Usually I don't care about Kickstarter. I'm not in the "ugh! another Kickstarter?!" crowd, but I just don't care for zombies and other things are regular Kickstarters. But this one caught my interest:
Kaiju Combat is a 1-4 player giant monster fighting game. Imagine a Godzilla fighting game(maybe without Godzilla, depends on how much funding they get). Yep, that's it. Just imagine that. And it's done by people who actually made Godzilla games before! They are asking for 350 thousand dollars, which is quite a lot money to us, but by now we also know that videogames cost a lot(A LOT) more to make. But the team behind Kaiju Combat already has their engine, with netcode and it has been ported to all platforms already(game will be PC first tho), that they used in Deadliest Warrior, their Godzilla and other games. And because they already have all that, they can make such a game without a million dollars.
On top of that they want Kaiju Combat to be a framework for giant monster fighting games. After Kaiju Combat is done they hope to release standalone Kaiju Combat games, that you could play as a standalone game or add to your existing game to make it into a bigger game with a bunch of monsters.
More information and all that jazz: Kaiju Combat Kickstarter page
I'm intrigued. In the video you can see snippets of their older Godzilla games, so you know what they will be going for. I expect a kinda whacky and fun brawler with XBLA quality and I want such a game to exist. That's why I'm spreading the word.
I discovered it on shoryuken.com, where Simon Strange(I wish I had a name like that, I'd become a scientist or a spy!) made a thread and he answers questions too. So head over there if you want to know even more. Also this was hard to write without giant monster puns.
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