Not exact matches
Stoic, an
independent game development company, today announced that the crowdfunding campaign for Banner Saga 3 has smashed its initial
funding target and unveiled the confirmed stretch goals it will implement into the final
game.
In the abstract, I would say that the most difficult part of
game development, especially for a self -
funded independent project, is finding the means and / or time to work on the project, dedicating years of your life and an enormous amount of intellectual, physical, and emotional energy into a project that could ultimately fail completely.
A feeding frenzy of
game development activity with a cumulative impact that developers are only beginning to grasp — consoles, online services,
independent games, handheld
games, coffee break
games, downloadable
games, casual
games, multiplayer
games, gambling
games, indie
game distribution, next gen, phone
games, self
funded games, and the return of shareware — mind boggling stuff, really, and all happening at once!
When it was first leveraged as a way to earn money to
fund the
development of
independent video
games, it was lauded as the new bastion for indie
game development, a ray of light in a place where so many small developers struggled to gain any traction on their projects.