Elite on Kickstarter...

[Darkflame]

I'll up it another 5GBP....weak, but it all helps.

I'm also trying to encourage friends with the idea of exploring a galaxy as a group.

[adam]

he could probably do with a bit more media coverage, another set of stories at the end is probably useful

[Stuart B]

Looks like work have finally picked up on it towards the end!

[axel000]

Only about 74k to go in funding needed and about 68 hours. We should see a further uptick in pledges as the 48 hour passes due to Kickstarter's automatic email going out at that point to all who liked / tweated or pledged an initial amount at some point.

[Mqark]

I see Mr Braben is pimping Elite Dangerous by asking Dara O Briain for retweets. Well, if you've got a million or so followers then why not. I kind of feel though that anyone who would be likely to be into this game will have heard of it already by now.

[defsdoor]

I pushed Charlie Brooker and Stephen Fry into giving some British game dev. love too - no response...

[Portland]

c. £55k to go

Will be apporaching the cost of a Civic soon...

[Misfit]

I pushed Charlie Brooker and Stephen Fry into giving some British game dev. love too - no response...

It'll be fine. It's down to less than £1k per hour and it's added around £20k in the last 9 hours whilst most people in the UK were sleeping (and you would assume most of the cash is coming from the UK?). I reckon it'll be there by this time tomorrow.

It's just a case of seeing if any stretch goals are met and what the last 48 hour surge does.

[Misfit]

And £11k in the last 90 minutes. It's getting too easy...

[Darkflame]

I think the Frontier offices have gone from "oh shit we might not make it" to "oh shit we are going to make it"

[Istar]

"They're not out yet"

But it's looking good.

[Mqark]

On the occasional page refresh I do, I sometime see the pledge total drop a bit - this has me thinking, once it's funded for sure, I can take my pledge back down to a more affordable level as there will be no risk.

Of course if everybody does this...

[Portland]

c. £31k now

[Istar]

On the occasional page refresh I do, I sometime see the pledge total drop a bit - this has me thinking, once it's funded for sure, I can take my pledge back down to a more affordable level as there will be no risk.

Of course if everybody does this...

Actually, I already did this. The amount I dropped was tiny, from £50 to £42, since I figured I probably wouldn't get much time to play in the beta anyway. If they get to an hour away and they're £8 from fully-funded, I'll throw it back in.

[Misfit]

Survivor, the Elite game book, needs just £152 in the last 6 hours to reach all it's stretch goals, and the last stretch, expanding the number of sections seems worth hitting:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232 ... k/comments

And a late comer to the books, Mostly harmless, sounds worth a look. It's hit its goal in just 4 hours over Christmas. Which in part is probably due to it's claims of going for a Douglas Adams style approach, but also due to the fact it's done by a cute blonde lady you may have seen doing tech stuff on TV who has used some of her outlets to promote that and Elite in general.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat ... -working-t