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City of Titans Kickstarter Hits 50% At Day One

It is nearly 1:30am EST at the time of this writing. After just a day on Kickstarter, Missing Worlds Media’s funding drive for City of Titans has raked in over $150,000 with the money just pouring in. With success seemingly in the bag, Missing Worlds Media has 31 of its 32 days left to make up the remaining 50% of the goal. The team posted an update on the Kickstarter page noting their surprise at the reaction. So far 1,134 backers have pledged to the campaign.

We’ve been working on that teaser video pretty hard. But we’ve been working on all the individual parts in parallel. We’ve got some scenes we didn’t use, and I think you’ll like them. We’ll have another video or two for you, and maybe more and newer things to show you, in a week or two.

You can check out the City of Titans Kickstarter at the link below or follow the campaign on our sidebar all month.

(Source: Kickstarter)

The Phoenix Project Is Now City of Titans

Missing Worlds Media has made it official: The Phoenix Project, codenamed for the upcoming spiritual sequel to City of Heroes, will be called City of Titans. While originally the Phoenix Project Kickstarter campaign was supposed to begin September 8th, unfinished paperwork and some restructuring of the team caused a few delays. The good news is that everything has been square away, and the Kickstarter is set to launch October 2nd. Speaking to Incgamers, President Sara Quinn thanked the community for their support.

“We are immensely grateful to our community for their continued support and understanding at this somewhat fraught time. They have been amazing, and without the morale boosts they provided, this would have been much harder on all of us.”

You can check out City of Titans at its main page.

(Source: Incgamers)

Not So Massive: Holmes Kickstarter Suspended Under Fraud Suspicion

With systems like Kickstarter, where creators put their hands out in the hopes that someone will shower them in money, there is a guarantee that shady business will inevitably follow. In the case of Elementary, My Dear Holmes, a puzzle game based around the iconic British crime investigator and his loyal sidekick, Kickstarter has shut down the project’s page due to the possibility that fraudulent accounts were used to artificially pump money in and boost the final donation amount. Why boost your pledges? Kickstarter has an all or nothing system, the campaign must reach its goal in the time allotted, otherwise they will receive nothing.

The folks in the Kickstarter comments have gone through a ton of data, noting several hundred fake accounts that had been created around the same time one month prior to the Kickstarter, only to back Holmes as their first project. Accounts created in alphabetical order with random fake names, random fake towns, and random fake pictures as their profile. One account even used the picture of an Allegheny woman who has been missing since 2011.

Ouya also has a promotion called Free The Game, where they will match any Kickstarter pledge that is successfully funded to the tune of at least $50 grand, as well as $100 grand to whoever raises the most money during this promotion. Ouya’s other headline game for the Free The Games campaign is also under scrutiny for artificially inflating their funding, with $114 grand coming from just 167 backers as of this writing (Or $685 per backer average, $30 grand coming from three backers), with a majority of backers not requesting any pledge rewards and a majority having only pledged for that one project. Whether Kickstarter will suspend that campaign in its last day will have to be seen.

Missing Worlds Media Kickstarter Coming September 8th

City of Heroes is one of those games that the phrase “nothing like it on the market” was designed for. When NCSoft closed down Paragon Studios and shut down City of Heroes, its community was left with essentially two choices of super hero MMOs: Champions Online and DC Universe. While Champions Online has a pretty robust character creator reminiscent of City of Heroes, the two games play differently enough to advertise to separate bases. DC Universe, on the other hand, is first and foremost an action beat-em-up and neither game (naturally) deals with the Champions IP.

One of the spiritual sequels to City of Heroes, known as The Phoenix Project and in development by Missing Worlds Media, is currently about one quarter to one third complete, according to the developers. The game is being developed mainly by volunteers with day jobs and students, a product of love and nostalgia for a time that existed not all that long ago. According to a post on Polygon, Missing Worlds Media even managed to get Epic to license the Unreal engine for free on the grounds that they would be paid at a later date once the money started coming in.

So what brings The Phoenix Project to our headlines once again? As I mentioned in a previous article, Missing Worlds Media is launching a Kickstarter to fund The Phoenix Project, and we now have a date: September 8th. Assuming that the game is properly funded, we can expect to see its release sometime in late 2015. How much will Missing Worlds Media be asking for? This is a comic book story, you’re going to have to wait until at least Issue #5 to find that out.

(Source: Polygon)

I Love Kickstarter Fraud: World History Online

I Love Kickstarter Fraud is one of my favorite segments here at MMO Fallout, because I’ve said many times that if Kickstarter can be depended on for at least one thing, it is a collection of scams about as subtle as a moving freight train, and about as difficult to avoid. Case in point, let’s look at today’s Kickstarter scam: World History Online. I know what you’re thinking, first of all: Omali, why are you using a cutout of this wallpaper from Rose Online to talk about another game? Easy, birdies.

World History Online wants to be as educational as school, by which I assume they’re referring to a school on copyright infringement or a school for sociopaths. But no, World History Online wants to put history knowledge in your brain so subtly, you won’t even notice that you learned about how hamburgers in the US were dubbed “liberty steaks” during World War II because the former sounded too German. Did I just teach that to you, or did you already know it? You certainly can’t tell.

Each map has a history lesson you wont even notice that you learn something in history because the game is just too much fun to pay attention to boring history lessons!

