Kingmaker - Goblin Companion Funded
 

Pathfinder: Kingmaker managed to reach the Goblin companion stretch goal.

More information.

I can't wait to see the spell list.

Very happy to see the success of this game, though I'm pretty unenthused about these later stretch goals.

But the game itself looks pretty good, even though I mostly backed it to support the D&D genre and help out fellow watchers.

I'll be playing it, definitely, but it's not the kind of game that really gets me excited anymore. They'd have to add coop - and some NWN-style modding for that to happen.

Maybe in a sequel? ;)

Didn't think they'd raise that much. Congrats to Owlcats.

With PayPal a few more strech goals might be possible.
That Hellknights storyline seems to be interesting. More content is always welcome. And again, I think they planned to include it in some way anyway. Maybe they can flesh it out some more.

Did much better than I expected: 18,351 backers pledged $909,057 to help bring this project to life.

I don't know about the extra race, but Hellknight sounds quite interesting.. a bit like Vhailor from PS:T I'm guessing?

I didn't think they will get pass 500k but it looks like they will easily get 1 million! Good luck to them and I hope this will be cracking game.

Hello? You are making the game, not us! I like where Kingmaker is going overall but this type of cynicism which stems from KS is getting tiresome.

They are making the games yes, but 'WE' helped them expand the game. I see nothing wrong with their statement.

This project would need 10 000 000 dollars to work. OmmahGAwd: An ugly goblin character ..

You're complaining about cynicism? :lol:

I agree. These stretch goals end up obligating resources to something they won't be able to afford.

Haha, my thought exactly. I can't really see where the comment luj quoted was cynical? A bit silly yes, but that's hardly the same thing.

Now THAT'S cynicism.

Yes, 2-3 of these stretch goals may be more resource intensive than the funding increment. They might have been overly optimistic in their forecast, so it won't surprise me to see them getting cut back later on.

Well, for them it's the very first time. I think being excited is a plausible and honest emotion. They're human beings after all.

For "us" it's more or less like every other successful campaign.

…I can hear the sound of pitchforks being sharpened in preparation for that eventuality :biggrin:

At least someone gets it.

They're making this game for Purpleblob. :D I think this may be the closest to BG yet. Looks great.

Knock knock…
Wha?
No, Knock knock
I'm 'ere, whadya want?
It's a joke. Knock knock…
Whad's a joke?
You know, a knock knock joke.
Nobody makes a joke outta Nok-nok. Prepare to eat bone, wise cracka…

If you think about it, it should be, "Whom is on first?"

So Lou was right for responding the way he did.

Rjshae my man, you've been playing Fallout III so much, it managed to kill your sense of humor. :)

Which ones? Only one I can think of is the additional story content that will take players to lvl 20.
Some also seem to be less than what they asked for (like the goblin companion) so I guess it evens out.

For all I know they're not making GTA6 where 90% of funds would go only for music licenses.

Well it depends. The Archetype goal seems like there could be a lot of unique coding to make it work with the potentially new ability additions, so I'm guessing that could take a chunk of time. Depending on whether they include party banter, each new companion can add a significant amount of conversation branches and voice-over work. Finally, the extra story chapter could potentially require a lot of additional labor with new areas, new creatures and NPCs, lore, art, items, conversations, effects, and so forth.

My guesses at any rate.

If you checked out their graph most of the money goes on art. Archetypes need little art.
New companions does not need a lot of art as well and most of the game will not be voiced.
New story chapter will be more effort but they can probably do that last when they are practised and got lots of assets to work with so they will be more effective.

Yes I saw that chart, and presumably it applies to the base funding. The stretch goals are extras that may require a different distribution of assets. You can't automatically conflate the two.

Lacking other info we can assume they are going to keep to their current workflow and expenses should be simialar.

You can assume all you want. Odds are good it won't work out that way. Plans rarely do, especially when they are amendments to the original forecast. Scope creep will kill you that way. ;)

Wrong game rshae, no feature creep here. Luckily this isn't Pirates of Eternity.