Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

[Oct 22, 2012, 10:08 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Kickstarter Page for SHAKER admits defeat for Loot Drop's recently announced old school RPG from Brenda Brathwaite and Tom Hall. The project attracted under a quarter of its funding goal as it passed the half-way mark, causing them to apologetically give up, for now:

Ultimately, our pitch just wasn't strong enough to get the traction we felt it needed to thrive. Sure, it may have made it. We could have fought our way to a possibly successful end. In reading your feedback and talking it over internally, however, we decided that it made more sense to kill it and come back with something stronger.

In game design, mercy killing is the law.

So, please accept our thanks and apologies in equal order. Expect something more soon.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 24, 2012, 08:20

Mr. Tact

If talking about him, usually in a degrading way, is making us his bitch -- then yeah. Somehow I don't think that's what he had in mind.




Truth is brutal. Prepare for pain.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 24, 2012, 01:38

.net_Drifter

Julio wrote on Oct 23, 2012, 05:07: Zanderat1 wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 23:50: But that was like 10 years ago? When someone says he's going to make you his bitch, you take it personally. Considering how, this many years later, people are STILL talking about it . . . In a way, he has made everyone his bitch.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 23, 2012, 12:15

Mr. Tact

Well, and if the game had been a runaway success we'd all be saying, "Well, the game certainly made me it's bitch" or something...




Truth is brutal. Prepare for pain.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 23, 2012, 08:51

nin

Zanderat1 wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 23:50:
But that was like 10 years ago?

If we celebrate the classics from 10 + years ago (and we do), we also remember the failures.




RollinThundr Apr 17, 2013, 12:25: Eh really tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. If you really want to call that trolling sure. Mr. Tact Apr 17, 2013, 12:33: Pretty sure that's the definition of trolling...

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 23, 2012, 05:07

Julio

Zanderat1 wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 23:50: But that was like 10 years ago? When someone says he's going to make you his bitch, you take it personally.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 23:50

Zanderat1

But that was like 10 years ago?

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 22:03

nin

Zanderat1 wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 21:31:
?? Why does everybody here take the unfortunate Daikatana marketing so personally?

It was tacky and smacktalk, and they didn't bring anything game wise to back it up. Quite the opposite, in fact...




RollinThundr Apr 17, 2013, 12:25: Eh really tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. If you really want to call that trolling sure. Mr. Tact Apr 17, 2013, 12:33: Pretty sure that's the definition of trolling...

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 21:43

Mr. Tact

Because it was meant personally? *shrug* I never got why people got mad over insulting their mothers. Like the person had ever met their mother...




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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 21:31

Zanderat1

?? Why does everybody here take the unfortunate Daikatana marketing so personally?

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 20:30

wtf_man

Yes, I was being rude. It was intended more as a dig at Romero's famous line than a dig at Brenda... but interpret it however you wish. /shrug

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 20:19

jdreyer

xXBatmanXx wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 14:04:
Weird, you see most of these projects get a TON of funding in the last 2 weeks....surprised they shut it down.

This is what I was going to say. Defense Grid 2 languished at about 70% until the final day when a huge push got it over the top.




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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 19:14

Julio

Its one of those I'll dump her before she dumps me so I look better things... When you bring an unprofessional pitch, you don't get the cash. A drunk in a bar could have made a stronger kickstarter on a dirty napkin. Zero details, then it seemed like they had to create some on the spot. Shockingly, people won't give you money for nothing sometimes, especially when John Romero's on the project.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 18:28

Mr. Tact

More rude than weird, but it is the Internet...




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Re: More Big Picture Details

Oct 22, 2012, 17:33

Beamer

wtf_man wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 15:31:
Beelzebud wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 12:20:
Kickstarter just made Romero its bitch.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I'd have backed it for $15...

...If Brenda blew me...

...in front of Romero...

...so I could gleefully make a "who is whos bitch comment"...

...then again... maybe a $15 pledge would have been too much.

What if Romero blew you in front of Brenda...?

Overall that's kind of a weird comment to make about her...




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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 17:32

finga

Beelzebud wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 16:15: I think the big difference is that Double Fine can point to titles they've released in the last decade that people love. The same can't be said for Romero and crew. Yep, Double Fine has a track record of staying together and making great games over the last ten-plus years. This team that Brathwaite, Hall, and Romero have built don't really have a proven track record of making good games together.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 16:15

Beelzebud

Shineyguy wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 14:08: JediPunisher wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 12:13: I'm not surprised. When you begin a Kickstarter without a name for your project, you're in trouble. Except this is precisely how the Double Fine Adventure project was started. I think the big difference is that Double Fine can point to titles they've released in the last decade that people love. The same can't be said for Romero and crew.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 16:13

Beelzebud

Maybe they can get in on the ground floor of 3D Realm's new pyramid scheme, err I mean investment opportunity.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 15:48

Zanderat1

FWIW, there is a glitch in the KS software that is preventing them from shutting it down....

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Re: More Big Picture Details

Oct 22, 2012, 15:31

wtf_man

Beelzebud wrote on Oct 22, 2012, 12:20: Kickstarter just made Romero its bitch. Sorry, I couldn't resist. I'd have backed it for $15... ...If Brenda blew me... ...in front of Romero... ...so I could gleefully make a "who is whos bitch comment"... ...then again... maybe a $15 pledge would have been too much.

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Re: Loot Drop Drops Kickstarter

Oct 22, 2012, 14:49

Prez

Not surprising that this hasn't exactly set the world on fire. It just seemed like it was potential funding in need of a game instead of a potential game in need of funding.




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