I Know, Another Kickstarter Project, But...Tex Murphy

I think the FMV side is overstated a bit here ... Tex Murphy was great because the GAME was awesome. People saying "have fun with your FMV game" obviously don't know this series.

I'm going to ear-mark at least $500 for this.

Gosh I`m feeling so old because I have played the Original.

Great news, I am totally in.

Same day as Diablo III? This seems somewhat foolish.

A Plan 9 From Outerspace reference? Sold.

@roguehallow said:

Apparently someone started a Kickstarter campaign to buy Kickstarter for nineteen million dollars. For a contribution of $100, the guy promises to personally autograph your Kickstarter.

If this isn't fake I need a link, I need link right now.

Never mind...

@Cathryn said:

This is super exciting to me. I was just a little kid when I first played Mean Streets and I couldn't really figure out how it worked, but that game shaped so much about my future tastes (both in video games and general fiction) that though I haven't finished it, I consider it one of the most important games I've ever played.

Super excited about this!

Part of me doesn't want to stay this out loud, but dude. Funcom? Longest Journey? That kickstarter needs to happen, because I don't think we're ever going to get a sequel to Dreamfall without it. C'mon Ragnar -- let's make an adventure game!

It saddens me to realize that I'd completely forgotten about the unfulfilled Longest Journey trilogy. It's been so LONG. The Longest Journey remains one of my all-time favorite adventure games. If Funcom could tie that up and Jane Jensen could make a 4th Gabriel Knight game I would never ask for anything more.

@cavemantom said:

@tourgen said:

@Winternet said:

Is kickstarter the new indie bundles?

I prefer to think of them as pre-orders done right.

That's a good way of thinking of it. You could pre-order a game from a large retailer, which just lets them earn interest on your eager investment in something they didn't make, or you could pre-order a game directly from the people making it.

yeah! that, and it may be some game that would never get made otherwise because of the perceived risk. I don't see why it can't happily co-exist alongside all the other ways of getting a game funded and published.

Hell no!!

@Schattenjager: I like your style.

so you want our money and our ideas whats next do you want us to make it as well and advert it. i know im being negative but still i kinda diddent like how they asked. maybe im just tired. sorry

SHUTUP AND TAKE ALL OF MY MONEYS!!!!!!

Already invested money in 3 kickstarter projects.Gonna have to pass on this one =)

I'd donate to a new Tex Murphy game.

Probably about time to start that Kickstarter for a GB FMV laser game.

Wow, I loved the Tex Murphy games, I will pay for this without question!!

TEX !! Hell Yess!

They had me at Tex....

Under a Killing Moon...... ANYTIME!

I would pay 300 dollars to be immortalized in FMV.

Just as long as I got to speak some lines.

I've funded three Kickstarter projects already, but at least I have a couple of months to gather funds for this one. That means other Kickstarter projects are shit out of luck.

Hey, I'd personally love to see a "modern day" take on an FMV game!! :D

I loved the Tex Murphy games and will be handing them my wallet when their Kickstarter starts.

I looooved Under a Killing Moon back in the day. Probably one of my favorite games of all time. I played the latter games when I was older and while less magical they hold up.

Looking forward to this.

I have to support this.

Once all these developers start doing Kickstarters and going "Well, I'm gonna make as much as Double Fine!" and then none of them even make goal, there's gonna be a lot of tears when none of them start making goal.

Not going to lie, I'm pretty sure they'll get at least $500 from me if the reward is good enough.

I think this news calls for an Under a Killing Moon video from Vinny and Dave.

Also the UaKM sax has been my ringtone for a while, so good.

Kickstarter makes me spend waaaay too much money..

Okay, I'm now convinced this whole Kickstarter game craze is gonna crash hard. I don't think this level of good-will-based game funding is sustainable.

This kickstarter shit is getting out of control, we don't need to revive every old series.

The neat thing about all these kickstarters is even though I've never heard of this Tex Murphy and won't preorder, it really doesn't matter. Because chances are the franchise has enough of a fan following to produce a kickstarter game. You don't need to sell a million units to win, you just need 50,000 backers.

Although its going to be really funny if all these Kickstarter games wind up being terrible.

@Unknown_Pleasures said:

This kickstarter shit is getting out of control, we don't need to revive every old series.

I get what you mean, but in this case it's different. The last Tex Murphy game ended with a cliffhanger because everybody thought a new game would be a sure thing, but then the whole FMV bubble popped, and they've been trying to find funding for years to conclude the story.

To be completely honest, when Kickstarter became a success I only thought about TWO games I would like to see made: a new Tex Murphy game and a sequel to Anachronox (another amazing game with a cliffhanger ending).

Huh, Tex Murphy is The Plan Nine From Outer-space!

I was like, Wasteland? What's that?

Then I was like HOLY ******* Tex Murphy?! *droool drool*

Want so bad! soooo bad!

@Branthog: That has to be a troll kickstarter. It's like posts on tigsource where someone with no idea how games are made has "designed" the best ever mmo and wants people to make it for them for free. There's even terrible spelling mistakes on the $10,000 rewards!

