Toejam and Earl

sexyhyde · 9 Mar 2015 at 23:32

A new Toejam and Earl game is on Kickstarter

For PC, Mac and Linux. Looks great in my eyes, sticking to everything the original did right and ignoring all the direction the publisher forced them to take with the sequels.

Spuddy · 9 Mar 2015 at 23:53

Mega excited for this, gonna have to back it. Spent countless hours on the original games on Sega MegaDrive.

Sega Mega Dave · 9 Mar 2015 at 23:54

Oh the memories.

Will keep an eye on how this unfolds.

arknor · 10 Mar 2015 at 00:31

so what do these have to do with the original toe jam and earl?

the about the devs bit is like WTF?!?!?!?

1) I've (Greg) been making games as an independent developer for 34 years now ("How is that possible when he looks so young," you say?) And I've run a studio for a few decades.

yea really is he 34 years old? and he plays WOT to 3am AWESOME! sending all my hard earned monies

Why is there

"BIG thanks to Paul Reiche and Fred Ford, who run Toys For Bob (the frightening minds behind Star Control and Skylanders), to Tim Schafer (Illustrious leader of Double Fine), and to Will Wright (ok, if you don’t know who he is you don’t play video games)"

What do they have to do with this?

sexyhyde · 10 Mar 2015 at 04:17

arknor said:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Johnson_(game_designer). The original about video where he does almost all of it in a Scottish accent detailed much. Greg is actively engaging with backers and already implementing popular ideas, not just paying them lip service.

PinkFloyd · 10 Mar 2015 at 07:12

I spent hours as a kid playing panic on funkatron, didn't realise it was so different to the original (that this is based on)
The original never held my interest at all as a kid :/

sexyhyde · 10 Mar 2015 at 08:32

PinkFloyd said:
I spent hours as a kid playing panic on funkatron, didn't realise it was so different to the original (that this is based on)
The original never held my interest at all as a kid :/

Most people liked the second one, some even preferred it, Greg acknowledged this in the video too. If this gets funded maybe he will get a remake ala Panic on Funkatron.

chris-82 · 11 Mar 2015 at 17:23

i love toe jame and earl and have been harping on about how much i miss it,so had to back this straight away.

Mockingbird · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:24

arknor said:
yea really is he 34 years old? and he plays WOT to 3am AWESOME! sending all my hard earned monies

He says he's been a games developer for 34 years, not that he's 34 years old. Someone's level of experience in the industry could be considered of interest to potential backers?

BigBruiserAl · 11 Mar 2015 at 22:38

$10,000 package and travel not inc outrage

sexyhyde · 11 Mar 2015 at 23:10

BigBruiserAl said:
$10,000 package and travel not inc outrage

If your dropping $10,000 on a kickstarter, I doubt the cost of travel will be unaffordable.

mcwildcard · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:42

This is the Kickstarter I've been hoping for since the whole crowd funding thing became popular, decided to dig deep and go for the $85 Dude package.
10 days to go and $100k left to make, its going to be tight!

sexyhyde · 24 Mar 2015 at 23:21

$20,000 left to go with just under 3 days left!

mcwildcard · 27 Mar 2015 at 21:32

Funded!

qotsa · 28 Mar 2015 at 11:19

Happy to see this get over the line! Spent a lot of time playing as a kid, should be good.