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Sunday Comics: Dead Island If Brian Fargo’s Kickstarter-funded project reaches $US2.1 million, it will be co-developed by Chris Avellone and the team behind games like Fallout: New Vegas and Alpha Protocol.
With the Kickstarter campaign for his old-school role-playing title already surpassing its goal, Brian Fargo has managed to find a path out of needing a publisher to continue making video games.
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is opening some amazing doors for indie developers. First Double Fine for an all-new adventure game and now inXile to get a sequel to Fallout precursor Wasteland underway. While Tim Schafer’s Kickstarter journey has, for the time being, come to an end, inXile CEO Brain Fargo is still riding the roller coaster. With his project currently sitting at over $US1.5 million, he’s enjoying the absolutely hell out it, so much so he wants to help other Kickstarter projects with a new initiative called “Kicking It Forward”.
Not very long after adventure game legend Tim Schafer proposed resurrecting a long-dormant genre, and made a ton of money for doing it, another long-dormant kind of game – this time an 80′s RPG – did something similar.
Who says people don’t want sequels? Not Brian Fargo. Thousands of backers have borne out the game designer’s assertion that there’s desire for a follow-up to the classic RPG. And they’ve shelled out $US966,741 as of this writing to make Wasteland 2 happen.
Brian Fargo had given up. He’d spent the better part of the past decade pitching a game idea to publishers, only to be met by indifference and rejection. While he pitched and tried to sell his game, business executives would stare at their phones, texting. Barely paying attention. It was infuriating.
Earlier this week, inXile Entertainment filed a trademark for the title “Choplifter” in relation to a video game. Whaddya think, might this be a new Choplifter game?
A small group of journalists and developers were invited to sit in an informal lunch discussion with some of the biggest names in the gaming industry today.
