Grim Dawn Kickstarter Campaign Starting Soon

Some of the long-time members on the Grim Dawn forums have been trying to convince Crate Entertainment’s Arthur Bruno that pursuing a Kickstarter campaign might not be a bad idea for well over a couple of months now, and while he didn’t seem too interested in the beginning, Double Fine Adventure and Wasteland 2 have apparently changed his mind. In addition to tweeting his plans to give Kickstarter a try, Arthur has also outlined his goals for the campaign and is looking to next week for a possible kickoff:

I’m actually working on a Kickstarter project right now. It is a fair amount of work to get set up and the biggest thing will be trying to produce a decent video. We’re hoping to get it up in the next week or so.

When I initially looked at Kickstarter, my thought was that it seemed unlikely for us to be able to generate much more than a $100k or so based on what other projects were doing. However, given the level of money Double Fine and Wasteland have generated, I think it is definitely worth trying out.

What would we need to do something useful? Well, we could do amazing things with a million or more but even $300k would be enough for us to bring on 2-3 more people full-time, which would be a HUGE help.

We’re basically at this point right now where we have the technology mostly finished, the core gameplay is fully functioning and actually quite fun but it is just taking a looooonnnggg time to build out content. Just as an example, we currently have a backlog of 5 monsters that are finished but waiting on animation. Our animator is working as hard as he can but he lost a few weeks crunching on that Warhammer 40k MMO. So, really, just being able to get a few more people working full-time would speed things up tremendously.

I’ll share the project link with you guys before I make it live so you can provide feedback.

I’ve been a Legendary supporter of the Titan Quest-powered action RPG since day one, and will happily throw in some more money to make this thing happen.  Hopefully it’s a success!