Amplitude (Harmonix) PS3/PS4 - KS (Funded, final day)
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This made me laugh. Just read it now.
Still wouldn't be as long as Ubisoft credits.
Triggerhappytel
Member
I can't access the Kickstarter page. We haven't crashed the whole website, have we?!
That's what I said in their twitch chat and one of the guys in there said "Don't even talk to me about Assassins' Creed credits. I work on them"
Antilurker77
Member
I want online multiplayer really bad, but I don't think it will hit the mark.
I'd love to be proven wrong though. This Kickstarter has been pretty volatile.
I'd love to be proven wrong though. This Kickstarter has been pretty volatile.
I think the turnaroud started when they announced they'd get this artists on board:
Anamanaguchi (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
C418 (Minecraft)
Danny Baranowsky (Super Meat Boy, Canabalt)
Freezepop (FreQuency, Amplitude)
Jim Guthrie (Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP)
Kasson Crooker (FreQuency, Amplitude, Symbion Project)
George & Jonathan
I'm really excited about the first four.
Mighty No. 9 had over 67K backers through the Kickstarter campaign plus more through PayPal. That's going to be a long ass list.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Those posts on the first page hahahaha
Guess this shows you can very successful kick starters even when your game is not coming to PC.
Guess this shows you can very successful kick starters even when your game is not coming to PC.
If this just means more things kickstarted, ok!
This one had a lot working against it, and still managed to pull through in the end. I think that them adding in some new tiers late was really clutch to this, as there was a period without many new backers but a lot of upped pledges.
Barkerville.
The livestream was pretty good and showed what a nice team they are.
Canis lupus
Member
No PC
Ctrl+F "PC"
Hope they make it though!
You should update that list with Amplitude now.
Not gonna fund a Sony exclusive, but I hope it will turn out great for those who do.
Cringeworthy.
Turns out, non-pc console exclusive kickstarters can be pretty successful, and it was achieved in just 18 days for a game that bombed on PS2 more than 10 years ago. I imagine series that were more popular back in the day will manage to bring in even more money, and I believe this kickstarter will be a model for future console exclusive kickstarters(if only for the fact that OG developers want to revisit their old games but can't make it multiplatform because the IP is owned by someone else).
It's funny when this thing really exploded a few days ago(around pages 30), the whining about a PC version suddenly stopped.
Acquiescence
Member
This KS is not raking money as fast as it should. Never knew PS Nation was so cheap.
They aren't cheap tho.
Congrats to Harmonix though, seriously. That was truly a Kickstarter comeback for the ages. I didn't back it (I never do with these online fundraising things), but I will download a copy when it hits PSN.
I might put a hefty pledge behind Jumping Flash! 3 though Sony, wink wink.
Dirtyshubb
Member
Firstly I just wanted to get out of the way I didnt actually get round to backing this as I was low on funds, plus I have never actually kick-started anything before but I am very pleased to see this go through!
I was a HUGE Amplitude fan back in the day, used to play it round my friends all the time. Then one holiday with the wife I found it for £25 in Torquay so I had to snap it right up and then me and the wife played quite a bit together.
Online would be godly but I am just happy all the hard work that people here and elsewhere did to get this funded, you are all heroes!
I was a HUGE Amplitude fan back in the day, used to play it round my friends all the time. Then one holiday with the wife I found it for £25 in Torquay so I had to snap it right up and then me and the wife played quite a bit together.
Online would be godly but I am just happy all the hard work that people here and elsewhere did to get this funded, you are all heroes!
isthis supposed to be some sort of "wall of shame" i doubt any of these people wanted the game to fail or anything, you just have to be honest that a console exclusive kickstarter is risky for all sorts of reasons. I'm glad they pulled it off. but people were totally right to be cautious about it.
Harmonix didn't explain things up front why this couldn't be a spiritual successor, and thus no PC version. When they actually explained that Sony owns certain gameplay mechanics they couldn't do a proper Amplitude without, sticking with the proper name made sense.
Reposting these posts from the beginning of the Kickstarter / Thread as a wall is pointless.
Most of these people posted it with the experience of former (failed) kickstarters and under the premise that a rather high $$$ goal + 18 days + only on limited platform + rather niche title would have only a slim chance to get funded.
