourites have fallen by the wayside and there’s only one winner, although it is an interesting one by virtue of not being an obvious success story, powered to victory by the presence of a celebrity developer. There are a few projects on the verge of success and if I were writing this on Monday, the ‘Winners’ column would probably be much more satisfactorily populated.
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SPACE MADNESS
By Adam Smith on September 29th, 2012.
I find myself Katching up with the world of Kickstarter again this week. Apparently John is at the Eurovision song contest or something, so if you see him there do give him a hug. Tell him it’s from me and that the restraining order can’t stop me from showing my affection by proxy. This week is SPACE WEEK, with lots of space games happening, or at least trying to happen. Only two winners, both of which were close things. Neither game seems to be set in space though. You’ll have to scroll down a little more to see the space hopefuls, which include the likes of Nexus 2, Ring Runner and Blackspace.
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Some funds for the weekend
By Adam Smith on September 22nd, 2012.
Hello, mic check mic check, is this thing on? John has left me in charge of the Kickstarter Katchup while he’s holidaying on The Moon so let’s kommence this safari through the korridors of krowdfunding. I’m going to stop with the ‘k’s now lest I inadvertently awaken Midway’s legal team. We are here to observe the week’s happenings in the world of crowdfunded games and some game-related paraphernalia. There’s only two winners this week and one is a big ‘un. Can you guess what it is? Can you? Oh, Alec already told you…read the rules and then dig in.
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Games wot aren't made
By John Walker on September 15th, 2012.
As you watch the vast sums of money being poured into games that don’t exist yet, you can then wonder at the finances of the world and ask yourself confusing questions. There are two utterly massive million-makers below, along with the usual happy-go-lucky attempts to raise more modest sums. And remember, reading the rules before whinging in the comments makes you far less likely to be stuffed full of bombs!
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By Andrew Smee on September 10th, 2012.
I suppose we all knew this deep down, but it’s startling to see it laid out in pretty graphs: 2012 has seen a massive, massive increase on games funding through Kickstarter. Eye wateringly huge. In six short months they have exploded from the eighth most-funded category in Kickstarter history to the second most-funded, and the first-most funded category of the year, having raised a staggering $50,330,275 in 2012 alone. I mean, just look at that graph. JUST LOOK AT IT.
And I do mean in 2012 alone. Look at 2011! Nothing! Pittance! Pennies compared to this year.
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Double Fine Adventure, Double-Fine, Kickstarter, kickstarter katchup, Planetary Annihilation.
Gravitational forces make the world go round
By John Walker on September 8th, 2012.
The winners keep pouring in. Another long list of successful projects this week, which I always like to think of as, “ones I don’t have to think of a new sentence for any more.” A few losers too, but so far the Katchup column is bucking the trend for Kickstarter success rates. Clearly I’m a lucky charm. Unless I show any confidence that your project will inevitably succeed, at which point I’m a curse and a millstone around your neck. As ever, please read the rules before huffing in the comments – I don’t know how to get more passive-aggressive about this.
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Kick It To The Development Curve
By John Walker on September 1st, 2012.
Wow, very busy winner and loser columns this week. Quite the clear-out for the column, really. And talking of which, in order to stop this becoming too unwieldy, we’re being a a bit more selective in what goes in. It’ll still be an eclectic mix of big and tiny budgets, but when a project is clearly doomed (like David Crane’s Jungle Adventure, for instance), we’re not going to chronicle its week-by-week crawl to failure. Of course we’re very aware that lots of projects look shaky, then pick up at the end – we’re really talking about only those that just flat-out aren’t getting funded. Don’t forget to read the rules before opening your wallets and purses.
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Crowd Saucing
By John Walker on August 25th, 2012.
The loser column is sadly busy once again this week, with no winners we’ve been following. But as usual there are a lot of other Kickstarters in progress, and a bunch of new ones. Don’t forget to note the rules below, and the next person who writes “Why no love for…” in the comments is going to be buried on the moon. Have a great Saturday!
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