{"id":1683,"date":"2012-02-10T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2012-02-10T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T09:06:25","slug":"the-kickstarter-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2012\/02\/10\/the-kickstarter-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The kickstarter reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great to see a game get made that could not be made because a publisher would not fund it, made real because actual real gamers, who are the whole reason for everything, stepped up and pledged the money. It&#8217;s great news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2012\/02\/09\/double-fine-kickstarter\/\">http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2012\/02\/09\/double-fine-kickstarter\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But this is not *the* new publishing model, far from it. RPS noted that the developers &#8216;don&#8217;t have a publisher breathing down their necks&#8217;. Really? Maybe they have 10,000 publishers now, impatient, possibly wanting contradictory stuff (almost definitely&#8230;in fact), and not restrained by the politeness of scheduled milestone meetings behind closed doors. I hope it goes well, but it could get messy.<\/p>\n<p>Plus the developer is boxed into a corner, they know exactly what they have to do with that money. This is not always a good thing. I ship maybe half the games I start. Gratuitous Tank Battles was not the game I intended to make. I intended to make a life-sim game, then abandoned it to make an RTS, then it morphed into GTB.<\/p>\n<p>What if kickstarter had funded subversion? the game that introversion admit &#8216;didn&#8217;t work&#8217; when they actually got half way through development. Would they have had to plough ahead, and ship a game they fundamentally knew was broken? Not a good position to be in.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah I know&#8230; I&#8217;m mr doom and gloom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great to see a game get made that could not be made because a publisher would not fund it, made real because actual real gamers, who are the whole reason for everything, stepped up and pledged the money. It&#8217;s great news. http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2012\/02\/09\/double-fine-kickstarter\/ But this is not *the* new publishing model, far from it. RPS<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; The kickstarter reality<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2012\/02\/10\/the-kickstarter-reality\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}