Vienna, Austria, November 19th, a new indie game development studio, Donkey Crew, launched a Kickstarter campaign for PC game “Melee: Battlegrounds” – the spiritual successor to the popular Mount & Blade Warband mod cRPG. MBG is a Medieval First and Third Person view Action-RPG with strategy elements such as real time base building and social interaction including property ownership.
The team behind the project includes 17 individuals sitting all over the world, from the United States to Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Poland, Russia, Italy, Spain, Serbia and Singapore.
“Everything you can see in the Kickstarter video is the result of hard, hard work over the last two years. This was all achieved with a budget of 45.000$ – money that the cRPG community invested into this project in January 2013! Those funds were used to develop the engine, all models, animations, sounds, gameplay, and pretty much everything you see.” – Florian Hofreither, Creator and Project Lead.
A heavy amount of work on the homemade engine has been performed which currently features movie making and modding, including real time cloud based features where two or more people can work together simultaneously when creating a map.
“Lots of stuff needs work, but the foundation is there – now it’s a matter of iteration and improvement. For that, we need to move to one place, get an office, and work together full time as a team. Working remotely only works for some time – at some point, you need to interact heavily and tie all ends together. We are at this point now and need your support!” – Florian.
Melee: Battlegrounds is scheduled to enter Alpha stage March 2015.
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