Hi guys, first of all, really interesting and unique choice of artist, I like Katy B and think that she would be a really good artist to see in concert.

My question is, you've spoken of wind machines, staging, industrial lighting etc, considering that you have opted for more intimate venues, how are you planning to be able to fund this sort of staging?

Hi Kev thanks for your question!

We would make sure our ticket prices cost accordingly, we would assume it will be almost packed and make sure we sell our tickets which will cost the lighting, promotion etc and give us a good profit. We believe the tour will be a sell out however just in case we would assume it would be nearly full.

I hope this answers your question!

Thanks for the question, Kevin!

Funding for the tour would be, in part, the responsibility of Katy's label in the respective territories, but we feel that on the whole, the staging we've decided on is relatively low-key, and in the grand scheme of things wouldn't be too expensive, or detrimental to the tour. For some of the smaller, more intimate dates on the tour, staging would have to be modified to reflect the size of the venues, but we do feel that we could realistically achieve the staging we suggested at an inexpensive cost.

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The title of our video game is: Brett Steel; Mission Intergalactic

The concept for our video game is a murder-mystery style game, set in space. It involves an investigator that travels around each of the different planets solving crime. Our game is a high action thriller that aims to appeal to fans of the Mass Effect and Call Of Duty series.

The main selling point of our game is that the player would have "free roam" all around each uniquely designed planet and will be able to meet and interact with each individual species they encounter. Other than times when they are solving the crimes, there will be plenty of exploration to do, much like the hit game Skyrim. Our concept was developed following our market research. It was discovered that a free-roam game set in space was viewed as original and interesting by the gaming fans we surveyed. Another popular concept that came to the forefront during our market research was murder-mystery style game. However, despite its popularity, this wasn't seen as original, so we felt we wanted to put a twist on it. This is how we came up with our crime solving in space style game, by combining the main aspects of what was appealing to our target market.
Our game isn’t strictly “murder-mystery” as it’s just based around the concept. There would be an array of different crimes to solve, one main mystery for each planet. These crimes would be detailed and intricate, as well as lengthy to keep the game time running to a considerable length.

In addition, to add to the originality, our game will be in comic book format. We felt that this would be an interesting twist as well as attracting a cult following for donations to our Kickstarter. The comic book style format has proven to be popular to our target market (male; 15 and above) and we really believe it would make an innovative part of our video game.

Our logo: http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...on/mission.png

We, Team Reflections, have created a new game called "Brett Steel; Mission Intergalactic". "Brett Steel; Mission Intergalactic" is an exciting new console game where our main character called Brett Steel will explore our solar system and fighting villains from each planet that he wants to gain revenge on.

Brett Steel: Mission Intergalactic is an all new, multipurpose video game, designed to entertain the members of our target audience, an audience which consists of males- their ages ranging from 15 to 30 years old. A wide spectrum of males, all waiting for an all new, eye catching game that they feel they can invest their time- and more importantly- their money in. As a team, we aim to please, and this game has different aspects which we all feel will take the gaming world by storm, a game which is great value for money, but also something people feel they can relate to on an emotional scale.

The game will be available on the Xbox 360 and PS3, as these two consoles are key aspects of the gaming community, with their worldwide sales being 65.8 million and 62 million respectively. The decision to choose these consoles comes after we looked into the success that games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty have had on these networks. Referring back to the brief, we were asked to create a new game, and these two examples are by no way comparisons, just a good reflection of the success we feel this game could have, based alone on the concept and scope for expansions.

The game will also be very sci-fi and will run in a comic book style for the cult market. The game play will involve Brett Steel an evil badass type cowboy gaining revenge on the earth due to all his life problems and fight against different types on villains on each planet which represents a different level.

Our game is for both sci-fi fans and fans of violence and fighting games and gives the opportunity to travel throughout space, discover aliens, fight villains and explore throughout the whole of our universe and that's why we feel our game is fresh and exciting.
The idea we are presenting to you is unique, and in many ways original. Of course there have been games set in space before, but to our knowledge, and after extensive research, we are yet to find one which allows you to explore planets in the way our game does. With this ability, it will not only provide a fun gaming experience to gamers, it will in some ways inform them about the structure of other planets, and give them an insight of how it would feel to be travelling around the universe.

