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Police Quest 'successor' Kickstarter canceled, moves to its own tiered funding platform
The Kickstarter campaign for Precinct - pitched as a spiritual successor to the Police Quest series - has handed in its badge and gun. Robert Lindsley, president of Jim Walls Reloaded, told Joystiq that the campaign has been canceled in order to give the developer an opportunity to create a playable pilot version of the game. The motive, Lindsley said, is to allow potential backers to "experience" the vision behind the spiritual successor, rather than use a tech demo video to decide whether the game was worthy of backing. Kickstarter users are cautious, Lindsley admitted to Joystiq, especially considering recent high-profile project "stumbles," and a prototype version of Precinct will allow the developer to give players a playable taste of the vision Jim Walls - co-creator of the Police Quest series - has for the spiritual successor. Beginning today, Precinct will crowdsource funds from its own website, using a tiered structure to fund different stages of the project. The developer has told Joystiq it will not return to Kickstarter for contributions. Jim Walls Reloaded is seeking $25,000 to develop the Precinct prototype, which Lindsley said will take two months to develop. "Giving backers an early hands-on is a primary incentive for this new campaign. The team hopes that showing their vision through early builds will lead to additional funding for the full game," Lindsley told Joystiq. With ten days left in its (now canceled) Kickstarter drive, Precinct has only managed to inch over the $85,000 mark, a far cry from the $500,000 sought to complete the project.%Gallery-195488%
Police Quest creator goes to Kickstarter for Precinct
Precinct is the latest Kickstarter hopeful putting out an APB for cash. The game is intended as a spiritual successor to Sierra's Police Quest, headed by that series' creator Jim Walls and Sierra veteran Robert Lindsley as executive producer. The game, which intends to follow the Sierra adventure game formula with a modern feel, has a funding goal of $500,000. "As a founding father of the adventure game genre, [Walls] has the ability to truly deliver that classic adventure style. And with additional talent that includes both Sierra and industry veterans, we can mix the old and new to ensure that the story, colors, characters, animation, design and of course the gameplay meet modern expectations," said Robert Lindsley, President of newly-established studio Jim Walls Reloaded. Precinct plans to follow the hardline, realistic police procedures of the Police Quest series (be sure to wear those ear protectors on the shooting range). It is planned as a five-game series, with the first installment available in the third quarter of next year for PC and Mac, with console development as a stretch goal.
