Well, now… That’s going exactly as predicted, ladies and gentlemen. As in it’s ALMOST funded on the first day (and probably FULLY funded by the time or very shortly after I complete this brief post). Torment: Tides of Numenera is an upcoming PC RPG game that will take place in the world of Monte Cook’s new tabletop RPG setting (called Numenera of course), and as you can see if you poke around both the Kickstarter and Numenera pages, it all looks quite spectacular indeed.

As with other projects this huge, Digital and physical versions will be made available for backers (whee!) and I hope this actually makes it into retail at some point, as the original game is one of those classics for the ages and this one (being cooked up by some that were involved in that epic) is looking mighty amazing as well. Getting more people to play a game like this outside of those lots of throwing money at it for strictly personal reasons (hell, If I had a few thousand bucks lying around, I’d want to be an in-game NPC too!) is a pretty good way for gaming to gain a bit more respect among some who overly criticize the hobby based on what they see in the media…

Not that the game needs it, but I love this hilarious (and NSFW) endorsement video from Chris Avellone (I’ll let you non-gamers Google the man up on your own):

Let’s see now… as of 2:29pm, the game has got 15,814 Backers and $847,177 pledged of its $900,000 goal with 30 days to go. Nice. Another one in the bag for inXile, as their Wasteland Kickstarter did gang-buster records as well. Expect the team to more than meet their target and pretty much buy ice cream for everyone in at least one state in the US or something with what’s leftover. I’ll take a scoop of vanilla. In a hand-made cone, of course…*

(*OK, InXile has said NOTHING about buying me or anyone else ice cream… but it would be REALLY cool, right?)