Hacker News Reader

Comment by kevingadd | Hacker News Reader

I don't really understand why you are kickstarting the puzzle game when there was way more interest in your RPG (even if most of it was a publicity stunt)? Is the idea that the puzzle game will help fund a larger project?

The game looks interesting in the footage you put on the Kickstarter page (would've been good to edit it down some, though, maybe make an effort to highlight the gameplay variety), but the actual description doesn't give much in the way of real specifics, and the screenshots are kind of undermined by the fact that the framing stage backdrop is there in every one.

Ultimately I wish you had made the effort to get this out there earlier. (Maybe you did and I never saw it?) Given that it's the last hours and you're so far from your goal, that will probably discourage a lot of people from backing who might have otherwise.

View on HN

The puzzle game will help fund the rest of the RPG, yes. I am not too comfortable funding that using Kickstarter because it sets some hard limits that I might not be able to meet.

The RPG was definitely not a publicity stunt, I genuinely did work on it full time for five years (now 10). The publicity stunt I did sort of backfired in that the internet sort of forgot the legitimate work and focused entirely on the stunt, which damaged the credibility of the project.

Thanks, I didn't really have good enough equipment to edit on so that's a major factor. I actually had to borrow a machine to get that gameplay footage, as my Macbook can't really run and record it at a decent FPS.

I have been trying to make efforts to get it out there, but I just haven't gotten any traction.

Since you're here, I have to ask: whatever happened to the nD? If it failed, why did you just abandon the forums instead of letting people know? I mean, your credibility was already hurt because of Bob's Game's publicity stunt fiasco, why didn't you give any assurances to the community there? More importantly, after 2 projects which just vanished without any explanation from the author (you), how do you expect anyone to believe you'll deliver this product?

The nD is now the virtual console inside the "bob's game" RPG that you play the minigames on. It still exists, and I am developing a small SDK for others to create games for it.

I was genuinely talking to the Dingoo (Chinese handheld) manufacturers about making a custom handheld and had them agree to a very good price point, but I failed to get any traction trying to get investment since I had no idea what I was doing, and I was too early for Kickstarter at the time (I am glad, it would have been way too much responsibility!). Since then Android devices have improved so much so quickly I don't think it makes sense anymore to bother developing a Linux based handheld. I would rather see something like an OUYA handheld for $50, as developing for Android is a very pleasant process and there is already a great library.

This puzzle game was playable on bobsgame.com as a Java applet for 6 month in the context of playing it in the stadium by using the nD handheld.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com