Updated: Skullgirls' first male character Big Band officially funded along with a stage and story mode

big congrats

Pikachu in raincoat

http://www.zone-archive.com/tmp/epic_... SFW :D

I'm gonna be honest, I was one of those pessimists that originally said that they would be lucky to just fund Squigly. Now here we are two weeks later and they have BigBand fully funded with 2 weeks still ahead. Congrats to LabZero you guys have some damn good fans.

They found people willing to offer hard-earned money for a fighting saxophone in a sheepskin coat. I sure didn't see that coming.

Totally looks like Pikachu.
But it's awesome to see that game got such fans, which show that the dev' team is really ready to do more if they have the means.

@3
What's sup Big Bang?!... I mean Big Band.

I assume that around 80% of the funds came from some rich mofo who is a SkullGirls fan...no way such a dead came (at tournaments anyways) would have got so much funds

mmm, sweet, im just glad they left a whole month window, i'm flat broke for another week, and i want in on that steam beta actionnnn

Keits is laundering money somewhere trying to get funds for Stanley the Shark Scientist.

@8 Stop saying things that makes you look stupid. You just need to check the IGG campaing to know that there are 6527 individuals giving money.

I think SG team should donate all the money to Marvel 3, for new marvel 3 characters.

@ #11
You're the one who is stupid with that reply, I said 80% of the funds could have come from some rich (Skullgirls fan) individual and it is possible. Unless you can prove otherwise...just shut up and think before you reply. Majority of those could have been $10 donations and then dat rich guy made numerous of huge donations..its possible, 80% or not my original obviously stated that its likely some rich fan contributed most of the funds. Why else is the game so dead at every tournament?

@12 Hell no

@12 It's charming that you think Capcom could create a character for $375k, much less multiple characters.

#13 There are clearly 6000+ donations of different quality. There are "rich Skullgirls fans" who donated to the higher reward tiers but that's a minority. $10 donations from thousands of people add up. Plus the tournament scene is pretty irrelevant to a game's success(unless it was already big like SF or something), just in general.

@13 Yeah, the rich guy not only is rich, he also has 6000 different email acounts and 6000 different credit cards.

Keep digging that hole, you should be reaching China by now lol

I was one of the people who said after the first two days: "well that was cool but there is no way we get to Big Band. Everyone who was gonna donate already has"

btw this crow tastes wonderful

damn, they're making me actually want to play this game....

@13 If you had clicked on the Funders tab at Indiegogo as suggested, you would have found that for most people the donation amount is displayed (mostly $30). Furthermore, if you are curious about the bigger backers the number of takers is also visible from the front page.

So will the characters be free to those that paid to fund this?

They will be free for EVERYONE for three months. If you download them in that frame of time, they are yours forever. After three months, they will cost 5 dollars.

squiggly will be free to all for a limited time
edit: oh a little late

ty baiken, came here to see if that exact question had been answered.

Everyone in the fighting game comunity should be supporting this campaing. Even if you don´t like the game, show support for a developer that listen to the comunity and makes them part of the development. Maybe the company that makes the game you like will start doing the same.

#8

*implying that people who physically go to tourneys are the majority of the fans/players of a game.

Thats pretty sad if you actually believe that ignorant logic. The fgc 'serious' players is a small piece of the pie.

@ #17
Yes keep showing how stupid you are since you cant even read. I never said someone made that many donations, and also one person can donate numerous amounts of times and put different names on the site.
I made two donations using my paypal account and put in different names...so yeh you you're obviously stupid thinking you need a different email and credit card for every donation lol

Great news! Glad to hear he got funded and I can't wait to see how he will play, and how closely it is to Q....now to wait till late fall/early winter, at best. BibleThump

I would have donated if the update patch was available on 360.

It makes me remember when the Homestuck Video games Kickaster was launched, it was funded in less than a day.
I'm really glad that the game got all that money, it's a great game so it should stay alive for a mong time.

@ #20 Implying something I didnt even say? lol stay free

@#28
You came in here to make a troll reply but donated twice riiiight keep digging that hole China Town coming up next

#30

Not Lab Zero fault at all, blame Microsoft bureaucracy. In any case, worse case scenario if Microsoft is still being incompetent they would just put the patch in with Squigly

@ 33
Coming from someone (baiken) who commented with an account made today and made their 1st comment? hahahaha troll account much? idiot.
Anyways check the contributors you will see 2 donations by me (one with a 2 next to my name) stay free and keep exposing yourself some more

This really is a great story for the fighting game community.

