Questionable Kickstart Cancelled

Neil79 · 1 May 2012 at 19:26

The goons on The Something Awful Forums have uncovered some, let's say irregularities in this Kickstarter proposal for a strategy RPG called MYTHIC: The Story Of Gods And Men to be created by a developer called Little Monster Productions which claims to be comprised of Activision/Blizzard veterans. An examination of their presentation makes it apparent that some of the art assets being presented as part of this project were lifted from other games, casting strong doubts on the claim that this project was nearly complete, and they just needed USD $80,000 "in order to secure the motion capture animation team and studio time for the games sound track," in spite of previously saying "animations will be done via motion capture thanks to some friends at Disney/Pixar" (the people who bragged about not using one frame of motion capture in Ratatouille).

This seems to have derailed things, as the creators have cancelled the kickstart after attracting $4,739, which will not be collected since the "project" failed to reach its target. Thanks Joao via the redditors on Reddit by way of the roshambo upgraders on the RPS forums via the tasteful folks at PC Gamer

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/01/kickstarter-project-exposed-as-scam/

NZXT30 · 1 May 2012 at 19:34

it was going to happen sooner or later

SkeeterUK · 1 May 2012 at 20:14

Looks like skyrim some of the pics on that page the bridge and the snowy mountain ones.

The desert one looks like a real pic just blured a bit.

Lol and they thought they could get away with it. Reminds me of that game that stole art from oblivion a few years back.

PGdude · 1 May 2012 at 20:16

Someone actually pledged $2500. Wow.

Good to see that was picked up on before some silly people lost their money.

MeMeMeMe · 1 May 2012 at 20:28

NZXT30 said:
it was going to happen sooner or later

I'm pretty sure I've heard of questionable kickstarters being cancelled before.

orderoftheflame · 1 May 2012 at 21:09

Shame that people think they can get away with stuff. :mad:

Thankfully, there's plenty of eagle eyed people on the internet to stop them.

Neil79 · 1 May 2012 at 22:05

orderoftheflame said:
Shame that people think they can get away with stuff. Thankfully, there's plenty of eagle eyed people on the internet to stop them.

True!, companies are trying to make a living and great games for us yet this lot thought it wise to take liberties :mad:

orderoftheflame · 1 May 2012 at 22:10

Neil79 said:
True!, companies are trying to make a living and great games for us yet this lot thought it wise to take liberties

Seeing that all these recent legitimate kickstarters have been started for the purpose of giving people what they want, and bringing them into the process through putting a lot of trust in developers, it takes the **** a bit.

Number_25 · 1 May 2012 at 22:45

God damnit!

People abusing one of the best things to come out in the last 3 years.

Overslop · 1 May 2012 at 23:32

SkeeterUK said:
Looks like skyrim some of the pics on that page the bridge and the snowy mountain ones.

The desert one looks like a real pic just blured a bit.

Lol and they thought they could get away with it. Reminds me of that game that stole art from oblivion a few years back.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17885450&highlight=limbo+lost

Lest we ever forget the legend that was 'Limbo of The Lost'

EDIT: Crikey, that was four years ago now! :eek: