Years of Conquest: Difference between revisions

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Ars Magica: Years of Conquest was a Kickstarter campaign to finance development of a computer game based on Ars Magica.

Campaign Outcome

The fundraising campaign ran from October 19, 2012 through November 19. Unfortunately, it received only $92,848 in pledges of its $290,000 goal (32%). Because it failed to meet its goal, the project was cancelled and no one who pledged money had to pay anything.

About the Proposed Game

Ars Magica: Years of Conquest was to be a 2-D, single-player, turn-based game. The best description of the planned game is on its Kickstarter page.

David Chart posted some details of what the game was to be about in the thread on the official forum.

What is a Kickstarter campaign?

Kickstarter is a Web site for "crowd funding" of creative projects. Sometimes artists, authors, and game developers have expensive projects they want to undertake, but can't afford to finance themselves. Kickstarter allows people to pledge money to get the project started. Each project has a minimum funding goal: if the pledges meet or exceed that goal, everyone who pledged money is obligated to pay, and the project starts. If the project falls short of its funding goal, nothing happens and nobody pays. Note that even if the project gets started, there is no guarantee it will ultimately succeed.

The Kickstarter Basics page does a better job explaining this than we can.

Related Links

Ars Magica: Years of Conquest at Kickstarter.com
Developer's Forum
"Ars Magica Video Game" thread at the Official forum

Interviews

Sub Rosa's interview with the developers: http://www.subrosamagazine.org/?p=567
CJ Romer's interview with the developers: http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/ars-magica-the-computer-game-interview-with-the-black-chicken-kickstarter-team/

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-'''Ars Magica: Years of Conquest''' is a [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackchickenstudios/ars-magica-video-game Kickstarter Project] to develop a computer version of Ars Magica.
+'''Ars Magica: Years of Conquest''' was a [http://www.kickstarter.com/ Kickstarter] campaign to finance development of a [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackchickenstudios/ars-magica-video-game computer game based on Ars Magica].
-== What is a Kickstarter Project? ==
+== Campaign Outcome ==
-Kickstarter is a Web site for "crowd funding" of creative projects. Sometimes artists, authors, and game developers have expensive projects they want to undertake, but can't afford to finance themselves. Kickstarter allows people to pledge money to get the project started. Each project has a minimum funding goal: if the pledges meet or exceed that goal, everyone who pledged money is obligated to pay, and the project '''starts'''. If the project falls short of its funding goal, nothing happens and nobody pays.  Note that even if the project gets started, there is no guarantee it will ultimately succeed.
+The fundraising campaign ran from October 19, 2012 through November 19. Unfortunately, it received only $92,848 in pledges of its $290,000 goal (32%). Because it failed to meet its goal, the project was cancelled and no one who pledged money had to pay anything.
-The [http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics?ref=nav Kickstarter Basics] page does a better job explaining this than we can.
+== About the Proposed Game ==
+'''Ars Magica: Years of Conquest''' was to be a 2-D, single-player, turn-based game. The best description of the planned game is on its [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackchickenstudios/ars-magica-video-game?ref=live Kickstarter page].
-Just to be clear, Project: Redcap has no affiliation with Kickstarter or with the '''Ars Magica: Years of Conquest''' project. We're announcing it because we think it will be of interest to Ars Magica fans, that's all.
+[[David Chart]] posted some details of what the game was to be about in the [http://forum.atlas-games.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9384&start=45#p144803 thread] on the [[official forum]].
-== About the Proposed Game ==
+== What is a Kickstarter campaign? ==
-'''Ars Magica: Years of Conquest''' will be a 2-D, single-player, turn-based game. The best description of what the game will be like is on its [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackchickenstudios/ars-magica-video-game?ref=live Kickstarter page].
+Kickstarter is a Web site for "crowd funding" of creative projects. Sometimes artists, authors, and game developers have expensive projects they want to undertake, but can't afford to finance themselves. Kickstarter allows people to pledge money to get the project started. Each project has a minimum funding goal: if the pledges meet or exceed that goal, everyone who pledged money is obligated to pay, and the project '''starts'''. If the project falls short of its funding goal, nothing happens and nobody pays.  Note that even if the project gets started, there is no guarantee it will ultimately succeed.
-== Funding Status ==
+The [http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics?ref=nav Kickstarter Basics] page does a better job explaining this than we can.
-Project: Redcap is not going to spend time regularly posting updates on this project. See the [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackchickenstudios/ars-magica-video-game?ref=live Kickstarter page].
-The project was announced on October 19, 2012. The deadline for pledges is November 18, 2012, at 1:09 pm EST.
 == Related Links ==
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 * [http://academagia.invisionzone.com/index.php?showforum=25 Developer's Forum]
 * [http://forum.atlas-games.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9396 "Ars Magica Video Game" thread] at the [[Official forum]]
+=== Interviews ===
+* [[Sub Rosa]]'s interview with the developers: http://www.subrosamagazine.org/?p=567
+* [[CJ Romer]]'s interview with the developers: http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/ars-magica-the-computer-game-interview-with-the-black-chicken-kickstarter-team/
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