As was already mentioned in the past, a tiger was originally considered to be the main character in Yooka-Laylee. At one point, they even considered a character duo that sounds suspiciously like Gruntilda and her flying broom!
"My initial idea was a tiger as they are great-looking animals, but he never got past the sketch phase. He was deemed a bit too much of a ‘hero’ when all of my past characters were more like underdogs. We even tried a witch and a broom with eyes at one point!"
I wonder what the villain will be. Would it be an animal? Probs so, but which one?
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I can see this reaching over 5 million and that low balling it.
No, that's grossly overestimating it by several million.
I don't think so in the slightest. Looking at the project and the people behind it this is lightening in a bottle. Didn't mighty number nine get close to 2 million?
Extreme low balling, as it turned out. Mighty No. 9 hit about $700k in two days, averaged $120k per day, and then finished at $3.8mil after one month. If Yooka-Laylee follows the same trend, it will average $340k per day and be at about $10.8mil after a month. The campaign is 45 days long.
You aren't supposed to count your chickens before they hatch, but I think it's a safe bet. Based on how pledges have trickled in the past weeks, it looks like this game will top out at or below $3 million USD.
I don't know how you managed to predict that YL would buck the trend and completely nosedive in pledges after the first 3 days, but damn, you'd make a killing at a Blackjack table!
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I don't know how you managed to predict that YL would buck the trend and completely nosedive in pledges after the first 3 days, but damn, you'd make a killing at a Blackjack table!
Since in the quote above you stated YL may reach $10 mil based on it averaging $340K a day, I'd have to say both your math skills and understanding of how Kickstarters work have both greatly improved. Congrats @NirvanaJr!
Bloodstained ran a better campaign with superior rewards, but I don't think it affected how much YL took in. They are both completely different types of games with different fan bases. YL benefited from the massive fanboy donations in the first couple days, but after that they fell off a cliff. YL was never going to hit $5 million, let alone more than that, and be among the top 10 crowd funded products of all time.
Since in the quote above you stated YL may reach $10 mil based on it averaging $340K a day, I'd have to say both your math skills and understanding of how Kickstarters work have both greatly improved. Congrats @NirvanaJr!
$10mil was always a long shot and I never implied otherwise. Your fantasy narrative that I was certain of an astronomical, unprecedented success was spun entirely in your silly chest-thumping bet, which I dismissed entirely:
I don't want your money, but feel free to just pledge 50 bucks to the KS.
Take another look at that graph though. The red line is not "how Kickstarters work." The funding completely collapsed and it performed unlike any other major game KS. If the campaign was managed as well as MN9 or Bloodstained, there was no reason that YL could not have passed $5mil.
This is your special moment though, so I'll let you get your rocks off this time.
So Anakin kneels before Monster Mash and pledges his loyalty to the graveyard smash.
Since in the quote above you stated YL may reach $10 mil based on it averaging $340K a day, I'd have to say both your math skills and understanding of how Kickstarters work have both greatly improved. Congrats @NirvanaJr!
$10mil was always a long shot and I never implied otherwise. Your fantasy narrative that I was certain of an astronomical, unprecedented success was spun entirely in your silly chest-thumping bet, which I dismissed entirely:
I don't want your money, but feel free to just pledge 50 bucks to the KS.
Take another look at that graph though. The red line is not "how Kickstarters work." The funding completely collapsed and it performed unlike any other major game KS. If the campaign was managed as well as MN9 or Bloodstained, there was no reason that YL could not have passed $5mil.
This is your special moment though, so I'll let you get your rocks off this time.
You did imply though that the game would make more than $5 million, which it didn't come close to. I said from the start that the game wouldn't come close to 5 million and my opinion never changed. I think with my brain, not with my heart.
Why did Bloodstain do to steal thunder? Made by Castlevania devs, Female character pander, Sweet artstyle, old game basically being brought back to life? Or just Yooka-Laylee never had the thunder to take it further than any of the other kickstarters.
I know for fact that Yooka-Laylee caught only the eyes of the original Rare game's fans, compared to Castlevania having made more games and across many platforms.
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What's weird is the amount of backers may actually eclipse all those games. I'm guessing they set the main package everyone was after far too low. Bloodstain got crazy money from far few backers.
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MERG said:
If I was only ever able to have Monster Hunter and EO games in the future, I would be a happy man.
This still has 9 days to go, by the by. I'd give it a week before declaring that the funding has run out (not that it matters, the only have one more stretch goal, and it's not an important one). Quite frankly, I'm actually quite happy they kept things realistic as far as the stetch goals go. I don't want something like Shovel Knight, where it releases with a fraction of the promised stretch goals, and even after a year, we still haven't seen much of those released. Or worse yet, something like Hyper Light Drifter, where they promised too many stretch goals, and it's been over a full year since they promised to release the game, with still no end date in sight.
The thing about Yoka-Laylee is that they didn't go crazy with more and more stretch goals. In my book, that's excellent; too many stretch goals can dillute a development cycle needlessly, even if they help projects get more pledges during the campaign. As an example, Yacht Club Games still has a LOT of promised stuff to deliver for Shovel Knight, over a year after it was released, and at this point I'd really rather they were already working on their next game instead. Basically, I expect Playtonic to deliver a pristine campaign day one, and then not spend the next two or three years iterating on the same game.
And here's the thing about Bloodstained: their $60 tier for physical games was a stroke of genius. This is probably what sent the average pledge through the roof there. Just take a look: they've amassed more money than YL at this point, yet YL has some 20,000 more backers.
Is that the frst we've seen of the hub world? I think it is, and it looks amazing! Super atmospheric, totally reminiscent of similar places on Banjo-Kazooie and DK64.
Is that the frst we've seen of the hub world? I think it is, and it looks amazing! Super atmospheric, totally reminiscent of similar places on Banjo-Kazooie and DK64.
24 hours to go and it's already past the 3 million US Mark and closing in on 2 million£. Looks like it will make that final total. Can't wait to see what the show at E3!
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MERG said:
If I was only ever able to have Monster Hunter and EO games in the future, I would be a happy man.
With PayPal it's already crossed the goal-line. I guess we've gotta wait until tomorrow to see what's up at E3.
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