#Carmageddon reincarnation game Pc#

They've got a game already going, and are looking for money to finish it. But it's one they feel comfortable in - they're not a fly-by-night studio trying to raise a million dollars with just an idea. Kickstarter is obviously the fad of the month for retro games at this point, and Stainless understands that they're leaping headfirst onto a bandwagon. Looking at the other really good submissions on there, they're people who are similar heritage to us, similar track records, big names, so we're very well suited to it.' Stainless has today announced a Kickstarter project for Carmageddon Reincarnation, and they're asking supporters to donate $400,000 (or more) in return for the chance to help make the game. 'We talked to Kickstarter at GDC' this year, says Buckland, 'and they agreed that our project is exactly right for the service. and then we'll talk to you maybe about publishing it.'' So after finally getting their rights back after all those years, Stainless became stuck with a title that they couldn't afford to make on their own, but didn't want to share and lose it all again.Д®nter Kickstarter. ''We think it's fantastic you've got the rights back,'' Barnden adds, ''we can't wait to see the game.

'And it didn't go any further than that.'

''Yeah, we've got great memories of Carmageddon, we used to play that, what a great brand,'' they would say, according to Buckland. While Stainless was spending the time while fighting for their rights working on popular licensed titles like Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Plainswalker and Risk: Factions, publishers told them if they wanted to get another Carmageddon game out, they'd have to give up the brand again. Finding funding for the title wasn't easy, however. That deal went through about a year ago, and Stainless began work on a return to the series, which they called Carmageddon Reincarnation. 'We were in there like hawks buying the rights back.' And 'that's when the door finally opened,' says Buckland. 'Why sell your IP? Why do it? Better to have it just sat in a cupboard,' the company decided, according to Buckland.ДЄnd in that cupboard Carmageddon sat, until Square (which had by then combined with rival Enix) bought up Eidos in 2009.

'While the company was SCI,' says Buckland today, ' Carmageddon was one of their biggest brands, so there was no way on God's green earth they were going to part with that.' SCI eventually bought Eidos, but even with brands like Tomb Raider and Hitman in that group, the company still saw no reason to give the rights back. They've spent years since then trying to get the rights back.%Gallery-154880% The title was followed up with a sequel in 1998 (it was called Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now, back when games could be called things like that), but when the sequel didn't do as well, the worst happened: Buckland and Barnden lost their own creation. In order to get published, they sold rights for the title to SCI, which co-published the game with Interplay.

#Carmageddon reincarnation game Pc#

After doing work-for-hire projects with their new company in the mid '90s, they finally released a passion project, called Carmageddon, which featured goofy and gory, over-the-top vehicular carnage, and still claims a place in the heart of older PC gamers everywhere. Patrick Buckland and Neil Barnden, CEO and Executive Director of Stainless Games, tell an all-too-common horror story from creatives stuck in a bad business deal. Carmageddon: Reincarnation, initially announced as a downloadable multiplatform game last year, now depends on Kickstarter for completion.