Sinden Lightgun Kickstarter date revealed!

[ZTylerDurden717]

Final production shell design is attached.  Blue, black and red are the color choices post-backer survey.  Three weeks to make the rest of the shells.  PCB's to be completed by end of April.  Recoil backers estimated for May.

[SammyWI]

A public update today for those that are interested.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sindenlightgun/the-sinden-lightgun/posts/2792144

[ryoken]

Hi is there any updates with the sinden guns, ?

[Titchgamer]

Not atm.

[DontTouchMyHoHos]

Is it possible to just get the internals so I can do a namo mod with for the recoil slide?

[CtrlAltDelete]

Not atm.

I'm also very excited about this project but watched some of the YouTube demos and noticed a slight delay/latency between the gun movement and the crosshairs on the screen. Could this be another reason for the delay?

[Titchgamer]

Is it possible to just get the internals so I can do a namo mod with for the recoil slide?

Not right now no.

Not atm.

I'm also very excited about this project but watched some of the YouTube demos and noticed a slight delay/latency between the gun movement and the crosshairs on the screen. Could this be another reason for the delay?

Theres no actual delay with the gun just with the mouse pointer.

Covered all that above somewhere

[lllll44]

Love andy...hi is a good honest man and a real games lover.
next month update will be great!

[pbawesome]

Any chance to get a update for the backers?  Slow month?

[Titchgamer]

Any chance to get a update for the backers?  Slow month?

Nothing interesting to report.
Corvid delays etc.

The moulds are looking damn nice though!

[lllll44]

Any chance to get a update for the backers?  Slow month?

andy said that if everything goes well...next month we will have the huge update we all waiting for...finish gun + recoil demonstration:) and than shipping the gun in june.

[pbawesome]

Nice!  Man this virus has made 1 month seem like an eternity though!

[Friko]

Getting hold of those guns would have been perfect during the lock down. I have everything ready to be set up, just need the guns.
At least I found another project to jump onto till they arrive.

[Titchgamer]

I know someone is bound to ask sooo latest update!

The shells and PCBs have now been finalised. Shells are in production and due to be finished in the next few weeks.

PCBs start full manufacture monday with expected completion due end of June.

Expected delivery of non recoil units throughout July.

The recoil units are still not finalised but he hopes to have them finalised, built and sent out by the end of August.

Hes also considering taking orders for a 2nd batch soon.

[ryoken]

I don't know why i believe that first  bakers will get them in some point of this month,  it sounds to me we are not going to see any sinden light gun  anytime soon perhaps with some luck end of the year, what i find  annoying is how often they delay the sinden gun in the last few months,  they can blame the Corona, but i believe  he is not being responsible enough. I can see more delays guy don't get more fake  hope

[Titchgamer]

I don't know why i believe that first  bakers will get them in some point of this month,  it sounds to me we are not going to see any sinden light gun  anytime soon perhaps with some luck end of the year, what i find  annoying is how often they delay the sinden gun in the last few months,  they can blame the Corona, but i believe  he is not being responsible enough. I can see more delays guy don't get more fake  hope

What exactly are you expecting when most of the world is shut down? :s

[ryoken]

The kickstarter was more than  a year ago, an all this time waiting, yeah i don't  think i need to remind what was the target for the shipping of the light gun when the kickstarter campaign  finished.  we want to play with  those light gun now,  i personally don't understand why he didn't  make a diy kit in the first batch, to show to the enthusiast people how good it's the sinden hardware, 

[Titchgamer]

The kickstarter was more than  a year ago, an all this time waiting, yeah i don't  think i need to remind what was the target for the shipping of the light gun when the kickstarter campaign  finished.  we want to play with  those light gun now,  i personally don't understand why he didn't  make a diy kit in the first batch, to show to the enthusiast people how good it's the sinden hardware,

Well I have done around 8 kickstarters now and not a single one has been completed on time. Its only a few months late with such a large and complex project thats pretty good tbh.

Its just a fact that things never go to plan and the average person can not foresee every hurdle.

As for the suggestion of the diy kit, Honestly I dont think it would of got funded.
Most people want a complete solution they dont want to be soldering PCB parts and trying to fit parts into a shell it was not designed for.

[slickam]

I've backed 280 kickstarters over the years. Only a few have been on time (and a couple were even early). All the others were late, up to a few years in some cases.

At this point I'm just glad that there hasn't been anything like this come up. That's the owners of a company I backed laughing that no one outside the US had the project yet, months after they stopped posting updates.

