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UPDATE:

Hi y'all. Derek Sneed here.

I'm going full out into Deshori's development.

HELP THIS GAME SHINE LIKE ... a. um. LIGHT. SHINE LIKE A BEAUTIFUL LIGHT!

I'd like to not go homeless and I know I have the ability to make this game special.

Help me out if you can. If not, please help spread the word.

Derek Sneed, Signing out. Peace.

[Ashkin]

Hrrrrrrrgh I need to donate to this.
YOU DESERVE IT BECAUSE YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.

[Okkwogg]

This looks really interesting! I really really love immersive exploration games like these.
You have a new backer now.

[delete me]

64$. Take it sir. 

I look forward to this greatly.

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Wow! thanks TIGpeeps! I'm super surprised I got any backers at all.

oh hey. I found a weird draw bug.







I thought it was pretty.

[Belimoth]

oh hey. I found a weird draw feature.

Fixed.

[shojin]

This looks so awesome. If only you didn't already have music covered... I'd love to do the soundtrack for this. Poo.

Looking forward to more.

[Chris Pavia]

oh hey. I found a weird draw feature.

Fixed.

+1

[gimymblert]

maybe if could document us about this bug feature 

[Ashkin]

Hey, have you considered e-mailing indiegames.com or some such website about your game? This seems just the kind of thing they'd want to blog about, which would mean more traffic for your Kickstarter, which means more money and more chance of getting this done!

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@Gimmy:

Scale something in on itself so that it's inverted, everytime the camera looks at it this will happen. The cool, almost-painted lines in the sky are the trails from the snow particles. I'm sure you could get even cooler effects if you planned it out.

@Ashkin:

I sent two absolutely embarrassing emails to Derek Yu in hopes of feature on tigs' front page. It was if I was drunk or something. Horrible. horrible...
And I sent a somewhat professional email to The Indie Games Blog. No response from either of them.
I am now writing an email to the editor of the Video Game section of Wired.com...

I wonder if the Kickstarter was a bad idea?

[Ashkin]

I wonder if the Kickstarter was a bad idea?

I see no reason to think that.

Good luck with the press.

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Just sent the email to Wired. got an auto response back

...The [email protected] email address is mostly a repository for all
the spam and hate mail that comes in from the four corners of the
internet.

While I do check it, it is quite possible that your message may be
lost in the hundreds and hundreds of junk emails that come in...

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Yeah, ha. I've been trying to ignore the Kickstarter as much as possible and just focus on the game (new trailer with new, cool stuff coming soon!), because just thinking about it gets me all worked up and I put energy into the wrong places.

EDIT: oh duh.

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ohhhh... I see.

Well the problem there is that Kickstarter locks out the rewards once someone has donated at that level. so... as of right now... Every level is locked out.

[deathtotheweird]

I wonder if the Kickstarter was a bad idea?

Yeah, didn't I already say that it was? My advice not good enough?

You have more chances of succeeding in Kickstarter if you are well known in a community, or have made something in the past that was well received. You are neither well known in a community nor have you made anything in the past. I haven't seen many (or any) Kickstarter's that were successfully funded when neither of those criteria are met.

Perhaps if your promotional video was more than just you plopping down Unity's first person prefab and walking around with terrain that looks like you spent a total of 10 minutes on. Other than the fact you chose some pretty colors and messed with the fog settings a little, it looks like you did little else. You walking around a colorful landscape isn't enough for me to want to reach into my pocket and put some money down.

You should have waited until you had actual content to demonstrate, at least on the simplest terms, what your game is going to be like. Otherwise, as it appears to me, you just have a decent idea and only a limited understanding of how games (and games development) work. Added to the fact you mention you need a decent coder, why would anyone want to help fund this?

I wish you luck, but you should have listened to my advice earlier. Probably would have saved you a bit of time and anguish.

[namragog]

I wonder if the Kickstarter was a bad idea?

blahblahblah

That is a kind of aggressive bunch of paragraphs you have there. I think you should either revise what you wrote, or not say anything at all. Personally, I don't think that the kickstarter was a bad idea at all.

[delete me]

I agree with namarog here. Its not like peanutbuttershoes was asking for an annual salary's worth of income, hes looking for enough to help him move the project. If you find his game unimpressive, his efforts lacking, or his experience insufficient, you have a fabulous option available to you:

Don't fund him, hater.

Not to say I don't like you Allen, but please keep the negativity out of devlogs, this is where its needed the least.

[namragog]

I agree with namarog here. Its not like peanutbuttershoes was asking for an annual salary's worth of income, hes looking for enough to help him move the project. If you find his game unimpressive, his efforts lacking, or his experience insufficient, you have a fabulous option available to you:

Don't fund him, hater.

Not to say I don't like you Allen, but please keep the negativity out of devlogs, this is where its needed the least.

This

[deathtotheweird]

That is a kind of aggressive bunch of paragraphs you have there. I think you should either revise what you wrote, or not say anything at all. Personally, I don't think that the kickstarter was a bad idea at all.

you must really be a cynical person if what I wrote seemed aggressive. I was joking in the part about not taking my advice, if that's your problem. can you pinpoint me specific things you take issue with? otherwise this sort of vague generalize nonsense is unnecessary. I gave good reasoning as to why I think the Kickstarter was a bad idea. You give zero reasoning as to why you think it's a good idea and fail to refute my reasoning. Which post is more helpful? Which post is the troll? (hint: you are the troll and your post is unhelpful)

if what I said is untrue I would be more than willing to revise what I said. he asked a question ("I wonder if the Kickstarter was a bad idea?") and I answered it. Don't call me a hater or attack my tone, that fails to address anything I've said. I wished him luck and gave him damn good advice, and yet I'm being called a hater? I even said his game was a good idea, but what he has isn't a game nor a prototype.

If you find his game unimpressive, his efforts lacking, or his experience insufficient, you have a fabulous option available to you:

Don't fund him, hater.

What is your deal? My post was a direct response his question, it's not like I randomly came out of the blue to shit on his plan and to explain why I won't fund him. If he didn't want the answer then he shouldn't have asked the question. Point to me, in my post, where I said any of those things. Or better yet don't, because I already know you pulled those out of your ass and I don't give a fuck what you think.

I'm not here to coddle him and say "oh your game is great it was a great idea, you're so talented" blahblah. I'm here to tell the truth. I'm sorry if he doesn't like the answer but that's not my problem. It's not me hating or me being negative, it's me telling him what I see.

His game is a fine idea, but that's all I see right now. A fine idea and a 10 minute thing in Unity. Which is okay, every one starts somewhere. All I was saying is that it was a bad idea to start a Kickstarter having not even finished a prototype of the game. I don't see how that's negative or me hating on him, and that was a direct and valid response to his question.
 
If you guys are going to go around in circles attacking me without proper reasoning, you can fuck off. You can't troll me that easily.