I sent a message to the dev of
Orphan about marketing and its reward tiers. It ends during GDC week which is worrying. Hopefully the developer may do a reboot if it fails. I'll probably offer to help optimize the rewards for that.
Project Scissors is going into its final 48 hours. There is a big brute force push to get it funded. It ends late at 11:59PM PST on a Sunday when many backers won't be expected to be awake for the final countdown. The average pledge per backer is a horrifying $150.56 per backer. It should be close to $50 per backer. Right now it only has 1,964 backers. It still has 1,384 slots open on the early-bird tier. The rewards are a mess. It doesn't even have a tier around the $100 price point, just a jump from $75 to $120. It has shot up with 9 $10,000 backers and 6 $5,000 ($120,000) which means 40.6% of the funding depends on just 15 backers. I keep noticing the same problems again and again from the big Japanese project creators. I may have to add a section to my guide just about this.
Spooky Poo's HAPPY HELL has an interesting art style.
Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire feels to me like a mix of
The Banner Saga with a premise like a 1980s sci-fi movie on VHS.
Mainframe is a horror game with some good use of shadows and camera perspective. There is a lot wrong with the execution of the project itself from the timing to rewards to presentation and ambition.
Unraveled is an RPG with some better than expected presentation. It has ship-breaking as part of its setting.
Infernax is another hype 90s pitch like
STRAFE had.
Darkest Dungeon continues to be an example of early-access on Steam done right. Even in its limited state the experience is worth the asking price.
I'm soon going to have more than 250 pages and have already exceeded 100,000 words with my Kickstarter guide. Recently I've been asking more for project creators to preview me some of their e-mails for contacting press to critique. I now see that I need to cover a lot about how to write to press in my guide. One big idea is not wasting a blogger's time with information they won't be regurgitating in the blog post and won't be able to make interesting comments on. What shocks me even more is seeing that they don't mention their projects existing traction (Backers/pledges) when the messages are about the final 48-hours approaching. A blogger might not know if 50% funded mean $1,000 or $50,000 if only a percentage is given.
