Armicrog Danger! Will the kickstarter project raise the required amount? Collected

    On May 29, the golden-haber-man CyberAP told us the good news :

    - Doug TenNape and the company stopped arguing with the copyright holder about the possibility of filming the sequel to Neverhood and are launching a new project called Armicrog.



    Money for the project is not collected from investors, but from ordinary fans according to the rules of crowdfunding, asking 900 thousand dollars on Kickstarter .

    The start was overwhelming. In the first four days, more than a third, a little more than 350 thousand, was collected. All the fans were sure that they would “take off” in the near future. But, the unpleasant thing happened: already on the fifth day, the amount of fees did not exceed 25 thousand, on average, fluctuating around 15 thousand per day.

    And now there remains only 3 days (June 24) to collect the desired amount is not small.

    Here you can see the dynamics of fees:

    Kickstarter project fees

    And by the link you can see detailed statistics.

    Since yesterday, an increase in collection has begun, but the danger has not passed!
     

    Through thorns to Armicrog


    What is Neverhood once again not necessary to tell. This year, the Habrasociety called the game the best among quests, and in the list of the best games of all time, it took 5th place, overtaking Doom and Civilization.

    In 2007, the news spread on the Internet that a plasticine cartoon based on Neverhood would soon be removed, but there was no continuation. Last year, talk began that the third part of the game would be created, but again everything died out. And now, the charter to fight with the copyright holders, the company decides to remove a new plasticine quest with new characters.

    Heroes of Armikrog Tomminaut and Bik-Bik

    The new characters are:
    - space explorer Tomminynaut (Tommynaut, translation suggested GreatRash ),
    - and his dog Beak-Beak (Beak-Beak).

    The creators promised to draw a comic strip with new characters and even published one page about what happened right before the start of the game:

    Armicrog Comic

    And, of course, Terry Taylor , the same musician who wrote and performed the entire soundtrack to Neverhood, was involved in the creation of the game .
     

    About the amount of donations and what you can get for it


    In my opinion, the creators came up with too many gradations, it could have been easier. The most popular was the amount of $ 20, for which they offered the opportunity to download a legal game and that's it. But the limit of this amount has now been exhausted. Here is what the creators offer to the payers at the moment:

    - from $ 5 to $ 25 - it’s just moral support for the creators. They will give a desktop wallpaper with the image of the worm Jimmy.
    - $ 25 - worm wallpaper and game!
    - $ 30 - everything from above, and 100 pages of pictures about the country of Armicrog in PDF and 3 tracks of Terry Taylor.
    - $ 35 - everything above, and 24 pages of a comic strip about Armicrog in PDF, and a 20-minute documentary.
    - $ 45 - everything from above, and the entire soundtrack to the game.
    - $ 50 - everything above, and 50 pages of sketches and a 60-minute documentary.
    - $ 60 - everything from above, and a film with comments by developers for the game and tracks with dance mixes to the songs of Terry Taylor.
    - $ 75 - everything above, and 100 pages of the script for Neverhood in PDF and 24 pages of a comic strip for Armicrog on paper.

    I won’t list everything, but I’ll note some of the other offers:
    - $ 130 - a disc with a game, a disc with a soundtrack in the box with a description, and with an additional level of play, out of 100 offers, all are sold out,
    - $ 3,500 - the ability to chat via Skype with creators and tell them your ideas about the world of Armicrog, and these ideas should appear in the game, out of 5 all are sold,
    - $ 10,000 - the opportunity to come to the studio, create a piece of animation that will go into the game. Of the three, one seat is still free. Hurry up! If I had 10 thousand free, I would have bought an excursion for my child, he adores Glinka.
     

    So take off or not take off?


    They say that the fees on Kickstarter are always the highest at the beginning and at the end. The next three days promise to be dramatic and eventful.

    With this post I appeal to all the glinkans: we will not let the project fall! Build your own Armicrog lunopark!

    Crowdfunding is alive!
     

    Translations


    The project has not yet raised money, and the Runet community is already trying to translate. So, the VKontakte group discusses how to correctly translate the name of the Beak-Beak dog (Thanks for the CyberAP link ). There are two main options:
    - Bik-Bik (consonantly),
    - Klu-Klyu (close to translation).

    More fun options:
    - Beak Klyuhab,
    - Mordoklyuv,
    - Byak-Byak.

    There I discovered another funny comic book by Doug Tineyp.

    Comic by Doug Tineypa

    The source and other translation options .

    The creators on the last day of collecting money announced that the localization of the game will be not only for Italian, French, German and Spanish, but also for Russian and Polish.
     

    Tracking dynamics


    June 25 - on the kickstarter, the countdown began, by leaps and bounds. For the previous day collected 48 thousand. The total amount exceeded 700 thousand.

    June 25 evening - until the end of 46 hours. 760 thousand collected.

    June 26, 9:16 Moscow time - 800 thousand milestone passed! There are 34 hours to collect another 100 thousand.

    June 26, 20:07 Moscow time - exactly 24 hours to the finish line. 834 thousand collected. Up to 900 another 66 thousand.

    Night from June 26 to June 27 in Moscow, in America in the evening, a hot time to raise funds. At about 3:30 Moscow time the required amount has been collected! Congratulations to each other. Now the Pencil Test Studios team wants to collect another 50 thousand from the top for the Wii version in the remaining 12 hours.

    June 27, 11 am Moscow time - 9 hours to the finish line. Collected another 27 thousand from above.

    June 27, 18:32 Moscow time - 95 minutes to the finish line. The amount of 950 thousand collected.

    June 27, 20:07 Moscow time - the collection is completed. Over the past hour, another 24 thousand have been collected. Total: 974 thousand. Finita la comedy.

    Here is a funny interview with Doug TenNerl, which was organized by our Russian guys. The interview was shot to the finish:



    In general, we did it, we are great, we’re waiting for the game to not wait.
     

    Release Date: August 18, 2015


    On June 9, 2015, fans supporting Armicrog in the kickstarter company received a letter stating the release day:

    August 18, 2015!

    Look forward to!

    PS 2017:


    The game disappointed. She was not as atmospheric as Neverhood. Short and not funny. Unfortunately.

    But the creators fulfilled all their promises. I got a game, a sound track and a paper comic.

    Got a comic by Armicrog

    Photo posted by Vadim (@vadimiztveri) Dec 19, 2016 at 8:22 PST



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    The author of the article is Vadim Galkin. When copying materials, please refer to my personal page .

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