Tetsuo, on 03 June 2013 - 08:41 PM, said:
Just try stopping me. I'm going to do the damn hell as I please including purchasing the PC version so they have enough to do further ports like to Mac and Linux.
We talked about Kickstarter a million times. Apogee and the guys almost had me convinced at one point - but we decided to do this the old fashioned way by pulling up our bootstraps and emptying our bank accounts.
First of all, on top of everything else we're doing - trying to run a successful Kickstarter campaign sounded like an enormous pain in the ass. Something we simply didn't have the time or resources for - especially with me being tasked with all of the marketing by myself.
Secondly, I personally don't think we've earned the right to ask for hand outs from the gaming community. I think that if we prove ourselves with ROTT, the sky's the limit! Veteran devs like InXile and Double Fine have every right to do these big budget Kickstarters. They have long time fans and back catalogs of quality games as proof that they will deliver. I don't think we've earned the right to fund raise next to guys like that and quite frankly I'm a little put off by other indie developers who do. Even more so by certain "veteran" developers who think they can raise millions of dollars based on fans who liked games they made decades ago. Sure, anyone can donate to anything - it's a free country. But I've never been in the business of asking for handouts and certainly wasn't going to take that route with ROTT. I'd rather sell my house than ask for a hand out. In fact, I AM SELLING MY HOUSE.
Plus, when it comes to Kickstarter - unless you're Tim Schafer or Brian Fargo - you really only get ONE shot and ONE Kickstarter. So why waste our opportunity with our first game? If ROTT does well, we can take a step back, pay our guys what they deserve to be paid, and then perhaps re-assess our situation and potentially do a Kickstarter for our next project or even a ROTT expansion pack.
I obviously can't speak for everyone, but I want more than anything for Interceptor to prove that we can do this on our own. Because if we do that and we succeed, it will be all the more worthwhile.
So yeah. No Kickstarter. At least not yet