Project Kickstarter

If you haven't already heard of Kickstarter its a website / organization dedicated to help small independents fund their projects.

Many times you'll find some of those old classic games you use to play as a kid trying to get funded for a reboot and these big name dev houses don't want anything to do with them because they can't make MW3 type of money from them.

If you ever played the old Kings Quest series or even Leisure Suite Larry those series are trying to reboot and are utilizing kickstarter.

If you have a few minutes check the site out - take a look around - you may even find something you like. I found out they're trying to reboot Carmegeddon - so I recently pledged some money toward that project.

http://www.kickstarter.com/

I have actually. We were going to put our Gamerator up on this site. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

whats this gamerator? and who's "we"? you actually have part of this great device?

Yeah it's my evil invention. Long story short, about 5 years ago I wanted to build my own arcade cabinet (use to be in commercial millwork) and run it off a modded xbox. So I started designing, realized there was a lot of dead space so I thought, hmmm I going to put a refrigerator in mine. Then I thought, I going to put a keg kit in this bitch! And thus it was born.

My friends absolutely loved it and said I should sell them. It was just a hobby and I didn't have the bank to start up a business so my two friends wanted to help out so we started The Custom Bar Guys.

So I built the first prototype and we put it on Ebay. In the 7 day auction we had over 43,000 views and we started getting emails from magazines, tv shows, newspapers from all over the world. It was pretty crazy.

Since then we sell one here and there. Build them out of my shop and ship them from a buddies business that has a loading dock.

Here's a picture of the very first one which I never finished all the way. All dusty an lonely in the corner still.



Another one we built for Yammer Inc.

Couple things, sorry for making the long story short, long again and it no longer runs off a modded xbox. Only mine does, they now run off a PC.

god damn you hillbilly's are pretty damn inventive when you need to be

are you hand cutting all that or do you have access to cnc cutters and such?

Hey I'm from Iowa, I only live in Virginia LOL! The first couple were hand cut (made a template then used a pattern bit.) Then I made a deal with the millwork company I use to work for who did have a CNC and they would cut the parts for me.

lol you make it sound like Iowa is the mecca of urban living

BlackDeath wrote:

god damn you hillbilly's are pretty damn inventive when you need to be

are you hand cutting all that or do you have access to cnc cutters and such?

Everything cool on this earth was invented by hillbilly's.... or the Japanese!

LMFAO delta I think I'm going to quote you on that.

I think I'm more Asian then a Hillbilly.

half Asian....from the waist down

LOL

you have a PM btw hillbilly

BlackDeath wrote:

half Asian....from the waist down

LOL

you have a PM btw hillbilly

Oh you must have missed Slams line " Hey I may not be able to hit the bottom of a tuna can, but ill split the sides!" You should add that to your sig also