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Satellite Reign - Interview @ Softpedia

by Couchpotato, 2013-07-26 02:19:27

Softpedia set us new of an interview they conducted with Mike Diskett, and the development team working on Satellite Reign.

Q: When did the idea that a Syndicate Wars spiritual sequel would be interesting for a modern audience first emerge?

Mike had been sitting on the idea for quite some time and had mentioned it to us quite a number of time, we were all very keen but at that stage happily employed.

The employment situation changed and we took it as a sign from the gaming gods to take a shot at going indie.

Also when EA made the fps Syndicate it became clear there was demand for a return to the original style RTS.

Q: Why choose Kickstarter and not go for a large publisher?

The quick answer is we wanted to be completely independent.

However it is also not a matter of simply emailing a publisher and getting funded, it could take months of negotiation/pitching with us having to build contacts/relationships as well as having to get work during that time...and in the end it may still not pan out for us.

Kickstarter is our phone line to God, we can pitch straight to the people who will be playing the game.

Q: Were you influenced by the success of other Kickstarter spiritual successors, like Project Eternity?

The success of the recent batch of titles such as Star Citizen, Project Eternity, Massive Chalice etc where a big nod to us that Kickstarter was a viable platform for game dev. funding.

There were many lessons to learn from how they approached it as well.

We are 5 passionate game developers with a tonne of experience behind us but the reality is we aren’t a big name company, so we knew we needed to wow people to win them over, we weren’t going to get $3 million on a smile that many of the proven developers could.

We were also very keen to be as transparent as possible and engage the backers as often as possible. Having their feedback is immensely critical to our success.

Thank you Ranger for sending me your interview link.

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Satellite Reign

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Strategy-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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