Carmageddon: Reincarnation (PC) £9.30 @ kickstarter
The classic game is back! The original game creators are seeking crowd funding to produce a much hyped sequel and for pledging $15 (£9.30) you can get a copy of the finished game and appear in the credits!
"…Max Damage is back! Carmageddon: Reincarnation is going to reintroduce the gaming world to the original freeform driving sensation, where pedestrians (and cows) equal points and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines. It’s the racing game where racing is for wimps."
Loads more details and a video on the Kickstarter page - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stainlessgames/carmageddon-reincarnation
Website - http://www.carmageddon.com/
BBC News article - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18009412
All Comments (138)
Jump to unread Post a CommentI don't look back on it with rose tinted glasses at all, last year I installed and completed Carmageddon 2 again. It was revolutionary in its time. The crash mechanics were brilliant, the fact that you could hit an object, and that was the shape that your car deformed in was very advanced. And the variety of ways you could win. Race and complete checkpoints, destroy all the competitors, heck I think if you were able to kill all the pedestrians that also won the game.
Unless of course you're talking about the awful playstation port where they used a stripped down version of the Carmageddon 1 engine, but put the carmageddon 2 models and locations in, it was terrible.
Yep, killing all peds won the race. The only way I ever managed was to do it once you unlocked the ray gun car at the end and you needed a powerup to show them all on the map. Even then it took ages. Pointless, but fun
I've personally put down $50 for Carmageddon, I want the spare copy to give to a friend when it comes out. Here's my take on Kickstarter and this particular project.
1. You're crowd funding the project. The kickstarter rewards give you some sort of product at the end of it based on your contribution, and yes the project could go off the rails, but this isn't buying from a store, this is investment in something you want to happen, risk is part of the territory, but...
2. This is not a new I.P. This is the same people that made Carmageddon and Carmageddon 2 (the very reason I got a PC in 1998), so they already know the process of making a game, and it's a well loved game that people are going to want.
3. With digital distribution and commercially available 3d engines like Unreal Engine, Crytek, Source etc. the cost of development and distribution has gone down. They can viably distribute this on Steam without having to get wholesale warehouses to stock their boxed game, and a deal with a chain like GAME.
4. They WILL reach $400,000, in fact in 28 days I wouldn't be surprised if they hit 1 - 1.5 million, a lot of people have wanted a new Carmageddon for a long time. But if you're worried about them not reaching $400,000 just wait a few days and see, even once it's fully funded you can still contribute and get the rewards. If for some reason they don't reach the target, you don't pay anything.
5. Payment is by Amazon Payments, they authorise and reserve the money on your card, but don't take it till the funding time ends. I funded a project called The Dead Linger and so far they've done everything they said they would, and they don't have a track record like Stainless.
Hope this helps some of you not as familiar with it or not sure about this project.
The Dead Linger sounds like it might be good. I've always wanted a game that was based around building resources, developing a character and surviving in a zombie apocalypse. Kind of Dead Rising meets GTA: San Andreas. No fast zombies, no tower defence, no super zombies, unlimited ammo or superhuman pyschopaths just lots of slow zombies and the need to eat and drink.
I hope its like the old one when you can get the patch for red blood.
I was sooooo tempted by the $1000 option to get in the game!
I'll definitely pledge. Not sure which $10,000 package to go for, though.
I hope its like the old one when you can get the patch for red blood.
I was sooooo tempted by the $1000 option to get in the game!
That sounds awesome. Wish I was rich I'd pay to have the pedo scum that exploited those children and hopefully when they catch him the bloke that beat that 94yr old lady put in the game as pedestrians, then I'd take great pleasure in mowing them down, time after time.
Edited By: fishmaster on May 09, 2012 15:51
It was pretty hard though, I had to cheat a bit for extra time.
Thanks for drawing my attention to this! I loved the first one!
Definitely supporting this!!
Very tempted by the $50 and $100 ones though!
Great deal have some hot bloody patched zombies!
The guy must of made millions with minecraft ... ??
The guy must of made millions with minecraft ... ??
He did yes, no-one knows the exact figure, but he never used any digital distribution platform, he just sold licenses from his own website, so 100% of the money went to him, even in Alpha and Beta stages the game was $15 or there abouts, so yes, he made millions.