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Mob Rules Games wants you to vote on its next game, for free this time
Mob Rules Games had high hopes for its innovative, user-oriented Kickstarter campaign, where investors would get to choose one of three concepts for the developers to turn into a real game -- Haunts, The Last Second or Guerrilla Gorilla. They believed in this approach so strongly that they allotted just 30 days to raise $20,000. It's more than a month later, and now Mob Rules has just one thing to say about their entire Kickstarter venture: "Well, that didn't work." Mob Rules Games didn't reach their goal, but they have a backup plan. The Lewis Charitable Foundation has offered to invest in Mob Rules' first game as part of its Open Game Labs program, but Rick Dakan, Jonathan Wills and Austin McKinley still want users to choose which game they should make. Enter: Free voting. Anyone can enter to vote for free on one of Mob Rules' three potential games, from now until Nov. 30 at 5 p.m. EST. Whichever game has the most audience support, Mob Rules will make. Entertainment is a wholly subjective experience, so we don't want to tell you which game we think sounds like the most fun, but we'll give you a hint: It isn't the First and it rhymes with "meckond." Happy voting.
Ex-Cryptic employees' indie studio, Mob Rules Games, has no idea what it's doing
Three former Cryptic Studios employees have founded an independent, open and honest game-development studio titled Mob Rules Games -- and they have no idea what they're doing. Literally. Rick Dakan (Cryptic Studios founder, original lead designer for City of Heroes and former Joystiq freelancer), programmer Jonathan Wills and artiste Austin McKinley have three game ideas that are all apparently so awesome that they can't decide which one to make first, so they're having the players choose for them, via the trusty old fundraising platform, Kickstarter. The three games up for development are Guerilla Gorilla, Haunts and The Last Second, all of which are detailed in the above video. For every $1 you pledge on Kickstarter, you get 10 votes that are good for the life of the company, meaning you can provide input to Mob Rules for more than just this one round. Mob Rules plans to make all of its content open under Creative Commons, and will release the source codes for every game after its release. But don't trust us -- hear more about the philosophy behind Mob Rules from Dakan himself in the brief interview below:
