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Shoutouts to hat monsters, sexual deviants and ponies. The Skullgirls fanbase definitely didn't do this alone.

It is the best, and you guys have no idea how happy this made me.

This was your whole plan along, wasn't it?

That's how I feel sorta, well about the cast. I only like one character in the original roster... all the archtypes I like are stuck in concept form.

I can respect that. I like the original eight, but some of these designs are amazing aesthetically and from a gameplay perspective.

Just said on stream:

Animu Peacock is already funded (was a "secret" $650k stretch goal). 700k gets us "Real Soviet" Announcer pack.

EDIT: Hey Rich Brown.

I like that they still go out of their way to remind us that we're getting extra stuff. I would have just forgotten lol.

Shoutouts to Mike Z stating his ideas for some stuff he wants Beowulf to do.

Paraphrased because its like 4 am and I can't remember verbatim.
"I really want him to just unfold his chair and sit on it and then spank someone."

"He could throw the chair like Cap's shield then he could have to go pick it up, but if he does a throw or something and they hit the chair it could do more damage."

"He could have top rope moves like if he did the move off the chair."

"I reaaaaally like the idea that if you choose him as a tag partner that he doesn't go offscreen. That he is on screen sitting on his chair and you have to go over to him and like actually tag him and he could all do the high five tag in and stuff."

Very unique stuff in there. Especially the tagging out stuff.

Someone should see what is going on and fund a sequel at some point, especially if this sells well on Steam.

Skullgirls is more about the fandom than the game, they should branch it out into non-fighters.

I've felt that there was a lot more to this IP and it's fanbase than meets the eye. It's only held back by money. The thing that makes the world go spin.

BTW, on Twitter:

On which we have these rather awesome avatar-material promo shots of four of the possible choices!

Awesome art is awesome

Hey, so just a heads up for those who may have forgotten the community forums are even a thing: Skullgirls |OT| New age of Heroines

Props to SolarPowered for bothering to maintain the OP for so long despite
-Being relegated to the community ghetto
-Most people not reading the OP

I forgot to update for the JP release, but I've been waiting for the campaign to be over before adding the stuff we got from there.

Against MVG though? Prepare your anus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VId7EOTTOSw

Holy fuck, I submit to the power of Bronies

They are real and they are powerful. I bet we could have had the eighth character locked had the goal been higher.

Another heads up for NYC peeps:

https://www.facebook.com/events/316797948442917/

Team St1ckbug will be having an event this Saturday at Next Level that'll include tournaments for a bunch of games (P4A, GG, VSav, etc.). If enough people show up for Skullgirls, then they'll also stream that. So, consider giving that a look if you don't have any Saturday plans.

Will it be on Xbox or Playstation? I only really play on the DS3 and DS2 nowadays.

6k to finish.... if people were insane we'd get to 825k, we need this game to become huge

I really wonder if we'll get Skullgirls 2 or this game will just keep updating forever, I really hope the PC version gets more support and makes the game popular(I'd sacrifice the console versions if it meant constant updates and balancing), it's sad to play on PSN and to wait 10 minutes for a match.

These closed platforms hurt small games the most. If the fanbase had at least one cross platform option the community would be better off. Only the CoDs, Halos and Battlefields have the size to maintain a healthy online playerbase, I think.

Why not do a second donation drive after all the content is completed? So many great characters to choose from.

Ravi and the team should consider something like this, but maybe with their website or something. Maybe make three tiers with the highest having some physical swag and adding a counter to the 850k they need for a fifth character. I think we'll be so close by the end that it'll be worth a try. At least 825k would get us another mystery character and the game needs as many characters as possible.

I'm loving all the fan art

I love this lol. Fighting games and Carl Sagan. Only in Skullgirls could you get this.

Umm what?

A klutzy, fish princess, waitress.

vs

Gothic loli maid with a vacuum made of bones

I'd say they're both pretty unique lol.

The ponies will celebrate anyways!

They'll be partying in Equestria tonight. That much is for sure.

Holy shit. We made it. Hopefully Mane6 puts the Z-Engine to good use.

And Robo-Fortune, m'yeah.

Am I the only one who feels like 825k is within the realm of possibility?

It's possible. Anything is possible for this campaign, it seems.

Hire David Hayter to voice Annie.

He should voice Sagan. It'd be perfect. Sol Badguy archetype fighting with a partner that has David Hayter as the VA? Gimme

It's been ridiculous for... approximately 30 days.

The best description for this campaign from start to finish.

NSFW

Aeon already has my vote

Datass.jpg

Umbrella's disguise is so cuuuuute. :3

As much as I like this, I don't really want to do it again, either.

From a business standpoint, it's an incredibly inefficient way to get money, so I think it should only be used as a last resort.

