Interesting Kickstarter that plays a little with conventions.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ghostinabottle/octopus-city-blues?ref=live
What I liked here was that the humour of the game spilled over into the text of the game's description.
I think it's terribly easy to assume that Kickstart (or other crowd funding) is this super serious thing and not always telling exactly the truth will result in a backlash.
Whereas this developer clearly assumes his audience is intelligent enough to know when he's kidding. Personally, as a consumer, I like that.
"The authentic Octopus City simulation for Windows, OS X and Linux. A surreal adventure game about everything and nothing."
Radio the Universe's pitch was written similarly I felt:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1548272412/radio-the-universe-0
For Broforce, we're hoping to make our pre-order pitch a lot stronger and more entertaining. We're in the fortunate position that our players are all intelligent, handsome and good humoured people... so a pitch that assumes that is definitely in order.
What I liked here was that the humour of the game spilled over into the text of the game's description.
I think it's terribly easy to assume that Kickstart (or other crowd funding) is this super serious thing and not always telling exactly the truth will result in a backlash.
Whereas this developer clearly assumes his audience is intelligent enough to know when he's kidding. Personally, as a consumer, I like that.
"The authentic Octopus City simulation for Windows, OS X and Linux. A surreal adventure game about everything and nothing."
Radio the Universe's pitch was written similarly I felt:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1548272412/radio-the-universe-0
For Broforce, we're hoping to make our pre-order pitch a lot stronger and more entertaining. We're in the fortunate position that our players are all intelligent, handsome and good humoured people... so a pitch that assumes that is definitely in order.