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Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2012 by | Comments 4 Comments


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It all started with Tim Schafer’s Double Fine studios raising more than $3 million in a Kickstarter campaign to fund…something. We don’t know what, but with Brutal Legend out of their system, it’s gotta be good. Now, a host of classic developers are asking you to help fund their latest big ideas. Brian Fargo (of Interplay fame) wants to make a sequel to Wasteland, the stump from which Fallout sprang. Chris Jones wants to continue the adventures of everyone’s favorite space detective, Tex Murphy, with Project Fedora (something I’m required to support for religious reasons). Christian Allen (Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter) has decided that tactical shooters have become too soft, so he’s founding his own company with the expressed purpose of making a hardcore tactical FPS, like before Rainbow Six went to Vegas. These designers want to make games just as badly as you want play them; they just need the cash. Today you get to be the publisher. Let’s use the power of crowd-sourcing and bring life to dead genres!

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psycros | March 23rd, 2012 at 1:46 AM Permalink to this Comment

Its amazing just how badly the push towards “lowest common denominator” platforms has harmed PC gaming. If a developer has a hardcore game concept, it better run on a console or it doesn’t get a green light. If its a casual title then it has to work on a phone or in a browser. The PC is still the most ubiquitous and powerful gaming machine by far, and yet this is where we find ourselves – at the mercy of fat morons in suits who’ve probably never played anything but online poker. So we, as gamers, are forced to fund the development of games we actually want! Of course, the publishers would love to see PC gaming dead and buried..even though Skyrim did better on Windows than any other platform that’s not likely to change. A couple of indie efforts like Wasteland 2 will need to hit it big before the industry wakes up and realizes they’ve forgotten the biggest audience of all.

Solo4114 | March 23rd, 2012 at 11:57 AM Permalink to this Comment

I see two projects that will get my money.

Marcus Spears | March 26th, 2012 at 8:10 PM Permalink to this Comment

Well said, psycros… well said. And I agree with Solo4114… I see at least two projects that will get my money. It may not be the same two, but there you have it.

Ian Davis | April 3rd, 2012 at 8:34 AM Permalink to this Comment

Well, it looks like both Wasteland 2 and Takedown made it! Here’s hoping these games turn out well.

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