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ZombieFred
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Well I have doubled up my pledge from 90 dollars to 185 to get the expansion and extra copy of Wasteland 2. That screenshot just justified the upgrade for me.
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Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment (Kickstarter) [Up: Teaser]
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Similar to how it handled in DA Awakening, if I remember correctly. Throughout the game you can help improve the defenses of Crossroad keep, convince merchants to move there and open shops, improve roads and the farmland around the keep and form an alliance with one of the NPC races (Lizardmen, for example) who will help you in the final siege battle near the end of the game. NWN2 wasn't a particularly great game, however (with the exception of MotB).
Cydonian__Knight
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That screenshot is incredible! It's going to be a tough wait for this game.
maquiladora
Member
How can this be a screenshot. Look at the waterfall, how is that not painted?
It is painted.
They render out the scene and then the artists hand paint on top.
That is how they did BG2 and it is how they will do the scenes for PE.
The game uses rendered backgrounds.
Mister_Bubbles
Member
Thanks for the rundown, sounds decent enough. I thought those aspects of Awakening were handled well enough too, for an expansion pack.
Unity's default 2D capabilities are pretty limited, but there are plenty cool extensions you can install to allow stuff like parallax, scaling, etc. I'm betting they're using one of those (as an investment it probably is like 1000$, so it's not really terrible). They're using Unity because it makes for easy Mac/Win porting (and now Linux, apparently) and it has a pretty kickass editor, as far as free engines go (they'll probably buy Unity Pro licenses though).
whalleywhat
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For the new page
:O
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Perfect response.
That shot right after subversus is like "could be a shit shot"... epic.
I don't think I've ever before felt more horrible to not be able to give money to something I won't be able to play for many months.
foobarry81
Member
Yeah, I think Double Fine managed to raise around $800,000 in their last 5 days, which was pretty great. If they succeed in matching that final surge, they still wouldn't get to 3.5.
whalleywhat
Member
lol, so good
well, their art didn't give much hope.
D
Deleted member 102362
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The screenshot reminds me of the hotel puzzle from The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis Deluxe edition (which is not a bad thing at all because I loved that game growing up.)
These goal posts I swear...
At least they won't be adding any more tempting stretch goals so I can stop fretting over what everyone might miss out on.
If nothing else, I don't think they could have picked a much better final stretch goal to try and get that much money.
And the timing is right for it too, since the big final spikes tend to start around this point.
If they don't hit $3.5 million by the end of the drive I think they can reach it with post-Kickstarter Paypal payments, anyway. Hopefully they'll take that into consideration.
And the timing is right for it too, since the big final spikes tend to start around this point.
If they don't hit $3.5 million by the end of the drive I think they can reach it with post-Kickstarter Paypal payments, anyway. Hopefully they'll take that into consideration.
Sentenza
Member
2D backdrops and 3D characters and monsters, like Temple of the Elemental Evil.
EDIT: Damn, you edited your question when I was quoting and answering it.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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If everyone under $165 tier increase their pledge by $20 to get expansion pack (which they eventually will once the game releases!), that'll be $580,000, bumping it to $3.2 million!
Might as well make that jump now!
whalleywhat
Member
Think I'll do this.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Not a criticism, it just couldn't have been better timing.
Time to catch up on the lore in this thing...
Actually, with paypal I think we would just make 3.5m (paypal currently at between 40 and 50k).
SerArthurDayne
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This will be probably end as the fourth best day in the kick starter. Hopefully a baseline for the final push rather than a spike. Most of the increase is also from upped pledges rather than new pledgers, which is good and bad. Hopefully some media attention can get us to 3.5 with more new pledges at high tiers.
Wish I could go to five, and I probably will be able to in a few months, but alas, not how it works, and 250 is more than I should be spending in my state as it is. It is up to the rest of you!
Wish I could go to five, and I probably will be able to in a few months, but alas, not how it works, and 250 is more than I should be spending in my state as it is. It is up to the rest of you!
maquiladora
Member
The RPG gods demand that you donate the entire DSFix proceeds to the PE Kickstarter.
It all comes back around
Actually, the number of new backers per hour on a normal (good) day was like 25. For the past few hours its been between 100 and 150 (per hour).
Seems like screenshots do a good job of convincing the unconvinced
I can only afford to go to 20, but you have to be at the 165 range in order to get the expac I thought?
You can add the Expansion pack by keeping the same pledge tier but adding 20$.
whalleywhat
Member
No, you can manage your pledge increasing it by 20$ but maintaining the same reward tier adding the expansion to your previous rewards.
And as general info, you can do that with all of the following:
Digital Add-Ons (Require $20 tier and above):
- Digital Download of Expansion Pack +$20 (included in tiers $165 and above)
- Digital Download of World Almanac +$15 (include in tiers $50 and above)
- Digital Strategy Guide +$7 (included in tiers $80 and above)
- Early Access Beta Key +$25 (included in tiers $110 and above)
- Extra Digital Download of the Game +$25
- Extra Three Digital Downloads of the Game +$60
Physical Add-Ons (Require Physical Tier: $65, $100, $140, and $250+):
- Project Eternity Mouse Pad +$15 (included in physical above tiers $140 and above)
- Black Project Eternity T-Shirt +$25 (included in physical above tiers $100 and above)
- Black Obsidian T-Shirt +$25
SerArthurDayne
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My maths are unsophisticated, and I am just using kicktraq, so there might be better resources. But today vs yesterday we are up 30000 in donations with the same approximate number of new pledges
So your number is a good sign that newbies are coming in. But I'm baselessly speculating that a large portion of the plus 30k is upped pledges. Possible also that newbies are high rollers.
Anyways, new pledge rate is good news, as many hours still in the day, and other timezones as well.
So your number is a good sign that newbies are coming in. But I'm baselessly speculating that a large portion of the plus 30k is upped pledges. Possible also that newbies are high rollers.
Anyways, new pledge rate is good news, as many hours still in the day, and other timezones as well.
So you change your pledge to $40 even if you stay with the $20 option and you'll get the expansion? Does it confirm that you get it?
I doubt the average new pledge today has been $125 (considering the overall average is less than $50), so I'd say that you are right in assuming that the extra money is likely from existing backers bumping up their pledges.
Joseph Merrick
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holy fuck that screenshot is awesome. fucking perfect
I think you'll manually choose what reward you wanted for the extra 20 dollars on a survey after the kickstarter is completed.
I think you'll manually choose what reward you wanted for the extra 20 dollars on a survey after the kickstarter is completed.