EvaUnit02 on 19/5/2018 at 19:35
I was thinking about a game which I backed years ago called "The Mandate". It was going to be a very ambitious space RPG/strategy/management hybrid game with the troop combat + management of X-Com; the space RTS combat of Homeworld; and the character RPG'ing of a BioWare game like Mass Effect.
Googling it now, it appears that the game is dead. I found this article which was last updated in Feb 2018.
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https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2017/09/the-mandate-kickstarter-project-leaves-backers-out-to-dry-after-months-of-silence/38479/)
Seems the project lead is now working at Conan/Secret World developer Funcom. How shitty of them to just go dark instead of being transparent with backers, i.e. just flat-out say that the project is cancelled.
Pyrian on 19/5/2018 at 19:44
$700,000. Wow. I mean, not like Star Citizen wow, but still wow. And obviously insufficient to make X-Com+Homeworld+MassEffect, but should've been enough to make SOMETHING. I wish I'd hopped the Kickstarter bandwagon in 2013.
Renzatic on 24/5/2018 at 06:33
It's a grand thing indeed, Ice.
Neb on 30/5/2018 at 09:19
New Spiderweb Software RPG, Queen's Wish - (
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/619141553/queens-wish-the-conqueror)
Quote:
Pledge US$ 75 or more
Scroll of Absolution!
Supporter Reward Tier + We give you a signed, personalized document absolving you for any of our games you pirated. We get apology emails about this all the time. Now you can make our forgiveness official!
Starker on 30/5/2018 at 09:52
Kind of torn on this one. If it looked more like Exile, Nethergate, or Geneforge, I'd be in in a heartbeat, but after Avadon and all the remakes I'm not so sure.
Neb on 30/5/2018 at 10:14
I thought the newest Avernum games were great, and this sounds just as open, so I'm interested.
Starker on 31/5/2018 at 00:27
On the other hand, I found Avadon to be quite linear and simplified compared to the old Exile and Geneforge games. Let's hope he'll add more details about what the game will actually be like. Anyway, it's funded now.
