Hey guys!

FOR FULL SIZE / QUALITY IMAGES FOR DESKTOP WALLPAPER
DOWNLOAD FROM: https://www.flickr.com/photos/134152289@N03/

Wanted to use some of the new art / images from the Kickstarter to use as a desktop background but unfortuantely the images are rather small and low quality when blown up as background. So I've taken the nice image of Ryo and Shenhua walking in Guilin and took out most of the noise and crap that would show up when blown up and added lens flare and a couple of nice soft filters to make it look a bit water coloured. Even though it's a 600x382 image, it looks really nice as my 1920x1080 display.

http://i.imgur.com/4oLSwEq.png

Without Flare:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/331/18706829840_19acc25519_z.jpg
With Flare:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/426/18708376479_b0a96e8af1_z.jpg
With Flare And Logo:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/395/19030619581_61c9d8d9ce_z.jpg

Without Logo:
https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3775/18895877071_6bae2e4388_z.jpg
With Logo:
https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3949/19030633551_fe22f9c4e6_z.jpg

Without Flare:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/402/18271241664_f6c56fdf51_z.jpg
With Flare:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/331/18893805375_a28afc3cb2_z.jpg
With Flare And Logo:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/257/18406840673_54de9fd0f5_z.jpg

Without Logo:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/540/18898185651_880bdb99c7_z.jpg
With Logo:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/446/19001293946_0bf14bff94_z.jpg

Trippy Wallpaper =P~ :
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/286/18841316829_900f550bba_z.jpg

Here is a link to the full size images:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134152289@N03/

If anyone has any wallpaper they have made they want to share please do :)

Shenmue 2d/3d Artwork
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=45217&p=1015180#p1015180

http://i.imgur.com/PZDaNhg.jpg

Hey everyone, my brother and I decided to contribute $20,000 for the making of Shenmue III. We spent many hours thinking about whether this is a good or bad decision. We spent $10,000 in 2012 to get our school off the ground and that went a long way. Because of our initial $10,000 pledge, the school received an amazing amount of attention in China, social media and gaming websites. I'll reiterate, We are not wealthy! This was a hard decision. We could have given $20,000 directly to building the school and it's programs but we feel that this pledge will lead to more exposure and support than what we could do through other mediums.

For those who don't know our school yet. We are called The "V.E.T. Program" (Volunteer English Teacher). You can find us on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/VolunteerEnglishTeacher?fref=ts&ref=br_tf We teach children and young adults English to help in their educational and career pursuits. Many of these kids come from small villages in the Guilin area and may not have an opportunity to learn elsewhere. You can go to the "about" section on the Facebook page to learn more.

We really need help in reaching our goals. We would love for you to like us on Facebook. We will eventually look outside ourselves and setup a way for donations to be made but we didn't want to distract from the Kick Starter or be overbearing donation hunters.

We decided to make the second $10,000 pledge a character in the game. We don't want to be a character attacking Ryo though. We are going to try and ask Yu Suzuki to let us have one of our Volunteer Chinese teaching assistants be a character in one of the villages. They deserve to be recognized for their hard work. They are volunteers and many of them come from poor rice farms.

We are also hoping that since we will be listed in the credits as a special sponsor that it can have our school with a logo and a website rather than our names.

I don't think any of this would be asking too much. I think it would help get attention to the school. We would love any assistance in helping us achieve this. We also would love to have Yu Suzuki come to the school some day but we won't don't want to be greedy.

Please, help our little school!
http://i.imgur.com/GS7Iwrq.jpg

Thank you everyone for the kind words.

We have received an unimaginable amount of press over this. Most good, some bad. There are some places that seem to think we took food from the mouths of the kids and gave the money instead to the game.

http://n4g.com/news/1754367/chinese-school-for-underprivileged-kids-pledges-20-000-to-shenmue-3-kickstarter

We were made aware of this place a few minutes ago. My brother decided to respond to these people.. This is just one of several places giving us bad press.

