Double Fine Productions helped usher in the age of Kickstarter funded games with Double Fine Adventure (which later became Broken Age). Coming off of that success, Double Fine dipped into the Kickstarter well once more in order to fund their next major project, Massive Chalice. Headed by the creator of the vastly underrated Iron Brigade, Brad Muir, Massive Chalice looked to create a hybrid of XCOM and Game of Thrones. The game has been launched on Steam Early Access and while it’s an interesting concept, the game feels like it needs to address some massive balance issues.
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Tom Chick - "For the first time since I’ve been doing these lists, which is probably ten years or more, over half of my choices are from independent developers. It’s an encouraging development. When you consider the movies chosen by critics on any given year, you won’t necessarily see the most popular, and you probably won’t see the most profitable, or the movies with the biggest budgets. Instead, you’ll see lists that include the best of independent cinema, arthouse releases, or at least the indie branding from the major studios. When the best of the year skew towards people who aren’t beholden to stockholders, it’s a sign that a medium is maturing creatively. Leave financial success, hollow fun, and the pursuit of pure entertainment to the corporations. Leave thoughtful design, innovation, storytelling, and creative impact to the hungry men and women with something to say."
Join Gus Sorola and Ryan Haywood as they discuss Massive Chalice, the bloodline-based strategy game on this week's Patch Game Club.
