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Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter by InXile [Complete; $4.3 million funded]
- Thread starter Perkel
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You are the Last Castoff...not sure if you remember or know or have a name
It will be biggest gaming kickstarter.
from the blog posts and interviews I've read, I'm getting the impression it's the latter. They get to write a companion, some sidequests and/or an area of the game.
you mean awesome. I wonder where they can go from there. An island in the ocean, probably
I wonder what that thing represents in the castoff's mind.
I really like the way they've been unveiling the labyrinth, starting with the spire and slowly pulling back, going deeper while also expanding outwards. Very cool.
And yeah it seems to be some sort of island. Given the bizarre nature of course it wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing was sitting on some gigantic creature's back.
I really like the way they've been unveiling the labyrinth, starting with the spire and slowly pulling back, going deeper while also expanding outwards. Very cool.
And yeah it seems to be some sort of island. Given the bizarre nature of course it wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing was sitting on some gigantic creature's back.
Jibber Hack
Member
Hmmm. I hope they reach that Pat Rothfuss goal. He does some great work, though I don't know what his design contributions will amount to.
I really don't think so. Even Eternity "only" reached 615k on the last day, and that wasn't as frontloaded as Torment.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Wonder if we'll manage another 3k backers.
Project Eternity managed 73k backers, so are we looking at the same amount of backers here or are the Torment backers just funding more per backer?
Project Eternity managed 73k backers, so are we looking at the same amount of backers here or are the Torment backers just funding more per backer?
I think we will be close to that backer amount. PE gained a bunch toward the end. I dont know why everyone waits to the end to back it.
exmachina64
Banned
People surprisingly don't believe a project will succeed or do well even if it meets its goal as quickly as this. Or they somehow don't hear about it.
I expected it to reach around 70k as well, but one thing to consider is that Eternity had 25k $20 tiers available, while Torment only has 15k.
Brother None
Member
That's pretty much the plan, yeah. Full voice acting isn't even on the table, it is simply too expensive and too constricting for the writing, but partial VA is more or less a given, it's just a matter of figuring out how much we want to. Something similar to Planescape: Torment is most likely.
WHOAguitarninja
Member
Perfect. I skip the voicing in RPG's almost all the time, so I actually prefer it not to have everything voiced.
That is great news, I would rather have that audio money go into more musical tracks than va.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Didn't game devs work for free before kickstarter?
Dwight Schrute
Member
Considering pushing my pledge to 130+.
Hum... the rewards look awesome.
Hum... the rewards look awesome.
Dwight Schrute
Member
You think we can make it to Avelone ?
We should if it follows the same path as other kickstarters.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Just checked in on this for the first time a couple of weeks. Wow, Patrick Rothfuss involvement as a stretch goal? I like the sound of that.
superdeluxe
Member
We'll make it to avellone. The up coming week they will start to ramp things up, Hopefully more detailed posts about the world, cults, companions, maybe some more music, concept art, final stretch goals, streaming chats/interviews with some of the talent. Maybe a final 24 hours straight of kickstarter streaming of let's plays
SquiddyCracker
Banned
We have reached 3 million already if you count the paypal btw.
I like to save the paypal money for the very last stretchgoal though
Just 8k more.
I like to save the paypal money for the very last stretchgoal though
Just 8k more.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
We'll hit $3m by tonight. Then we''ll have 12 days to make $500k.
But honestly, who knows.
Brother None
Member
We have reached 3 million already if you count the paypal btw.
I like to save the paypal money for the very last stretchgoal though
We factor in PayPal. I updated the stretch goal graphic to put 3m as "achieved!" late last night.
They are considering 'something' regarding graphics they will be talking about next week.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I'm hoping it is a 4 million stretch goal, which I think they'll reach.
They will need to do something extra to generate a final push. PE had some good updates and a livestream.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
On the otherhand, they got 11 days on them to raise that final million.
If they could get a guest video from Avellone the moment they hit his stretch goal, I think it'll be smooth sailing from there.
If they could get a guest video from Avellone the moment they hit his stretch goal, I think it'll be smooth sailing from there.
I believe Obsidian's project, Eternity, got a million dollar push during its final day. Correct me if I'm wrong. I know that project got an insane amount during its final hour though.
If it follows Dreamfalls trend, its looking at around 500k in its final push. If it follows PE, its looking closer to a million for last 2 days.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Kicktraq stats:
This is correct, however, P:E wasn't nearly as frontloaded as Torment appears to be. I think Dreamfall is a closer comparison -- however, even that made a bit less than half of its first day in the final 2 day push. If you apply that to Torment, you're still looking at ~700k on the last 2 days combined.
Brother None
Member
Almost. It got a million dollars in its final four days. About 600K of that in its final day. Wasteland 2 raised about 500K in its final four days, only about 100K in its final day. I'd expect Torment to perform closer to WL2 in this, Eternity's situation of raising both backers and average pledge-per-backer was unique, and Torment's pledge-per-backer average now is already higher than Eternity was at the end.
Torment was not just more front-loaded in total backers, but it also has a higher pledge-per-backer than Eternity, WL2 or DFA did. It really is a victim of its own success now, haha, but I think we've got some good stuff planned to try and push for that magic 4. 3.5m honestly I think we could make even without too much effort, but we plan to put in a lot of effort.