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Developer Lilith has halted its Kickstarter crowdfunding push for survival horror title Allison Road. The PT-inspired title’s Kickstarter launched on September 21st, and since then Lilith has raised 145,959 of its 250,000 goal and attracted 4,482 backers. The studio has announced on Kickstarter that the reason it has ditched its …
Read More »Dev knew Kickstarter funds weren’t enough to finish Midora
Despite raising $73,000 through crowdfunding, game creator still needs more funds
Read More »Midora dev admits he knew he couldn’t complete game with Kickstarter funding
The chances of Zelda-inspired 2D adventure title Midora ever making it to market now look incredibly slim. Having won over $73,000 worth of Kickstarter funding back in the summer of 2014, Midora was due to arrive in January of this year. That, clearly, did not happen. And now creator Mhyre …
Read More »Shenmue 3 may have to compromise visuals to become a better game
Developer Yu Suzuki has said that the game’s $6,333,295 Kickstarter total is not enough for him to do everything he wanted with Shenmue 3. "I could do with a bit more money,” he told Eurogamer. The game itself doesn’t have to be gorgeous visually – a lot of the money …
Read More »Divinity: Original Sin II Kickstarter concludes at over $2m in funding
Larian Studios’ Kickstarter campaign for Divinity: Original Sin II has ended successfully with over $2m in funding. The crowdfunding effort launched last month, seeking $500,000 for a sequel to its well-received 2014 release. "After 35 days, 42,713 backers, over 19,000 comments, and a whopping final total of $2,032,434 (plus an …
Read More »Unsung Story Kickstarter angers backers with change of gameplay focus
Back in January 2014 15,824 people pledged a total of $660,126 on Kickstarter for a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics. These people were paying for a narrative-heavy tactical RPG designed by FFT and Vagrant Story’s Yasumi Matsuno due for release in July 2015. So an announcement confirming not only …
Read More »Kickstarter becomes ‘public benefit corporation’
Crowdfunding platform promises to continue enabling creative projects to find success
Read More »Meet the UK studio trying to resurrect P.T. on Kickstarter
A new UK studio wants to bring Konami’s abandoned horror concept back from the dead in creepy new horror, Allison Road. London-based Lilith has been working on the game for several months and has now taken to Kickstarter in an effort to make the game ‘the best it can be’. …
Read More »Yes, Shenmue 3 wants even more crowdfunding money
Developer Ys Net has embarked on yet another crowdfunding campaign for RPG sequel Shenmue 3. The game has already raised $6,333,295 Kickstarter, but the studio has opened what it calls a ‘Slacker Backer’ period designed to encourage those who didn’t pledge first time around to add their cash to the …
Read More »US court punishes Kickstarted card game for ‘crowdfunding theft’
The creators of a successfully Kickstarted card game have been fined $54,851 after backers were left without the product they had successfully funded. Asylum Playing Cards received over $35k back in October 2012, easily beating its $15k funding goal. However, backers have in the time since not received their product, …
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