I would really feel bad about needing to continue asking our fans for money, too. We are absolutely thrilled that they've supported us like this and even say they would happily do it again, but I think the best thing we could do for them would be to get stable and independent.

True words

Don't feel too bad though. There is a good reason this campaign continues to break EVERY SINGLE EXPECTATION in front of it. It's because you guys give us a product that no one else in the industry can. It's an amalgation of the best fighting games have to offer in animation, technical prowess, gameplay(opinions, how do they work?), online smoothness and most important... it's freaking new instead of the fifteenth installment of a series we've been playing since we were 7.

Hopefully you'll be in a better place a year from now, though.

Yeah, all of that will be handled once the campaign ends.

I've actually got a question now that I think about it. You are using Survey Monkey, right? Would you like to take this chance to ask some people questions directly? This seems like a golden opportunity to mine your fanbase and newcomers for data on what they'd like to see from the game(or you guys) in the future whether it has to do with more characters or completely new games, etc.

I remember watching the Defense Grid 2 KS youtube video and them being excited by the prospect of 6000 people to communicate with. Seems to me like you have a golden opportunity here from the very start.

If we reach the 2nd character the hype will be insane.

Everybody has to chip in this time. If just 1000 people up their contributions by $50 that would be 50k. If 2000 people upped $25 it'd be the same. I think you catch my drift.

I already put a hundo in. Thinking of upping to $150 for the official CD.

 

[The Grim Heaper]

I might go ahead and upgrade my contribution to the $50/$56 tier. We shall see!

 

[alstein]

I wish I could risk chipping in more right now, but I just can't.

 

[DR2K]

742k 10 hours left. Oh my.

 

[Pirabear]

Will anime Peacock's dialog be similar to the award winning writing found in the Kawaiikochan tumblr a few pages back?

 

[Maztorre]

Hey Ravidrath, adding onto my previous contribution to go up to the Booster tier, when I'm donating I don't pick a perk and then message you or leave a comment on indiegogo to combine my contributions, right?

 

[VXLbeast]

Minette is the only choice. I want to see her animated so bad.

 

[Delusibeta]

Will anime Peacock's dialog be similar to the award winning writing found in the Kawaiikochan tumblr a few pages back?

Talking about that...

https://twitter.com/Skullgirls/status/317016815966515200
https://twitter.com/Skullgirls/status/317025147557146624

 

[Magna_Mixalis]

I wish I could risk chipping in more right now, but I just can't.

I feel your pain. Still debating whether to go nuts and just go all-in for a cel... I have a few hours to ponder yet...

And before I forget, a shout-out to our Equine-inclined friends for pushing things over the edge into Crazyville; I guess the muscle car folks are right: you can never have too much horsepower...

I'll stop now.

 

[Moonlight]

NSFW

Aeon already has my vote

Umbrella absolutely makes this picture, hahaha.

I seriously can't believe this campaign. The more I think about it, the more it just blows my mind. Yesterday, I was sure that we'd only just skate past 725k, if we did at all. Now I'm getting dangerously close to swearing that this will make the fifth character target. I've straight up caught Skullgirls fever.

I'd bump up to the fifty dollar tier if I had the funds to spare, but all I can do is sit here and watch that donation counter fly up. And goddamn, is it flying.

 

[VariantX]

Come on, robo fortune stage! 8 hrs to go, we can make it!

 

[wildfire]

I feel your pain. Still debating whether to go nuts and just go all-in for a cel... I have a few hours to ponder yet...

And before I forget, a shout-out to our Equine-inclined friends for pushing things over the edge into Crazyville; I guess the muscle car folks are right: you can never have too much horsepower...

I'll stop now.

There were people who were organizing to pool money to get Angel and Archangle tiers and split up the rewards. It was being coordinated through the official skullheart forums which crashed and are still down.

Maybe one of these fine chaps can point you in the right direction to find them.

You could also ask on mbit.

http://client00.chat.mibbit.com/?channel=#skullgirls&server=irc.mizuumi.net

 

[Ravidrath]

Hey Ravidrath, adding onto my previous contribution to go up to the Booster tier, when I'm donating I don't pick a perk and then message you or leave a comment on indiegogo to combine my contributions, right?

Correct.

 

[Magna_Mixalis]

@wildfire: thanks for the heads up, but I'm already down for $156 and am now just deciding whether to just drop the extra $450 or not.

Decisions, decisions...

 

[razgriz417]

So awesome that you guys are getting such support from the fans, hey Rav, will you guys be doing any LIVE streaming of the end of the campaign?

 

[Blueblur1]

Question: How do I donate more and upgrade my tier?

Edit: Nevermind. Question answered above.

 

[DrForester]

Good luck guys. Just pitched in $36 for the basic tier. Thanks for helping the pony-folk.

 

[Maztorre]

Correct.

Thanks for the quick reply! You should see it now if that helps, good luck with the last few hours!

