{"id":39594,"date":"2012-06-12T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=39594"},"modified":"2012-06-13T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T08:12:18","slug":"spaceventure-kickstarter-campaign-makes-its-500000-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/39594-spaceventure-kickstarter-campaign-makes-its-500000-target","title":{"rendered":"SpaceVenture Kickstarter campaign makes its $500,000 target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things were looking a bit bleak for the Two Guys From Andromeda yesterday when their Kickstarter campaign for a new game, SpaceVenture, had only 30 hours left to go with almost $30,000 short of their $500,000 target. <em>BUT THEN!<\/em> The people of the Milky Way came to the rescue, and the project is now sitting on $525,464 buckazoids and counting.<\/p>\n<p>Good show, Earthlings &#8211; when the orat apocalypse comes, we shall be spared. Maybe. Orats can be a bit unpredictable, especially during mating season.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceVenture is billed as a \u201csci-fi comedy adventure game\u201d that sounds more or less exactly like Space Quest, with features including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tons of the fresh (and moldy) pop-culture references<\/li>\n<li>Fun and unique humor<\/li>\n<li>Art design and direction by Mark<\/li>\n<li>Dialogue that will make you blow nostril Tang, written by Scott along with Mark<\/li>\n<li>Narration of all this by Gary Owens and the voice acting of other characters by the above mentioned quality industry voice talent<\/li>\n<li>Game music that will hopefully give you chills and wedge in your main orb for the rest of your natural Earth life and make you wish you lived inside your computer!<\/li>\n<li>A game that you will feel comfortable playing with your children, but with some entertainment that will safely appeal only to the adult psyche<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The game will be launched on <a title=\"PC Gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC<\/a>, <a title=\"Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20713-Apple-Inc\">Mac<\/a>, <a title=\"Linux\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21507-Linux\">Linux<\/a>, iPad, and <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> tablets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/spaceventure\/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Two Guys From Andromeda need help to make their Kickstarter target\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39567-two-guys-from-andromeda-need-help-to-make-their-kickstarter-target.html\">Two Guys From Andromeda need help to make their Kickstarter target<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Original Space Quest creators head to Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37433-original-space-quest-creators-head-to-kickstarter.html\">Original Space Quest creators head to Kickstarter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39513-twisted-metals-david-jaffe-working-on-free-to-play-shooter.html\">Twisted Metal\u2019s David Jaffe working on free-to-play shooter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38549-carmageddon-reincarnation-hits-its-kickstarter-goal.html\">Carmageddon Reincarnation hits its Kickstarter goal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38483-did-kickstarter-hide-failed-projects.html\">Did Kickstarter hide failed projects?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kickstarter news\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/tag\/kickstarter\"><strong>All Kickstarter news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, you&#8217;ve been a real pantload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":37487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2366,4924,4925,4194,4923],"class_list":["post-39594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-kickstarter","tag-mark-crowe","tag-scott-murphy","tag-spaceventure","tag-two-guys-from-andromeda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39599,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594\/revisions\/39599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}