It’s been a busy month on inXile Entertainment’s Wasteland 2 Kickstarter page, which has seen 61,288 people (including me!) put a total of $2,933,147 into the game’s development fund.

That’s quite a bit over the project’s original $900,000 goal, so I imagine everybody over at inXile HQ is looking forward to rebuilding the office with pizza and Lego bricks, just because they can.

Well, they might have but apparently the extra cash is being put into developing Mac and Linux versions of the game, in addition to the PC version. After the project passed the $2.1 million mark, Fallout 1 and 2 designer Chris Avellone has also been onboard, which makes sense because the Fallout series was basically a spiritual successor to the first Wasteland game. Oh, it’s all coming together now.

Avellone joins former colleagues Mark Morgan and Jason Anderson, as well as original Wasteland creators Brian Fargo, Alan Pavlish, and Mike Stackpole, to make this post-apocalypse the best post-apocalypse ever.

The game is expected to launch sometime in late 2013.

Source: Kickstarter

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