I don't know about most game kickstarters because I tend to ignore them, but this one has some very good prep work done, good concept, nice tech demos (video, but whatever), and superb artwork. But then the initial funding goal of $250,000 makes no sense to me. The people involved are clearly capable enough to earn $75k/year in Massachusetts, probably a lot more. Given the costs of developing something like this you'd burn through $250k in nothing flat. What then?
Now if this were two guys saying they could get the game rough and ready in one year, I'd be more convinced. But they have a lot of mouths to feed.
Or maybe if they're all in art school or something.
They need to be more concrete about their plan. If it's "we will make this thing or die trying, and we'll ship in one year and we're eating ramen until we ship" then it might be convincing. But it seems too polished for that, so I'm thinking this is a hobby, and they'll take the $250k and diddle around for three years.
But they're not even going to get $250k at this rate so it's all academic.
Now if this were two guys saying they could get the game rough and ready in one year, I'd be more convinced. But they have a lot of mouths to feed.
Or maybe if they're all in art school or something.
They need to be more concrete about their plan. If it's "we will make this thing or die trying, and we'll ship in one year and we're eating ramen until we ship" then it might be convincing. But it seems too polished for that, so I'm thinking this is a hobby, and they'll take the $250k and diddle around for three years.
But they're not even going to get $250k at this rate so it's all academic.