stusue wrote:

The following is from Boomzap's June newsletter:

Dear Zappers, 

Exciting news: our Kickstarter campaign for Legends of Fire & Steel has officially started! Please help us reach our funding goal of $50,000 in 30 days. 

Legends of Fire & Steel is an innovative turn-based single and multiplayer fantasy world conquest game that we are currently developing for PC, Mac, and mobile tablets. Set in a world with three warring races - Human, Fae, Revenant - players create armies which are led by heroes. The objective is to capture all of your opponent’s castles and rule the world. 

Visit our Kickstarter page to find out more and back our project! 

Aside from pledging, you can also help out by spreading the news on Facebook, Twitter, and everywhere else. Here are the important links:  

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Since when has Boomzap kickstarted?  Have they done it before?  Are they now doing it because they no longer have funding from BFG? 

Tirama, you seem to know what's going on and I thought you might have an idea.  I just found it interesting.

At least they're also making this game for PC!


 

This is from their kickstarter page:  (Bolding done by me)

We've spent the last 10 years making great games, and we're proud of all of them. But we've always been limited to making the kinds of games that publishers support. For years, we've wanted to make the kind of games that we want to play ourselves: hardcore strategy multiplayer games that can be played in short play sessions and are NOT Free-to-Play. We've taken these kinds of designs to dozens of publishers, and the responses we get are usually the same: "That's great, but can you make it free to play? Can you make it more casual? Can you attach a license to it?" It's clear that if we're going to make this kind of game, it's not going to be supported by a publisher - and that means funding it ourselves.


I will not be funding them.    I don't want to play the kind of games they want to make.  They no longer want to make the kind of games I want to play. And that fact had become painfully obvious the past couple of years judging by the sloppy bug-infested updates they released for they're 2 free-to-play games.  Let the Southeastern Asian mobile gaming market they decided to serve finance this. 

lilyr wrote:

stusue -- Interesting about that app!  Is it a smartphone app or a PC app?  Where did you get it?. 

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Lily, it's a PC app that I got through Firefox, called Ghostery.  I'm not sure if you can get it through other browsers but chances are that you can.  This is what it says about the app...

Welcome to Ghostery for Firefox version 5.4.5!

Ghostery looks for third-party page elements (or "trackers") on the web pages you visit. These can be things like social network widgets, advertisements, invisible pixels used for tracking and analytics, and so on. Ghostery notifies you that these things are present, and which companies operate them. You can learn more about these companies, and if you wish, choose to block the trackers they operate. 

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The most trackers I've seen on any one site is 11.  As most are social widgets, trackers, advertising, etc, I just block them all ... except for BazaarVoice on BFG's game pages, of course, so I can still see the reviews.  The 7 trackers on BFG's game pages are:

BazaarVoice  (Widgets, Social)
Facebook Connect  (Widgets, Social)
Google Analytics  (Analytics, Analytics)
Google+ Platform  (Widgets, Social)
McAfee Secure  (Widgets)   -   and I don't even have McAfee
Tealium  (Analytics, Tag Manager)
Twitter Button  (Widgets, Social)

On this page there's only one tracker:

VigLink  (Advertising, In-Text Advertising)


 

TiramaSue wrote:

This is from their kickstarter page:  (Bolding done by me)

We've spent the last 10 years making great games, and we're proud of all of them. But we've always been limited to making the kinds of games that publishers support. For years, we've wanted to make the kind of games that we want to play ourselves: hardcore strategy multiplayer games that can be played in short play sessions and are NOT Free-to-Play. We've taken these kinds of designs to dozens of publishers, and the responses we get are usually the same: "That's great, but can you make it free to play? Can you make it more casual? Can you attach a license to it?" It's clear that if we're going to make this kind of game, it's not going to be supported by a publisher - and that means funding it ourselves.


I will not be funding them.    I don't want to play the kind of games they want to make.  They no longer want to make the kind of games I want to play. And that fact had become painfully obvious the past couple of years judging by the sloppy bug-infested updates they released for they're 2 free-to-play games.  Let the Southeastern Asian mobile gaming market they decided to serve finance this. 

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Thanks so much for the info, Tirama!    

I certainly shan't be funding them, either, as, like you, they're not the sort of games I like playing. 
 

No thanks, Boomzap.  I also, won't be contributing to your Legends of Fire & Steel game as I have no desire to play it.

Eipix is all updated in the Developer's list of games.  Page 1, Post 5.

I was going to use a pcc on Dark Parables: Queen of Sands game, but since it is 1/2 off today and a Bonus Punch day.  I'll just spend the 3.49 and get the 2 punches.

I spent my pccs on Rite of Passage: The Lost Tides & Haunted Legends: The Dark Wishes.

I see there it is Bonus Punch day, wish they would advertise it better. I usually go to the PC Home page and it's not always advertised there.   And now, if it's going to be on random days... gonna be confusing.  This would be a good time for me to buy because I can download, but there's just nothing I'm excited about.  The DD sounds alright, I don't have it, but then I would still need 4 more punches.  I have one PCC so that wouldn't help, I'd have to use 2 Customer Service coupons, which would be alright, but there just aren't any games I'm dying to have so I guess I'll pass.