Halo, Infamous and Metal Gear vets join Kickstarter gold rush
Camouflaj and Logan want $500k for "AAA iOS" title Republique
Veteran coders from the teams which worked on Halo, Metal Gear Solid and Infamous have opened a Kickstarter fund for an ambitious AAA iOS game entitled Republique, seeking $500,000 towards an estimated dev fund of $1,000,000.
Two teams are collaborating on the project: Camouflaj and Logan. Camouflaj is headed up by former Kojima Productions coder Ryan Paton, whilst production unit Logan is fronted by Alexei Tylevich. Together, they hope to produce a game whereby the player manipulates the environment to help the female protagonist escape a military complex.
Paton was keen to make his team's ambitions clear in his pitch to potential Kickstarter investors, citing Chair Entertainment's Infinity Blade as a standard of quality which he wants to emulate.
"iOS is becoming a great gaming platform, but where are the games for people who love intense action and story-driven experiences," asks Paton.
"Where are the AAA games designed specifically for touch-based devices? As someone who loathes virtual joysticks, I have great respect for what Chair Entertainment did with Infinity Blade: they built an action game specifically for touch devices. We aim to do the same."
$500,000 has already been raised for the project from direct investment, but that funding will only materialise if the Kickstarter campaign can match it.
It will be interesting to see how many of these kickstarter projects come onto full production and how well they do 1-1.5 years from now. Certainly a very exciting start of a new cycle of global game creativity (free from the chain of the large developer model)
Posted:A year ago