Kaiju-A-Gogo failed to meet its Kickstarter goal last month, and now the team at developer Kerberos are trying to raise support for their more humble Indiegogo campaign.
Arinn Dembo, producer and lead writer for the monster rampage game, posted on the Kickstarter blog regarding the financial difficulties the team are under, and encouraged fans to help raise awareness for Kaiju-a-Gogo via Thunderclap.
Described as a ”light action-strategy”, Kaiju-A-Gogo has you control rampaging giant monsters stomping about in various cities across the world. It failed to reach a $60,000 goal on Kickstarter, and is currently short of a $20,000 goal on fellow crowd-funding site Indiegogo. The team believe that in shrugging off the original failed Kickstarter, they gave fans an incorrect impression that their support wasn’t truly needed.
”Our Kickstarter failed,” explains Dembo, ”and we found a reason to persevere and came up with a new plan that would still allow us to make a game. And they assumed that because we were willing to do that, it must mean that crowdfunding doesn’t really make a difference to us!”
“I was too positive about things. I was trying to find a reason to be happy or upbeat about something pretty awful–a failed Kickstarter. But by putting ANY positive spin on a bad situation (“It’s a good promotional opportunity for a small team like us!”), I had somehow convinced people that their crowdfunding dollars were not needed, that Kerberos would be just fine without them.”
Now the team are hoping that new fans and backers of the original Kickstarter will help push them past that final funding hurdle. They’re seeking support on ‘crowdspeaking platform’ Thunderclap for that very reason.
”We’ve done our best to keep the Stiff Upper Lip and the brave face on,” continues Dembo, ”not to give in to bitterness or to complain about the tightening of belts or the reductions in salaries. But the fact that we haven’t complained doesn’t mean that we don’t feel pain. And it doesn’t mean that eventually we won’t run out of steam, spiritually AND financially, if people are never going to be willing to show faith in us and fully support our work.”
“I’m sorry if we somehow gave you the impression that we were invincible. No one is invincible. We still need you.”
