When game designer Chris McComb announced last December that he was starting work on a sequel to PC RPG classic Planescape: Torment, we knew interest in the project would be pretty strong. Now that the project has launched on Kickstarter, we've learned that the level of interest was actually record-setting.
Torment: Tides of Numenera raised $1 million in crowdfunding in just under eight hours, surpassing the previous funding-speed record set by Ouya last year. As of this writing, the funding level sits at just above $1.75 million from over 32,000 backers, including seven that pledged over $10,000 to enjoy a bevy of perks including a trip to an exclusive launch party with the development team.
Executive Producer Brian Fargo and the team at InXile are raising money for their next project even though work is still continuing on Wasteland 2, which raised nearly $3 million on Kickstarter just under a year ago. The overlapping projects are an effort to keep the InXile team together without layoffs and to create some productive work for the writers and concept artists who have already finished their portion of Wasteland 2 development.
"Kickstarter has been a godsend for mid-sized developers like InXile," Fargo tells potential backers in a Kickstarter video. "It allows us to get back to making the kind of games that we've always wanted to make... I'm not trying to monetize anyone and I'm not trying to reach some mythical mass market. We are making the kind of games we like to play and we're making the kind of games for you, the people who put their faith and trust into us."