The neat thing about all these kickstarters is even though I've never heard of this Tex Murphy and won't preorder, it really doesn't matter. Because chances are the franchise has enough of a fan following to produce a kickstarter game. You don't need to sell a million units to win, you just need 50,000 backers.

Although its going to be really funny if all these Kickstarter games wind up being terrible.

@Unknown_Pleasures said:

This kickstarter shit is getting out of control, we don't need to revive every old series.

Why not? If there are enough people willing to buy it to fund its making, I see no reason not to oblige them if the developer is interested in doing it. That's the whole point here - that there is money to be made in catering to niches -- instead of focusing on the largest and widest possible demographic out there, like most publishers have to do.

@Kyle said:

Okay, I'm now convinced this whole Kickstarter game craze is gonna crash hard. I don't think this level of good-will-based game funding is sustainable.

I don't see any more rational behind it being "unsustainable" than I do behind "EA and Valve and Square and all these companies are making too many games; it's unsustainable". In fact, it's arguably more sustainable, because the expense involved when getting a publisher (simply making the money back and paying the employees and the electric bill isn't enough) makes it cheaper and for most of them (so far) the price of the game to the player (or backer) is about a quarter of what games are selling for these days. I would argue that lower production overhead plus lower price of game plus gauranteed minimum audience/purchases before you even start working on the game equals a much more sustainable flow than the traditional method.

The only thing that could damage it is if too many of the big projects don't pull through and deliver in the end (which is certainly always a risk).

I'm thinking about starting a Kickstarter project to generate funds for me to back all these Kickstarter projects.

Yo dawg, I heard you like Kickstarter...

I am all for anything that get's us more FMV games.

@Branthog said:

@Kyle said:

Okay, I'm now convinced this whole Kickstarter game craze is gonna crash hard. I don't think this level of good-will-based game funding is sustainable.

I don't see any more rational behind it being "unsustainable" than I do behind "EA and Valve and Square and all these companies are making too many games; it's unsustainable". In fact, it's arguably more sustainable, because the expense involved when getting a publisher (simply making the money back and paying the employees and the electric bill isn't enough) makes it cheaper and for most of them (so far) the price of the game to the player (or backer) is about a quarter of what games are selling for these days. I would argue that lower production overhead plus lower price of game plus gauranteed minimum audience/purchases before you even start working on the game equals a much more sustainable flow than the traditional method.

The only thing that could damage it is if too many of the big projects don't pull through and deliver in the end (which is certainly always a risk).

Oh, what I meant was that I don't think enough consumers will stay interested in the idea. Everyone is really excited about it right now and a lot of games are being funded, but I think it might turn out to be more of a fad. Unsustainable was a bit of a poor choice of words. But who knows, maybe fan funding really is "the wave of the future."

@Kyle said:

@Branthog said:

@Kyle said:

Okay, I'm now convinced this whole Kickstarter game craze is gonna crash hard. I don't think this level of good-will-based game funding is sustainable.

I don't see any more rational behind it being "unsustainable" than I do behind "EA and Valve and Square and all these companies are making too many games; it's unsustainable". In fact, it's arguably more sustainable, because the expense involved when getting a publisher (simply making the money back and paying the employees and the electric bill isn't enough) makes it cheaper and for most of them (so far) the price of the game to the player (or backer) is about a quarter of what games are selling for these days. I would argue that lower production overhead plus lower price of game plus gauranteed minimum audience/purchases before you even start working on the game equals a much more sustainable flow than the traditional method.

The only thing that could damage it is if too many of the big projects don't pull through and deliver in the end (which is certainly always a risk).

Oh, what I meant was that I don't think enough consumers will stay interested in the idea. Everyone is really excited about it right now and a lot of games are being funded, but I think it might turn out to be more of a fad. Unsustainable was a bit of a poor choice of words. But who knows, maybe fan funding really is "the wave of the future."

I think it depends. Not everyone is going to back everything, but when someone comes along and offers to make a game you are excited about (from an old franchise left to die or something new from a smaller studio that you can't wait to see made), it won't matter.

As it is, plenty of games don't get funded. It'll be the same way, then. There will always be the ideas that strike people and the ones that sort of fall over and fade away.

Of course, this is all speculation until we start to see results in the next year or two, I guess. :)

Man do I have fond memories of Tex Murphy. I remember my sister bought The Pandora Directive and even though I was in elementary school and so much of it probably should have been over my head I some how got it. I got that this guy was a wise ass detective ( kind of reminded me of my hero Indiana Jones), I even got that a lot of it was tongue in cheek. The story and puzzles were complex, but I got those two. I remember then blowing through Under a Killing Moon (I guess we play games retroactively in my house) when that got brought home. This is the first Kickstarter that actually has me interested. I like Tim Schaefer and I played all those games too, but none of them really connected with me like Tex Murphy.

Oh Hell yah

I totally forgot about this with all the Diablo clicking going on, but I just threw my money in. And if you love FMV, you should do the same.

8 days left on this kickstarter - $12,000 left!

I dunno if they'll pull it off.