Obsidian CEO says Kickstarter lets devs build brands

Kickstarter lets developers build their own brands in an industry dominated by multi-million dollar expenditures, according to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart. interviewed Urquhart about his company's successful Kickstarter for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Project Eternity, a revival of PC RPGs like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Planescape: Torment.

"[W]e're getting the opportunity to go build a brand, and it's a brand that we own," Urquharꦦt said. "And that's what changes the power a little bit. Now I have a game that we're going to go make, and I have a brand. And I own that brand. And it's now something that if I go talk to a publisher to talk about doing something different with ꦏa brand … they're not going to get to own that brand."

Urquhart said the crowdfunding platform would not be asꦅ useful for breaking into the extremely expensive AAA console game market. Instead, developers can use the platform to generate their own ideas directed to♚ward more specific audiences.

Project Eternity will be a major project, he said, but it will be distributed digitally only on PC, Mac, and Linux — no tablets or consoles. This, and 𝕴its 💙devotion to a seemingly forgotten subsection of games, put it in what he called a "no man's land" for traditional publishing avenues.

Though the crowdfunding model may seem to clash with established methꦉods, Urquhart said Kickstarter could ultimately be a win-win for publishers and developers willing to look at more progressive models of ownership.

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