ANTHYMN by String Theory Entertainment — teach music through MMORPG

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/37002837/anthymn

by buildwonder • 13 years ago

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arscan• 13 years ago

Maybe I'm missing something, but how is "largest" defined here? Looks like only $1,200 has been pledged so far.

buildwonder5• 13 years ago

Goal -- I guess any project can be lofty in its projections, but my understanding is Kickstarter gets directly involved in helping set appropriate targets for projects over a certain size.

Time will tell if that's actually the case. This is the first kickstarter project I'm following closely enough that it feels like watching stocks... wondering how much momentum a project needs in that first day to predict if it will succeed or fail.

shubb2• 13 years ago

£600'000, which is normally VC territory.

To my mind there is a reason for that - kickstarter allows people who really want a thing to exist to pay the amount that thing is worth to them, and then get it.

No computer game is worth $10'000 just to play. What is worth $10'000 dollars is ownership of the IP, and a share of any profits.

Maybe this is against kickstarters rules, but I'm not sure it should be. I'd happily invest my savings across a spread of carefully chosen crowd funded companies, in the hope that one out of those hundred would make good the losses on the rest.

Why is there not kickstarter style crowd funding platform for investment?

buildwonder5• 13 years ago

I remember seeing a lot of heated debate on this topic about a year ago... part of the JOBS actin the US. I believe the SEC is currently drafting regulations on this, but haven't heard much on what that will entail.

No sign of similar legislation in Canada that I know of.

thezoid• 13 years ago

So I'm a bit confused by the title. Is the game going to teach people how to play musical instruments or is it going to teach musical theory?

Or, more likely, is it just a game that uses music as the power aspect for the PCs? So in the end you are still just clicking mice and mashing keybindings.

buildwonder5• 13 years ago

From the description they provide, I think it's musical theory and composition... represented through keyboard and mouse mashing...

I didn't see any information related to unique controllers/interfaces, which would probably be pretty key to mention if that was the case.

acangiano• 13 years ago

Kickstarter is supposedly limited to US/UK companies and individuals. Are they solely Canadian or do they have a US presence as well?

buildwonder5• 13 years ago

I think all you need is someone involved to have a US address and bank account to sign up for an amazon payments account.

ckdarby• 13 years ago

DO NOT PLEDGE!

As a developer myself I'd highly recommend running away from this kickstarter as the video doesn't show any models, no in game scenes, no UI designs and basically I couldn't find anything started aside from the video & a quick map graphic.

buildwonder5• 13 years ago

It definitely leaves a lot to the imagination, but that being said I'm still backing it.

The story is interesting and seems pretty fleshed out, plus I imagine you can't get much further than the previz stage on a project of this scope when funding out-of-pocket.

Only signed up at the $20 level, but may increase for other rewards if they provide more details in the updates.

j-m-o• 13 years ago

I'll agree that lacking models or in-game content, it's pretty unlikely they've made any headway at all into this thing, but isn't that the point of the Kickstarter?

Take a look at the Creative Team and check out their pedigree. In my opinion, it looks like they might just have the talent they need to get this thing off the ground.

phaedryx• 13 years ago

An MMORPG where everyone is playing a bard?

ANTHYMN by String Theory Entertainment — teach music through MMORPG

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