Wasteland 2 Kickstarter hits funding target
Wasteland 2's Kickstarter drive has hit its funding target within two days.
Inspired by Tim Schafer and Double Fine's recent success in getting an old-school point-and-click adventure funded by fans via crowdsourced funding website Kickstarter, inXile Entertainment started a drive for fans to fund the development of a sequel to 1988 RPG Wasteland - and the game hit its $900,000 USD target in two days.
At the time of writing the project's funding is currently sat on just under $1.2 million USD, with 31 days left for more people to pledge money. The more money pledged, the more content the game has; the Kickstarter page notes that at $1.25 million USD the money will go to "making the world bigger, adding more maps, more divergent stories and even more music."
At $1.5 USD million, OS X support will be added for Mac fans, and the game itself will be bigger and more complex still.
Wasteland was a top-down RPG set in a post-apocalyptic America, and served as the inspiration for later titles such as Fallout. It featured moral choices, gave players the opportunity to get around problems in a variety of ways by using the skills of their party, contained NPCs that could join the party, and had a surprisingly in-depth storyline.
Wasteland 2 looks like it'll be following closely in the dusty, post-apocalyptic footsteps of its predecessor. The inXile team is headed up by Brian Fargo, founder of Interplay and executive producer of both Wasteland and Fallout. Wasteland's primary designers Alan Pavlish and Mike Stackpole are on board, the story has been written by Fallout co-creator Jason Anderson, and the game's music will be composed by Mark Morgan - he who scored Fallout and Fallout 2.
In other words: inXile's getting the band back together.
The game itself is tentatively due in October 2013, and pledging at least $15 USD to the project will get you a free downloadable copy of the game, with better rewards offered for higher pledges. I rather like the $50 USD pledge, myself, which offers a full boxed copy of the game in a classic cardboard box, complete with instruction book and cloth map.
