Serena Nelson writes: "Mooncrest is a fantasy game where the two playable characters are women. One is a paladin that sets out to do good and the other is, for lack of a better term, a street urchin. Both girls end up setting out to uncover a conspiracy that spans the entire city. I love a good story featuring paladins. I've always felt closest to this fantasy trope than anything else in the genre, so I found my judgment a bit clouded when reading that part. And it's got a great premise. The problem is that the rest of the pitch falls flat."
Marcus Estrada writes: "Every month Kickstarter is full of wild successes, and depressing failures. While some are always going to have that massive fan push behind them to see hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding others barely make it to the finish line. Due to the nature of Kickstarter, there’s simply not enough money to go around to fund every worthwhile campaign. The purpose of this post is to shine a light on those campaigns that had the chops for success, but for one reason or another failed to make their goal this time."
Grip looks kinda fun. 600k is a lot of money though. I'm surprised they got as much backing as they did.
The problem is publicising your Kickstarter - I haven't heard of a single Kickstarter mentioned in that article. You might be able to get it mentioned on a few specialist gaming sites and in specific communities, but it's incredibly difficult to break through into the mainstream gaming press unless you're already a well known developer.
Totally agree with you. A lot of the bigger sites aren't fans of writing about Kickstarter games unless they're enormously significant.
Serena Nelson writes: "Based on what I saw of the pitch I was certain it would fail. Not because I like seeing projects flounder. Far from it. I actually was hoping it would do better than the 11% in a week. But, there was a lot of issues with it that sent up more than a few red flags. Intentional or not it was a campaign that was doomed from the start."
SegmentNext - Last month, newly formed studio KnightMayor announced a new RPG title called Mooncrest. The game showed promise and much was expected from it as it was being developed by experienced developers from all over the industry.
