Unofficial Tex Murphy

Internet Scam Alert: Most "Kickstarter" Projects Just Useless Crap
http://www.theonion.com/video/internet- ... ust,28655/

Remember what I was saying about there maybe being a Kickstarter backlash and I was all like because I was afraid Project Fedora would get lost in all the trash? Now the Onion has made a fake news story about it. It's funny, but in a "funny because it's true" sort of way.

Phew! If BFG had waited a year longer, it might not have turned out so well!

One mans trash is another mans treasure?

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/05/25

I only skimmed it but I think a similar and "non-fake" article might be this one, it also comments directly on Tex Murphy amongst others:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/21823

Anyway crowdfunding has been around for years, Kickstarter is just 1 site of many. It seems like a nice platform for lesser-known indie movements. The positive side to the crowdfunding boom is that maybe some who are keen investors that hadn't heard of such sites before may check back in future every so often now their existence has gotten more exposure recently. There's still some interesting stuff popping up by lesser known game makers wishing to do something a bit different and likely more will pop up sporadicly in the future:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/war ... necronauts

pure Edgar Rice Burroughs pulp adventure, the art design is a Frazetta-fueled dream

and stop-motion
this is the first time completely unknown adventure game kickstarter`s got my full attention

Yeah the stop-motion aspect has me curious. Since its such a time consuming art form it seems rare. It would certainly make it stand out.

I am a fan of animation and many years ago on Channel 4 in the UK (before the schedule got dull) they used to show some obscure stop-motion stuff, some that stuck in my mind (note: they are pretty weird / creepy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd03-wm6DDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEU15NiD ... age#t=206s

Got to admire the time and effort that goes into these things.

joliet_jane wrote:Internet Scam Alert: Most "Kickstarter" Projects Just Useless Crap

You'll find Scams anywhere mass money is involved, it's inevitable...

svankmajer is a god of weird/creepy stop-motion:
food

also about gods, weird creepiness, stop-motion and kickstarter

my voice just wrote:svankmajer is a god of weird/creepy stop-motion:
food

Yeah indeed. Another strange dark film that used that kind of odd stop motion style on live actors is "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb" (British production this time).

yeah, saw it. thank god, already faded out of memory
you remind me, that i`ve seen a lot of weird stuff... and also anime - in youth

Anime? In your youth? Exactly how old are you?

-Fred

I love anime I watch a lot of different series/films. Got an almost complete collection of the Studio Ghibli films, looking forward to the game animated by them "Wrath of the White Witch". I'm avoiding watching trailers (some show too much) but here's an English one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbqj1DLTfIc

Fred Buer
27
i feel myself bearded sometimes

Sai
mmm... too sweet
where`s guro, gore, tentacles, hentai, you know, true japan anime?..

I figured you'd say that

Anyway there's a lot of great anime film directors and series. On the topic of stuff on the stranger side like Svankmajer etc. For anime I reccomend Satoshi Kon's work who often blends reality with imagination to the point sometimes you don't know where one begins and the other ends. I haven't watched Inception yet but the concept sounds similar to Satoshi's earlier Paprika film for example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZKXXNCkrf4
Its a shame he passed away before he could make more.

heh, i watched perfect blue
liked it, but near the end, it seems, satoshi

didn't know where one begins and the other ends

himself

and i saw tinto brass` paprika - the concept definitely differs from inception

according to wikipedia, nolan wrote the script in 2001 and polished it for ten years, so, i presume, only a partial impact could take place

p.s.: we need more sci-fi adventures for sure

my voice just wrote:according to wikipedia, nolan wrote the script in 2001 and polished it for ten years, so, i presume, only a partial impact could take place

Yeah, apparently Paprika was based on a novel published in parts beginning 1991 then a manga before the film. So, the concept occured sometime before in literature and I bet it occured sometime in film even before then (just more obscure). Being inspired by other sources is no shame either (apparently Nolan mentioned he was inspired by "the likes of Dark City, the Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and James Bond" etc.).

I mean it is a running joke here (which Aaron/Chris joins in with) about George Lucas "stealing" Pandora Directive for Crystal Skull But in all seriousness even in sharing concepts the results are always going to be different, Paprika is much more on the "vivid" side than Inception I think, so the journey through each film will certainly offer something new.

apparently Paprika was based on a novel published in parts beginning 1991 then a manga before the film

forgive me my ignorance

yeah, everythingisaremix