Sometimes referred to as the 'Father of The Elder Scrolls ', he joined Bethesda Softworks shortly after the company's creation in 1987. We are fine working on things on our spare time while we seek funding, and make pretty good progress doing so, so there is no need to ask the public for money. Early in his work, he worked on some PC, Amiga and NES projects, programming and composed music for Where's Waldo and Sword of Sodan, among others. The author eventually began a Kickstarter to have the story published as a hardcover novel and it received backing from the creators of Dreamkeepers, David and Liz Lillie. Ironically enough, board games raise more than video game projects, probably due to less risk and faster turn around of the project. The Wayward Realms Could Be the Next Pillars of Eternity-Style Success Story By Stan Hogeweg Published The Wayward Realms is both an ambitious and traditional game, which. The Wayward Astronomer was originally a fan-story by Geoffrey Thomas ( Kafelnikov ), created March of 2011, that could be found on DeviantArt. Our project will require quite a large amount, at least in comparison to the average that video game crowd funding usually brings in. Especially if you had things like fund x amount and you can name a city or have a random NPC named after you or something.Īlso if you guys got a big turn out through crowd funding, it's something you can show your serious investors you're in talks with as a bargaining position of power (like dragon's den/shark tank are always way more willing to invest money if there are already tangible sales or revenue).įrom the discord server: Crowd funding does not bring in very much money for videogames. The Once Lost Games studio, founded by former Bethesda Softworks employees Ted Peterson, Julian LeFay and Vijay Lakshman, is behind its development and publishing.

The game is inspired by the first and second part of The Elder Scrolls series. I'm sure many people (like myself) would be willing to throw some bucks at it. The Wayward Realms is an RPG with a huge open world, which is set in the original fantasy universe. Have you guys thought of Kickstarter or other crowd funding to help supplement funding? Games like pillars of eternity funded over 4 million dollars like 10 years ago through kick starter, while not huge amounts for game development I'm sure it helped with staffing costs and whatnot. The singleplayer RPG is set in an open world. It is important to note that we have not actively sought out investors, the ones we are talking to reached out to us after learning about the project, as we are taking our time to focus on the core systems of the game to make sure we have a strong foundation to show and to continue to build on. OnceLost Games, the studio formed by former lead developers of the original Elder Scrolls games, has announced its new RPG: The Wayward Realms. We are currently all working on a voluntary basis until then.

Originally posted by oncelostgames:As of right now we are in several active talks with potential investors/publishers, but are not yet funded.

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