Topic: Kickstarter - Help Fund Indie Games

Wow, Midora and The Deer God look awesome! Looks like I'm gonna be spending some money on backing up Kickstarter projects this weekend! If the project doesn't reach it's goal, you're refunded, right?

@Zizzy Yes, none of the money donated to projects on Kickstarter goes to them until the deadline is reached and they reached the initial fund goal.

I swear Midori is straight up plagerism. That looks waaaaay too much like the Minish Cap...

Guys, fund Midora. It seems to be a Zelda-like game with influences from Minecraft. Fund it.

Oh hey, that actually addressed this. And the verdict: They tried their damndest to make it as similar as much as possible without actually ripping assets from Minish Cap...so they probably can't be sued, but I hate copycat artists regardless, so I still find it detestable...

So should Nintendo just copyright the entire adventure genre?

Seriously though it looks similar to Zelda, but it's certainly not a blatant rip-off.

I'd say it's more along the lines of inspired by Minish Cap, rather than a copycat... No need to label it as trash until you've played it!

Just gonna leave this here.

That kind of gameplay element is prevalent in most 2D adventure games to tell the truth I think cutting grass, bushes, etc was a gameplay element in the genre before The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past introduced the feature to the series.

First off, Boomerangs-Cutting-Grass exists in no other game except Zelda. I looked.

Anyways, I even bothered to look up this artist's other stuff (wasn't too easy, chinese mobile games don't have readily available credits most of the time) and I guess this might just be his style, though I'd still argue that they probabably hired him because his style closely resembles Minish Cap's, I can't be too mad at the artist himself for drawing as he draws, especially since some of what I saw showed that he could make the style at least somewhat his own:

I think the designers might be trying too hard to make people think "ZELDA!!!", but it's gone from outright anger to bitter distaste...

Yeah, seems like a pretty generic, handheld RPG style. Which isn't bad, as long as the gameplay is original, which is what I'm hoping for Midori. I'll have to find out...

This may not come to nintendo consoles but.....

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1216321816/bulb-boy?ref=... This animation style reminds me of adventure time.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrixeleon/catlateral-da...

My god, Catlateral Damage looks so damn fun.

Ya'll keep an eye on this. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunarraygames/timespinne... Timespinner

I really want to see this come to 3DS. Or Wii U (whenever I finally get one...)

Hopefully it comes to the Vita at least, but it wouldn't kill me if I never get to play it. It's pretty and its nice that they got some stuff to show, but all I see is Order of Ecclasia...seriously, what was supposed to make it stand out?

Looks like Midora is going to fail unless a ton of people want discount Zelda in seven days. (not that its inherently a bad thing)

The Kickstarter seems to be a disaster on promising what they want.

They went from Wii U being last to this.

I know they're trying to pander to Nintendo fans, but wouldn't ios/Android befirst since developing and publishing on those platforms have a low barrier to entry.

You would than move on to most likely Xbox One/360 since theyre using microsoft developer tools and they get a lot in the OD@XBOX program or PS4?VIta since porting between those two are relatively cheap,

Arguably the wiI u/3DS would be the last strech goals if put together since you have to build two seperate games and you don't get the benefit of cross buy.

Not really a game, but it's worth pointing out that a guy is raising a kickstarter to make potato salad. Guy asks for $10 and how much is pledged now? Over $7,800. This dude must have some ulterior motive to show how easily KS can be abused. I actually give props to this guy just for his stretch goals:

$300 - Call a chef to get a better recipe
$3000: My kitchen is too small! I will rent out a party hall and invite the whole internet to the potato salad party (only $10 and above will be allowed in the kitchen)! The internet loves potato salad! Let's show them that potato salad loves the internet!!

LINK

Also love the fact that he'll be shouting all the names of the backers as he'll be making the salad.

Damnit! That guy stole my idea! Except it was Animal crackers instead. I was going to name each one after the backers as I bit its little head off (Obviously this plan was foolproof)

Stuff like this makes me wish you needed to take an IQ test to access the internet. In regards to the backers and whoever made this stupid potato salad fundraiser.