#58 Remembering the mixed era of Kickstarter games
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Crowdfunded games still happen, but there was a surge of them in the 2010's. For better or worse, many, many notable games were enthusiastically funded by fans. Yooka-Laylee, Shovel Knight, Shenmue 3, Star Citizen. We wanted to look back and remember that turbulent time of high hopes and occasional unmet expectations.
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SHOW NOTES
Links for some of the games we mention, in case you wanna look and go "Huh"
Lobodestroyo: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lefthanded/lobodestroyo-3d-action-platformer-game
Clive n Wrench: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1094720/Clive_N_Wrench/
Godus: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/22cans/project-godus
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Sean: https://www.youtube.com/@Wolfkaosaun
CHAPTERS
00:00 How Yooka-Laylee bankrupted Sean (real)
11:26 Issues with early access / dripfeeding the content updates
26:20 Why are we willing to pay for unfinished games?
35:54 Game development isn't a respected process
42:20 The upsides to crowdfunding games
55:35 TheCrazyEven's Crubscriber Question of the Week
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