Arcade Art Book Kickstarter

[TKW4rr10r]

I'll be a bit of everything. Right now, I'm concentrating on getting the marquees print ready, mostly because they're the most recognizable and usually where the most effort went when creating the came cabs.

A lot of the sideart was never even seen in the arcades because the machines were lined up in rows right next to each other!

That's good to hear. Some cabs had so much more work into the art besides the marquee, it would be a shame to not include it in the book. Tron come to mind, for starters.

You have so much source material, hopefully this book will bankroll future endeavors. Who wants a "Time Life series" of Arcades Artwork? [raises hand] 

[jimmer]

I see the problem now, you can only choose 1 reward.  So I can't add a digital download to my order   

[starcade]

Check the update I just made to the main image on the Kickstarter page - you'll like it 

I see the problem now, you can only choose 1 reward.  So I can't add a digital download to my order 

[Minwah]

A lot of the sideart was never even seen in the arcades because the machines were lined up in rows right next to each other!

True, not to mention in the UK at least many of the games were in awful generic cabinets with only the marquee artwork.

Still, lots of sideart is amazing and would be nice to see in the book!

[jimmer]

Check the update I just made to the main image on the Kickstarter page - you'll like it 

Cool.    

I was going to suggest that, but it would have been a forward even for me.

[starcade]

You're dead right - I suspect we had more bootlegs and generics over here than actual factory cabs!

A lot of people will probably have never even seen sideart for most of the games they played and I intend to change that 

A lot of the sideart was never even seen in the arcades because the machines were lined up in rows right next to each other!

True, not to mention in the UK at least many of the games were in awful generic cabinets with only the marquee artwork.

Still, lots of sideart is amazing and would be nice to see in the book!

[starcade]

Don't worry about that - I'm open to any suggestions on how to make this project a success so feel free to hit me with any ideas at all 

Check the update I just made to the main image on the Kickstarter page - you'll like it 

Cool.    

I was going to suggest that, but it would have been a forward even for me.

[Rick]

Don't worry about that - I'm open to any suggestions on how to make this project a success so feel free to hit me with any ideas at all 

Digital copy available in AI format?

[starcade]

I've spent most of my life trying to avoid situations that could conceivably end with me being raped in the showers by Mr Big who's in with the Warden! 

Pretty sure your suggestion is one of those situations...

 

Don't worry about that - I'm open to any suggestions on how to make this project a success so feel free to hit me with any ideas at all 

Digital copy available in AI format?

[roknrol]

Sweet Young Ones reference. 

[Rick]

Reddit warriors, unite! Visit the link that Tim's got (hopefully, that's Tim's post) on Reddit, here, and upvote for more visibility.

[vorghagen]

Pledged.
Looks like a fantastic book.

[Rick]

Damn, some days I just hate Reddit. When you have close-minded idiots spewing negativity, it just makes my blood boil. Morans.

[mattgold]

Backed!

I actually saw it on Kickstarter - THEN came here to spread the word.  =)

Congrats.

[Sjaak]

Looks like this is going to happen:

112
backers
£4,835
pledged of £10,000 goal
19
days to go

[Malenko]

Id back it but 25£ is about $40 USD and I just cant spare that kinda scratch. Hopefully Saint buys one of the book packages and gives me one.

[yotsuya]

Id back it but 25£ is about $40 USD and I just cant spare that kinda scratch. Hopefully Saint buys one of the book packages and gives me one.

With shipping, it's almost $50, and that fluctuates depending on  the exchange rate. On the fence on this one. Looks beautiful and is definitely worth it, though! 

[CoryBee]

 

[Elaphe]

Amazing idea! I would be interested in purchasing a book like that, no matter the price, of course as a real book, not a digital edition. I hope it gets real. Good luck!!

Are you including screenshots of the games? In that case, please do not use pixelated and distorted raw screenshots from MAME. It's terrible the way old games look in several retro magazines or in books like 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.

[degenatrons]

Congrats on reaching your goal Tim

So the Artcade book will happen and I look forward to laying hands on mine. 

Your stretch goals are cool BTW 

[dgame]

This may be the first kickstarter that I back.

Congrats!

[gkarnik]

I'm in, I love it!

[404]

forgot to mention i have a few friends that either run or contribute to some gaming news websites. sent them notice about the kickstarter project about two days ago. Apparently One of them got tons of retweets about it on twitter last night.

[jimmer]

That's weird. It looks like you can change your pledge downwards! so a project can meets it's goal and then later become unfunded.

