On the brink: What’s next if Project Awakened can’t save the world
Phosphor Games has less than 48 hours to raise more than $200,000 for Project Awakened on Kickstarter. If Phosphor doesn’t hit that goal, the $270,000 people have already pledged will vanish, and Awakened’s current development timeline will be stretched indefinitely.
Still, Phosphor Director Chip Sineni is optimistic about Awakened’s success.
“We are feeling stressed, but we still feel there is time for the community to help us make this happen,” Sineni tells Joystiq. “We got the Unreal Engine 4 tech demo out, we announced Austin Wintory joining as the composer and a lot of Kickstarters have last-minute surges.”
A lot of Kickstarters fall short, too: Last year, 2,796 video game projects asked for funding, and 1,885 failed. Of course this means 911 gaming projects succeeded, and those projects earned $83 million overall. Sineni wants to see Awakened in that second group, but the entire process has been a fast-paced learning experience on the whims of crowd-sourced funding. Only (a short amount of) time will tell if Phosphor absorbed its lessons too late.Continue reading On the brink: What’s next if Project Awakened can’t save the worldOn the brink: What’s next if Project Awakened can’t save the world originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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