[Nitro0602]

Anyone know if the recoil version is visible kickback and not inside the shell.. don’t like the aimtrak recoil at all.  I want to be able to see the recoil.. thx!

[Titchgamer]

Anyone know if the recoil version is visible kickback and not inside the shell.. don’t like the aimtrak recoil at all.  I want to be able to see the recoil.. thx!

There is no blow back no.

[Titchgamer]

In other news he put round 2 up for pre order faster than I thought if anyone wanted in:


https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-sinden-lightgun

[SammyWI]

Pretty standard delays for any kickstarter.  I'm a backer and I'm fine with the delays because he has been upfront and communicating regularly.  I'm sure some things could have been anticipated by someone that has experience in all of the areas of electronics production, plastic molding production, etc, etc. But overall this has been about what I expected going in even without the whole Corona thing.  I'm a pretty early non-recoil backer so fingers crossed for a July delivery.  But I won't be screaming if there is more slip.

[pbj]

Hasn't delivered anything.... But he's taking more money....

I hope this ends well for you guys.

[CtrlAltDelete]

Hasn't delivered anything.... But he's taking more money....

I hope this ends well for you guys.

I would have bought the 2 recoil guns pack if it was a regular purchase. Its unfortunate that they are still only available as a crowdsourcing gamble.

[nipsmg]

yeah I'm a little low on funds so I'm going to wait until he ramps up production then I'll order.  I was part of the Coolest kickstarter and I was lucky enough to get my cooler but know so many people who didn't until like a year later.

[pbj]

I had to look that Coolest Cooler thing up.  This ironically unaware mid sentence quote summed up my feelings on it:

“There’s a certain cool factor to it,” Belzman said. “Yeah, you could jury-rig and hack together your own version for a lot less, but having something that says ‘Coolest’ on it and has all these gadgets, it’s pretty cool.”

[Mike A]

I am afraid to ask how much you paid for that monstrosity.

[Titchgamer]

Yeah I just had to google that on to.

WTF is all I can say to that!

[nipsmg]

I am afraid to ask how much you paid for that monstrosity.

I think I paid $199 as an early backer.

It shot WAY up at retail, I think it was going for like $400 which is insane.

And I will say the blender works amazingly well, well better than I expected.  It pulverizes ice -- no chunks, great for mixed drinks.. -- but the wheels suck.  I think it was made for hard pacific sand beaches.. once you get into dry fluffy/sugar sand it just sinks and you have to drag it.. and that part SUCKS.   The speakers work pretty well, the party pairing mode works well to distribute the music throughout your gathering without having to crank the volume of a single source.

I think I personally got my money's worth, but I would NEVER pay the retail price -- and they mismanaged the business so badly it's insane..

[Mike A]

200 bucks for a cooler where the wheels suck and the speaker works okay?

For 200 bucks that cooler better have sex with me...a lot.

[Titchgamer]

200 bucks for a cooler where the wheels suck and the speaker works okay?

For 200 bucks that cooler better have sex with me...a lot.

Dude shagging something that cold and fridged?? Ya pecker will fall off!

Or the blender might mash it up after you had to many alcoholic slushies.....

[Mike A]

I am going to get my 200 dollars worth one way or another.

A couple of women I have been with were colder than that cooler.

[Titchgamer]

I am going to get my 200 dollars worth one way or another.

A couple of women I have been with were colder than that cooler.

But could they turn ya dick into a ice cold vodka slushie??

[Mike A]

No. Can't say that ever happened. One of them was pretty talented though.

[pbawesome]

Man I'm torn, I signed up on the mailing list to get in on the recoil version AFTER I figured out how the non recoil version works.  Now it looks like you had to reorder via Indiegogo and they are already pushed out to October.  Guess I'll be on the wait and see approach, excited for you first backers and hope this is the real deal.

As soon as I see some live in person game play here, I will be on it

[marioxb]

I don't know, I think I'm gonna have to get a CRT. I don't want crosshairs. I wanna be able to move around and play exactly like the old days.

[Titchgamer]

I don't know, I think I'm gonna have to get a CRT. I don't want crosshairs. I wanna be able to move around and play exactly like the old days.

I still have a CRT TV so I can play lightgun games on my old consoles, still the best way to play!
But if you want to play the newer arcade games as well then that's not really a option

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah.  I mean even the older ones... you aren't going to be able to play terminator 2 or POW with a traditional light gun. 

[Titchgamer]

Yeah.  I mean even the older ones... you aren't going to be able to play terminator 2 or POW with a traditional light gun.

Yes thats true.