Walsingham Files Kickstarter Failure
Hi Everyone,
As many of you may know we launched a Kickstarter campaign a month ago to raise funds for our upcoming mystery adventure game; “The Walsingham Files.” This game was to be the direct spinoff to the “Silver Creek Falls” trilogy and was aimed to begin answering a lot of the questions that unfurled about the “bigger” conspiracy going down during “Silver Creek Falls.” We launched the Kickstarter for it in an attempt to drum up some support from fans and a bit of financing to hopefully afford some animation and other art costs to help make the game more complete.
The Kickstarter campaign ended yesterday, and unfortunately, we were not able to raise anywhere near the amount we aimed for.
So what does this mean for the future of “The Walsingham Files”?
Well, the Kickstarter was also used as a sort of litmus test to see how interested people were in the spinoff and it seems as though the general interest was a bit limited. We really did not get much feedback from fans, and we got very few backers on the Kickstarter campaign.
Now does this mean that we will be cancelling this title?
Not at all! A lot of work has already been put in. The story is completely written, the maps all done and a lot of the character art is also complete. This game will push through, we at Sapphire Dragon Productions are proud of the fact that we reliably finish promised games and this title will be no exception.
Nonetheless, the failure of the Kickstarter campaign will affect the game. It now means that we cannot confidently invest in the amount of animation that we initially wanted and it also means that it’s been set back in the production line as we will probably have to push forward some of the other games we’re working on as they are clearly now more “bankable” projects. Amongst them will be “The Agency: Chapter 2” which did have a successful Kickstarter Campaign. Our initial estimate for the release of “The Walsingham Files” was around Winter 2017. We may still keep this ETA, but due to the failure of the Kickstarter, it is now more likely to come out in Spring 2018.
No matter what we’d like to thank all of you for your support and feedback, especially those of you that did pledge towards this game.
Thank you and keep being awesome!
The Sapphire Dragon Productions Team
As many of you may know we launched a Kickstarter campaign a month ago to raise funds for our upcoming mystery adventure game; “The Walsingham Files.” This game was to be the direct spinoff to the “Silver Creek Falls” trilogy and was aimed to begin answering a lot of the questions that unfurled about the “bigger” conspiracy going down during “Silver Creek Falls.” We launched the Kickstarter for it in an attempt to drum up some support from fans and a bit of financing to hopefully afford some animation and other art costs to help make the game more complete.
The Kickstarter campaign ended yesterday, and unfortunately, we were not able to raise anywhere near the amount we aimed for.
So what does this mean for the future of “The Walsingham Files”?
Well, the Kickstarter was also used as a sort of litmus test to see how interested people were in the spinoff and it seems as though the general interest was a bit limited. We really did not get much feedback from fans, and we got very few backers on the Kickstarter campaign.
Now does this mean that we will be cancelling this title?
Not at all! A lot of work has already been put in. The story is completely written, the maps all done and a lot of the character art is also complete. This game will push through, we at Sapphire Dragon Productions are proud of the fact that we reliably finish promised games and this title will be no exception.
Nonetheless, the failure of the Kickstarter campaign will affect the game. It now means that we cannot confidently invest in the amount of animation that we initially wanted and it also means that it’s been set back in the production line as we will probably have to push forward some of the other games we’re working on as they are clearly now more “bankable” projects. Amongst them will be “The Agency: Chapter 2” which did have a successful Kickstarter Campaign. Our initial estimate for the release of “The Walsingham Files” was around Winter 2017. We may still keep this ETA, but due to the failure of the Kickstarter, it is now more likely to come out in Spring 2018.
No matter what we’d like to thank all of you for your support and feedback, especially those of you that did pledge towards this game.
Thank you and keep being awesome!
The Sapphire Dragon Productions Team