I don't know much about it as there really isn't much about it, but they do have a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/armikrog

These guys make great games, so I'm excited for whatever this turns out to be.

Here are some concept art images and stuff:

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Thanks for the heads up, I love Earthworm Jim so I can't wait to see what this will be like. :3

I can't believe that I've just now heard about this. I've been wanting a spiritual successor to Neverhood since... well... The Neverhood. Guess it's time to finally back a Kickstarter.

This might be the first Kickstarter project that I back.

It's too bad that TenNapel is a homophobic asshole.

Yup. I couldn't possibly justify handing him my money given the garbage he's spewed.

Man, this isn't a thing I knew about until now. I'm almost more weirded out by his "America is awesome because it's 78.5% Christian" than the homophobic stuff.

Really?

Really.

It's a shame some people have the inability to separate the art from the artist. Especially when the 'art' is as innocuous as Earthworm Jim and The Neverhood of all things.

@soapy86: I still love Earthworm Jim, I just won't give him money.

Just because someone doesn't believe in gay marriage doesn't make them homophobic, that would be being against homosexuality in general. He is just against the right to marry as he has been brought up religious, people need to respect other peoples opinions on this issue, I for one have no problem with gay marriage because I am not religious and recently my country passed the gay marriage into law, the 3 horsemen didn't come down, or anything that was advertised on the west baptist churches picket signs, but to go after someone that doesn't agree with you is really wrong and no different than what the religious people are doing on the other side of the argument. The guy makes cool games that is all that should matter, do you not watch any Disney properties either because Walt Disney was a huge racist?

So stoked about this, especially after seeing the voice cast here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949537745/armikrog (Michael J. Nelson!). Why did TNP take such a long break from the industry anyway?

The music is being done by Terry S. Taylor.

That was the trump card for me.

"Listen, I'm not racist, I just don't believe in interracial marriage." Also, there's a bit of a difference in supporting Walt Disney since death has put a pretty hard damper on his anti-Semitism. It is good to see though that people seem to be voting with their wallets.

A think a man and a women getting married from different ethnic backgrounds is a lot different than a man marrying a man.

Why would the fact that the guy is not for a homosexual marriage make him homophobic? He doesn't hate them, he just thinks that this institution is very dependant on gender (between man and woman ya know), especially when you consider it a religious ritual. Man, we live in incredibly PC society.

Topic derailed in less than 5 posts, good job.

On topic, I really like his work and his style. He's always had a peculiar vision and I'm glad he's back making games.

If he makes a good game ill play it, i dont see the point in depriving yourself of something good just because you dont agree with the creator.

Not really. It's a person marrying a person and has no impact on your life. If a dude loves a dude or a lady loves a lady, why the hell should they not be allowed the same rights as the rest of us? Take a minute to try to understand why exactly it is that you're against it besides it "just being wrong" or whatever and maybe you can learn a bit about yourself. The only real defense for it I can think of (that I wouldn't even want to begin a discussion about) is the whole religious angle but that only applies to an individual not being cool with it. Every religion pretty much thinks all other religions are totally wrong but they're not trying to keep the government from outlawing other religions so I don't see why they would use religion to attempt to prevent gay marriage. Go out there and picket against the Jewish or Christians or Scientologists or whatever instead =P

That being said, I had an email conversation with the the PvP guy Scott Kurtz and according to him and his personal relationship with the guy, he's not as bad as people are trying to make him out to be. I backed the game when I first heard about it and was disappointed when I found out his views but I didn't feel they were extreme enough that I shouldn't enjoy his work. Now if he were actively funding anti-gay stuff and super publicly saying crazy shit, that'd be different but he's just a dude with an opinion and as much as I think he's closed minded about gay marriage, I'm not equally close minded about understanding that people will have different opinions. I bet I disagree on a bunch of shit with people I interact with on a daily basis and hell, I'm friends with some people who are probably racist. If they were all up in my face with racism and saying crazy nonsense all the time, then I wouldn't be friends with them but I'm not gonna lose a friend because they don't share my exact beliefs as long as it doesn't affect others. If Doug were donkey punching gay people and shouting on youTube about how wrong it all is, then yeah, I wouldn't back him but otherwise, whatever. People are different, let's just hope everyone gets better and more understanding of each other as time goes on.

It's not looking very good for this one.

This is probably the one project I would want to be successful over all the others but I can see why Kickstarter is starting to lose it's audience.

I've backed 6 Kickstarters so far including this one, 1 failed to fund (this'll be the second), 1 is seriously over due (John K arggghhh), none of the others have come out yet.

I respect Tenapel's comics output and involvement in games, but I'm also pretty reluctant to give him any money.

I wish people like him would just keep their more obnoxious opinions to themselves. I wish even more he wasn't an ignorant ass in the first place, but he has a right to his dumb opinion--but we can also let him know we don't agree with him by not paying for stuff he makes.

I'd say his actual comments were pretty heinous (i.e. comparing a gay couple marrying to taking a shit). There's also a difference between accepting someone's right to freedom of expression and throwing money at them. Obviously that's a personal line everyone has to draw for themselves, but given the number of talented artists out there who aren't spewing that kind of idiocy, I can't find much incentive to support him even if Scott Kurtz thinks he's a totally cool guy. oraknabo hit the nail on the head; you're inevitably going to end up supporting talented people with reprehensible views, but once the cat's out of the bag the "but what about X other artist who may be worse?" argument starts to ring hollow. David Perry may secretly be throwing babies of bridges, like, all the time, but I know what TenNapel is selling and personally I'm glad people aren't buying.

Long ass post to splatoon that doesn't really need to be read -_-;; Figured I'd put it into a block to not dirty things up.

Spoilers - they made their KS goal. I was sweating for a moment there; they were at 60% literally a day ago.

@ch3burashka: Ya, I was worried too. So glad they made it. This is gonna be awesome

Whoopee! This is klaywesome!

Hip, hip, hoo!

I'm a little confused as to why so many people defend Phil Fish as a misunderstood artist but act like Doug TenNapel is some kind of sub-human. Doug stated an opinion after someone asked him for it. Obviously that's enough to make people not want to support his work, but unless he also told someone to suck his dick and fuck off then I can't see cause for complete hate and revulsion. I'm really curious about how accepting game critics and journalists are going to be towards Armikrog compared to Fez.

Game looks charming, looking forward to it.

Seems from his comments that Tennapel would be the last guy ever to tell a fanboy to suck his dick.

He might not be a jerk on Twitter like Phil Fish, but he clearly supports segregating human beings, which isn't cause to hate anyone (nothing really should be), but I certainly won't support his hate by giving money to him.