Zero Punctuation: King's Quest: A Knight to Remember

[Overhead]

Didn't the company embezzle a load of money from a kickstarter to make the game or something?

 

[Thanatos2k]

Didn't the company embezzle a load of money from a kickstarter to make the game or something?

How can you embezzle money from Kickstarter to make a game? You can only embezzle money to NOT make a game if you promised a game.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Never played King's Quest. If it's anything like the Sierra games Yahtzee constantly harps about, I'd rather not.

 

[Overhead]

Didn't the company embezzle a load of money from a kickstarter to make the game or something?

How can you embezzle money from Kickstarter to make a game? You can only embezzle money to NOT make a game if you promised a game.

After a little googling it appears that a Kickstarter to develop a game called Hiveswap got 2.7 million and the person running it chose the The Odd Gentlemen to develop the game.

The Odd Gentlemen took the money, did did no work on what they'd been paid for and used the money to fund Kings Quest instead. There was an out of court settlement but someone spoke up about it and although they quickly deleted their blog post, it got seen and archived.

 

[veloper]

Never played King's Quest. If it's anything like the Sierra games Yahtzee constantly harps about, I'd rather not.

I wish. No, this is more like a Tell Tales product, only a little better actually.

The game has many lame QTEs like TWD and WAU, but it also has a couple clever puzzles, beside a whole bunch of very easy puzzles. If you can forgive the QTEs, it's a genuine, but low difficulty AG, that has some harder optional goals that make it a bit more challenging. Because some achievements are optional that makes them easier to miss, if you're not thinking.

Then the choices and consequences part of it is promising, because this episode does keep good track of some alternative solutions throughout the game and the devs show they can structure a game plot cleverly to make room for such alternative paths, while still reusing their assets.
Future episodes will tell.

 

[SanguineAngel]

Soooooooo.... I loved Kings Quest V...

 

[Dalisclock]

I might pick that up, once they've proven they can stick to a release schedule and if the other episodes are good.

I love the idea of episodic gaming, but a lot of them take forever between updates(not even counting the year long gap between the first and second halves of broken age). Even Taletell seems to take forever and a day to put out new episodes lately. When they first started with Sam and Max, they'd be roughly a month between episodes, but I guess now it depends on how much they like a particular franchise(The GoT episodes are coming out much faster then Tales from the Borderlands, I've noticed).

 

[Thanatos2k]

Didn't the company embezzle a load of money from a kickstarter to make the game or something?

How can you embezzle money from Kickstarter to make a game? You can only embezzle money to NOT make a game if you promised a game.

After a little googling it appears that a Kickstarter to develop a game called Hiveswap got 2.7 million and the person running it chose the The Odd Gentlemen to develop the game.

The Odd Gentlemen took the money, did did no work on what they'd been paid for and used the money to fund Kings Quest instead. There was an out of court settlement but someone spoke up about it and although they quickly deleted their blog post, it got seen and archived.

Ah, the old Aliens Colonial Marines Gearbox trick. Well, good to know not to ever give any money to this developer.

 

[Carl Morris]

It's weird that Yahtzee hates Sierra games, his own games have more of a Sierra vibe than a lucasarts one, I felt. Not to mention a Sierra engine clone behind them as well...