They want the next Angry Birds/Modern Warfare, full of DLC upgrades
I chuckled at this as one of the kickstarter levels on this project gets you enhanced abilities.
Really, though, does everything have to be so binary? Isn't HN above this "stereotype the worst of the worst and cast it as the only alternative" false dichotomy?
There are plenty of incredible games that publishers have supported. And in this case these guys are claiming that they're going to create a PC and a Mac version for $400,000? Really? Most "real" game cost many millions of dollars to bring to fruition.
$400,000 seems like a reasonable amount to make a game.
Maybe not a super polished AAA game, but it seems they are being ruthless about cutting features to keep it in budget.
for $400,000 you could easily retain 4 people to work on it full time for a year.
> And in this case these guys are claiming that they're going to create a PC and a Mac version for $400,000? Really? Most "real" game cost many millions of dollars to bring to fruition.
I got the impression that they were making the game anyway (for PC and tablets), and are going to use the kickstarter money to provide a Mac version, level editor, translations, additional character types, and possibly an additional city. Could be wrong though, it's not 100% clear and I agree that $400,000 can't possibly be enough to make a whole game of this magnitude.
If they were originally planning to develop it for the iPad, then developing a Mac version isn't that much of a stretch. I'm guessing they're going for the iPad since you have a more direct layer to C/C++ & OpenGL and the iPad is a bigger market in the tablet space.
I chuckled at this as one of the kickstarter levels on this project gets you enhanced abilities.
Really, though, does everything have to be so binary? Isn't HN above this "stereotype the worst of the worst and cast it as the only alternative" false dichotomy?
There are plenty of incredible games that publishers have supported. And in this case these guys are claiming that they're going to create a PC and a Mac version for $400,000? Really? Most "real" game cost many millions of dollars to bring to fruition.