I liked it better when Johnny was just trying to make a livin' in the hood, but as Mr. Suppish extraordinaire says himself, "a Johnny's work is never done". I'm looking forward to it. The motorcycle scene in the end looked great :D
Reviews for "J Rocketfingers 3 Trailer"
You know what's surprising? You actually got the "chicken dinosaurs" right. Ever since science ruined my view of awesome kick ass monsters that used to roam the planet, now instead it turns out were actually giant fucking chickens...
And I fucking loved the first two johnny rocket fingers. Plot of this one seems a little far fetched though. I was expecting more bad-ass beatings and kills and comedy instead of science and magic and all that other stuff in the trailer...
vastcool responds:
This is a fair review. I would like to clarify that there would be tons of ass beatings and comedy in the first episode (especially ass beatings). The comedy would come from Johnny's interactions with objects and creatures and also his dialogue.
You got to get a banner eventually like Project Nexus 2 did. It'll be tough to reach the goal in the amount of days you set it to. But I like the ambition. Best of luck to you. Maybe if you said this is a Saint-Rows-like-point-and-click-adventure-game, people might drawn more towards.
I loved the first 2... but this is gonna be EXTREMELY AWESOME! :D
Each time I thought it was over... it turns out it's just one twist after the other, in escalating levels of explosive action and random revelations! :D I love the idea, and would love to play this in some distant future... but looking at the funding page that is one insane goal... and that half a million is still only for the first episode in a game that to me seems just wouldn't be as explosive without all parts included.
Couldn't you cut out the income tax completely? I don't know how the system works on the other side of the world, but it seems to me that by keeping the venture a hobby project or similar, by not 'officially' hiring people to do parts, by turning to volunteers for effects/audio/etc you could cut down those prices by at least a few chunks easily equal to the yearly wages of any normal working individual. All the pieces of that pie chart just seem so unnecesarily expensive for something that's to be contributed to by the community. I understand that original art and FBF is incredibly time-consuming, and you want to create something out of this world, but this feels like buying a product based on brand rather than functionality, like that much money shouldn't be needed for what's being attempted. Anyway, I read your answer to Wegra's comment so I get your standpoint, just throwing my two cents out there. Best of luck with the project!
-cd-
vastcool responds:
I'll be updating the kickstarter soon with another video that will hopefully get the point across that this will be an insanely hard game to make. An 11 minute Ren & Stimpy cartoon cost 500,000 and that was in 1992. My budget is not astronomical for this quality of project, as shocking as that may seem to some. The 390k budget simply allows me not to commit suicide while trying to complete this monster project. But instead it allows me to teter on the brink of insanely stressed and over worked for the entire production. If I had a 590k budget, THAT would be far more realistic of industry standards and I would be able to work comfortably, not stressed out and living in ulcer city.
If I were an architect and wanted to build a sky scraper, no one would be questioning my budget because nobody here is an architect and would know very little of what exactly goes into constructing a massive building.
Yet here everyone is chiming in thinking they know how much this game should cost. People are comparing it to Madness and other kickstarters that are completely incomparable to Johnny since Johnny is a one of a kind project not only in art style but story, humor and animation.
How many people here know how much the industry standard is for a Background Artist? How about a clean-up artist or even better yet a Storyboard Artist or Animator? My guess is very few.
I am a 32 year old adult industry working professional. Not a kid making flashes for fun to submit to Newgrounds. Eleven other adult industry professionals would be hired whom I have hand selected as the most talented people that I have met in the past seven years while working at Titmouse, Six Point Harness, Shadow Machine and Nickelodeon.
They do not work for peanuts. They are working industry adults who have families and bills to pay.
If everyone just pledged for the game they want and stopped worrying about the goal we would be a lot closer to a new Johnny game.
Thanks for the comment Cd.