Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs

[HailingTheThings]

^ Ahhh!!!

[o.pwuaioc]

http://pling.tableofvisions.com/projekte/show/22/Saber%20Rider%20and%20the%20Star%20Sheriffs%20-%20The%20Game

Arkhan, any idea about their earlier successful crowdfunding campaign that went nowhere?

[Punch]

Oh shit.

[Lost Monkey]

The Pling crowdfunding was addressed on the Kickstarter page - in German:

"I was at this pling that counts yet? (German only)

Yes for sure! The pling-supporters have not been forgotten.
Each Plinger is automatically involved and gets the donated sum to pling automatically be playing with the appropriate Reward of Kickstarter.
In addition, all Plinger be mentioned by name in the credits.
For some this was anyway part of his old Rewards."

[Necromancer]

Great..... did I throw money at vaporware?

[NightWolve]

Saber Riders ridin' off with yo money... Riders gonna ride, after all... 

Nah, I wouldn't worry because a previous fundraiser failed. They got their act better together and just did a much better job this time at presentation (not to my satisfaction, but certainly better than what I see in that old link). I'd worry when you don't start seeing results down the road, for now, just be cautiously optimistic.

[Necromancer]

But the other one didn't fail, it exceeded its goal by more than 50%.  Unless they gave refunds, it's disturbing that it's more than four years later and $20k+ and f*ck all to show for it.

[Punch]

[NightWolve]

Oohhhhh, I saw the final amount and figured it had under-performed. I see... OK, ummm, you have a solid point there now, I'm glad I trusted my initial instincts cause there was too much anime to watch and only a few seconds that go by quick on actual gameplay ideas...

Riders gonna ride, like I said...

[Necromancer]

Riders gonna ride, like I said...

Heh, that makes it all worth it. 

[elmer]

Oohhhhh, I saw the final amount and figured it had under-performed. I see... OK, ummm, you have a solid point there now, I'm glad I trusted my initial instincts cause there was too much anime to watch and only a few seconds that go by quick on actual gameplay ideas...

Ohhhh ... that's what I thought, too. Then after the recent comments I took a look in Google Translate.

That's definitely a bit of a warning sign.

I didn't take too hard a look after I saw that Simon Butler was involved. I've known him long enough that I assumed that he'd checked out the project and found it legit before he put his name on it.

It would be nice to hear a bit more of the project's history from "teamsaberrider".

[Arkhan]

I believe this is because the game was originally this:

and this version didn't pan out, in favor of what we now see.

I believe this project (the current one) has been in planning / works for more than a year, so I would not panic too much.   This sort of thing IS kind of common.  You just don't actually see it because this crowd funding thing is new.

and, the people who Kicked that one seem that they are already getting their pledges moved to the new project.  So, I don't think there's much to panic about.

[NightWolve]

Here's more game play footage of what they're going for:

Jump link: https://youtu.be/6IFC_z8Qyeo?t=51s
And from the video Arkhan linked, you see they were going for a more ambitious 3D game, but have now settled for something more traditional and of course easier to develop.

[HailingTheThings]

[Necromancer]

I'm not panicked in the least (it's $70 for f*cks sake), but I don't have much confidence in them fulfilling their end of the deal, especially since they kept the old campaign a secret.  If four years and $20k resulted in the next to nothing they currently have, what're the odds that they can put together four complete games in 18 months?