ReVeN is set on the planet XR-Kere in the 28th century future, focusing on the mysterious Nexum Station that's suddenly vanished after powering down, drawing inspiration from classics like Super Metroid and Castlevania in design.
Gary Stott writes: "Morgan justifies this decision by telling us the $33,008 successfully raised through ReVeN's campaign wasn't really enough to make the game, and so Varia had to find another way to bring in money. The answer was Xbridge, on top of a pizza delivery job. Backers must be thrilled to know that Morgan spent $2,500 of ReVeN's funding buying a car so that he could deliver pizzas every weekend."
Let me wrap my mind around it. So... They decided 18000 will be enough but 33000 wasn't because surprise taxes which are always there, and then he spend 2500 for a job to earn about 120 bucks a week and this will make him break even in around five to six months?
People take peculiar actions when in stress.
IMO thats not even the worst part. The worst thing they did was working on another game while they should have worked on the one people actually funded. This is one reason why I believe devs and gamers alike should stay away from Kickstarter.
They are really great guys, I've spoken with them a number of times. The problem is that they are really young and green. They should have had more experience working in the game industry under others before managing a project like this. They hopped right into this fresh out of game design school. Hopefully they can turn this project around. It was looking pretty cool on the latest builds.
Well, as it was said in the article, at least they're being honest about it. Hopefully, other starting devs will learn from their mistakes. Their game looks good too. I hope it'll be released eventually.
Yes, they made some bad decisions. But at least they're honest and trying to set things straight now. At least they didn't take the money and run like some other failed Kickstarters.
They do have a lot of talent. Best wishes to them.
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Another month, another fresh batch of Greenlit games.
Valve has announced 50 more titles which have been approved for worldwide distribution via Steam.
The game list includes include Niko: Through the Dream, a puzzle adventure game from Spain-based Studio Paint which ran a successful crowdfunding campaign earlier this year.
Also on the list is Paper Dungeons, a fantasy board game, Rift Rush, a Oculus-based platformer which secured funding last April, and Vendetta Online, a free-to-pay Oculus enabled space MMO (yes, another one).
These games will be making their way to a platform in their own time after the final development has been completed.
Thats some good news :)
Very proud of them!