{"id":44751,"date":"2012-09-18T14:04:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44751"},"modified":"2012-09-18T14:09:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:09:32","slug":"quest-for-glory-creators-to-kickstart-new-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44751-quest-for-glory-creators-to-kickstart-new-project","title":{"rendered":"Quest for Glory creators to Kickstart new project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hold onto your 90s nostalgia, everybody – original Quest for Glory creators Corey and Lori Cole have announced they’re making a new game. A new adventure game. A new adventure game that even sounds a bit like Quest for Glory<\/em>. My spine has the tingles, although that could just be the cold, pitiless gaze of the Black Bird on the shelf behind me. What Black Bird? Oh, I’ve said too much.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had been getting letters from fans saying, \u2018If you want to do a new game, say the word and I\u2019ll open up my checkbook and write you a $1,000 check right now,\u2019\u201d Corey Cole told Mashable. \u201cAnd what\u2019s happened is a lot of the people who were kids and teenagers when the Quest for Glory series came out are now in their 30s and making a good living, and they\u2019re saying, \u2018You know, we love your games, and it\u2019s a shame that you\u2019re not fitting into the industry in a way that allows you to make them. We\u2019d like to support it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

And how can they do that? With Kickstarter, of course.<\/p>\n

“Kickstarter is a way of bringing people together in one place. It\u2019s a way of publicising it: Yes we\u2019re doing an indie project and you can be a part of it,\u201d said Corey.<\/p>\n

The new game is something called Hero-U, which according to the official website<\/a> “combines turn-based, tactical combat and dungeon exploration with rich character interactions, challenging puzzles, and an immersive story.” Much like Telltale’s recent Sam & Max and Monkey Island reboots, Hero-U will be launched as an episodic series.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn each game, you\u2019ll take on the role of a particular wannabe hero who\u2019s attending the university and is in there for different reasons. You have a real story line, and we can do a lot more detailed writing because we know who you are,\u201d Corey explained. \u201cOur first game is about a rogue, Shawn O\u2019Conner \u2014 a character who has a backstory that we know a lot about, but the player will gradually discover during the course of the game. He\u2019s kind of an unwilling first-year student at Hero U.\u201d<\/p>\n

The game’s Kickstarter campaign will get going on 19 October with a planned target of $400,000-450,000. Watch this space.<\/p>\n

Source: Mashable<\/a><\/h5>\n

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