We also have intentions if Brett Steel; Mission Intergalactic is a success we can make many more new games using the Brett Steel franchise and have huge opportunities to turn Brett Steel into television series, create toys of Brett and the villains and make movies on him and many other games and believe there is a huge gap in the market for something like this.

The object of our game is to travel throughout a futuristic solar system, exploring the various planets and completing missions on each planet. In essence, it’s a free roam game, with added RPG elements set in the vast, exciting and unexplored setting of space. The missions are completed through the central character, however the emphasis is on the free roam elements, players are free to explore each planet at their leisure, interacting with each planet’s set of residents, trading with, purchasing from and battling with the characters on each planet.

Our central character, in contrast to the futuristic setting, has an old school cowboy type vibe to him – a gun toting, whisky drinking, womanizing maverick figure. We feel it’s important to set our main character up as an anti-hero type– someone the average player for our game would see as quite badass and cool, as opposed to the average ‘regular Joe’ type figure these games often feature. We feel a backstory to our character is especially important, allowing players to understand the motivation of the character and really get into its headspace. Brett Steel is a violent individual who skirts the criminal underworld, fuelled by a desire for revenge on a universe which has left him virtually penniless, destitute + it’s additionally fuelled by the fact he believes his wife was murdered by extra-terrestrials.

Stylistically, both our character, and the wider game are influenced through a number of channels. Adult influenced comics, imagery from dark, violent Quentin Tarentino style cinema such as the Kill Bill series Sin City, Machete, Grindhouse etc. Our game is at heart graphic, gory and violent, but it also has an escapist, discovery type element to it. Supporting characters will embody the same feel, with the major characters of the series being corrupt figures, prostitutes, and general underworld types.

The reason we feel funds from Kickstarter would benefit us is due to the fact that we are using a comic-book style to it and we feel we would get a very good backing from the cult followers of this genre. We feel our video game is an innovative and intriguing story worthy of support. We feel it would really take off and become extremely popular.

We would be looking for £30,000 in donations.

This is what we would offer potential backers to our cause:

£5 = Recieve a Brett Steel mug.

£10 = Recieve a Brett Steel t-shirt.

£20 = Recieve a behind the scenes making of the game DVD with interviews with the creator of the DVD, speakers in the game, graphics designer, musicians and crew. The DVD will show how the game was made.

£50 = Recieve a free copy of the game one week before the release date with a special goody bag containing a Brett Steel t-shirt, mug and keyring.

£100 = Recieve a copy of the game and have your name placed on the end credits in the "With thanks to" section once you have completed your game

£500 = Recieve a copy of the game one week before the launch of the game with your name in the credits and an invite to the exclusive first play of the game before it's release and meet the game's creators / voiceovers and everyone behind the making of the game.

£2000 = Recieve all of the above prizes plus a platinum Brett Steel signed CD signed by all the cast of Brett Steel.

And this concludes our presentation. We now welcome any questions and thank you for your time.

Great presentation

I have one question,do you think that 30 year olds would like to play this game? I'm sure a 12+ target audience my have been more appropriate

Surely it's a lot to ask for, especially for a game making it's debut? What would make me particularly want to donate £100 to have my name in the credits of a game that even if someone gets it could just skip?

Hi. Thanks.

I think the game is appropriate for 30 years old. We aimed the game towards the 15-30 male market as in my own experience I feel and know 30 year olds who play similiar games to teenagers such as, Call of Duty. I don't think the game is appropriate for 12 year olds due to the level of violence and swearing in our game which is why we targetted an older market.

Hi!

I have a question about the costings & the amount of investment you are looking for. I'm pretty curious as to how you are going to manage to create the game for only £30,000. Especially a game for the console market. I mean, you liken your game to the wonderful 'Skyrim', which actually cost well over $15M to create. Typical games for the console market cost quite substantially over £1M so I am pretty unsure on how you can develop a console game for only £30,000?

