Kick-started Remake of Leisure Suit Larry Now On Sale

First time accepted submitter Zanadou writes "Al Lowe, the original creator of Leisure Suit Larry and other classic games, announced earlier today the final release of the remake of the first game of the series, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: 'This is the moment I've been waiting a year for – Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded is finally available! Right now. Tonight. For PCs and Mac. At the Replay Games site. (It would also be available via Steam, but they refuse to release a game at midnight; they said 'Tomorrow.' Hmm.) iOS versions will be available as soon as Apple releases it in the iTunes store. Android will follow shortly. What a night! Thank you to everyone who contributed to our Kickstarter campaign. It's been a long, hard year but I think this game is well worth it.'"

Re:The Good/Bad of Kickstarter

[Rude Turnip]

The difference is that you're buying something with Kickstarter. It's a way for someone to pre-sell something instead of going through normal funding routes and losing equity in the project.

Re:The Good/Bad of Kickstarter

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, it's called distributed arts patronage.

It lets people create what they want to create rather than what game publishers want them to create.

Re:The Good/Bad of Kickstarter

[tibman]

The return on investment is the actual product itself. The product might not ever exist if people didn't invest it.

Re:The Good/Bad of Kickstarter

[jandrese]

The way I see it, Kickstarter is best for getting projects going that normal publishers have no interest in. That's why there's a glut of miniature games in there, because mini games are risky and not many VCs want to invest in them. They're also relatively expensive to make and have a niche audience. Yet that niche audience is more than passionate enough to fund countless Kickstarters it seems. This is also a huge boon for indie developers wanting to make games that aren't cover based shooters full of quicktime events. FTL would never have gotten any traction from EA or any large publisher. Plus it lowers the bar for success for companies. As long as they deliver what they promised the customers are happy and presumably they earned enough to keep themselves going. There is no investor breathing down their necks to increase the profit margins every quarter, the artists get to keep more of their money and pretty much all of their creative control.

Really, the only people who get kind of shafted in this are the Backers, who have to take on a lot of risk and are far from guaranteed a good product in the end. Luckily your average Kickstarter backer is out only a few bucks if the project is total flop. It's not like a traditional investor who could be in a lot of trouble when his large risky bets don't yield fruit.

Re:Torrent?

[Jmc23]

One could argue that since their kickstarter was funded to the full amount and more, piracy has no detrimental effect, and might even have a positive effect due to more exposure.

Re:The Good/Bad of Kickstarter

[fan777]

Kickstarter isn't an investment. It is funding a product that isn't on the market and, if successful, is then delivered to you. There's a bit of risk -- the product may or may not be as good as described and you will likely never receive it on schedule. But I've participated in a dozen of these and on the most part am very pleased with what I receive.

Re:I should think the important question here...

[Jmc23]

'cause remaking a dos game automatically makes you assume they'll remake it as a dos game??? The more important question is how you couldn't comprehend the summary?

Question.

[Areyoukiddingme]

Does it have bouncing black boxes? It's not Leisure Suit Larry without bouncing black boxes.

Re:Torrent?

[Anonymous Coward]

Aside from that, I have already bought the game four times. Softporn Adventure, the original, the VGA remake and in the compilation "Larry's Greatest Hits & Misses". I just finished torrenting the remake because I'm not paying for the same game a fifth time.

Re:The Good/Bad of Kickstarter

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow! I applaud your bravery. If I was too dense to understand such a simple concept as Kickstarter, I don't think I would go around telling people.

Re:Well.....

[hedwards]

Star Wars doesn't run DRM free on Linux.