Updated: Skullgirls's second mystery DLC character getting stage and story mode - Crowdfunding finished with 5 DLC characters funded

Just passed 130k. Not even 24 hours passed.

http://fireden.net/4chan/t/fireden.ne...

who the hell is giving them money

I highly doubt that we'll make the 600k goal but I think that depending on how much stuff slows down tomorrow it wouldn't be unreasonable to think Big Band might be made.

In other news: top players are just as ignorant about how much stuff costs and anyone who thinks that this cost is a scam/bloated is an idiot speaking without being at all informed.

The ONE time that a fighting game company isn't actively trying to squeeze you for extra cash and are actually working with the game / customer in mind and people think they are getting ripped off.

Transparency here: I bought Skullgirls week one, but have only played it MAYBE ten minutes, total (that first week.) I didn't really like how it played: It felt floaty and offputting. Is it worth coming back to this game and giving it another shot?

I'm impressed by the number that the start-up has gotten to in such a short time, and the game, in general, seems to have a large following. Am I missing something that makes it popular? I'm certainly not against trying it again, as I love fighting games in general.

Summary, anyone?

I would love to have Brain Drain to be the second Male.
And is that the shark scientist?

wow, where is all this money coming from, didn't know skullgirls had that much support

This is awesome news!!! I can't wait to see the rest of the mystery characters. Right now I'm liking Dr. Violet, Annie, and Black Dhalia.

@EyePawd
The patch may have something to do with it. They sped up the game a bit and it actually made things tons more fun. And of course they fixed some issues with the mechanics and re balanced the characters. It's pretty awesome from what my brother tells me. I haven't been able to play it yet since I own a 360. I plan on getting it for PC and PS3 though.

Also...is that a boxing character I see in the pic with all of the mystery characters? If so I'm super interested to see that character.

the only thing the game was missing to be a complete success was a bigger roster. hopefully the momentum keeps rising. i want my cyborg 009 character T~T

I want that "gang" kinda dudes wit the big 90s anime flop hairdoo and the white jackets with the black stars implemented somehow. They are off to the right in the one stage. Think they'd be sick to see in game and their story might come out pretty cool.

and i think japan has some reason behind all the money. seeing as how it did so well over there and it was just released.

@Zentsurugi

Thanks for an answer without the typical internet spazzyness. I had forgotten about the patch, frankly. I certainly wasn't again the game. I even got a chance to interview the development team for a games site I wrote for back when testing builds were floating around some of the fighting game tourneys.

My biggest complaint was the speed of the non-patched version. Same reason I could never get into BlazBlue: Felt too slow.

Anyone know if anyone plays this online anymore?

Well, then...

Are people from Japan and Europe donating, too? Did they put this up in other places? If they have worldwide support, that might explain how it's happening so quickly.

Also Seth Killian, Haunts, and Andrew Alfonso (People actually involved in the industry) telling it how it is on how much individual characters cost. You all take things too much for granted.

Seth

https://twitter.com/sethkillian/statu...

https://twitter.com/sethkillian/statu...

Haunts

https://twitter.com/haunts/status/306...

Andrew

https://twitter.com/itsumobasho/statu...

"For 150k I can get Ryu's Left hand designed and animated"

Lol'd at this ^

They're quite ambitious for such a small game and fanbase.

Can't remember all the character's names, but I'm gonna try anyway.

1. Umbrella
2. Marie
3. Black Dahlia
4. Mrs. Victoria
5. D. Violet
6. Annie

8. Hive
9. Leduc
10. Corkscrew
11. Brain Drain
12. Andy Anvil

13-16: Could be folks from Ms. Fortune's Fishbone Gang.
17: Feng

21: Minnet

25: No. 13
26: Panzerfaust
27: Andy

30: Venus Lovelace
31: Aeon
32: Mother(?)

#11 I can't say because I have it on Xbox but from what I understand GGPO allows you to play against japanese players pretty comfortably.

#16

Yes on the PS3 version (The one with the patch) allows quality online experience. Even the higher pings feel playable.

The problem though, at least initially is that Japan sees a red ping and would not accept a match despite red ping being playable in the 200 range

I can recognize only about half those character's silhouettes. :s Hope that if they manage to get the $600k that they can give us a mini paragraph summary of the characters planned play style. Just off design though I'm going for Black Dahlia or Panzerfaust. I'm also curious about Mrs.Victoria only because I can't picture her as a character...it could be interesting. Anyways, all of my money! :3

@HooliganComboFTW -
"Also Seth Killian, Haunts, and Andrew Alfonso (People actually involved in the industry) telling it how it is on how much individual characters cost. You all take things too much for granted."

