It's also the fact that the adventure game genre has been more or less filled to the brim with half-good, mediocre and bad Sherlock Holmes games since the genre's decline. A new Sherlock Holmes game is not something the adventuregame nut is asking for.
Interesting, i wonder what it could be. I wonder if there will be much time to add stuff though. It says "estimated delivery Oct 2012". That is only about 6 months.Replay games has said it isn't a straight up remake and new stuff will be added. How much more depends on how much money they get over 500k
10,924
Backers
$486,571
pledged of $500,000 goal
7
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11,108
Backers
$498,945
pledged of $500,000 goal
7
days to go
$1,055 to go!
Does Kickstarter have rules against backing your own project to make sure it gets over the hump? Not that I have any evidence of that happening here or anything, just curious.
They've made it! $500,368 (and counting)
Theres still 7 days left to make more money
Does Kickstarter have rules against backing your own project to make sure it gets over the hump? Not that I have any evidence of that happening here or anything, just curious.
I'm looking forward to this game.
I pledged to my own project from another account, and now my Amazon Payments account is canceled?!
Warning! Credit card rules forbid project creators from paying themselves. Any pledges made by a project creator to themselves may cause Amazon to cancel a project creators Amazon account, making it impossible to receive or remove funds.
While Kickstarter prevents project creators from backing their own projects from the same Kickstarter account, Amazon will detect if the project creator uses a new Kickstarter account and/or a new Amazon account to make the pledge. Amazon looks for the credit card info as well as other primary information to determine if a party is attempting to pay itself. This is not an Amazon-specific policy this type of transaction is considered an attempt to create a "cash advance" and is forbidden by all credit card companies.
Please note that Amazon may not detect this action until a project succeeds and they attempt to collect funds. While the project will appear to succeed on Kickstarter, Amazon will later suspend any Amazon Payments accounts controlled by the project creator, making it impossible to receive/remove funds.
My guess is that this person wanted to be the one who pushed it over to $500k. I acutally tried that myself, but when i checked the website it was about $300 over, so i missed it. I wouldnt have pledged $700 though, but i did pledge $100 now, even after $500k was reached.I was kinda wondering about that too. I noticed that there was $700.00 left to go in funding and one person pushed it to its goal with a $700 pledge.
Anyway, I'm happy this one still made its goal. I can't complain with more point and click adventures.
My guess is that this person wanted to be the one who pushed it over to $500k. I acutally tried that myself, but when i checked the website it was about $300 over, so i missed it. I wouldnt have pledged $700 though, but i did pledge $100 now, even after $500k was reached.
Sounds like a quick way to not get a cent of the funding, and permanently lose you're Amazon Payments account.
This must be the #1 question asked all over the internet today! We announced in October that we secured the development and publishing rights to the original Leisure Suit Larry franchise (series) of games. We showed a 1-room "proof of concept" that helped us secure the rights, so we showed those images in our press release at the time. We originally planned on getting VC (venture capital) funding so we can re-make the entire franchise from scratch for all the new platforms with the best graphics style, voice overs, orchestrated sound, etc. The response we received shocked us. This is what they literally told us "we like your company but we want nothing to do with Leisure Suit Larry since it will tarnish our good name". So it took us a few months to re-think our strategy and when we went to DICE to do the interview with Spike TV, we saw what amazing success our friends at Double Fine had and Tim convinced us to do the same.
Great news!Since it hit 650k, the game will be getting a new girl and storyline for her. 4 hours left, it may hit 700k.
Grand total with Paypal pledges included:
$673,812
FYI.. I have gotten confirmation from both Paul and Josh that the new art from that news story IS indeed by the new developer..
josh@replaygames said:In Tel Aviv and during the due diligence phase, quite a few red flags were raised about the prospect of working with Adventure Mob. While we adored the demo work they did for LSL1, and while we had no reason to question their commitment to the project, we also had to acknowledge that, with absolutely no track record to look at, AM was going to be a very big risk for us.
My personal feeling was that it was a risk possibly worth taking with our *own* money, if thats how we were funding the game. But we arent putting our own money into the game, were putting Kickstarter pledges into it. To me, we should absolutely not take this kind of risk with other peoples money. I would love to work with Oran on a future Larry game, but not until AM has a track record, and not with Kickstarter funds.
Uhhh, wrong thread?So this game gets funded but not Ground Branch? Mind-boggling.
...or maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
Some quick research uncovered the following from the official message board:
http://forums.replaygamesinc.com/viewtopic.pp?f=8&t=383
But Israel is an important ally.Replay got scared by all the outrage recently towards outsourcing