All the outside money we receive goes to the kids. All advertising costs come from my brother and I. We have spent plenty of money in advertising over the years but none has ever got us the exposure we have received now. All the advertising we did in the past only got to western parts of China, now we have been getting attention not just in ALL of China, but globally. The best part is the money we spent didn't go to some large marketing corporation but to Shenmue and dinner with Y'S. It was the smartest decision we ever made.

We have been getting ton's of gaming sites in China trying to interview us. We have been on the news in Guilin (5M people). Even Eurogamer.net posted our story on Twitter a few minutes ago.

https://twitter.com/eurogamer

I'm having a hard time with the criticism, frankly. I have only had the intention of helping the school. I wish people would look at this and think about giving of their time and energy to helping others but some people only live to hate and criticize. If people are thinking we are spending our money unwisely, let's hear what they are doing to help the world and what better ways they are spending their money on charity...

WIP

I assume everyone above $800 will get that reward. None of the tiers above $80 mention the S3 World Telecom thing, but it would be silly if they didn't include it. They're probably just incompetent when it comes to communicating the rewards.

Not true, the $100 one does:

Choose one of the following: 1. PS4 Physical Copy 2. PS4 Digital Copy 3. Windows PC Physical Copy 4. Windows PC Digital Copy.
Digital copy of the Trial version for PC
Your name in the credits.
Includes the $5 Reward.
An international phone card (in-game item)

Can we convince Awesome Japan to just stick this at the top of the Kickstarter for the rest of the campaign?

http://i.imgur.com/MdbHb5F.jpg

Obviously not the mirror version, but this dragon graphic is now done. Will update my original post.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/shenmueboxart3.png

This one's for Kotaku.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/shenmueboxart4.jpg

Love it!

I support having Rueben Kee's relfections during the credits/at some point in the game. A message in the credits dedicating the game to "the fans who are no longer with us" (not necessarily names) - perhaps at the point when the music starts - would be very thoughtful too. This is one of the saddest things about having to wait so long for Shenmue 3. :(
Very true... I dont know any fans personally that have passed but my mum passed away last year and she knew I was a massive fan and used to try and chat to me about it when I playing or afterwards so she'd have been happy for me :')

I agree it would be nice to have a message in the credits thanking fans for their support and paying respects to those that never got to see s3

I might actually shout out the fans that never got to see S3 in my guestbook entry! :D

I support having Rueben Kee's relfections during the credits/at some point in the game. A message in the credits dedicating the game to "the fans who are no longer with us" (not necessarily names) - perhaps at the point when the music starts - would be very thoughtful too. This is one of the saddest things about having to wait so long for Shenmue 3. :(

I think we should make it clear to Ys net, Shibuya productions and Awesome Japan that we would like those that have unfortunately passed away mentioned in the Shenmue 3 credits.

Would be a lovely and respectful tribute

Rueben Kee's name should really be in the credits of Shenmue 3 since he worked on Shenmue Reflections which is an amazing piece of music. I listen to it quite a lot and since has passed away while the third is coming it would be wise to include his name, very wise.

This reminds me.... I wonder if anyone pledged to put Rodger Swan's name into the game?

They used a variation of the same song in the credits of 1 & 2, so that arrangement you linked would be perfect for the credits of 3.

I put together this animated short in an attempt to bring more awareness to the Kickstarter. The idea was to try and animate a Shenmue themed Mega Man stage. If you're wondering why I decided to mix the two, it's because we're a couple of guys who have been working on a Mega Man fangame for a couple of years, so we're using our Facebook page that we set up for that game to promote the campaign. Hope you guys like it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KXALnWyv4

The Chinese shenmue community are setting up an possible interview with Corey Marshall and Michael Huber and Lisle Wilkerson

Please submit your questions you want us to ask below or go on the website http://tieba.baidu.com/p/4487418539

*******NOTE THE SITE IS IN CHINESE*********

The windows to submit your question close at 12 pm on the 4/20/16. Sorry for the short window. We were just able to set this up yesterday and we do not want Corey and Michael or Lisle to wait for the respond for too long

NOTE: YOU CAN SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION BELOW OF THIS POST. I WILL DO THE SUBMIT FOR YOU !

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