[crimsonheadGCN]

The project is a platformer that copies Earthbound sprites and is being made by using a video game programming tutorial. It's about to end its Kickstarter and it has already earned more than its goal of 5,000 dollars.

Here is an article by SomethingAwful about it: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news...ickstarter.php

Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-to-revolution

And here is an excerpt from the Kickstarter page:

The Road to REVOLution is a sidescrolling platformer action/adventure game, reminiscent of console classics like Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog. You play the role of Ron Paul and make your way across all 50 states collecting Gold (sound money) and Delegates. The game is full of original artwork and gameplay mechanics. Indie Game Development at its finest, the game is designed, programmed, conceived, and produced by me, D.S. Williams.

This could potentially be the best example of a Kickstarter that goes wrong.

[Ignis Fatuus]

I encourage all Ron Paul supporters to contribute as much as they can posthaste.

[Scirrocco]

Doesn't he have a Super-pac to pay for this kind of thing?

[Peru]

I've considered making a kickstarter to ban Ron Paul supporters from the internet.

[BHK3]

Why not link the kickstarter in the OP?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-to-revolution

[crimsonheadGCN]

Why not link the kickstarter in the OP? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-to-revolution

I added it, but I don't really want to encourage anyone to invest unless they see how lazy the effort is.

[Kusagari]

Hey, at least this way they won't be wasting their money.

[AppleMIX]

The project is a platformer that copies Earthbound sprites

Sadly it's not the first game to do something like this.

[Father_Brain]

The creator responds:

"The game I'm developing is definitely not a slightly modified version of another game," the game's creator, 27-year-old Daniel Williams of Houston, told BuzzFeed. "It's true that I'm using an open source game engine, but that's not really a wild concept." "It's unfortunate that I had left an early version of the game in an unprotected directory online," Williams added. "Rough drafts are rough. This is just some trolls attempt to find whatever they can to make some noise."

[Tim-E]

Ron Paul supporters love throwing their money away, so it makes sense that this exceeded its goal.

[Omegasquash]

Ron Paul supporters love throwing their money away, so it makes sense that this exceeded its goal.

I like what you did there.

[FLEABttn]

Shouldn't the kickstarter be for gold nuggets or silver or doubloons or something? I mean, this fiat currency isn't fit to wipe his ass with, right?

[JoshuaJSlone]

copies Earthbound sprites

I wouldn't think overhead RPG sprites would come in very useful for a side-scrolling platformer.

[Ignis Fatuus]

The creator responds:

Sounds legit, throw money at him true believers.

[kittens]

Ron Paul is a racist, homophobic, misogynist wing nut piece of shit. I'll only play this game if I can kill him over an over.

[djtiesto]

Ron Paul is a racist, homophobic, misogynist wing nut piece of shit. I'll only play this game if I can kill him over an over.

Oh come on, I'm not a supporter by any means (though I do prefer him to the rest of the republicans) but he's not that bad.

[theBishop]

They should make a game in Ron Paul's Dickensian nightmare. Where you're liberating children from sweatshop work, helping the homeless elderly find something to eat, counterfeiting currency, defending labor organizers against corporate police forces, etc.

But hey, at least pot will be legal. Right!?

[Cheesemeister]

It's about to end it's Kickstarter and it has already earned more than it's goal of 5,000 dollars.

Too many apostrophes! They don't belong with the gender-neutral possessive.

[Tim-E]

Too many apostrophes! They don't belong with the gender-neutral possessive.

It is about to end it is Kickstarter and it has already earned more than it is goal of 5,000 dollars.

[19 & 21]

I'm starting a kickstarter to make a site to compete with kickstarter.


Kickstarter.