I’m not saying I will back day one, but I got up and at 6 AM searched Kickstarter to see if the campaign has launched yet… (who am I kidding, I’m DEFINITELY backing on day one!).
Yeah, I know that but for some reason one of the parts of UW1 that stuck with me was the old woman who asked me to keep an eye out for her husband - and then later on you find his body. I felt so bad for that old lady stuck in the underworld by herself! At least that’s how I remember it, and if I’m wrong, don’t correct me!
Backed. It’s been a while since I used Kickstarter, but didn’t they used to offer Amazon Payments? I seem to recall making all my old pledges through that. But that wasn’t an option today.
Only spot that missed the mark was the music. The original UW1 music was (to me), iconic in the same way as the famous Elder Scrolls theme. That title screen theme and exploration theme in particular. Imagine an orchestral arranged non-soundblaster version of that.
We already have those reworked. We decided to go with the ‘new’ for now, but yes we did a reworking of a few of the originals.
More importantly, I want to make sure we have a good dynamic system…I’ve made the developers watch ‘The Raid’. I want my audio to work exactly like it does in that film. UU was already pretty close 20 years ago. But true dynamic music. Music as another character…that kind of thing. Nowadays being able to play with music stems and whatnot I think it is totally possible to pull off.
Any way to back outside of KS yet? KS seem to have ditched Amazon for their own payment platform now and I am trying to limit adding more online vendors to those that have my cc details.
Cool, I assume Paypal will be the other eventual option? I’ll probably hold out until then. I imagine that means you’ll also see marginally less extracted fees from that route.
Backed. Are you going to have an ability to purchase extra add-ons outside of kickstarter? I like that option since it seems to offer a balance to kickstarter and still allow for direct purchase of extra items directly from the developer.
Already predictive tracking over the initial target and most people are just finishing up their morning coffee or sleeping. Also it’s half an hour behind and missing like $20k (~50%).
I’d love for this to hit the $1.05m goal so we can get the toolkit. I’ve already submitted my vote for the shambler. Either way they turn out, I’ll enjoy smashing them to aid my Dwarven allies in taking over the underworld.
PS: Please make the Dwarves as awesome as all Dwarves deserve to be!
By the way, I found this Eurogamer article from back in July 2014 about this.
…it’s no surprise to find out that Underworld Ascension only really exists - at the moment - on paper and in Neurath’s mind. “We’re really only about three-four weeks into this,” he admits (albeit a couple of weeks ago), and says the team will be flinging ideas around “for quite some time”.
I was tempted for the Alpha and Beta tiers but ultimately (heh) just went with the early backer $20. Stygian Abyss was literally life changing for me so I am excited for a little bit of nostalgia here. Good luck guys!