CA: InXile raises more than $1 million online in one day (Video Games)

OC Register ^ | March 7, 2013 Updated: 10:03 a.m. | By IAN HAMILTON / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A Newport Beach video game maker raised more than $1 million online Wednesday with the crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter to fund its second game.

Just six hours after launching the online campaign, Brian Fargo and his inXile entertainment reached the $900,000 goal to make a role-playing game called "Torment: Tides of Numenera." The donations kept coming. By lunchtime, the campaign passed the $1 million mark, two hours quicker than fundraising for OUYA, a game console that went on to earn $8.6 million on Kickstarter.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Any one got an idea for a game or utility...?

[MirrorField]

Such is the result of:

a) Big game companies neglecting several niche areas, in this case single-player computer RPGs.

b) Deeply-held belief in dumbing down their products for lowest common denominator and escheving of deeper and more complex plots by aforementioned.

c) Rock-solid team with significant prior archievements. Hear about little game few years ago called "Planescape: Torment"?

Btw: Kickstarter itself is located here.

[TennesseeProfessor]

Agree with your list and will add insistence on fan-despised DRM