I believe that Notch is the $10,000 donor.
Yes. Core represent. Arm did have Brawlers, though.
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Planetary Annihilation Kickstarter by Uber Entertainment [Ended, $2.33M funded]
- Thread starter crimsonheadGCN
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Brawlers were the shit. Great for taking out advancing armies.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Passed the half way point now.
AppleSmack
Banned
Agreed. The epic scale reminds me of Spore. The game seemed totally awesome in previews but was pretty mediocre in practice. I just hope Planetary Annihilation can live up to its hype.
They are apparently expanding upon Supreme Commander's ability to use multiple viewports/monitors, each one independently zoomable, and with the ability to control units from any one of them. I have a feeling that it will be fine, but it will be interesting to see how they make it work on one monitor - perhaps some form of base hotbar where you can assign icons to your different bases and click one and have the view snap to that location.
Perhaps a flexible picture-in-picture system.
Hahahaha, multi-monitors sounds pretty awesome. You have your main screen, and have 4 mini-screens on each of your 2 side monitors. Just click on a side view to switch it with your main monitor. So at any one time, you can keep tabs of 9 different areas (for example). Hehehehehehe. Info overload!
Hahahaha, multi-monitors sounds pretty awesome. You have your main screen, and have 4 mini-screens on each of your 2 side monitors. Just click on a side view to switch it with your main monitor. So at any one time, you can keep tabs of 9 different areas (for example). Hehehehehehe. Info overload!
Yeah. Multi-monitors were nice in Supreme Commander, but they could definitely be improved upon. It sounds like that's exactly what they're aiming to do, so I guess we'll see how it turns out. Are you a member of the uber forums? They have a PA section and are currently interfacing with fans about the game, if you'd like to join in on the conversation.
Music artist will need a lot of work to beat TA jasper work. It's fucking amazing
Pledged 20$
Love concept of the game and they know what was awesome about TA. Question is will they have skills to create it on that level.
Pledged 20$
Love concept of the game and they know what was awesome about TA. Question is will they have skills to create it on that level.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
535,000 dollars!
We're getting there!
I hope that the planetary systems will be complex, not just 2-3 objects you jump between.
We're getting there!
I hope that the planetary systems will be complex, not just 2-3 objects you jump between.
Unfair.
Northwest Sinfonia Orchestra vs low budget composer's synth equipment.
I mean, TA still sounds way better than anything Jeremy Soule is churning out nowadays, anyway.
Man, I fucking love the TA soundtrack.
They've mentioned having at least half a dozen planets, which means at least half a dozen moons as well, and who knows how many asteroids.
Nah, i didn't say that to say PA need to be better than TA. Just to show, the bar is very high even in music.
As of thread i hope units will be as responsive as in TA.
It's never tiring to watch how brigade of pewee shots from theis mashine guns.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
The asteroid bit in the KS video reel was amazing, if they can get that into the game then I'll be a happy gamer.
jakershaker
Member
It's only multiplayer/skirmish so far right? Will pledge when(if) singleplayer gets announced.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Sounds like it, yeah.
I hope the team based co-op is in there. I also hope they go for varied classes and not just blue/red versions of the same units. Would kill for a new Kingdoms game but this will do fine for me.
Now if you can have extended online games with 16+ players and actually have galaxies of planets with your units on and have massive planet wars, I will be all over it.
Now if you can have extended online games with 16+ players and actually have galaxies of planets with your units on and have massive planet wars, I will be all over it.
Danne-Danger
Member
Liked the mix of varied races while still retaining the leader idea from the first game. I just found it a bit more exciting coming from the first game just using robots. Also the chance in theme gave you more varied maps to play on. Plus I played a load of it co-op with a friend. Great fun handing over units and play 2 races to balance each side out.
I do hope they have the unit mod support from the first game. That would be awesome.
RPG Wizard
Member
...I went from excited to unsure pretty quickly upon looking at that Kickstarter.
