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Holy One
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Posted - 2012.11.06 22:22:00 -
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-ú300 pledged. 20 years overdue. Get in. |
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Posted - 2012.11.08 17:24:00 -
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Freakdevil wrote:I wish them well. It has zero chance.
Braben is an extremely intelligent man who has built a successful business and kept it going and expanding in a terrible economic climate - the tech industry in the UK get **** access to credit, has no government incentives or subsidies and has to pay better salaries and more tax/contributions than other nations. He's done very well to keep them running and growing year on year.
He's a Cambridge grad, a very well connected individual with going on 25 years experience in the gaming industry and is involved in a great many tech projects nationally. Including the phenomenally successful Raspberry Pi project. Of which he is a founder and trustee.
Frontier: Elite II was written in quarter of a million lines of assembler code and blew everyone away with the first real use of polygon graphics, anywhere, ever. It had the entire milky way procedurally generated and included amazing **** like seamless planetary/space transition. Something even Eve can't do.
Every single Elite title was screwed with by the publishers. Braben is way too savvy to go down that road again. He's been nagged daily for almost 15 years to make Elite IV. He's never committed himself or his business to it. He is being completely sincere when he says Kickstarter offers an amazing way to not only get support for an independent project, but to also guage the level of interest in and the market viability of such a project.
To come on and say 'it has no chance' shows how misinformed you are tbh. This man knows his **** and has spent a lifetime, probably longer than you've been alive, building and delivering profitable games.
The project has already hit -ú350k in 3 days. It will easily meet its target of $2m. Nobody knows better how to design and deliver Elite IV and he is the past master of procedural content and tech + game design. For these reasons, and many more, I pledged my money. I know I won't be disappointed. |
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Posted - 2012.11.09 18:48:00 -
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mrrNlml4Ibk |
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Posted - 2012.11.14 07:46:00 -
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Actually had the pleasure of a chat with Mr. Braben on more than one occassion and he's always said that he wanted a single player game with multiplayer elements to lead to a full blown mmo. The hold-up, according to him, has never been cash per se. Its been technology. Broadband proliferation and the relative stagnation of console hardware has created a nice little plateau for innovation and ambitious ideas to actually see the light of day in developmental terms, before they are effectively 'too old for school' on release.
I can't think of many games that will have been mulled and mulled and mulled over and over in a very smart man's mind for 15+ years. But this one is certainly going to benefit from years of carefully weighed ideas. |
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Posted - 2012.11.16 03:24:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:Holy One wrote:Actually had the pleasure of a chat with Mr. Braben on more than one occassion and he's always said that he wanted a single player game with multiplayer elements to lead to a full blown mmo. Did he metion EVE at all? What he thinks of it? I was concearned in the pitch that he doesnt even seem aware of the last 10 years of space MMO development. He seemed dead excited when he said "It's going to be MULTIPLAYER!" - Like he'd just come up with a new concept. It didnt sound like he's looking to do an Elite MMO at all.
This was before Eve.  I don't think its appropriate to comment on a ten year old conversation in relation to a new project tbh. Wouldn't be fair. Here's how he's thinking tho: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iTBvpd3_Vqk
You can see the benefit of a bloody good education in this sort of stuff. |
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Posted - 2012.11.16 22:43:00 -
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We'll just have to wait and see. It seems to be an unfortunate time to launch a kickstarter, leading in to and covering the christmas period.
I think I'd like the multiplayer to be along the line of dayz private hive setups. That'd be ace. |
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Posted - 2012.11.29 23:55:00 -
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Yup, its creaking along towards the target. Can they double their money in the most spendy month of the year tho? 
On a side note, has anyone considered spending 5k or so making an amazing tech demo and some concept art then running off with the half a mill idiots give you on kickstarter with no conditions? |
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