Indie Social MMO Titan Reach Is In Desperate Need Of Funds Or ‘It’s All Over’
Indie developer Square Root Studios’ has just revealed that they are in danger of closing down, and their in-development social MMO Titan Reach along with them, due to lack of funds. To raise money, the developers have started selling credits that players will be able to spend later on the game to purchase various rewards that were previously offered during the game's Kickstarter campaign.
“We are treating these purchases in a very similar way to a Kickstarter campaign, wherein you donate money in return for rewards later,” said Square Root.
“We have been building this game for over a year, including releasing a demo showing proof of concept, which was extremely well received. We have since rebuilt it with a larger scale and a stronger team, all whilst not having a single dollar of income from this project.
This is the last hoo-rah for us, if we don't get enough funds to cover our development through Jan and Feb until we acquire real funding, then it's all over. Without funding now, we can not cover the costs of continued development (server and software costs) and the team will fall apart. We aren’t making some small 2D RPG which can be made by one person in their spare time, we need a team of people, working full time in order to make any real progress, and there’s a limit to how long you can make that happen for free.”
Square Root’s goal is to raise $30k by January 5th, 2021. If they don’t hit the funding goal by then, the studio says that they’ll have to shut the game down and refund everyone’s money. Players who buy credits from now until January 5th will get 50% more as a token of the developers' appreciation.
After the failed $421k Kickstarter last fall, Square Root announced their plans to launch another crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo which should have went live last week.
If you're interested, you can check out the game's Kickstarter launch trailer below.
