he may have started something http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/355932838/crowdsourced-hardcore-tactical-shooter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2
Yea... i think i was reading that he was speculating a 20 million budget to make Psychonauts 2. That's a lot of money! I dunn think Notch can afford that much... or everyone for that matter.
I wonder if we keep going will Schafer agree to not only make that game but also promise that Psychonauts 2 gets made too. I'm right in thinking this is for a completely original game right?
I think your totally right. With a month left, I wonder how high this is going to get. Jeez, they could probably fund psychonauts 2 without notch. I wonder if any other studios are going to try kickstarter now. I can just see it, Madden 2013 kickstarter project.
As far as Bioware goes, it's not within EA's interest that they'll go do that, it's actually not within any publishers interest, nor is there any point for a company to try to grab $2 million on kickstarter when they can grab $50 million from a publisher. It'll be independant(as in not owned by a publisher) game studios…
what it think is really pushing it over the top is tim shafer and ron gilbert's name attached. this kind of model seems to work (minecraft, overgrowth, natural selection 2 etc.). problem is i can see it one day someone going to promise big and completely fail to deliver, or deliver the game and find out that the…