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Some of the core guys behind Blade Symphony are people I worked with on Dystopia (the multiplayer cyberpunk HL2 total conversion). They've done it all on the ba
by Fuzzwah 13y ago
Some of the core guys behind Blade Symphony are people I worked with on Dystopia (the multiplayer cyberpunk HL2 total conversion). They've done it all on the back of a kickstarter campaign which raised $19,058 back in 2011 and more recently pre-orders (which includes beta access). $15k of the kickstarter money was used to cover the source engine license cost.
I'm obviously biased since much of the team are good friends of mine, but the quality work these guys are doing blows my mind.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoHolywhatthefuck. $19,058? In 2011? Are these guys independently wealthy or what? That's amazing, either way.
- Osmium 13y agoYou can go a long way when you don't consider your own time an expense!
- delinka 13y ago"My own time" pays my bills. How does a group of people pay the bills on $20,000 during the time it takes to create a product?
- secstate 13y agoMe thinks the comment is referring to some folks who live rent free in a relatives house or some such. Hard to live even a poor game dev lifestyle on $20K, let alone pay multiple people living expenses. Unless they wrote the whole thing in a month ;)
- lifeformed 13y agoLive in parents house.
- Osmium 13y agoRight; that was kind of my point. Only very serious hobbyists (i.e. people who do it in their free time, who have regular jobs on the side) could possibly do it for that sort of budget...
- Fuzzwah 13y agoMostly they have "real jobs" and develop the game in their "spare time".