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Onward and Upwards -- Come on $400K!

Update #20 · May 8, 2012 · 38 comments

Now that we’ve hit our $300K goal (and thank you all for that!), people have been asking what we'd do if we get extra funding.  Of course, as a designer, I want to make Moebius as big and awesome as it could possibly be!  After all, that's my job.

But, as always, there will be concessions to budget and time that we'll have to make, even though we have  creative control over the project.  

So my own goal:  it would be fantastic to see this kickstarter reach $400K by closing to be able to make the dream as big as it can get.  To inspire you, here are some things we can afford with additional funding:

If we get to $350K:  We’ll add an additional area (3 screens) and puzzle set I have in mind for Venice that would look awesome and extend gameplay.

If we get to $400K:  We’ll add a longer, fully cinematic opening sequence / trailer that will blow you away and help us get people lining up to buy the game, setting the tone for this new Pinkerton Road series.  PLUS Moebius on LINUX!

If we get to $450K:  All the above, plus an extra 1000 lines of dialogue to flush out the game and we’ll record the main theme with a live orchestra (Bob is drooling over that one).

I hope you were as inspired by the new art we put up yesterday as I am.  Go Team Moebius!

Jane

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New Moebius Concept from Andy Hoyos

Update #19 · May 7, 2012 · 43 comments

Hi, all. Here's a new Moebius piece for you to enjoy.  I told you that I had gotten a rather special artist to do a piece to help us set the style for Moebius.  The artist is Andy Hoyos and here is his first piece.  This is not a regular game environment, it's more of a concept piece to set the style of the game.  

You can get the full size jpg here:

http://pinkertonroad.com/sounds/ 

(go to the bottom of the page).

ABOUT THIS PIECE:

Some of the things I asked Andy for include:

-- bright color but dark gothic sensibility overall, a 'glow'' to it

-- a bit of "Dark Knight" in flavor

-- 2D that was graphic novel like but felt updated and high res

-- a sense of the metaphysical in the sky

He nailed it!  I'm really loving this image.  Bob says it's "like Disney goes to hell."  And he means that in the best possible way. Not sure that's entirely accurate, but whatever it is, I like it!  This look feels fresh to me, like it hasn't been done before.  I can't wait to see the gorgeous scenes and characters that could come out of a style like this.  Plus it lends itself very nicely to being muy cinematic.  I hope you like it as well.

ABOUT ANDY HOYOS:

Andy joined Sierra about the same time I did, in the early 90's.  He was brought in already very much a senior artist, hired to help elevate the quality of Sierra games.  Right from the start he worked on Roberta Williams games such as KQ5, KQ7 and Phantasmagoria.  So much so, that I never had a chance to work with him.  So I feel really lucky to have him working on Moebius!  At Sierra he was also AD on LSL5, QFG5. After Sierra he worked on the Matrix Online MMO and Ultima Online 2.

Here are some images of Andy's other work:

And Andy himself:

Jane

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Fully Funded! (And some cool GK art)

Update #18 · May 6, 2012 · 41 comments

This morning I awoke and sat down at my computer with coffee.  On my screen were two skype messages from people saying "Congratulations!".  It took a moment to register, then I opened up kickstarter.  YES!  We had just passed $300K, thanks to many increased pledges and new donors over the past few days and one $10K backer with impeccable timing.

I feel relief, a bit of shock and disbelief, gladness -- but mostly gratitude and humility.  It's amazing that we can say, "Hey, guys, how about investing in a wouldn't-it-be-cool-if?" and people are willing to play along.  THANK YOU.  

Bob is flying back from a Scarlet Furies gig in CA this weekend, and I want to wait til he's here to do a video update.  But I did dig out some old treasures recently, and this seems a good time to share them with you.  HAPPY SUNDAY!

Jane

From artist Mark Brill:

Artist:  Mike Krahulik

Bob and I from the GK1 credits

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Pinkerton Road Creative Review Book

Update #17 · May 5, 2012 · 20 comments

Brandon, from Art of Sierra, did a fun mock-up for us of what our  "Pinkerton Road Creative Review  2012" book might look like.  Way cool.

This will likely not really be the cover art, because by the time we're ready to put this together, we'll have a lot more great art to choose from.  But it still looks neat.  Thanks, Brandon!

This book will include a section on each of the games we do with color images of all the scenes, concept sketches (like the Moebius logo above), bios of team members and voice over actors and other cool stuff.  At the $100--999 levels you will get a pdf version of this.  At the $1000  and up levels you will be a signed hard copy.  

Jane

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Big Update: Two Games

Update #16 · May 4, 2012 · 83 comments

Hi, all!  We have a new major kickstarter update.  I'll be updating the main kickstarter page to match.  Enjoy!

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