Comments on: Chapter 15 – Page 23 and G-Day 2012!

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:58:47 +0000

Yes.

By: Fren

Fren — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:38:06 +0000

Eh, relax guys … I’ll just knock over a kindergarten teacher someplace and yank her supply of gold stars, mail them to Phil. That way, when you get a Gold Star, just send him a SASE and he can mail it back to you. You might even get some of his DNA on the gold star! Now that’s something you can brag about to the grandkids!

By: Loki

Loki — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:06:27 +0000

(See end of this for tl;dr)
centuriancode, I doubt it. As I just realized ^_^;, the purpose of those comics was to chronologically place all of those mission vignettes we saw (the water supply terrorists, the intro’s gnome-volcano bit, and the flooding prison aka “frigg can absorb water through her toes”). In http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-7/chapter-7-page-2/ , It looks like Day 14 is the day after they saved Frigg (the end of Chapter 6). Next page: It looks like the gnome-volcano bit happened 3 days later. 4 days later: the water supply incident. On page http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-7/chapter-7-page-6/, mission-control-guy mentions the all 3 vignettes /including/ the flooding prison.
In short, all the vignettes chronologically happened between chapters 6 and 7.
…unless the creators are throwing us for a really unusual and unpopular (aka, unlikely) loop. But hey, who’da guessed the main characters were suspended in tubes that used arcane/computer technology?
…..even with that said, I would just assume that all the vignettes happened between Chapters 6 and 7. Anything else makes my head hurt*.
*: Ok, technically it makes it feel like I’m trying to grasp the incomprehensible and illogical, which is a bit distracting and overwhelming. But you don’t need to know that. :P

tl;dr: Chapter 1′s gnome-volcano dealie chronologically happened between chapter’s 6 and 7. As did all the other vignettes.

By: Loki

Loki — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:33:24 +0000

From one god to another… :P
In short, I think kickstarter is a bit more involved than you’re suggesting. While it’s running (usually for at least 3 weeks), it’s nice if you moderate people’s comments, maybe respond to choice ones…not to mention reply to (or at the very least, read) the comments people send you through kickstarter. That’s not a whole lot, but it’s a bit of work. Every kickstarter I’ve seen so far (except for the really dead ones) has made project updates, so crafting those is a bit of a labor aswell…
Then Phil/T/Other Important Person? need to decide what it is they’d like to create. I mean, if the kickstarter succeeds, they’re very much bound to create this thing. And if they get way more money than they anticipated, they’ll probably be expected to make even more stuff. To use an extreme example, look at OOTS: Rich originally planned to reprint a couple books (maybe reprint all of his books if he got lucky), and as it’s turned out, he’s got a whole year of work cut out for him. Now, our fine Guilded Age creators may be OK with that possibility…but maybe not so much.
To end with a kind of weird point: I would expect there to be some kind of “kickstarter fatigue”. If Guilded Age does a trial kickstarter now, then will people not be as excited to check out the next one? There seems to be an unspoken rule that once you’ve done a kickstarter, you can’t do another one for at least 6 months, likely a year.
That said, If the creators of Guilded Age are OK with all these factors (which could be worse, and could be not as bad), then maybe a Guilded Age kickstarter would be a wonderful thing for them.

By: Mujaki

Mujaki — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:35:38 +0000

As someone that actually got a Gold Star once, I’d say that would be somewhat awesome, but not really cost effective to produce if they’re limited to only those that actually have Gold Stars.
Besides, shouldn’t the Gold Star be reward enough?