Crowdfunding via Kickstarter appears to be all the rage in bigger indie game developers nowdays. But, does the recent Kickstarter by Obsidian Entertainment take the idea of Kickstarter a little too far? Will we see bigger companies circumventing the sales process altogether in order to see their titles published?
OVERRIDER is a new sci-fi roguelite about hoverboarding and smashing robots, and there's a Kickstarter campaign to help get it funded.
Cinnabunny and Time is Honey are currently up to be crowdfunded on Kickstarter right now. They're both adorable.
Chris Avellone expands on his earlier claims that Fallout New Vegas dev Obsidian pitched Bethesda ideas for Elder Scrolls spinoffs.
Really Bethesda? Come on
We could have gotten to explore more of the regions or revisit old ones with another developer making them. Would have shortened the time between releases of the main games.
Just thinking about what could've been. Maybe they didn't wanna be showed up on their flagship title Ala new vegas compared to fallout 3 and 4
it's not that hard to show them up when they're like 20 years behind in terms of engine and development skills. If they had gotten the go ahead i guarantee it would have been better than anything they'd made recently.
The issue here was Bethesda was butthurt that obsidian managed to develop a better fallout game at the time (new vegas) than theirs (fo3) so they didn't allow it.
It's funny how they're both owned by Microsoft now. They should be able to work together now.
Kind of missed the point that developers are dependent on publishers to green-light the games. Publishes are cagey at the moment about new IPs as they want to make their money back (understandably). This way Obsidian can get a project that might struggle to find a publisher out to market giving us more new IPs.
Kickstarter is one of the best things to happen to gaming in a long time, the fact that people would rather pump cash into a game that is not even finished yet shows that we are tiring of the same old formulas that the larger companies keep churning out year after year.
When I look through some of the stuff on Kickstarter I see fresh art styles, cool ideas and gameplay mechanics that put a lot of the so called 'aaa' devs to shame. It's cool that over here you have the low risk call of dutys and ass creeds, but its also very cool that other there we have smaller teams taking risks on ideas they really think can work.