Wasteland 2 Kickstarter is up!

[Brother None]

The guys at InXile are fast asleep now as it is 5am over there, so the official announcement will follow in a bit, but for all us Europeans up already: The Wasteland 2 Kickstarter drive is now up!

Nuts and bolts time.

We’re going back to the original and building from there. No first person shooter, we’re going top down so you get a tactical feel for the situation. And we’re not ditching the party play to turn it into some hack-and-slash bloodfest. It’s turn based, tactical, with a storyline that will be deeper and broader.

We’re determined to keep the gritty, grim and satirical writing. We’re going to pitch those moral dilemmas at you. You’re going to be faced with the consequences of your actions.

We’re planning on an initial 6 months of pre-production. We’ll nail down every important element that you, our creative partners, want. Once we have all that figured out, we buckle down for 12 month development cycle. During that time, players can get a sneak peek on a private closed beta through Steam. In addition, we will be giving you constant updates and showing you our progress along the way.

[Eric]

Pledged! So excited to see how much this rakes in.

[Mabec]

So awesome

[Mishrak]

Woohoo. Pledged, and this thing is going nuts already

Also, re: Brother None - if they had any doubts, they'll wake up to a nice surprise.

[Ausir]

They got 1% of the needed sum within an hour of the Kickstarter's launch, when most of the US is asleep and before they got any major coverage. Looks pretty optimistic so far.

[Mabec]

I think some people would like to know what happens if it ends on 890 000 USD and they been putting a 1000 dollars on the project, are those money lost forever if the project wont hit the goal?

[Ausir]

Money pledged to Kickstarter is only "pledged" - it is not immediately removed from your credit card, but only if Wasteland 2 makes it goal. If it fails, none of the money will be taken.

[DarkTwinkie]

We are rockin' and rollin'! I set my alarm for 5am to launch the Kickstarter, then tried to go back to sleep for another 2 hours. Being too excited, I checked my phone at about 5:30am and had 75 emails from backers already. Very cool to see. Thank you all and lets make this thing happen!

[TwinkieGorilla]

New Backer Alert!

TwinkieGorilla is your new backer!

Amount pledged: $100.00 to "Wasteland 2"


You're very welcome, lads. Now make us proud!

[Ausir]

Just pledged $100 as well. And you might need a better server for this forum soon.

[Mabec]

Money pledged to Kickstarter is only "pledged" - it is not immediately removed from your credit card, but only if Wasteland 2 makes it goal. If it fails, none of the money will be taken.

Ofcourse, ofcourse But what i meant (and tried to say) is, what if it's lacking 10k? Will the project still go thru? 890k (for example) is still alot of cash. Where does the line go? Just curious.

[undecaf]

115 down from me, and over 90,000 reached. One ninth of the full amount in just few hours. This is really promising.

[Dorky88]

Hello. So glad the kickstarter is up and it seems that it is going pretty well. I am going to throw my 115 dollars in there I just wanted to know one thing before I do it. Is the collector's edition box also like the old-timey big boxes or is it different, cause I really want one of those.

[Jozape]

Just pledged $100 as well. And you might need a better server for this forum soon.

Definitely. I tried to access the forums earlier and they wouldn't load at all.

Surprised that it's already over 100k. I'll get my $100 in tonight!

[Brother None]

Ofcourse, ofcourse But what i meant (and tried to say) is, what if it's lacking 10k? Will the project still go thru? 890k (for example) is still alot of cash. Where does the line go? Just curious.

If it doesn't make the minimum, it simply won't go through. The line is 900K, period. If it doesn't reach it, InXile gets no money at all.

But it'll reach it. That much is obvious now.

[hiptanaka]

Great start! I'm doing my part when I get home from work.

[Skirge]

I don't recall if it was talked about in the rewards thread, but I was looking at the Double Fine Kickstarter and a couple of things came to mind about why they may have achieved such success and I hope inXile will consider some of it:

1. Progress updates as the campaign went on. Honestly, I'd love to see them write these as updates from Ranger Center being radioed out.
2. Quick videos from the team on reactions to the campaign and what they're looking forward to. Basically, give the PEOPLE behind the game a face and a voice. Not simply, artist, programmer, writer, etc. This would be a really cool, personal touch.
3. Additions to the rewards, to entice people to "upgrade" their tier. I think this may have been a big contributor to DF's success.
4. A "making of" documentary of Wasteland 2, added to some of the tiers.
5. Live Q&A chat with the team

[hiptanaka]

Skirge: Yeah something to rekindle the fire once in a while wouldn't hurt. For now, though, wow.

[Burrich]

Pledged my $1000, the rate it's increasing in such a short time is extremely promising, here's hoping it hits the target soon

[mbpopolano24]

Pledged $100. Might go up in the near future though.

Also, did you notice how fast the counter is going up? I am not an expert and I am not qualified to give any projections, but I would be very surprised if this project will not exceed the minimum $900K