- Exactly. People think this s*** is free to make, thn bitch an moan all the one. Hey have no idea how mic money and hours of no sleep it actually takes.

Thing is, like two seconds of thinking, a few minutes of research and common sense would have given them the same info.

Also in contrast to my other post, what Chris G been tweeting was incredibly ignorant and only suited on making an ass out of himself. https://twitter.com/NYChrisG/status/3...
Lol saying $150k would fund FIVE full characters and himself would be enough for TESTING.

Ignorance being spread like this is one of the main reasons why alot of people don't know what the industry is actually like

...wow, my iPhone butchered that last post. :-(

I can vouch for Lab Zero here. I've done some sprite animating here and there over the years and it's a tedious task compared to making one 3D model and being done for the day. Sprites go through a much longer process and requires a lot of work and for Lab Zero to promise Squigly in two months time is great. If it was Alex alone doing the pencil art, line art, coloring, shading, and animation, we probably wouldn't see Squigly for over a year. Especially with the amount of fluid frame animation with Skullgirls.

@Hooligan - man that is sad to see. I hope RabidDuckie enlightens him on that. Saying "I could test it"... Silly.

People really don't understand how this works and it just saddens me. Even as someone who barely had a foot in the door, I can safely say even just the testing is not that effing easy, and rarely dies the pay compensate.

I think it's about time I dived into this game. Been reading all the news and everything lately. Seems like a pretty rad game. And it's cool to see the community coming together in support of the proposed new material for the game. Yah boi!

@EyePawd

The patch addressed a lot of issues with character balance and combos going on forever as well as sped up the game a bit. It's basically marvel but without all the bulls--t.

@EyePawd

i haven't jumped online recently, but salty cupcakes will accept online entries for their tournament if not enough people sign up at the place. They are that confident in Skull Girls online. There's also a topic on SRK where someone hosts weekly online tournaments for the game. So while the community isn't as big as marvel/ae, they try to making it so there's a constructed way to grow in the game without attending majors that won't host the game to begin with.

They also recently made a forum for the community at skullheart.com for events and info. There are also weekly online tournaments that average about 40-ish people.

#26

Yeah Salty Cupcakes stream tourneys are a mix of Offline and Online peeps. The online is that good.

Your also thinking about Skullbats as the weekly online tourney (I believe they do it Swiss style) where they get pretty good turnouts. They are slowly moving to SH though instead of staying at SRK

Hmmm.... I'll be donating $5. Wish I could do more.

Hope the male character is cool. Still feel it should remain an all-girl fighter, but whatever.

Black Dahlia for me

Wow , I love the support that's been shown .... I hope the cast of characters continue to grow , although I have doubts if the popularity of the game could grow enough ( Although I hope Evo presence could help with that )

I also hope to see a disc based release one day with more characters too.( hopefully one day we will have all 6 of those charactere, along with Squiggly and the big male character ..... and maybe one day everyone behind those black silhouttes too in a few years ...)

I thought this game had a terrible number of attendants at events? By the looks of it, if only a small percentage of all these backers showed up, the game wouldn't even be close to being "dead".

@EndlessWitch the thing is that not every person is interested in growing the scene or giving their money to a top player. A lot of people support the game and only play it casually, or support it because they love the art/story, or they want the game itself to succeed more than just the community surrounding the tournament scene for the game.

I think a lot of the FGC (especially some top players whom I wont name directly but live in NY and have an incredibly good morrigan.) have a myopic view of a game's community as being SOLELY based on tournaments and weeklies.

I always thought Black Dahlia looked interesting.

This is great news.

I HOPE they make it to 600,000 and beyond.
I'm voting for Ludec, no doubt.

Dont worry skullgirls, my whole first paycheck from my new job will be donated to you. FENG I'm coming for JOO!!!

Who cares if little people shows up in a tournament in USA. The world is way bigger guys. There´s people interseted in this game all over the worold and it shows in those 150k in less than 24 hs. Stop being so self-centered.

Re: #33:

"I think a lot of the FGC have a myopic view of a game's community as being SOLELY based on tournaments and weeklies."

Bingo. Valiant but narrow sighted.

