![]() ![]() The investor arm, which is the bit that was shut down, is where you’d pay to invest in the game by effectively buying shares in the profits. Such tiers did not translate to making money for the backers however, and this element remained open for the whole time of the site existing. The general backers were equivalent to pre-orders with various perks based on tiers. The HW3 fig campaign had two elements: general backers and investors. Whether due to incompetency by them or just a failure to understand the situation, thats anyone’s guess, although gearbox didn’t help themselves when they made a pretty terrible pr statement at the time which was easy to misinterpret. The media likes to distort things a fair bit. For more information: /r/NoParticipationĤ) No discussion of piracy or circumventing DRMĥ) Use Spoilers and/or do not post spoilers in the titlesħ) No direct questions to BBI or GBX staff as posts on their ownĨ) Low effort posts will be removed at our discretionīlackbird Interactive (Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak) But if you were to invest in the game, at say, $500 per share, development might give a little more weight to your request for a Wii U port.Banner images adapted from Walter-NEST's reimaginings of Homeworld 2 skyboxes, found here This is, presumably, something that you would be able to influence as a backer, which you can become for as little as $50. Blackbird has committed to releasing the game on PC, but says that it’s too early to begin discussing potential availability on other platforms. One would expect a studio at this stage to have produced a flashy teaser trailer (check), some rad concept art (check), and a vague, pitchable idea of what the final product will be (check).īlackbird and Gearbox are aiming to release Homeworld 3 sometime in the fourth quarter of 2022, which is an appropriately futuristic year to launch a spaceship RTS. This is where concept art is created, story ideas and character arcs are outlined, and general gameplay concepts are fleshed out as documents for programmers and designers to implement during actual production.Īt “only a few months into pre-production,” a game exists mostly as a plan and/or dream, which will undoubtedly change over the course of its implementation. If you’re unfamiliar with game development lingo, “pre-production” is all the stuff that happens before anyone sits down and actually starts coding the game. “We’re incredibly early on in this project - only a few months into pre-production,” says the listing. ![]() I’m just saying, it’s probably a duck, you know?Īs for actual specifics about what Homeworld 3 is, we know that it’s a direct sequel to its predecessor that it’s a real-time 3D RTS that it will support some form of multiplayer, and that’s about it. Developer Blackbird Interactive is staffed by a number of veterans from Relic Entertainment, which created the original Homeworld and its sequel, and I don’t doubt that those individuals are invested in the franchise they helped originate. “We’re partnering with Fig to give back to longtime fans who have sustained Homeworld for 20 years by giving them a chance to invest in Homeworld 3‘s success and help us understand the game they’ve been dreaming about.”įar be it from me to doubt the sincerity of these sentiments, but it’s a little naive to think that the purpose of this crowdfunding campaign isn’t, first and foremost, to reduce the amount of Gearbox capital being spent on the production of Homeworld 3. “We want it to be clear that the game is on a solid foundation, funding-wise,” according to the campaign’s FAQ. This is, supposedly, why the campaign has a goal of but a single dollar, which has already been exceeded 80,000 times over. “With Homeworld‘s incredibly patient and thoughtful community, we’ve got exactly that opportunity.” ![]() “We’ve been craving the right opportunity to dive deep with a community in a way only crowdfunding offers,” says the campaign summary. As a direct sequel to 2003’s cult classic RTS Homeworld 2, Homeworld 3 is in very, very early development, and publisher Gearbox would very much like you(!) to foot the bill become a part of the production. A crowdfunding campaign for Homeworld 3 is now live on Fig, the curated platform that allows people to actually invest in a video game’s production, rather than just donate to it. ![]()
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