14 DAY TRIAL // After getting involved with Kickstarter via the Wasteland 2 project that Brian Fargo has initiated, one veteran role-playing game developer has announced that he is ready to share information on young developers who might be ready to work on other games that get crowd funding.
Writing on his personal blog, Chris Avellone, the chief creative officer at Obsidian, has stated, “If you’re running a Kickstarter and would like to consider a pool of applicants to help you hit your game’s mark, let us know – there may be interns/juniors in your area or could assist remotely with your tasks and help your game shine.”
He added, “Obsidian gets applicants for internships all the time from schools across the States, and it may be that if you’re forming a Kickstarter, you may need a lot of technical, production, and development help for tasks that students and juniors would love to do to contribute to their careers and education.”
Kickstarter allows any kind of team to create a pitch and then ask for fans or interested customers to contribute to the development costs, with tiered rewards offered depending on how much money each individual donates.
But small teams that plan to create video games also need specialized help, and a database with possible contributors would be a boon for a number of projects.
Brian Fargo, who has managed to get full funding for his own Wasteland 2 project, has also announced a scheme called Kicking It Forward, which will see successful games donate some of their profits in order to offer funding for new initiatives.
So far no video game funded via Kickstarter has been launched, so it’s not clear how such an initiative might work.
Wasteland 2 might be launched before the end of 2013 for the PC, Mac and iOS-powered devices.