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Make My MMO: Crowdfunding December 1 - 14, 2013
If it seems as if crowdfunding's gone into a turkey coma lately, you aren't just imagining things -- at least as far as funded games are concerned. News on that front has seemed scarce compared to the deluge of some other two-week spans, but the current campaigns are trying to make up for it. Life is Feudal canceled its Indiegogo campaign, but devs vowed to "survive according to Plan 'B'," so we'll keep an eye out to see whether it moves into personal funding as other games have done. (That route is working for Neo's Land, whose donations keep creeping higher.) Similarly, Novus AEterno scrapped its second Kickstarter campaign, but in a twist, it's already restarted another with a lower goal. Outer Worlds Online, however, just didn't make the funding cut. On the successful side, manners and dinner parties will be coming to an MMO near you; Ever, Jane got an invitation to join the funded club. A few other funded titles also saw some progress, and still others joined (or re-joined) the race for your support. And topping all that, we also bid farewell to Elite: Dangerous, who leaves Make My MMO for Betawatch now that its alpha has started. You can catch all the updates below.
Enterprising starfleet RPG The Mandate secures $700K in crowdfunding
Indie developer Perihelion Interactive has wrapped up its Kickstarter campaign for the spacefaring RPG The Mandate, surpassing its initial funding goal of $500,000 and reaching many of its stretch goals. Gameplay in The Mandate focuses on crew interaction, and players will build space stations, scavenge wayward vessels and fight in large-scale intergalactic battles over the duration of the campaign. Perihelion gave backers a taste of the experience with a bevy of pre-release content, including an interactive prologue and a text adventure. The Mandate has ended its run on Kickstarter, but would-be captains can still contribute to the campaign via PayPal. The final product is set to launch for Windows, Mac, and Linux in early 2015.
