Topic: Dark Flame Metroidvania Kickstarter

[Dark Nemesis]

A really cool looking clone of metroidvanias that's similar to SotN.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darkflamegame/dark-flame

[piscesdreams]

Interesting...

[X]

LOL! 90,000$ stretch goal for bad voice acting! That's awesome 

[darkmanx_429]

I always notice the similar struggles for game designers:

1 man army

Has to teach themselves to program

Needs a great artist

Needs a Team to accomplish their goal

The funny part is everyone wants to do their own thing and only a crazy small percentage of people actually can get a team together and make a project into reality unless you do it all yourself.

[Crying Freeman]

Looks JUST like SOTN!

[zangetsu468]

It looks quite good.
The before's remind me a bit of Hyperlight Drifter with a perspective shift to side scrolling.

[Crying Freeman]

Looks pretty damn awesome!! Seems like from the look of the movement, it comes close to SOTN control, but its impossible to be certain

[Shiroi Koumori]

It looks good but I'm not so sure if it can reach the initial goal.

[piscesdreams]

It would probably help if they disclosed how the funds are appropriated. The majority of recent Kickstarter successes that I have seen have been doing this.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

This game looks great, but sadly I doubt it will meet its goals, it needs to find a way to get is name out in the web in a big way, it needs more advertising around the web definitely because this game deserves to be funded.

[eryson]

Now the thing costs 75k...well.....it still much :V

[Crying Freeman]

Yeah, pretty pricey. Still love what he did so far. Maybe put it up on greenlight?(not super familiar with how greenlight works, could be wrong)

On a little side note, I feel like a lot of indie games are a bit over ambitious, leading to their downfall. Don't get me wrong, its fantastic to have high goals, especially if you reach them, but this guy is asking for quite a pretty penny. Cave story is an example of it being done wonderfully, but we see so many fan games come and go, and so many indie games having some issues, or some are plain shit and the devs wanna censor reviewers like Day 1(but that's another topic)

[PFG9000]

It definitely looks interesting, but it's still pretty rough.  Obviously it should look rough, since it's in the earliest stages yet, but I'm hesitant to back something like this with no real indication it will be fully fleshed out and polished by the end.  It reminds me of Soul of Darkness so far - vaguely reminiscient of SotN, but so, so far from it in reality.  I'd hate to fork over more than the $5 I paid for Soul of Darkness if that's all I'll be getting in the end.

Sorry, Kickstarter campaign.  I'll gladly pay for the game if it makes it to a full release and looks worth buying then, but this isn't enough for me to pre-pay.

[zangetsu468]

It definitely looks interesting, but it's still pretty rough. 

My thoughts exactly, the graphical style is not reminding me of SOTN but rather of something like Soul of Darkness for the DSi.
I don't dislike how the game appears but there's so many Metroidvania's on KS it's looking like more of the same.

Sorry, Kickstarter campaign.  I'll gladly pay for the game if it makes it to a full release and looks worth buying then, but this isn't enough for me to pre-pay.

Yep, I'm more than happy with Bloodstained at this point.

[piscesdreams]

My thoughts exactly, the graphical style is not reminding me of SOTN but rather of something like Soul of Darkness for the DSi.
I don't dislike how the game appears but there's so many Metroidvania's on KS it's looking like more of the same.
Yep, I'm more than happy with Bloodstained at this point.

That's my thoughts exactly. Unfortunately, it feels the indie community is over saturating the metroidvania style.

I feel for the guy investing his own money into this game and not getting a return yet, and it doesn't look like he will. Maybe due to the goal being so high for an indie game. People are skeptical of Kickstarters these days and his wording of the game and how it came to be doesn't give me a lot of faith in it. Plus, I have to see how money is attributed before I will consider donating.