How To Kickstart Taletown Even If You're Poor!

So we've launched our Kickstarter project!  You can find it here

TaleTown: A Facebook game for Readers

I know a lot of people are struggling with money these days.  I know everyone won't be able to pledge.  But do you want to know how you help the project even if you're too poor to donate?  Here's how.

1. Don't just go to the page, search us.  This is the EASIEST thing you can do to help.  Go to Google.com and type in Kickstarter Taletown.  We come up as the #1 project.  Click it.  That's it.  If you want to help more, go to Kickstarter, type Taletown into their search.  Click it.  That's it.  How is this helping?  Kickstarter tracks where people are coming in from.  People searching for the project will cause them to Feature us.  Being featured is a massive boost in exposure.  This is one you can do repeatedly to help!
   
   
2. Up in the top right corner of the TaleTown Kickstarter page is a little "Remind Me" button and a field for putting in your email.  You can put in your email and click it!  It shoots you an email when we update and when it's close to the end of our 90 day run.  The more people we have click it, the higher the project ranks in popularity!  These updates only clutter your email box about once a week till June, not too inconvenient really, plus, you might actually want to see what we're up to and how it's going!
   
   
3. Leave a comment!  Sign up with Kickstarter super quick and drop a line in the comments tab of the Kickstarter page (not here in my blog, I'd like that, but it's not fantastically helpful).  It can be something positive, what you think of the video, even a question about the game.  We'll answer.  More comments helps a LOT.
   
   
4. Share the link.  Of course, this one is pretty self explanatory.  I don't know everyone you know.  They only way they'd ever hear about it is if you share it.  And not just one time.  Maybe once every week or two while the proposal is up.  Don't spam anyone, but once in a while, as we have more updates, would really help.  Everyone loves choose your own adventure stories and you never know what friends of yours are secretly addicted to Facebook games!
    
5. Get revenge on that annoying person who keeps sending you Farmville requests by telling them about us!  Shoot them an individual message with the link and let them know what we're up to.  Our game has lots of the same elements, so they'd probably like it, but also includes real rewards and a much cooler quest system.
   
   
6. Lastly, you could pledge a buck.  It seems insignificant but Kickstarter will prioritize this project over the next 90 days based on several factors.  How many people are pledging weighs more heavily than the amount of money pledged.  At this point, 100 single dollar pledges are more useful than one 100 dollar pledge (obviously, if you can do more that helps too).  So it may seem stupid, but it's not.  It's ridiculously helpful, especially early!  I know you've gotta setup an Amazon to do it, but hey, that's free and useful to have.

That's it for now.  There are other, more invasive and time consuming ways for you to help out if you'd like, but these are the quickest and easiest and will help us make this project a reality.  If you do want to help more, just shoot me a message!

What do I think of Blade Runner Sequel/Prequels?

So, checking out movie news today and I found THIS.  You don't have to read the whole thing, I'll summarize; Alcon Entertainment is in the final stages of negotiating the rights to make a prequel/sequel to Blade Runner.

I'm one of the biggest Blade Runner fans you'll ever meet (where do you think my daughter Rachel got her name?) and I've gotta say... screw this.  Seriously.

I've known this was going to happen for a long time.  The Idea Mines in Hollywood are made up of all the old movies we treasure (and some we don't).  If it's liked, enjoyed, or watched by a group of people bigger than fits in a bus, they'll remake/prequel/re-imagine or spin off it.  Considering Blade Runner has been held as one of the most visually influential films of all time, this isn't surprising.

They've written novels set in the Blade Runner world.  They aren't that good.  They've made Blade Runner video games.  They were pretty dull.  They even made a movie with Kurt Russel supposedly set in the Blade Runner world (Soldier). I didn't think it was as bad as critics said, but it certainly wasn't great. Sure, these products weren't absolute crap, but in every single case I'm left with the feeling that they would have been better if they'd just gone and done their own thing (Soldier did mostly, the connection to Blade Runner is tenuous at best, utterly unnecessary.)  None of it was really worth it.

I don't always mind remakes.  There are some damn fine remakes out there I actually like more than originals (I'm looking at you Night of the Living Dead).  A good remake captures the spirit of the original, updates the quality, and has different subtleties on account of the actors.  It's a different take on the same story, but essentially, (unless they fuck it up like they often do) it's the same story.

Prequels?  Sequels?  Spin offs?  These are all new stories, new ideas, new plots forced to graft themselves onto old plots and squeeze into old settings.  Some movies and stories lend themselves to this.  Indiana Jones or anything comic book based, sure.  They're made to just keep going and going.  Blade Runner wasn't.

I wish there were a Voight Kampf test for bad Hollywood ideas to they could be "retired".

 It's so complicated the themes and content have been argued for decades.  It's complete.  I don't want more in the Blade Runner world.  I know enough.  When I want Blade Runner I'll watch it.  Does anyone really think they'd even come close to the spirit, intelligence, and innovation of the original?  I don't need to see some damn "That'll work!" idea shit out by a money grubbing film company splashed over with CGI effects and some jackass running around talking about the characters that are too old to actually be in the movie.

Well, too bad Blade Runner, you survived sequel-ing a lot longer than Alien, 2001, and Predator.

If we're lucky this project will die in pre-production.

P.S. If anyone wants to start an argument over whether or not Deckard is a Replicant; he's not, but I love discussing it!