Kickstarter from Quest for Glory Creators Just Reaches Goal
Not quite reaching the heady heights of the Kickstarter campaigns for the Leisure Suit Larry remake, or the fifth instalment of the Broken Sword series, a new game from the creators of RPG-Adventure Quest for Glory has been successfully crowd-funded.
Lori and Corey Cole – the famous designers who cut their teeth at Sierra in the eighties and nineties – took to Kickstarter themselves as an attempt to bring the RPG-Adventure genre back to life. Their popular Quest for Glory series has been the only really strong proponent of the genre, so they felt it was time to make a return and to re-popularise the gameplay style they made famous.
The Kickstarter campaign only had a traget of $400,000 and it barely made the cut – only reaching their goal within hours of the campaign closing. In contrast, the Broken Sword 5 Kickstarter reached its goal with half of its time still remaining, and more than doubled their target. But that is not to say that the game won’t be a success – that remains to be seen.
See a trailer for the new title below:
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Robin Parker
If I'm not playing on a good Adventure Game - still longing for the long-past Golden Age of the genre, when Lucasarts and Sierra ruled supreme - you might find me searching for a local arcade, in the hopes that it still houses titles such as Sunset Riders or WindJammers.
