I ain't gonna lie kinda wish I was OP since I'm obsessed with crowdfunding. Whatever. gently caress IT IM OVER IT



Kickstarter Hall of Shame



Your World





Ellwood "Bunky" Bartlett may have won $42 million from the lottery but that's not going to stop him from getting other people to pay for his dream MMO! Your World promises the MMO experience that gamers want: namely, hooker bots.



So Goons, what other laughable projects have you seen on Kickstarter?



http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...on-reality-show



Atheist Shoes

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...3716/your-world





When even your footprints have to tell people to deal with it



Ron Paul Revolution





Titan of industry wants to make a game about Ron Paul. Uses the cheapest means of creating a cookie cutter game using MelonJS



And this is what over $10,000 gets you, the free market works!





The people in Washington need to be held accountable! (but not people who run Kickstarters or anything)





And a word on accountability:

Katalyka

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1820893788/katalyka



Honestly I feel a little bad ridiculing someone who clearly has mental issues but if this isn't a Kickstarter cautionary tale I don't know what is.





If you want to read the whole insane here

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ka/posts/239764



I am a unique snowflake and everything I touch is art because I am a hipster Manic Pixie Dream Boy/Girl

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...house-naturally



Truly putting the shame in Hall of Shame

Mythic

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...of-gods-and-men



Essentially a Frankenstein of plagiarism taken from other Kickstarters and existing games

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...arter-is-a-Scam



The first Kickstarter feature film to star an A-lister admired by teenaged girls everywhere (also Lindsay Lohan)

The Canyons





http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...583/the-canyons



A NY Times reporter is embedded (in bed with teehee) the production and writes a pretty crazy account of the ordeal

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/m...wanted=all&_r=0



article posted: The next night, the Canyons crew was cut to a minimum. It was time to film the four-way. The scene comes at a crucial moment in the movie, when the usually passive Tara turns the tables on Christian and forces him out of his sexual comfort zone. Filmed incorrectly, the scene might win a Razzie. Get it right, and the rest of the film would click into place.



Pope found two porn actors to play the other participants. The woman walked through rehearsal completely naked, bragging that she refused to conform to porns norms and shave her pubic hair. Lohan freaked out.



God, I so dont need to hear about that.



She retreated to a walk-in closet a few feet from the bed where the scene would be shot. Lohan had just fired her assistant and was now holed up with an old friend named Gavin. Schrader waited a half-hour and then went to see if Lohan was ready to shoot. Gavin explained that Lohan was uneasy working with porn stars and actually, truth be told, was uneasy working with Deen.



Schrader lost it.



The thing thats going to explode from this film is James Deen!



Lohan screamed from the back of the closet.



Thats what Im afraid of!



Schrader stalked away. He waited another hour. He went back to talk to Lohan again, this time as bad cop. Gavin wouldnt let him all the way in, so he yelled through the door.



You signed the contract. You knew this was coming!



Another hour passed, and Lohan eventually moved to the bed but wouldnt remove her robe. Schrader worried that the early-morning sunlight would begin streaming through the house. He thought of sending everyone home. But then he realized that there was one thing he hadnt yet tried. He stripped off all of his clothes. Naked, he walked toward Lohan.



Lins, I want you to be comfortable. Cmon, lets do this.



Lohan shrieked.



Paul!



Pope heard the scream and ran up from downstairs. He turned a corner, and there was a naked Schrader. Pope let out a whoa and slowly backed out of the room.



But then a funny thing happened. Lohan dropped her robe. Schrader shouted action, and they filmed the scene in one 14-minute take. About halfway through, Lohan looked directly into the camera and flashed a dirty, demented smile at Schrader. He smiled back.



And after all that they didn't even get into Sundance.



Speaking of bad movies:

Finding Sandler

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...finding-sandler



Otherwise nice looking Jewish boy is being super intense about that one time he was a PA on an Adam Sandler movie and missed an opportunity to get a drink with him. He's been beating himself up over it ever since and unfortunately his friends/family keep enabling his stalkery.



Hanfree

Having the dubious distinction of being the first Kickstarter to have a class action suit against it

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...s-free?ref=live



http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/w...y-he-was-right/



Speaking of class action

Zioneyez

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...es-for/comments



http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgib...and-zioneyez/2/



Vaporware for augmented glasses. Not only have they not delivered, but they are in danger of being lapped by Google Glass at this point. Backers were so pissed about the perception that the owners took the money and ran (pictures of them vacationing in Thailand didn't help) that they created a forum just to air out grievances



Code Hero



KS for a game that teaches you coding. Awesome right? Except the KS was never for the game (which had never actually been started). The KS was to fund him so he could go ask for funding.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/13/c...-success-story/



http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/08/c...g-to-draw-lega/



Check the comments, it's another example of backer support going south very fast



And for those who think there is no redeeming value to KS:

Kickstarter Benchmarks

Regardless of how you felt about the quality of the results, these were major turning points for Kickstarter



Legendary adventure games creator Tim Schafer and his company Double Fine start the KS craze

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-fine-adventure



Currently 4th highest funded in Games.



Video Game High School

SA Forums superstar Freddie Wong managed to fund his web series for $273,000+



Season 2 recently succeeded funding and remains the highest funded in Film & Video



Incidentally the 2nd most in that category is The Goon



Faster Than Light

I believe these guys are goons. FTL became one of the biggest and first gaming success stories and is currently available on Steam.

http://penny-arcade.com/report/edit...verything-right



Special Wait And See

Ouya

http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/ouya



Open source console that works with Android. Or something. I think jury's still out and if it will truly fail like a lot of people are thinking it will.



Ad wizards: Hey you know what we'll do? We'll make our own Kickstarter type page!

OtonX

http://www.otonx.com/



Hey let's take a page from the Phantom console! Also Kickstarter that's cool with the kids these days



Black Isle's Truly shameful beg for donations

This is famous game developer Black Isle ONLY IN NAME. They had the nerve to make their own KS style homepage begging for donations, and not even for the production of the game itself. So they can go shop it around, much like Code Hero. It's a KS for a KS. Using the Black Isle name at that is truly disgraceful and it seems like they are suckering people in too (they have a whole leaderboard for donors).

http://blackisle.com/



The one silver lining is we get this lovely, dated pitch video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV1GH_ZTs90



Actually the real silver lining is the spiritual successor to BI, Obsidian is the second most funded in the Games category

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ty?ref=category



If anyone has more classic horrible KS's I can add to this post



And that OP, is how you make an OP (drops the mic) Alan Smithee has a new favorite as of 07:24 on Mar 5, 2013