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Or a massively stupid straight-up thief.

Thievery for sure.

If they were stupid, there would still be movement in production, along with more obvious stupidity in media.

Also sad to hear that they somehow snagged the copyright on the hardsuit from the artist.

But you know what, I know literally 10 different artists that can design a suit that looks just as good, if not better. They're not cheap to hire, but good work never is.

I wonder if there's a market for someone to pickup the ball, I already have a hardsuit unit in my game. I wonder if there is still an interest in a product that will actually make it to market.

The only silver lining is that the files will be out there and in a few years the printing costs will be much more reasonable and high-resolution machines will be in more public facilities.

I deliberately avoided this KS, but I might very well print up a few battle-eggs and maybe a couple of trucks at my local public library's 3d printer in a couple years.

I think I might actually ask for the files. STL can be used by other types of machines, right?

RiTides, m'asking you because you actually own a 3D printer.

Mathieu - Yes I do, and I've PM'ed you.

stl files can be fed through a CNC machine to produce plastic injection molds.


3D printing uses an oddball plastic and the things I have seen usually look a bit grainy. The high end stuff looks good but that costs more.

I still follow this company out of a strange fascination. I am trying to find out when the assets go on sale. If anyone learns of this information please inform me.

 Sidstyler wrote:

 paulson games wrote:
If my source is correct, (and I have very little reason to doubt him) it all went to strippers, booze and a new car. Literally.

So is the guy a straight-up thief or just massively stupid?

Little of column A, little of column B.

Although I can't really talk, I fell for their song and dance for a while too. At least I only went in on the UAMC way back when they actually made things and didn't fall for anything pas that.

Which really sucks, because there were some cool ideas there if they hadn't dropped the ball so hard it went through the floor.

Oh the heady days of the road map to the future. Was it Summer 2012, or 2013?

This is the first I am hearing of this but, I've been off the grid for a time.

Jesus. This is rough and I'm sorry to see this has happened to you all.

Oh no, this was of our own making, we bear our cross, and all that jazz. Sorry you missed the party though, the implosion was epic.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Oh no, this was of our own making, we bear our cross, and all that jazz. Sorry you missed the party though, the implosion was epic.

Totally worth $25.

Or so I tell myself.

If I hadn't been screwed twice via Torn Armor, I'd laugh the whole thing off. Dutch door action.

Isn't Torn Armor still tentatively shipping, one of these days?

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Isn't Torn Armor still tentatively shipping, one of these days?

Yeah, but it might take a while since they sold their soul for Reaper to er, forge the dream, if you get me. I expect the delays to have delays. And the final product will probably be more wildly uneven than a Mantic troll with one foot in boiling water.

When a company gives all your money to a guy who somehow lost a business making the only alternative plastic sci-fi troops on the market twice, well you can't really expect them to worry about the details.

Whats this about Torn Armour?

 DukeBadham wrote:
Whats this about Torn Armour?

When Torn Armor's Kickstarter campaign over funded, the manufacturer they had negotiated with suddenly raised their prices dramatically, so they began to shop around. That's when Tony Reidy convinced them that he could manufacture the miniatures for their game, and they gave him a huge advance. You can probably guess what happened next.

Shame they went under, while not the best models, you have to agree they where a nice change in pace from the other games out there. And a little cheaper too. I would of loved to of seen where they went with their ideas. I feel half tempted to buy all their licences and start the company over and continue with some of their ideas. Minus the debt they owe, and the bad press they have. But I'm a humble college student studying something else completely. ^^;

Not a shame at all, they were a blight on the industry and impacted multiple genuinely innovative, passionate creators and manufacturers.
They commissioned some decent concept art, produced some miniatures that barely resembled that art and then poorly cast them because they were too arrogant and cheap to pay someone who knew what they were doing.
Not everyone deserves success. With these guys, if they had found a warehouse of poorly made furnaces they would have been revolutionizing the local residential heating/ exploding furnace industry before vanishing with other peoples money.

 plastictrees wrote:
Not a shame at all, they were a blight on the industry

Cue

Eff

Tee

 WhiteLion wrote:
Shame they went under,

'Went under' isn't, I think, the best description of what happened.

And a little cheaper too. I would of loved to of seen where they went with their ideas.

You saw where they went with their ideas. A bunch of people sank cash into a Kickstarter, and Tony Reidy spent that cash. That, I would suspect, was the idea.

The worst part is he probably didn't even blow it on cool stuff like fast cars and hookers.

I thought an anonymous source confirmed the hookers. Maybe it was strippers.

Same difference if you go to the right places. /shrug

Still can't get the offer of the 3D files extended to me, cuz I'm a bloody foreigner.

*I wanna know what lo-ove is...*

Well, slight necro but I think we can pretty much confirm 100% that this is dead the water, and the company is dead, and we're not seeing anything of this project.

So what do we do about it?

Also, wasn't there that letter from around 8 months from them pretty much declaring bankruptcy and offering the files for free to backers?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2Y6rkoCM_9BbUZMTTAzZXNTRDhTQWZqQ3JyYzg5SVVEQW1V/view

the file offer was (nominally) withdrawn as it was apparently confidential and a number of backers publicised what was being offered

(whether that was the real reason?)