After Raising $114,000 on Kickstarter, Dev Goes Silent

The game designers thank all the "contributors" that paid for their FREE vacation on a Hawaiian beach.

Well.. that sucks. Luckily, I don't donate.

Ugh, just make crowd funding go away already.

well, if people will not get their money back it is a scam, and false advertisement has been used on a private website that does not support such a thing (which would be illegal). This means that the people that put money into the game will have to seek a lawyer and do a big time law suit against the dev.

Whether at the end it is worth it or not, I don't know... A lawyer will not become rich of this law suit, so people end up having to get together to pay for the lawyer out of their own pockets until he wins in court, which he will. The money will then have to be paid back, but the big question again is, will it be worth it for investments made that are worth less than 100 usd...

I think, this is the devs joker card... the amount is too low for people to get organized and seek legal council, meaning, the dev walks off with the cash.

The guy might not be a scammer, he may have been a genuinely passionate guy with an idea he believed in who ended up biting off more than he could chew.

Game development can be a really tedious slog through bugs and back end stuff, and the pressure to deliver can be huge. He may have just found that his dream project turned into a nightmare of long, frustrating nights at the computer and just bailed when he couldn't hack it anymore. Even if that's true, he should at least have the guts to admit it rather than just running for the hills.

Sadly, there's not much backers on kickstarter can do to verify if a dev team has the willpower, skill and dedication to see a project through, regardless of their initial enthusiasm.

What a shame. Does anyone remember B.C. .? Oh what could of been.

This is still a thing? I remember hearing like a year ago that it got dropped by Steam because the devs were nowhere to be found.

#PCMASTERRACE

He robbed dem blind!

I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm one of the backers of a project on Kickstarter. However, it's Star Trek Continues, and they've already done four episodes with more on the way with regular updates, videos, and everything else on top of the fact that the people working on it are already established in Hollywood to some degree or other. That is the only reason I backed that project, because it has already delivered. I would never back anything like this that just seemed shady from the get go.

Serves these idiots right. Don't give money to random people you fools.

And this is exactly why I don't participate in Kickstarters for video games. I am just not one of those people that would be happy if a project was suddenly abandoned halfway. That's why Peter Molyneux never got my money and its why other games won't get my money. Even if it's a well established company, I just don't want to be one of those risk takers.

Star Citizen looks like it could be amazing but until its playable. I'll wait for release before actually purchasing it.

Cocaine is expensive.

The game seems interesting, and last I heard was that they were switching from Unity to UE4, which now they can't prove, they have taken over $100,000 and haven't even payed the artist, what utter bullshit, if they ever try to release a game again the community will remember that the developer did this to us, and then they wont see a dime.

Somewhere out there cloud_imperium scratching his head, trembling and rubbing his nipples thinking about the $56,450 he spend on Star Citizen after reading this article

man, i need a kickstarter. im going to sketch my ideas on a napkin, with crayons. people will pay me millions!

"One backer, who said they had invested $90 in The Stomping Land, has informed Kickstarter of the issue, but the crowd-funding << LINK REMOVED >> in return."

What issue?

I can just picture him at home.. sitting in the dark with his phone and internet off, smoking some crack and watching daytime TV.. You know you're not loved when nobody can get ahold of you yet nobody informs the police incase you are dead on your living room floor.

Another one bites the dust.

Please stop calling kickstarter an investment. Its a donation. And if you donate money to a scammer.....well, sucks for you.

This is really starting to piss me off. Every time I turn around I hear about how some Kickstarter project has gone quiet or some Early Access game has stopped making updates. These are both excellent sources of income for people that are genuinely setting out to do what they promise, but as with everything good in the world, there are people out there fucking it up for the rest of us. They see how easy it is to do a little work and get the money without having to finish anything. Now people like myself come in and are genuinely trying to create a fun and creative game for the community and nobody is going to trust us enough to fund us.

Someone has taken the South Park 'kickstarter' episode and really ran with it haven't they...

Such is the growing pains of crowdfunding/crowdforging.

The game demo looked really interesting. I just couldn't trust something with that low of a funding goal though. Originally $20,000 - that would last about one month with a small U.S. team; mileage may vary with outsourcing.