Awesome! Thank you guys for supporting Robyn's project! I'm excited about it. She gave me the chance to see an early build, but I want to wait and experience the finished project.
Have you guys seen the
Formula Fusion kickstarter? It's really... weird. I love the idea of a successor to Wipeout made by its original team, but there are some strange things going on. Firstly, they set a really low goal and then made some statements that make it seem like they will have difficulty delivering if they don't make their goal:
The low target of £35,000 is a statement to our determination and commitment to make this succeed. £35,000 represents a base line plan to start gathering momentum - this will allow us to create the "base game", which will feature eight tracks created by the WipEout 3 track team and an early-access version featuring one fully developed track.
There is a lot more text devoted to it, but it sounds like at their lowest goal, they are banking the development on revenue from their early access version, which seems risky. It can work - I think Distance is doing really well on Early Access - but I think they had more than one track and a much higher kickstarter goal.
The other weird thing is they have a lot of tiers that don't actually include the game. The first tier for 20 GBP is a bunch of stuff NOT including the games. Then if you actually pledge 20 GBP to get the game, you don't get any of the lower stuff including your name in the credits. You need to go up to 35 GBP tier. But you'd actually be better off setting up a separate account and doing 2 pledges because the 35 GBP tier doesn't include the backer wallpaper.
It seems like a cool campaign but run poorly. I don't know. What do you guys think?