@33 ReddChief confirmed troll account by someone who made a similar comment above, what a tool

Great news...shame i despise the look of this guy but hey, that's just me ^_^

Big Band has a neat design for a saxophone. They really worked it in there quite nice. In all honesty, I hope they release alot of them. Some aren't all that cool but man I hope the selection of creation isn't limited to 1 because Brain Drain and many others are just too cool and would warrant even me to spend money.

Big Band voice leak.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0qv14Tc9QfM

I am dying from #3 xDDD

@ #40
Big Bane?

Shoutouts to all the people who said nobody would donate.

@ #42
Oops, "typo" lol! XP

Glad to see the game is getting very strong support. This is great news, might have to pick this back up haha.

At the rate things were going, I figured we would get Big Band, but not this early. I'm still skeptical that the mystery voted cahracter will make it in though, but I'll keep watching

skull guys

@Cinderkin No they will be charging people who donated but everyone ELSE gets it for free. Kappa

Actually they've said not once, not twice, but NUMEROUS times that the DLC Characters will be free FOR EVERYONE FOR 3MONTHS. The people who are donating are effectively paying for other people to get the character for free as they would likely have to charge for the character and turn a profit on it had a publisher paid for the DLC. However doing it through indiegogo they are making NO PROFIT. ALL of the money is going towards overhead costs for the development.

That said, the campaign is also bringing in news articles, and a ton of attention to the product which means increased sales for the game itself.

@Major_Dog Tournament attendance = / = community support. They aren't the same. Community support and love of the game can INCLUDE tournament attendance but that isn't the end all and be all of how "alive" a game is. Especially a game like Skullgirls which one of the major selling points is that it was built from the ground up with GGPO integration in mind (unlike the Capcom games which put GGPO support in after.) this means that ONLINE PLAY is going to be more popular than ever. As a matter of fact, Salty Cupcakes is an online/offline combined tournament.

Now on top of that, many people just love the art or the music or the story or the voice acting for the game and chose to support it for that. Then of course there is the PC crowd which has been pretty vocally supporting the game (and financially) and they aren't going to go to a tournament for a title that they haven't even gotten to play on their main system yet.

majordog just go get hit by a train or something... all the hate you have for this game being successful is sickening... please die of AIDS

what if skullgirls was a guy?

@21 they will both be free to everyone

You can tell those know nothing about the Skullgirls storyline, if they did then maybe they'd stop making the ignorant comments.

The game isn't called Skullgirls because it is an all-female fighter, none of the current playable characters are even Skullgirls themselves. Look it up and inform yourselves, then you'll know the name of the game doesn't limit the roster to just females. There are so many guys in the storyline.

Hell to the yes.

Squigly + Big Band = Team Indiegogo.

@3 LOL I love this so much!!
@51 Holy crap you made my day with that comment! Seriously thank you!!

Im seriously contemplating buying this game. one quesiton though. Will we have to pay for the dlc characters? wouldnt mind having to pay for them but id like to know

Damn, time for me to buy this game huh?

i bet he's hiding something big and dirty under that
coat, for all da skull girls to be afraid of..

@gako

the dlc will be free to everyone for three months. if you download em during that period they're free forever. after that, they are 5 bucks a pop.

@58 Thanks for telling me man. Looks like im buying this game next time i get some PSN money

congrats on funding for the next shat! here is an off topic speed drawing of dorm, modok and strider! I will do a skullgirls big band to celebrate in the near future. Long live FGC beeeeeeeyatch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oajOr6...

@21: Every character funded from this will be free for 3 months to everyone that owns the game.

.....Guys...what if their movesets suk dik?

Congrats!!! I'm so happy!

reminds me of a fatter version of capcoms character, Q.

So freaking glad to see they hit that goal, really looking forward to trying him out. May not be my main game but I'll have fun with it again. :-)

@Eternal - "Now on top of that, many people just love the art or the music or the story or the voice acting for the game and chose to support it for that. Then of course there is the PC crowd which has been pretty vocally supporting the game (and financially) and they aren't going to go to a tournament for a title that they haven't even gotten to play on their main system yet."

