American McGee Wants $200,000 To Finish His Game


Game designer American McGee — best known for designing the horror game Alice and its sequel, Alice: Madness Returns — has run out of money.

He and his studio Spicy Horse have been working on a game called Akaneiro for the past year-and-a-half. It’s a free-to-play action-role-playing game set in ancient Japan that tells a twisted version of Red Riding Hood. It’s on a bunch of platforms — PC, Mac, mobile, tablets — and it looks pretty good too.

But now, somehow, McGee and crew are out of money. So they’re resorting to the gaming industry’s panacea, Kickstarter. And asking you for $US200,000 to finish off their game.

“We desperately want the final form of Akaneiro to represent the great amount time and effort that’s gone toward getting it this far,” they write. “To finish what we’ve started and present Akaneiro to our players in a truly final state, we need to deliver our promised features to all target platforms. The problem is we’re out of time and money to do so. That’s where you come in.”

Remember the days when game companies started making games and then actually finished them? Without panhandling on the internet? Ahh, nostalgia.

Akaneiro: Demon Hunters [Kickstarter via Polygon]


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