Opportunities Going Into Overtime…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on December 9, 2013

Looks like the Groupees Dan “Indie” Long bundle deal has been extended an extra couple of days… if you wanted to get in on the deals there, you have a few hours. Very few, as of the time of this posting.

Dan “Indie” Long hand-picked Indie Game Bundle

Also not-exactly-expired this weekend: Guido Henkel’s Deathfire: Ruins of Evermore. The Kickstarter campaign failed to fund, getting just over half their funding goal. This was sad but not unexpected as the campaign progressed over the last couple of weeks. Now that it is over, they’ve gotten creative about the funding of the game. As we’d expect (and as I certainly hoped), the game is still on, assuming “Plan B” works.

Plan B involves going for a lower level of funding, bypassing Kickstarter entirely. Assuming they hit the minimum goal, they are going to be producing the game in episodic format. This has serious repercussions on the design and development, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. But to kick things off, they are looking for about 1/8th of what they needed for the complete game. Now that sounds like a pretty extreme reduction, but by eliminating the physical rewards entirely (for now) and bypassing Kickstarter (and their cut), they can stretch each funding dollar by 20%+.

My concern would be that the bulk of the work still has to be done up-front, getting the game system and everything up and running. But I assume they’ve priced everything out and know what they are doing. It’s not exactly Henkel’s first rodeo.

Anyway, if you are interested in participating, click the links three paragraphs up.

And as a final little bit of enjoyment of lost opportunities… Noah “Spoony” Antwiler and Richard “Lord British” Garriott de Cayeux had some fun during his interview (a stretch goal for Garriott’s Kickstarter) and re-enacted a scene that was probably in everybody’s imagination during certain frustrated moments playing the early-to-mid Ultima games.

 

 

Have fun!

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