I'll watch the preview, and see how I feel. But as it stands, I'm kind of iffy. (Also, the 15 dollar tier sold out? That's irritating. I just found out about this today.)
I'll watch the preview, and see how I feel. But as it stands, I'm kind of iffy. (Also, the 15 dollar tier sold out? That's irritating. I just found out about this today.)
SquiddyCracker
Banned
It is a bit risky as there is no actual gameplay out, as impressive as the video of the kickstarter is I doubt that it's representative of the end-product (in terms of graphic and smoothness of gameplay) but Uber entertainment have put out some good products so hopefully this one will be too.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Passed $600,000, and 23 days are left.
Another update is planned for today. Also, for those who haven't seen it and are curious, there's a semi-official confirmed feature list on Uber's forums.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
From that list, these are the possible stretch-goals:
- Matchmaking
- Naval
- Single player campaign
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Stretch goals!
I think we might reach the first stretch goal, seeing as we're at 626k out of 900k with 23 days left:
I think we might reach the first stretch goal, seeing as we're at 626k out of 900k with 23 days left:
SquiddyCracker
Banned
So in 9 days, they've managed to get $636,743 pledged of $900,000 goal.
There is usually a rush at the start, and a gradual slow-down as the kickstarter continues, for it to be picked up again towards the very end of it.
Regardless, around $70,000 is the daily average, and using that number would make this kickstarter finish at over 2 million dollars.
I think at least the first stretch goal will be reached, and maybe the 2nd and 3rd.
There is usually a rush at the start, and a gradual slow-down as the kickstarter continues, for it to be picked up again towards the very end of it.
Regardless, around $70,000 is the daily average, and using that number would make this kickstarter finish at over 2 million dollars.
I think at least the first stretch goal will be reached, and maybe the 2nd and 3rd.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Over $700,000 with 21 days to go!
They're getting about $70,000 every day now, and considering that there is usually a rush towards the very end of the kickstarter I think we'll see more than one stretch-goal reached.
They're getting about $70,000 every day now, and considering that there is usually a rush towards the very end of the kickstarter I think we'll see more than one stretch-goal reached.
We will see a small decline when the goal is reached though, that always happens.
Still, very good news.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I do hope that they put those stretch goals in a DLC or seperate kickstarter if they aren't reached.
It's such a tease to say that we "might" get this and that awesome feature, only for them to end up not being included in the final product.
Glass Rebel
Member
PA is trending towards ~2m so I hope they'll end up somewhere between 1.5 and 1.7. I hope stretchgoal 3 is a singleplayer campagin.
Cameron122
Member
I hope one of the goals is space combat. They said somewhere that they don't want anything too complicated but I think it would be so very awesome.
This is exactly what I am hoping for too.
I'd rather they not muddy the water too much. TA was great because it follows the KISS method
AngmarsKing701
Member
Makes me want to re-visit TA. Why is it not on Steam?
Danne-Danger
Member
GOG! GOG! GOG! (.com)
jakershaker
Member
Damn, seems like only the MP stretchgoals will be funded. I seem to recall something about an SP campaign possibly being part of the added goals but must be lv 4 or 5. *sad*
Total Annihilation had that many years ago. It was called Boneyards. Every week players sided with either the Core or the Arm and fought for control of a different star system. Mavor has hinted that he'd like to bring it back in some form, I would not be surprised if it was the third stretch goal.
I'm willing to bet it's the final stretch goal, probably around $2,000,000. There's no way it will happen unless an angel investor steps in (or they call in some favors for advertising). We'll be lucky to hit even the second stretch goal at this rate.
I did not know that. The name kinda rings a bell but I don't remember playing that mode. Hopefully they bring it back!
I guess technically the platform it was hosted on was called Boneyards, it was basically Cavedog's online service for TA. The actual metagame was called Galactic War. It wasn't so much a "mode," you played normal skirmishes in it, but like the Chromehounds version that came after, it gave you something greater to strive for than just a skirmish victory. I played the shit out of it back in the day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boneyards