WHO also has monsters, and not just the gelatinous, three-legged monsters that ravaged Moscow during the great Borsch revolt of 1573. It also has clans, parties, rare items, and skills. Now, World History Online has been in development for ten years, totally we swear, and what does no-company-name have to show for it? A piece of a wallpaper from Rose Online and some gameplay footage from Rose Online. Naturally.

Now, you may be thinking: “that is clearly Rose Online.” Luckily the game’s creator, Renan Rocha, chimed in to point out that WHOG just looks and plays a lot like Rose Online. Just nevermind the fact that the window’s header is conveniently cut off, and that the location in-game is clearly Canyon City of Zant, with all of its inhabitants, and the gameplay is clearly Rose Online. It’s not Rose Online, you sheep.

I already said this game is going to be open sources Its not Rose online at all! Rose online is pretty simular but its not Rose online sorry you felt like you were being ripped off.

Sadly, World History Online will fall short of its $6,500 goal, bringing in a total of $11 at the time of this publishing. On the other hand, I have to admire Renan Rocha following my royal use of the word “we,” which means “I’m the only person on this team.”

(Source: Kickstarter)

Face of Mankind's Successful Kickstarter

Face of Mankind is a game of player interaction, an open faction system and player-driven economy in a completely dynamic universe. Fall of the Dominion is a restructuring of Face of Mankind, transforming the MMO and bringing it into a new decade with player-created factions, improved combat capabilities, crafting, exploration, progression, and more. Nexeon Technologies launched the Kickstarter for Fall of the Dominion back in early May, and the project is hitting its final days with successful funding just out of reach. With three days to go, the team needs a little over five hundred dollars to complete the funding effort, which will likely be achieved by the time you read this.

Perhaps what is most impressive is the dedication of the community. With three hundred twelve backers donating forty nine thousand dollars, the average donation comes out to nearly one hundred sixty dollars per person, a figure swayed by the few pledges in the multiple thousands (including one six thousand dollar pledge). If you haven’t had a chance to check out Fall of the Dominion, I highly recommend checking out the Kickstarter video below.

(Source: Kickstarter)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nexeon/face-of-mankind-fall-of-the-dominion

Face of Mankind’s Successful Kickstarter

(Source: Kickstarter)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nexeon/face-of-mankind-fall-of-the-dominion

Worlds Factory Interviews Nerd Kingdom on TUG MMO

What is TUG? TUG is a single and multiplayer survival sandbox game offering massive procedurally generated worlds drawing from Minecraft, Fable, Dwarf Fortress, Eve Online, and more. The game will feature many of the things you’ve come to love from a game like Minecraft, with the addition of integrated modding support, pet companions, and more. What is unique about TUG is you actually start the game off as a child, defenseless and only able to use your wits to survive. As you grow, you will be able to learn more trades, becoming an elite adventurer or a master craftsman.

Our friends over at Worlds Factory have pulled an exclusive interview with TUG developer Nerd Kingdom, and they give a good deal of discussion on the game’s mechanics and what is and is not planned for development and post release. You can check the entire interview out at the link below.

(Source: Worlds Factory)

Side Quest Hits Kickstarter Again

I love Side Quest, as many of you are fully aware. During the few months that the game was open to the public for early development testing, I can honestly say that I played it more than any other game in my library, much to my enjoyment and the dismay of whoever had to field my bug reports. For those of you out of the loop, I described Side Quest in one article as Patapon meets fantasy MMO. Your heroes move across the screen on their own volition, and it is up to you to manage special attacks, potions, and anything else that may be present on the battlefield. Where Side Quest strives to be make a name for itself is in the boss battles, each with a unique battle mechanic. One tasks the player with riding down a fast moving river on a log raft, maneuvering the log to avoid rocks while still paying attention to the giant squid attacking them. It also has a rather humorous story and a fine pvp battle system in both synchronous and asynchronous.

Now the first Side Quest asked for $10,000 on Kickstarter and fell rather short of their goal. The team has gone back to Kickstarter to fund the second half of this sports reference before the game can launch. The Fractal Entertainment crew is asking for five grand, offering a number of rewards including the ability to design your own weapon, armor, or even an NPC. There are the usual grab bag of rewards available, including cash shop coins and beta access, as well as a meet and greet at higher levels.

Check out the trailer for the game below.

(Source: Kickstarter)

Face of Mankind Kickstarting An Overhaul

Face of Mankind is one of those games that most of you have likely tried at one point, or at the very least heard about it as a concept. The game relies almost solely on player interaction, between individuals and the factions that they represent. Alliances come and go, as do wars, and territories change hands on a regular basis. As an MMO, Face of Mankind has carried a small but dedicated base of players, which Nexeon Technologies hopes to grow with the announcement of Face of Mankind: Fall of the Dominion.

Fall of the Dominion seeks to relaunch Face of Mankind and create what its predecessor had always hoped to be, allowing players to have a real impact on the world around them. That said, Nexeon Technologies needs a cool fifty grand in order to see that dream to reality, so the team has appealed to the Kickstarter gamers to see their project through.

In Face of Mankind: Fall of the Dominion, the players may have as much freedom as they want; at the center of this lies an incredibly powerful Faction system. This system creates the foundation for every mechanic in the game, with almost all conflict potentially escalating to war if the politics aren’t played well. How it pans out is entirely up to the players to decide. Players can create their own faction, capture territories, and dominate the universe.

Can anyone say MMO Fallout Decomposed Boot Corporation?

(Source: Kickstarter)

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