Creative Director Dan Vavra of Warhorse, formerly lead designer for 2K Games' Mafia series, has blogged a developer diary shedding light on the hardship of getting investors.
They had "no office, no company, no money and nothing to show" at the start but a pitch and some pictures. They were "no West and Zampella" and interest wouldn't come easy.
But only when it comes to money. Further details, such as pissing against the wind, are included in Gamepressure's interview.
It's a classic example of a potential new franchise where the first game is flawed but has promise and the sequel is make or break. If they can tighten up the combat, streamline some of the more tedious survival elements and polish the story and game as a whole to a high standard then they've got a great chance of making something big.
I do hope it made enough to warrant a second game. If I recall this game had a somewhat smaller budget and mostly unproven team so another go at it will likely show pretty large improvements.
So do I, I appreciate what they did with it. As far as I know it was pretty successful and they'll be working on a follow up.
Yeah it was a Kickstarter game originally. Raised quite the total on there. After the successful Kickstarter they received more money. Total budget was 36 million which is rather low by today's standard.
As Notellin said, it had a pretty small budget. As far as we know, the game has sold at least 2 million copies, which virtually guarantees that it's been profitable.
So hopefully that means a sequel or similar style game in the future.
I adored it, and will be going back soon just because. I loved it and its flaws.
I've put hundreds of hours in KCD and still haven't finished the main story. I love just exploring the world, it's gotta be up there as one of the best game worlds ever created. Looking forward to KCD: 2! Switch version of the first one would be epic too, though :D
Meh, R* has fallen off anyway; KC devs shouldn't be so hard on themselves. Clunky gameplay, amazing story. At least they released a PC version for people and didn't pivot their studio to only caring about microtransactions.
The ridiculous 25-50 gb patches weekly sure didn't help the reception of this game at launch which I got, however the continued and fairly swift support at the same time was appreciated. Also the fact they stood their ground and refused to add artificial diversity that wouldn't fit the era made me respect them somewhat more.
I don't need some upstart disagreeing with me. Theres no doubt the games codes was decent.
Kingdom Come Deliverance by indie studio Warhorse is a unique take on Medieval RPGs. With an unwavering stress on realism and immersion, the game punishes players for taking the combat for granted while tacticians are handsomely rewarded.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance - a realistic medieval role-playing game (without wizards and dragons) - from the Czech Republic has a new development trailer showing the sword combat implemented into the game.
Looks intriguing. Realistic but fluid sword combat seems to be one thing that has rarely been managed in video games thus far.
I've been watching this closely as it will apparently appear on consoles next year,looks awesome and a really authentic.But it seems that you can't stab or remove limbs which is a bit disappointing but maybe this will change later on. Hope so!
Well it wouldn't be realistic if you couldn't (remove limbs, that is), so I doubt that will be missing in the final game.
Good read.