3D Realms Goes Crowdfunding

[Andy Chalk]

3D Realms Goes Crowdfunding

Earth No More is back, and the creator of Duke Nukem Forever wants you to help pay for it.

3D Realms announced [http://www.3drealms.com/news/2007/06/earth_no_more.html] Earth No More, a multiplatform FPS being developed in conjunction with Finnish studio Recoil Games, in 2007, but then suspended work on it indefinitely in 2009 as it struggled under the weight of Duke Nukem Forever. Recoil confirmed it was off the project last year, but 3D Realms is getting ready to restart development, with financial assistance from you - the "crowd."

Earth No More recently turned up on Gambitious, a crowdfunding site devoted specifically to videogames. The project isn't live yet, so the funding goal and "perks" haven't been revealed, but the 3D Realms name is definitely on it. "Mankind's relentless destruction of Earth awakens a biological response from deep within the planet's crust that threatens an environmental apocalypse," according to the one-line description of the game.

The Radar Group, "an original IP incubator and production company" co-founded by 3D Realms co-owner Scott Miller which lists Earth No More as one of its projects, offers a little more insight into the game. "Earth No More does away with the 'lone-hero' shooter archetype, instead focusing on the dynamnic between an ensemble cast that must learn to work together to survive the threat of an environmental extinction event," the game description says. "As Will Foster, a DHS chemical weapons specialist, you are among the first to respond to a gas attack on Washington, D.C. However, it soon becomes clear that the gas attack is a cover-up for something much more sinister."

Earth No More is being made for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, according to the site, but the developer is currently "unannounced."

Sources: Radar Group [http://gambitious.com/]


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[Fasckira]

among the first to respond to a gass attack on Washington, D.C.

So much gas that it became a gass attack.

Not really heard much about this title, might check it out though as it does sound relatively interesting!

 

[Zombie_Moogle]

I bought the Balls of Steel edition of Duke Nukem Forever
3D Realms will get no assistance from me

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Kickstarter Crowdfunding scam, calling it. This is the team that lived for ten years on the money they were being paid to make a game that didn't actually get made until it was handed off to a new team, with the old one being fired.

 

[mirage202]

I, as many others, do occasionally like to throw money away. Yet even when doing so I always have something at hand for it. Advancing 3D Realms money? Yeah umm, no. That is beyond throwing it away.

Crowd funding this just screams "We've lost all credibility with publishers and investors, but the internet is full of stupids who will fall for it right?"

 

[flarty]

Kickstarter Crowdfunding scam, calling it. This is the team that lived for ten years on the money they were being paid to make a game that didn't actually get made until it was handed off to a new team, with the old one being fired.

As much as DNF was a mediocre product, it was self funded by 3drealms, and gearbox only applied polish to the game, it was already in the final stages of development when they got the ip.

But yeah i wont be throwing any money there way, shame i like the concept.

 

[Formica Archonis]

I KEEP THROWING MONOPOLY MONEY AT MY SCREEN BUT NOTHING'S HAPPENING!

Wow. Some of the names of old, people who only have vague warm fuzzy memories attached to them, are having problems Kickstartcrowdfunding* something. And now a group whose name is simultaneous with an overhyped bad game, vaporware, and wasting money is trying it? Well, they DO have balls of steel, I'll say that for them. Good taste, tact, integrity... not so much.

(*It's Kleenex all over again....)

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Kickstarter Crowdfunding scam, calling it. This is the team that lived for ten years on the money they were being paid to make a game that didn't actually get made until it was handed off to a new team, with the old one being fired.

As much as DNF was a mediocre product, it was self funded by 3drealms, and gearbox only applied polish to the game, it was already in the final stages of development when they got the ip.

But yeah i wont be throwing any money there way, shame i like the concept.

Source on the self funding? Everything I've heard about it says that they were signed to a publisher who was sending them money that they kept pissing away. Gearbox wound up finishing the game because said publisher finally got fed up with it.

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

Just wait, after the Gambitious runs out they'll have an Indiegogo, and after that runs out because they can't finish the game within a decade they'll go to Kickstarter if it still exists by then. And then probably another Kickstarter since a lot of devs are more using it like a Kickender nowadays.

Yeah, Brousseau, no. Get lost, you've had your chance to be in the gaming industry and you squandered it like few have.

 

[Redingold]

How in the blue blazes are 3D Realms still alive? They spent 13 years developing a mediocre game only to fail to finish it and hand it over to Gearbox. Who is financing these people and why would they throw their money away like that?

 

[JediMB]

Source on the self funding? Everything I've heard about it says that they were signed to a publisher who was sending them money that they kept pissing away. Gearbox wound up finishing the game because said publisher finally got fed up with it.

Take-Two had paid for the publishing right, but as far as I know 3D Realms funded the game on their own. Statements made after Take-Two filed a lawsuit indicate as much, although I can't find anything explicit.

Note that publishing rights had previously belonged to GT Interactive, as well as Take-Two's subsidiary Gathering of Developers.

 

[JediMB]

How in the blue blazes are 3D Realms still alive? They spent 13 years developing a mediocre game only to fail to finish it and hand it over to Gearbox. Who is financing these people and why would they throw their money away like that?

They've also published numerous games during Duke Nukem Forever's development.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

I guess they're now entered the Realm of Crowdfunding!

OT: I'll keep my eye on this one, it sounds interesting!

 

[Ishigami]

Whoever gives these guys money earns it to lose it.

 

[dishwasherwong]

I am not giving money so George Broussard can play poker or eat pizza while playing World of Warcraft for another decade or so. While I did not find DNF as offensively bad as some folks did, it was certainly not a game that I would have expected to have guzzled millions of dollars worth of publishers money and taken nearly 15 years to develop.

I can see it now - this project gets funded and several years down the line there is a great hue and cry from funders and fans alike asking where the game is and George Broussard will make a forum post stating that the game will be ready "when its done" and "people need to STFU IMO".