I like Sg, i think its a goo game and all, but I do think thats a lot of money to be putting on one character. You can say I agree with Chris G ina sense of what should;ve been done a half of year ago.

woo! 142,500 in 21hours. If it raises $7500 in the next 3 hours it will have hit it's goal within the first 24hours. I'd say that is a success. At this point it is pretty much guaranteed that Squiggly at least will be made even if that is all that happens there is very little chance that in the next 30days the funding wont raise the last $7500. Especially given that the final day of these things generally raises as much as the middle 28days put together in my experience. (This is the 6th project I've backed. Banner Saga, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns, Can's Without Labels, Double Fine Adventure Game and now Squiggly.)

BLACK DAHLIA PLEASE!!!

IM SO F*CKING HYPE RIGHT NOW

I was really hoping for Venus and Aeon to make it to the poll, I'm not sure if I see either one of them in the silhouettes :(

@ RealPrismsword

They're towards the bottom :3 Sooo want Venus X3

yo we in there, this is surprisingly going well
good luck SG

TBH would want to know the character's potential playstyle to make a choice as I wouldn't want a character to be chosen only for it to play fairly similar to existing one.

i read all the perks on their donation page and now im wondering if anyone actually donated $1000 cuz it says they will put you in the game!

And Stanley got revealed:

http://d2oadd98wnjs7n.cloudfront.net/...

The power of science!!!

Still waiting to see that 380k character.

I don't even recognize the body frame.

@40

https://twitter.com/sethkillian/statu...

@50

That's most likely Eliza, the (Hollywood) Pharoh Queen (actress).

@50

this is her, in the middle.
http://images.wikia.com/skullgirls/im...

Clearly my news editor is malfunctioning.

As a guy who wants to make games and loves games, this is very inspirational to me. Been made but just a hand full of people compared to the bigger development teams of capcom, namco, etc.

(Characters revealed here: http://skullheart.com/forums/index.ph..., http://skullheart.com/forums/index.ph...)

Damn there are a lot of characters coming down the pipeline?

@54

Are you gonna give the game another chance when Squigly comes out?

So gamers complain about DLC pricing, but they toss money at this crowdfunding fad like it's nothing???? SMH

All the attention this game is getting bugs me, because even though, at the end of the day, I DO like the game (and honestly, I forget that a lot. Doesn't help that I bought it on Xbox), it will always be overshadowed by MvC (which I don't like), which makes me feel like all this attention is energy that could be better spent on a game I care more about. That was a run-on, bleh. Umbrella is cute though. BB and VF for life. :(

I'm glad I didn't buy this from the start. Now that I feel like it's going to be a complete game with more characters I'll start paying more attention to it.

May as well congratulate them now, only about 800 away from their first goal. I have to say I'm impressed with the support of the fans. When Mike Z first talked about this and threw out that 150k number I thought to myself, is this guy serious? I didn't think it had a chance, thankfully I was proven wrong. Congrats everyone at reverge labs!

@2 Who's giving them money? MANLY PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN THE FIGHTING SPIRIT! I liked everything about the game except for the cast size, and the pre-patch training menu. Now that i can directly effect the cast size, i donated (and got some cool stuff with it that i'll give to my friends).

Also, yeah i'm going to be that guy: The goal is is "sight".

wow they did it.

Congrats Lab Zero guys :D and lol #62, calling them Reverge, kick em while they are down, oh no wait, they got up with a wakeup SRK already :3

its done now to aim for the rest 25k more for the storymode for her and then the rest, hope they can eventually make it

WE DID IT!!

YEAAA WE IN HERRREEEEE

sent $30

I was gonna buy the game for PC anyway, and would have probably bought squigly

so in the end I only "donated" $10

OHMAGAWD UMBRELLA IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!

Black Dahlia, please

@59 If you can't see the difference between people trying to milk their customers and team that earned everyones respect that they are willing to support them through the hardest times... I feel soryy for you.

That there was a beautiful thing rarely seen in this industry nowadays.

The initial goal of 150k met under 24 hours! Can't say anyone saw this coming...

Stretch Goals Ahoy~

Holy Moly. People really love Skullgirls. I think everyone hear about their recent troubles and wanna help out.

Now that's a roster.

Can somebody update the blog with the names under the silhouettes? I can see if they were still unknown but they have the names.

They met their basic goal to create Squiggly! But can they get that $600,000

I hope they get a million if that means the roster will expand along with it.

5K in less than 30 minutes. That stage and michiru music are ours bye the end of the day.

I want Parasoul's sister to join the fight.

Black Dahlia looks so awesome! If she gets voted in, ill buy the game and her.

Good for them, I wanted them to reach their Squiggly goal but i never imagined they'd do it this fast.

