Monaco designer thinks stretch goals harm game design

Kickstarter has made Cinderella stories out of presumed niche game projects like the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Double Fine Adventure, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Project Eternity, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Star Citizen, but Monaco🎶 designer Andy Schatz is dubious about one of its most common elements: Stretch goals.

Those little marks on the chart past a ♏Kickstarter's primary goal are often used to tempt backers with extra features. "Pledge a little more and recruit your friends, and you might just get an extra dungeon!" they implore us.

. "To be frank, I think that stretch goals are total bullshit.”

Schatz said he values his community's feedback, but letting backers determine aspects of the game based on their level of financial participation "sounds like the perfect way to make a game that’s insufficiently complete or bloated." He elaborated on his that stretch goals can lock developers into certain feature decis🐓ions 💦too early.

“To me, you should dec𝓡ide if the game is incomplete without those features," Schatz told PAR. "If the game is missing a finger, add a finger, if the game is not missing a finger, don’t add one. That’s sort of my take on Kickstarters. That said, there’s the possibility that at some point I’ll try doing one, but I don’t like what it does to design."

Monaco was backed with a $100,000 investment from the , which also saw Dear Esther through to its successful launch. The investment will be returned in d🔴ouble through revenue sharing or until two years after release.

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