Eternity Awaits. An quick look to Project Eternity

Kickstarting a project

Some time ago, planing on creating an critically acclaimed game using donations as the only source of funding sounded, let's face it, PLAIN CRAZY. But after Tim Schaffer's success in funding Double Fine Adventure with a whooping result of  3,336,371 dollars, it stopped to look like that.

It set a new record for funding a video game on Kickstarter.

That is quite some cash, isn't it? And more then enough to make an adventure game, especially one that will be probably an old-school one (story gt; graphics and other stuff). 

But the are not the holders of the record anymore. Project Eternity has gathered an awesome result of 3,986,929 dollars. Not counting donations via PayPal. In total, according to the information you can find on their website, they have gathered

OVER 4,3 MILION DOLLARS

And those money will probably bring us something great.  

What we would, and what WILL we get?

Because, as Obsidian declared, all the money beyond the requested 1,1 million will go towards making the game even bigger than it was at the start. Their idea is to create an old-school rpg with an isometric point of view. Sounds like Baldur's Gate

During the start of their funding campaign, the plan was to create a game for Windows with:

• three races
• five classes
• five companions
• a giant hub city akin to Baldur's Gate, Athkatla, Kirkwall or anything along those lines
• an epic story (as all rpg's, but shhhh... :D )

However, the funding went better than they anticipated (4,3 is better than 1,1 milion, right?), and now we have a game for Windows, MAC and, most of all, LINUX with

• five races
• eleven classes
• nine companions
• TWO giant hub cities
• an option to make your own house
• an possibility of becoming a lord of an stronghold
• crafting and enchanting

Technical stuff

We also know a few technical details for sure: the game will use the Unity graphic engine. Thanks to that we will be able to play the game on any operating system. Which is great news for everyone who does not use Windows on their PC. Also, we know that the game will be available on Steam and GOG (the latter offering a standard-for-them DRM-free version of it). That is not everything that we can tell about this game, but now you should know most of the important information. For more, you can always come and visit the kickstarter page for the game. There you can get some inside look on the creation process. And do not worry, I'm observing it, and will post updates anytime something very interesting comes up :)