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The Goblin wrote:

Dang man I wasn't sure what that thing was. Sounds sweet. How long I reality does it take to make a game like this? A year and a half? Two years?

Would you like to hear my SERIOUSLY unprofessional oppinion? Note that Mr. Dancey mentions middle-ware. That's your economy, weather effects, etc. THAT is the key. The more middle-ware you can pull off the shelf the faster the turn around. Depending on how much you wrap all that up and how well you blend it, is the question.

If the Beta testers are about Oct (per pledge desc) and Alpha in Jan(again per desc) that hints. Then think PR pump time, after PaizoCon after GenCon if outing it before a Jan 2014.

Now, NOT knowing Ryan's plan, he could go for a post-PaizoCon-straight-download-release-as-you-go and pop something out earlier. Ryan's ambitious, so I wouldn't put it past him or Goblinworks to pull a rabbit out the hole.

AGAIN, just my guess. If it were Blizzard, I would say 2 1/2 if preplanned. THIS is something very different. And I'm happy about that.

Cheers!

They will have a tech demo to show to potential investors in october roughly, give or take a month. They will have people working on getting those investors ponying up cash while working on the game. Now SWToR cost roughly 200 million to make with a middleware engine. I don't expect this game to cost anywhere near that amount but will still cost a pretty penny and time, at least 2 years of development i would say. If alpha starts in January of 2013, then beta would depending on development start somewhere in the range of middle or near the end of 2013.

What is the description of the coins? I must have missed the specifics on what you get for your pledge. Was it in one of the updates?

I really wish they did have more info on the challenge coin they are supposed to have minted, mabe a rough concept drawing or something like that to see what it looks like.

I had a great time watching the money roll in... Especially nice to hang out with some gamers, especially when my family went to sleep. i could only do $50, but it still felt like a shared victory.

aka Kay B.

$5 or $5000, every little bit put us to the over $300k that we got to today :)

Alastar wrote:

Zippered Padfolio: This office organizer is made of textured Ultrahyde. Secure media panel holds an iPad and most other e-readers and tablets. Padfolio comes with 11" x 8.5" writing pad with 30 sheets of lined paper and velcro closure document holder. It has an organizational panel on the back of the media panel holder, perfect for pens or pencils. Padfolio dimensions: 13" x 10.5" x 15/16"

Holy Crap Alastar...you must rename your self "Johnie-on-the-freakin-spot" !

I already had the kickstarter page pulled up looking up the $500 pledge info so it was a matter of just copying and pasting the info :P

Dang man I wasn't sure what that thing was. Sounds sweet. How long I reality does it take to make a game like this? A year and a half? Two years?

It really depends, if they are writing the engine from scratch, that will take the longest to create. If they are using someone else's engine to create the demo then not as long.

Alastar wrote:

I went with the $500 pledge myself. In the end I just had to have the messenger bag, tablet portfolio and granite plaque.

It was just to sweet wasn't it...when I bumped up to it, I was running around like it was freakin Christmas...lol

Yea, i bumped mine with like 2 hours left after just recently bumping up to $250. I was like, i'm happy with 250 then was like, screw that, i want more.

Zippered Padfolio: This office organizer is made of textured Ultrahyde. Secure media panel holds an iPad and most other e-readers and tablets. Padfolio comes with 11" x 8.5" writing pad with 30 sheets of lined paper and velcro closure document holder. It has an organizational panel on the back of the media panel holder, perfect for pens or pencils. Padfolio dimensions: 13" x 10.5" x 15/16"

I went with the $500 pledge myself. In the end I just had to have the messenger bag, tablet portfolio and granite plaque.