Being featured in the games credits- especially as an ordinary member of the public- is incredibly rare. The purpose of Kickstarter is to invest in products you would be interested in, so if you were not interested in the product, you would not make a donation anyway. The idea of the task was to create a product for Kickstarter, and we feel that this type of game would really reach out to our target audience, and they would have an interest in the game, so therefore donate.

Hi Carlisle, thanks for the question.

The only part of our game that was likened to Skyrim is the free roam aspect. The rest of our pitch is nothing like Skyrim, really. We would never expect to get much over £30,000 for a new game on Kickstarter alone. Kickstarter is just the start for our game, and we would get the rest of the costs from investors, like usual with video games. If we were to reach our goal on Kickstarter, there would be a lot of interest for our video game.

I personally think this game sounds appealing, I think your donations are spot on TBH and do sound reasonable.

My question is on the hero of the game. Do you think it is important to have a kind of role model figure in these types of games so the character can look up towards them. It seems to be the games where the character is a bad ass is for the older market. Do you think gamers would relate or more important like the character you play on the game???

Thanks for the answer, Louise. Although I understand that it is a new game and obviously you have to restrict I do think it's a bit unrealistic for you to aim to gain donators solely on reaching a goal on kickstarter. If you look at the site, the 'Games' section in particular - the majority of the 'games' have goals of over $400,000 - and they are, notably, for the cheaper PC option. Do you not think that your job would be a lot more difficult if you had to explore the

My second question is referencing the, "Our game is a high action thriller that aims to appeal to fans of the Mass Effect and Call Of Duty series", section of your pitch. I think that there is quite a large difference between Mass Effect & Call of Duty and your game. They both pride themselves on gripping graphics which, for a cartoon/comic -styled game could be a bit childish for those target markets. How do you think you would use this to interest fans of those particular franchises? And secondly, do you think that the game you have produced would be better off as a child-friendly game, instead of 15+?

We feel £30,000 is an achievable target so that's why we set the target at that cost and we feel it's extremely important our target is reached so that we can launch the game. Many kickstarter games have had a huge demand and their target's have been doubled so there's still a chance we could raise money of over £30,000. We also feel with the current economic climate that asking for donations of more than £30,000 might be hard to reach considering we are a new company and aren't well known on kickstarter so feel £30,000 is a realistic achievable target and we can always go over that with investments and recieve investments through other means such as, us the owner's own money.

We feel that there's a stigma attached to comic-book style games that they have to be child-friendly just because of the fact they're cartoon-like. This is utterly untrue. The game is geared towards the target audience of those games mentioned due to the fact that it IS a violent game and there is cursing and death, as well as the fact that the mysteries would be much too difficult for a child to solve. The comic book genre has a huge following and will generate interest just because of that, as well as the fact that it's geared towards adult, not children. You may think the graphics are child-like but the concept certainly isn't.

There is a matter of debate here, as the character we have created of course wants revenge- but is revenge a good thing? In this case, we feel that a man so full of hatred after his wife was killed is a great character- many dynamics to explore!

As the game progresses, you will see a more likeable side to him,and understand him as a person more. But of course, it is hard to put across on paper, as you could not see the developments throughout gameplay, unless the game was physically commissioned!

Does anyone want to answer my question in regards to the games main character??

Anyway I think the concept of this games is appealing . The donations do sound accurate IMO. I have uncertaintys about the main hero on the game, I think a whiskey drinking bad ass might limit your target market. Also competiting against well established games such as Mass Effect and Call of Duty is a little risky.

Okay Jess I will go with that

I think this team have worked hard and you should be proud.

Just a note - We're not competing against those games, just using their names to make our target market clear.

Thanks for the compliments and interest!

Jess just did as you posted this.

Thanks for the feedback I personally think our main character suits our target market as lots of 15-30 males enjoy these type of games and would find that type of character appealing like the James Bond type character. I think there would definitly be a demand for our game and feel we would reach £30,000.