This is all pretty much me, sans the PC part for now (need to see if it runs well enough on mine, which shouldn't be a problem but you never know). The game's playstyle doesn't fit me (though I've had fun with it here and there), but I'm a huge fan of the artists that worked on it as well as a fan of the entire package.

My Paypal is being douchey right now but if I can get that resolved, I'll be donating ASAP for that digital artbook. <3

This is great news. I hope the support continues.

#62 What if next SF and MvC are big loads of poo? I doubt such suggestion will make anyone wait less for them.

Bruce Wayne loves Skullgirls. :D

@65 Get the pc version, then you no longer have an excuse not to play against me :O

Btw here is a sprite size comparison between Filia from Skullgirls and Talbain from Darkstalkers (they used the exact same sprites in DSR but with a special filter to smooth the edges when they stretch it)

http://i.imgur.com/FvClYPH.jpg

Both of these are their native definition. (E.G. the size that they were drawn at.) Skullgirls uses Vector art to scale the image down to the proper resolution without losing details like the lip coloring on Filia. Talbain isn't even as big as one of Filia's SHOES.

Next time Capcom claims that a game is "HD" or has "HD Graphical Filters" remember, they are lying / misleading you. There is no such thing as an "HD Graphical Filter" and unless they redrew the sprites (like they did with SF2 HD Remix) then it isn't HD.

Major Dog making himself look like a bigass fool on here. Keep struggling, scrub.

I hope this new Big Band Character is for real....

It'd suck if it turned out that this was all...............
Saxophony!

So is it gonna be called Skull Girls + Boy now?

Q but good. Q BUT GOOD! *Dancing to epic sax guy*

I think this was a wasted slot but people like that ridiculous design. He is just Q with a sax on this back and not arms.

How does this absolutely ugly Q-kachu even fight?! I don't see any arms or proper legs.

Maybe when they add 15 more male characters i'll pay attention, but it's admirable how they raised so much money. Wish they did this for more games.

#74 Go reserach the Skullgirls story for 2 minutes and you will notice how... uninformed your post was.

I thought this game suppose to be female characters only :\

@81

Well you thought wrong, that was never the original intent. They originally just wanted to flip the male/female ratio of other fighting games.

I love the double standard that comes with this game.
Other fighting games: "Oh come on! Why are there only guys???? Add female characters!!!!"

Skullgirls: "Oh come on!!! Why are you adding a guy????? Only female characters!!!!" Never f*cking satisfied...

@bumblebeecody
With your rationale Streetfighter should be called A couple of Streetfighters, a few boxers, chicks and a jungle Beast.

Did people complain about KING of Fighters having female characters? Or Super Smash BROTHERS Melee? Or when Marvel Super HEROES not only had villains, but Heroines? Or when Tekken TAG Tournament 2 allowed you to play a single character? Or STREET FIGHTER, and all the people that don't fight in the street? Or when Marvel vs CAPCOM didn't have Megaman... well, they did on that one, but STILL!

Pikachu-Q. Total ripoff for 375k imo.

I've been wondering. Who's the main character of Skullgirls?

I want Skullgirls to blow up; such a beautiful & fun game. We need more characters and won't be satisfied til I get my Science Shark!

Great Job on Big Band, looking forward to the next character reveal(everyone better donate for Andy!)

Pika-Q

Also, @85, why don't you go make a fighting game and see how much characters cost firsthand (he was also only 225k).

@2 CANNOT. UNSEE. DAMN YOU

@86: Filia

@90 well Filia is the closest the game has to a Ryu type and she's usually the first in the billing but she has no greater effect on the story than most others.

Just a quick question: Will this DLC also reach consoles (360 specifically) or is it just for the upcoming PC version of the game?

PS3/360/PC, for free on all of them.

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efd9Ys...

Lab zero artist stream whoring to reach that mystery character!!

God, I love thes guys

380k
goddammit! I missed the singing! I went to bed too early at 6 in the morning -_-

How did they raise $380,001 if you can only donate multiples of 5?

you can donate any amount you want, you don't need to pick the perks

@ 92 IT will come out for consoles but the patch for it has to pass the PS and MS stores first and the SG team have had trouble with that in the past

@69 Darkphyre - "Get the pc version, then you no longer have an excuse not to play against me :O"

Haha for sure man!

@3 LOL, that made my morning. Thanks.