Hi, folks – a big thank you to James for publishing the story, and to all who added valuable comments. To respond to a few points (sorry for the long post):
– We’ve posted an update to the campaign that talks about what the money is being used for (the 80% left after paying Kickstarter, Amazon & US tax – kinda complicated getting that cash here to spend in SA). Good sound, graphics & dev become very expensive very quickly; we’re just finishing a 30-page animated childrens book app that has around R85,000 in direct costs already, excluding development!
– Kickstarter rules don’t let us talk too much about donating; we’re on thin ice as it is and half expected to be kicked off (no pun):
“No charity or cause funding.
Examples of prohibited use include raising money for the Red Cross, funding an awareness campaign, funding a scholarship, or promoting the donation of funds raised, or future profits, to a charity or cause.”
– We’ll do Android as and when we can; for now this is a native iPad app and a slightly different version for iPhone (the size makes a difference to how you want to interact with the game). The iPad is the ideal platform, even the smaller one, and pretty much owns the tablet market, whereas Android devices are all over the map in terms of consistency and so require many compromises.
– Gameplay will be along the lines of Temple Run, but with some quite unique features. The reason you’re not seeing more is that we haven’t done it yet – wouldn’t need the funding otherwise, would we? 🙂 We’ll try to put out a more illustrative animated sequence shortly.
Meanwhile of course there is no guarantee the kickstarter campaign will work – if it doesn’t we’ll look for another way, but we really want to make this game!
Thanks again for the excellent comments, please keep them coming. And please look out for further updates.
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Hi, folks – a big thank you to James for publishing the story, and to all who added valuable comments. To respond to a few points (sorry for the long post):
– We’ve posted an update to the campaign that talks about what the money is being used for (the 80% left after paying Kickstarter, Amazon & US tax – kinda complicated getting that cash here to spend in SA). Good sound, graphics & dev become very expensive very quickly; we’re just finishing a 30-page animated childrens book app that has around R85,000 in direct costs already, excluding development!
– Kickstarter rules don’t let us talk too much about donating; we’re on thin ice as it is and half expected to be kicked off (no pun):
“No charity or cause funding.
Examples of prohibited use include raising money for the Red Cross, funding an awareness campaign, funding a scholarship, or promoting the donation of funds raised, or future profits, to a charity or cause.”
– We’ll do Android as and when we can; for now this is a native iPad app and a slightly different version for iPhone (the size makes a difference to how you want to interact with the game). The iPad is the ideal platform, even the smaller one, and pretty much owns the tablet market, whereas Android devices are all over the map in terms of consistency and so require many compromises.
– Gameplay will be along the lines of Temple Run, but with some quite unique features. The reason you’re not seeing more is that we haven’t done it yet – wouldn’t need the funding otherwise, would we? 🙂 We’ll try to put out a more illustrative animated sequence shortly.
Meanwhile of course there is no guarantee the kickstarter campaign will work – if it doesn’t we’ll look for another way, but we really want to make this game!
Thanks again for the excellent comments, please keep them coming. And please look out for further updates.
Cheers,
The Rhino Rumble team