Cult: Awakening, a successful Kickstarter from 2012, has ceased development

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Cult: Awakening, a successful Kickstarter from 2012, has ceased development

Added: 07.09.2013 5:18 | 11 views | 0 comments

This 2012 successful Kickstarter for a rogue-like procedurally generated open world game was far too ambitious and it has caught up to this sole developer. It made $34,000, nearly seven times the original goal, but that seems to have run out and developer David Hagar has tried to explain it over on the Cult: Awakening forums. He places the blame on himself by saying, "Hagar as he explained: "I believe what ended up coming to me after taxes, fees, and payments to contractors was approximately $14,500." Hagar went on to say, "That was enough to allow me to develop for a year or so on an extremely minimal living. That, however, is not the fault of the backers." On top of the money issues Hagar has also had a lot of problems when it comes to coding this overly ambitious game. He put out an update today that said, "As you can all probably imagine, I'm not in a very good situation right now and my options are pretty limited. I am not especially interested in the idea of continuing with...