$7,590 pledged of $100,000 goal at present.
The crew at Fangamer is cooking up one mean soup:
•An EarthBound Handbook filled with 90's 'TUDE
•A Documentary about EarthBound fandom in the west
•An Album of music by the BAD DUDES
•A Zine filled with fan-made art and stories
Jeff Benson of UbseyMovies, known to fans as one of the main creative forces behind the EB Saga series, is producing a documentary we're calling EarthBound, USA
Mustin and his crew of miscreants, collectively known as the BAD DUDES, have been hard at work on an album of music from the MOTHER series which we're calling the Psychokinetic Album.
To accompany the album, we took submissions for the Psychokinetic Zine, which is an 80-page zine filled with fan-made art and writing. You can check out some of the entries on the Tumblr!
Trailers, music samples and more at the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fangamer/you-are-now-earthbound?ref=nav_search
I know there are a lot of EB fans here on GAF so I thought they might be interested in this.
Also, FYI re: legal stuff:
Q: Is there a legal risk in making this stuff?
A: We're confident that everything we're creating is legally sound.
•All of the music from the Album and the Documentary will be properly licensed.
•Both the Handbook and the Zine will feature original artwork inspired by the MOTHER series -- no official art or logos are being used or commissioned.
•The Handbook will serve a variety of functions, all of which we believe are covered under the umbrella of "fair use": it is simultaneously an educational guide, a critical work which examines details of EarthBound's story, a parody of the game and the 90's environment in which the game was released, and a compilation of facts, techniques, and information gleaned by fans over the past 20 years (e.g. battle techniques, item/character/weapon stats). It will stand alone as a creative work, but it will not function as a replacement for the game's narrative.