With one day left and with no chance of getting funded Druid Gameworks has a new update with news the project will be relaunching in November.
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Unwritten:Echoes of Twilight - Funding Unsuccessful
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I see nothing wrong with the title so as they say whatever. As for me I just hate how long the title is to fit in news-bits.
SonOfCapiz
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Another attempt with a smaller goal makes me raise an eyebrow every time. It seems to me that original goals are always the more realistic one, the one devs think they'll really need for the project. Succeeding attempts with smaller goals just reads "we need more but we'll settle for this just to get more funding and worry about actually finishing it later" to me.
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A lot of these small kickstarter projects tend to struggle with the setting and story aspects of the game. I think most projects would be better off defaulting to a more realistic medieval setting rather than doing vanilla fantasy badly.
gandalf.nho
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Hope they research other sucessfull campaigns first, their reward tiers were all wrong (many expensives ones, exclusive KS DLCs...)
Do you really think so? I lean towards If you're not going to do something original, don't bother. The writing is at the same time the cheapest part of the whole project and typically the responsibility of the lead developer. If you're not willing to put in the effort there, it reflects poorly on the whole project. Of course I might be biased.
It's just that there are so many really bad fantasy works even among published stuff. For every RR Martin there are 10,000 also rans. The writing, setting, pacing, characterisation etc. certainly shouldn't be the cheapest part of the project, in reality that's what differentiates a decent game and the technical bits are just there to support them.
I lost interest in this from the beginning as they didn't have their pitch video ready for the launch. I just watched it now and think it was pretty well done. The narrator was good and they showed that they had given the setting some thought. Unfortunately, it seems like it was one of those projects were they had very little concrete to show. There concept art, I think, was good but they didn't manage to go beyond that. For instance, showing a promotional video for the Havok Vision Engine didn't impress me. When you are not a well-known entity it is hard getting 500k at face value.