I'm not sure that they'll make the 600k, but I also wasn't sure they'd make the 150, so I'll wait and see. I'd love to get Big Band and Black Dhalia. Been wanting Dhalia since I did Cerebella's story mode. That bitch looks bad :)

I've been (sort of) keeping track of the amount donated per hour and if you consider it being a exponential decrease (people donate less and less by the hour), which I think is a fair guess, they would reach about 700k by the end of the drive.

The game is awesome, yet the rooster was kind of limited.
When I see these possible characters are pretty cool looking.
So conclusion, I bought the game today. I hope they create new DLC with these possible characters.

We have Squigly :D

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

Congrats to the LZ crew for hitting their first target so quickly, I'll be sure to drop a donation to them soon.
I'm gonna be really torn, if they get to 600k, on what character to vote for... I hope they'll allow more than one vote, I can't decide between Umbrella, Black Dhalia and Minette...
I also lol'd at the Heart reference, on the 3rd row, middle silhouette.

It's $ 158,000+ and still ongoing.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Yo, wait a minute, middle guy in the third row. Is that some manly Aino Heart?!

@82 That's always the trend of kickstarters. Initial rush, slow period in the middle then another big rush at the end.

@84 - YAAAAESSSS!!!!

A combination of Yay and Yes!

Er, anyway, awesomesauce. Really looking forward to Squigly and how she works out. ^_^

Once the voting comes up... I really want to see Black Dahlia make it. Although Umbrella would be awesome too for the cute factor.

Big Band, can't wait to see him in action if that comes to fruition. The games has a lot of awesome concepts down the pipeline if they can get the funding.

LETS GO BIG BAND, keep the donations coming

Now, just guessing:

Let's suppose the team doesn't reach the 600k line. My best scenario for them is to reach 200k, considering what #82 said (there's less money when the deadline draws nearer) and also the fact I'm pretty doubtful that the most attractive, yet affordable rewards will be sufficient to keep donators coming when the campaign is coming to an end. Bottom line: let's just give 'em a number, bigger than 150k but less than 600k.

Is it possible for Lab Zero to keep making funding campaigns on IndieGoGo after this one ends? Because that would be one way to raise the bar when it comes to people's expectations. I wouldn't want the possibility of having more characters to be dead and buried as soon as this campaign ends.

I may talk out of my ass and sound like an idiot, but it crowdfunding is the way to keep getting the needed resources and deliver more content into it, I'd say go for it. You've seen the fans response, LZ, you know we'd support you as long as you're still able to back yourselves up

I don't really get why there's people hating on Skullgirls. Well ok, maybe not "hate" but a lack of support. I'm not big into fighting games (Don't get me wrong, I like to play them, I'm just terrible at them and don't really focus on getting better) but the asthetics and mechanics in this game are exciting and fresh.

Anyway, enough of that min-rant. I'm hyped that the funding is already done and I'm hoping we can actually hit 675,000+ I want to see Black Dahlia paired up with Squiggly. I'm not too excited about Big Band, but more characters (As long as they are well balanced) are never a bad thing.

row 2
3rd from left.

they should get to work with something to show before thinking about the 600k line, that's more like something for next year

that said, a new character + new story mode + balance patch once a year might get the fans to back them

better that than Disk_Lock_Capcom DLC

Deep Violet is Mrs.Victoria, so wouldn't she be the best choice.

The Patron Saint limits have increased to 24....And it's already sold out. Holy cow.

Maaaaan I thought we were going to reach the 175k by the end of the day two hours ago but looks like it will be in the next couple of minutes. Keep this madness going guys!!!

I'd donate but I'm saving up my money for the new Tomb Raider, MGR, a 3DS, and Pokemon X & Y. Plus there's school to take in account too. I wanna know what kinda jobs these people donating big bucks have lol

@95 Will you stfu about the Capcom DLC stuff? Idk how many times it's been explained to the uneducated like yourself, but SEVERAL videogame developers utilize that practice and will CONTINUE to utilize that practice. AND IT BENEFITS US AND THE CONSUMERS BECAUSE IT SAVES US HARDDRIVE SPACE AND ALLOWS TO PLAY AGAINST PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THE DLC EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T. THIS WAS TO PREVENT A SUPER SFxT SINCE EVERYONE WAS SO BUTTHURT ABOUT SSF4, BUT WHINERS LIKE YOU STILL B*TCH ABOUT IT. STFU ALREADY DAMMIT. /rant

No Idea where all the money is coming from. Could be a drug money all I care but it doesn't matter because it seems like the game is getting support. Mrs Victoria looks like my old high school English teacher.