Shoutouts to SolarPowered for convincing me to re-up, lol.

 

[lazybones18]

Straw poll

http://strawpoll.me/12244

 

[Blueblur1]

Correct.

Just leaving a comment on indiegogo is fine, then? Or do I have to send some kind of PM?

 

[Nyoro SF]

Straw poll

http://strawpoll.me/12244

Good way to relieve some voting stress.

 

[Moonlight]

Straw poll

http://strawpoll.me/12244

Woah, Beowulf has way more presence than I thought he would have.

 

[Goroh]

No love for Hubrecht.

 

[Nyoro SF]

Woah, Beowulf has way more presence than I thought he would have.

He looks like a man's man. A hard worker with style.

 

[Azure J]

Straw poll

http://strawpoll.me/12244

Imagine my face earlier when my first 4-pick were the four dominating the top spots on this poll. (Issac, Eliza, Feng and Black Dahlia)

 

[Troubled Bat]

I'm one of the few for Hubrecht.

 

[wildfire]

Straw poll

http://strawpoll.me/12244

On one hand I'm glad I had most of the top 16 pegged. On the other I'm shocked to see Ottomo, let alone Umbrella up there.

It's still preliminary but that is still surprising.

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

wow, a lot of the votes are for male characters, I know that poll doesn't mean jack but it's interesting.

#TeamFENG

 

[Nyoro SF]

The top three in the poll now are men. heh

Edit: Malemind

 

[Busaiku]

.

You're only doing this cause someone called you out on it, right?

 

[bon]

If we hit $825000 can they really afford to do another mystery character AND Robofortune?

 

[SupaNaab]

Sample size for that poll will be waaaaay to small. Lots of people have that $1 vote. That poll will only confuse and detract from accruing more donations for a 2nd fan vote char.

 

[TDLink]

wow, a lot of the votes are for male characters, I know that poll doesn't mean jack but it's interesting.

#TeamFENG

I think the amount of people who actually wanted this to remain a female only fighter was a pretty small minority. More males (especially "cool" looking ones) increases the possible audience for this game. Big Band already opened the floodgates anyways as well.

3 out of my 4 votes are male too personally. (Stanley, Panzerfaust, Brain Drain, and Eliza)

 

[DR2K]

If we hit $825000 can they really afford to do another mystery character AND Robofortune?

225K for a character and a reskin seems quite doable. If we go by the 150K per character requirement.

 

[Nyoro SF]

Sample size for that poll will be waaaaay to small. Lots of people have that $1 vote. That poll will only confuse and detract from accruing more donations for a 2nd fan vote char.

Actually the bigger problem is that I can see the results right away. Easy to game with others.

 

[Master Milk]

225K for a character and a reskin seems quite doable. If we go by the 150K per character requirement.

There's no reason to go by the 150 per character requirement, though. None.

 

[wildfire]

I just realized Hive is missing from that list.

 

[Troubled Bat]

If we do get the second 'mysterious' character, i'm pretty suhre it'll be, given to whoever ends up in secondh place for the vote on the first character.

 

[AAK]

Common guys, this game doesn't need more combo machines like feng, Isaac, Eliza, Aeon, and Venus. We got another zoner with squiggly, let's get that Panzerfaust for the sake of gameplay variety

 

[wildfire]

Sample size for that poll will be waaaaay to small. Lots of people have that $1 vote. That poll will only confuse and detract from accruing more donations for a 2nd fan vote char.

The sample size is large enough. The actual flaws are that 1. Hive is missing. 2. Aside from Neogaf and mbit we don't know who else is voting so it isn't representative of all the different communities that are funding this drive.

 

[Ultimadrago]

It seems Leviathan is blowing some of that fire now.

I like!

 

[Huw_Dawson]

For the record, clipping masks are fun.

EDIT: Alternate caption

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

750K REACHED, we're finally against the FINAL BOSS

75K more in 8 hours

 

[lazybones18]

WE'VE REACHED $750K!!!

 

[Nyoro SF]

Someone just cracked out 2500. We are in for the whole ride. TWO FAN VOTED CHARS LET'S GO!

 

[Mr. Fix]

WE'VE REACHED $750K!!!

So close to that 2nd pick. ._.

 

[DR2K]

There's no reason to go by the 150 per character requirement, though. None.

Other than the fact that seems to be the asking price per character.

 

[LuffyZoro]

Call me pessimistic, but I don't think we can get the necessary $172/min for a 5th character.

 

[SupaNaab]

Call me pessimistic, but I don't think we can get the necessary $172/min for a 5th character.

Better start hitting up every forum you know of. Spread the word.

 

[SolarPowered]

1)Beowulf
2)Annie
3)Panzerfaust
4)Feng

I hope to God I don't have to pick between Panzerfaust and Beowulf at the end. It'll be Big O vs Smackdown. We better get that 825k!