Most of these people posted it with the experience of former (failed) kickstarters and under the premise that a rather high $$$ goal + 18 days + only on limited platform + rather niche title would have only a slim chance to get funded.
Jimmyfenix
Member
But the ps nation is cheap though.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
PC or bust!
The stretch goal being online MP rather than interesting licensed songs bums me out a little. Would have preferred to get Cherry Lips by Garbage in the game and compete on leaderboards than play it online. But, if that's what they want to go for then best of luck to them
Harmonix is really paranoid about announcing songs they may have a lead on but not 100% locked in these days. They got bit in the ass a couple of times during the Rock Band run by bands/labels changing their mind or losing masters.
At one point there was a 1-song DLC week because the two other songs had their licensing pulled just days before going up
So that's the reason the stretch goal would be something they have control over than something like a licensed song
Canis lupus
Member
It's just an observation of how many people thought it wouldn't succeed without a PC version, and how insistent they were the one and only reason it could be failing was because it didn't have that version. While it's true that there was fear, there really wasn't any precedent for console only kickstarters not succeeding right? Because high level console only KS were really never done before. Amplitude is the first console only KS that had a huge funding goal and rose to be like one of the highest funded games there.
They aren't cheap tho.
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I think it's more awareness than anything else. I doubt 99% of console gamers even know about Kickstarter and what it's for. PC is where it attention has been focused for a while now. Of course I'm referring only to gaming related projects.
If this happens, that would be awesome.
Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes yes. So much yes. This needs to happen. NEEDS to!
cj_iwakura
Member
Oh god yes. Bring in those Luv Can Sav U beats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3ZdDz1tr8
(Not sure it would work in Amplitude like it would in IIDX,but I'd take it.)
Leatherworkstation
Banned
TIL: Nearly all console owners live under rocks.
I'm pretty sure most people that use the internet fairly regularly know what kickstarter is.
I would do this and all other kind of nasty things when people would doubt a Colony Wars Kickstarter success though.
Laugh at my Colony Wars and i'm gonna cut you!
I know i but never bothered with it besides some big projects, posted on GAF.
But damn browsing Kickstarter yesterday, i have discovered so much awesome stuff/gadgets.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Same. Even then I'd rather have a Vita version as the first stretch goal
I do wonder if Outcast would have made it if they'd put in a similar amount of effort and enthusiasm; that just came across as a bit apathetic and defeated in the closing hours.
That said, I do have to concede that Amplitude has one big advantage over Outcast: associations with musical groups who have their own independent fanbases; that was a resource that simply wasn't available to Outcast, and the effect it had was immense.
I wonder if they can rope in composers like Akira Yamaoka, or Manami Matsumae, or Mizuguchi.
I hope that 8-4 would interfere in this, establishing connection between Harmonix and japanese composers. Make them DLC or something.
Angelcurio
Member
Even though they never announced a Vita stretch goal,I think it's really possible to see the game releasing on Vita, considering that the Sony team lead by Giocorsi is precisely in charge of bringing third party titles to Vita.
Now the game itself is secured, there's much less risk involved in funding versions on other platforms - but I suspect they wouldn't really want to think *too* much that far ahead until the game is nearer completion. They've got themselves a couple of years of financial security as a company, and that's the first step.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Agreed, 300k plus more just for online multiplayer?
Building online multiplayer in a game is not something that deserves the use of the term 'just'.
HellofaMouse
Member
Isnt this something like a guitar hero on a controller?
How much do you expect network engineers to get paid?
Mikey Jr.
Member
Ehhh, I feel like they didn't want to do extra work, but at the same time try and juice as much money from ks as they can. So they put the stretch goal at 1.12 million. They knew they wouldn't reach that in the time they had, but it also spurs some people into donating.
Notice the lack of any stretch goals in between which would have been much more realistic.
Notice the lack of any stretch goals in between which would have been much more realistic.
Let's outsource it to Gamespy, they specialise in online multiplayer and are really successful with it.
When Gamespy were active they only really supplied you with an API to communicate with their servers; you still needed to fill in the essential components to make the game work online.
And I wasn't that encouraged when I, as someone who (at the time) knew very little about network gaming implementation, had to send them bug reports about that API!