Fargo To Attempt Wasteland 2 with Crowd Funding:
If you've been paying attention recently, Tim Schafer's Double Fine offered to make an old school adventure game if they could raise $400,000 on Kickstarter.
They got that on the first day, and the total sum donated proceeded grow to about $2.5 million.
Link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...fine-adventure
Needless to say this is turning heads in the Game Development community.
In the area of RPGs Design:
Chris Avellone of Obsidian has expressed interest in seeking crowd funding for an isometric RPG.
Info Link:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...starter-fever/
And more relevant to the title of this thread, Brian Fargo (former head of Interplay) has decided to attempt the making Wasteland 2.
Info Link:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=60856
His has stated that it will be top down, party and turn based.
He now has all original designers of the 1988 game (Himself, Michael A. Stackpole, Ken St. Andre, and Alan Pavlish) signed up for the project. Fallout 1 & 2 composer Mark Morgan will do the music.
The project is expected to be put up on Kickstarter this month, with the goal of raising $1 Million.
(This thread should probably
be moved to "Gaming Zone"...)