I didn't risk experimenting because my reward is sold out  

[starcade]

Well, that escalated quickly! 

I'm blown away by the support I'm getting for this project and I can see from the Kickstarter dashboard that 79% of the total funds so far have come from outside Kickstarter. 14% of that came directly from here - thank you.

Right now, I'm working on a couple of new stretch goals that could be really special. I'll know for sure tomorrow afternoon.

Thanks again for the support guys,

Tim

[Sjaak]

Just 4 more days to get the book (and the t-shirt)...

ARTCADE - The Book of Classic Arcade Game Art

[TKW4rr10r]

Finally pledged this morning. I bet quite a few more will before the weekend is out.

[Donkey_Kong]

Wow, this is freekin awesome! All over it as soon as I get to my laptop.



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[Donkey_Kong]

Double posted from the phone.


Can't wait to get the book and t-shirt!  Looks amazing... 

[yotsuya]

I didn't end up buying this, but has anyone received their backer extras on this. Some on KLOV posted that the book hasn't been printed yet.

[Sjaak]

I didn't end up buying this, but has anyone received their backer extras on this. Some on KLOV posted that the book hasn't been printed yet.

The book hasn't been printed yet and no extras have been shipped.

First there was a problem with getting the right paper and ink combination. When that was solved, there was a problem with the printer. The middleman between the print company and Tim was some sort of con artist. He quoted a lower price and than took off with a down payment.

It appears that the print company I was working with are actually more of a print sales company, working as middle men between those with printing requirements and contract printers with spare capacity. It's those guys that quoted me prices for the book printing and also who I was working with on the colour reproduction problems. Unfortunately, I didn't know that.

At no point was it made clear to me that they weren't directly employed by the printers. In fact, they presented themselves as 'part of the same group' when I queried the fact that their email address was a different domain name.

As far as I can tell, they mis-quoted on the book printing by a significant amount and couldn't get the job done for the price they gave me. It seems that they were already in financial trouble at that point and have now closed their office and effectively disappeared, along with the sizeable deposit I paid to them.

Now there isn't enough money to print the book and Tim is trying to get a deal with a publisher to print the book.

The digital version of the book hasn't shipped yet.

I know this will disappoint some people and I'm sorry about that, but I'm not going to distribute the digital version before the physical book is shipped.
1. Because it's really important to me that the digital edition reflects the physical edition as closely as possible. There will very likely be some changes, albeit small, to the physical book now that it'll be printed on different equipment by the new print company. The digital version will be created from the final output file I sign off with the printers.
2. I really don't want to.
This always was and still remains, a project to deliver a big, beautiful hardcover book, full of incredible arcade cabinet art. The digital version was a side benefit for those who pledged to receive the physical copy and a way for those who didn't want the dead-tree version to support the project. I appreciate every single penny that has been been pledged to make this thing a reality, no matter the level of reward but, after everything that has happened, I still want everything to ship together.

[Rick]

This is seriously disappointing. I feel terrible for Tim and his backers. I certainly hope that those who are supporting this are understanding of the issues he's having.

[JDFan]

Sad part is the lack of timely updates and then the lack of follow through once an update is posted saying he'll have word and post new updates at a specific time -- last update he was supposedly having a meeting with another publisher that wanted to takeover the publishing\distributing of the book for him (and probably continue to sell it after filling the kickstarter rewards) but that meeting was to be on July 10th and was supposed to be an update posted on the 11th but once again here it is the 24th and nothing yet !!

I realize things have happened but he should at least post updates when promised rather than promising updates and then disappearing for several weeks with no word at all especially after such a long delay already 

[Malenko]

kinda glad I didnt drop $50 on it now.

[Sjaak]

kinda glad I didnt drop $50 on it now.

If it actually gets published by a big publisher, you can probably get it on amazon for $20 in a couple of weeks.

[yotsuya]

Any updates? Did people get their books or stuff?

[JDFan]

Any updates? Did people get their books or stuff?

According to the latest update :

Item 1: I have a publication date in writing.

It's not as soon as I'd have liked, but it's official and the announcement is being pushed out to online and traditional booksellers in the second week of January. Right now, I'm just happy to have a date. The book will officially be available on 27th March 2015, with shipments to all backers (Kickstarter and direct) a week before that.

SO we'll see come March if it actually happens or gets pushed back Again !

[yotsuya]

Hmmmmm..... nothing listed on Amazon...

[offset]

Havent seen mine yet.

[Donkey_Kong]

Hmmmmm..... nothing listed on Amazon...

Whach you talkin' bout willis?