Remember the day before? Remember the seemingly never-ending scandals that games and their developers continued to create? You probably did; that was a while ago. Fntastic, the studio responsible for this chaos, is back with a new project.
This time, the developers are asking for player support before releasing any content or hyping up the game. Fntastic is taking the crowdfunding route and its next project is Escape Factory.
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Escape Factory, whose Kickstarter campaign has just launched, is pitched as a physics-based multiplayer game in which four to eight players try to escape the chaos of a dangerous factory. It sounds great, and the one-minute trailer on the page does look capable and achievable.
Unlike The Day Before, Fntastic doesn’t seem to be overdoing the premise of Escape Factory, and the Kickstarter goal is $15,567. However, the developers are aware of its sordid history but want players to give it another try.
“Today we need your support again to bring Fntastic back by funding our new game Escape Factory,” the opening line of the Kickstarter message reads. “We sincerely apologize for what happened and are committed to making things right.
“We invite you to take a look at our plan, Fntastic 2.0, where we will share how we will correct the mistakes of the past and prepare to come back better,” it continued. Fntastic 2.0 is a “revival plan” for the studio, an approach it says will be built on honesty, transparency and professionalism – all elements whose absence has contributed to the studio’s current image.
This isn’t actually Fntastic’s first foray into crowdfunding. One of the developer’s early projects, Wild Eight, was funded on Kickstarter. The survival game was so popular that Fntastic sold the rights to HypeTrain Digital, who hired Eight Points to continue development of the game.
However, despite the small funding goal, the saga of Day Before may have made most people give up on the studio and its games for good. In January, after everything was said and done about the game, Fntastic came back with a head-scratching, flippant announcement that did its reputation no favors.
Thanks, PCGamer.
