View Full Version : Howard Phillips' Know-It-All Kickstarter project
treismac
09-24-2012, 07:27 PM
Howard Phillips of Nintendo Power's Howard and Nester fame is trying to get funding for a new learning app. I suppose the public return of Howard to the world of video games will help lessen the ache we all feel over the recent passing of Nintendo Power.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1358562997/gamemaster-howards-know-it-all
I learned about this from his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/GamemasterHoward) in case any of you would like to see the cool stuff he has on his page.
The guy named Matthew who authors and draws the comic "Brawl in the Family" is actually drawing the art for this Kickstarter campaign and promises more comics/art will be revealed on the Kickstarter page each week.
TheRedEye
09-25-2012, 03:28 PM
Plugging my own in-depth article about this/Howard's history:
http://gamasutra.com/view/news/178182/Nintendos_former_Fun_Club_President_wants_you_to_K nowItAll.php#.UGIFn6RYuYk
Gamenmaster Howard
09-25-2012, 06:05 PM
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ds-know-it-all[/url]
I learned about this from his Facebook page in case any of you would like to see the cool stuff he has on his page.
Hi - Know-It-All has been incubating for over a year now - we're pretty far along!
FYI - the Kickstarter is intended to accelerate the development trajectory (feature enhancements, ports, back-end server, etc) as well as allow so big fun jumps into the marketplace at the higher Goal Multipliers... Keeping the initial goal low allows us greater granularity with the Goal Multipliers (for those who see the math there)
thx - h
treismac
09-25-2012, 07:03 PM
Awesome! Keep all of us up to date, Howard! I hope your Kickstarter reaches its goal and Know-It-All is a big success.
Wow... this is just so mind blowingly surreal to be writing back and forth with Howard Phillips.
Aussie2B
09-25-2012, 07:53 PM
Hi, Howard, welcome to Digital Press! Good luck with the Kickstarter! :)
joshnickerson
09-25-2012, 08:12 PM
If I owned an iOS smartphone, I'd be all over this. I hope this does very well though.
Gamenmaster Howard
09-25-2012, 08:18 PM
If I owned an iOS smartphone, I'd be all over this. I hope this does very well though.
Back us now at even a minimum level and we won't forget you!
Johnny Nintendo
09-25-2012, 09:12 PM
Busted big time!!! OH YEAH!!! (Just kidding Treismac) By the way Mr. Phillips, I would just like to say that Nintendo Power was so great. I think the quality of the magazine started to go downhill after you left. I still enjoyed it, but somewhere around 1995, it started to become unreadable. Thanks again, for all of your years of service.
joshnickerson
10-15-2012, 09:00 PM
A few days left, but it looks like it won't reach it's goal. For what it's worth, I pledged $5.00, which is about all I can spare at the moment.
Cryomancer
10-16-2012, 03:15 PM
Best of luck with the kickstarter.
I'm going to take this surprising and rare chance to steal focus for one unrelated question though: who did the art for the early Howard and Nester comics? I've never seen a definitive answer. They seemed to do stuff from Nintendo Power and strategy guides of the time, too.
edit: Checked post timestamps, I doubt I'll get an answer, haha.