It was another good week for Star Wars Galaxies offshoot Divergence Online, which cracked the top 10 on Steam’s Greenlight list and settled into a frequent patching cadence designed to get combat going sooner rather than later. Initially the team was going to wait until the completion of its current $15,000 IndieGoGo campaign, but instead it decided to “go for broke” and both fix existing stuff and create new stuff.
The rest of this week’s MMO crowdfunding roundup is just past the cut.
Current Campaigns
Citadel of Sorcery (MMO Magic, Inc.): Open donations, no end date
– A vast, dynamic world
– “Nothing is set in stone; each player will experience the game in very different ways”
Contested Space (Zon): Kickstarter coming soon
– Player-designed spaceships and stations
– Action-oriented combat, territory expansion and defense
Divergence Online (Ethan Casner): Two successful campaigns; third campaign open on Indiegogo
– Player-driven sandbox in the style of SWG, but with FFA PvP on primary server
– Recent news: Greenlit on Steam, alpha video
Gloria Victis (Black Eye Games): Open donations, no end date
– Fantasy medieval setting with a classless system and unrestricted character development
– Realistic weather system
– Greenlit on Steam
– Recent news: Headshots and kicking
Neo’s Land (NeoJac Entertainment): Open donations, no end date
– A voxel-based sandbox where the community decides development by roundtable discussions
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen (Visionary Realms): Open donations, no end date
– Old-school fantasy MMO with focus on group content
– The return of corpse runs
– Back in “full development mode”
Fully Funded Campaigns
Ascent: The Space Game (Fluffy Kitten Studios) – Recent news: James Hicks on the MOP podcast
Camelot Unchained (City State) – Recent news: The archer, stretch goals and more
Crowfall (ArtCraft)Â – Recent news: Pre-alpha post-portem
City of Titans (Missing Worlds Media)
Descent Underground (Descendent Studios)
Eco (Strange Loop Games)
Epic Space (EpicSpace.net)
Ever, Jane (3 Turn Productions)
HEX (Cryptozoic)
Novus AEterno (Taitale Studios)
Pathfinder Online (GoblinWorks)
Project Gorgon (Elder Game, LLC)
Pumpkin Online (Monique)
The Repopulation (Above & Beyond Technologies)
Shards Online (Citadel Studios)
Shroud of the Avatar (Portalarium) – Recent news: Update of the Avatar
Star Citizen (Cloud Imperium) – Recent news: 1 million, starmap, 2.0.0 preview
TUG (Nerd Kingdom)
Incomplete Campaigns
Das Tal (Fairytale Distillery)
Valiance Online (SilverHelm Studios)
Abandoned Post-Crowdfund
Greed Monger (Greed Monger)
The Stomping Land (Alex Fundora)
Successfully Launched
Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments) – Recent news: Realistic planets, planetary surfaces
Guns of Icarus (Muse)
