Make My MMO: Hero Engine woes ‘blindside’ The Repopulation (November 14, 2015)

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, it was pretty much business as usual. Major players like Star Citizen, Camelot Unchained, and Crowfall continued their weekly update cadences.

We also heard from The Repopulation dev team, which reiterated the fact that it was “blindsided” by recent Hero Engine woes and is working to “minimize the impact” on the sci-fi sandbox going forward. Click past the cut for a recap of the week’s news.

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

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

Infinity: Battlescape (I-Novae Studios): Kickstarter ends November 20
– Procedurally generated space sim
– True-to-scale solar system
– Seamless planetary transitions, no zoning
– Newtonian physics
– Optional offline sandbox mode for experimentation

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) 
Camelot Unchained (City State) – Recent news: Merchline, support classes
Crowfall (ArtCraft) – Recent news: The first crow
City of Titans (Missing Worlds Media)
Descent Underground (Descendent Studios)
Divergence Online (Ethan Casner)
Eco (Strange Loop Games) – Recent news: Alpha on Nov. 23
Epic Space (EpicSpace.net)
Ever, Jane (3 Turn Productions)
HEX (Cryptozoic)
Novus AEterno (Taitale Studios)
Pathfinder Online (GoblinWorks)
Project Gorgon (Elder Game, LLC) – Recent news: Combat and yetis
Pumpkin Online (Monique)
The Repopulation (Above & Beyond Technologies) – Recent news: Holding pattern
Shards Online (Citadel Studios)
Shroud of the Avatar (Portalarium) – Recent news: Update of the Avatar 151
Star Citizen (Cloud Imperium) – Recent news: Monthly report, weekly report
TUG (Nerd Kingdom)

Abandoned Post-Crowdfund

Greed Monger (Greed Monger)
The Stomping Land (Alex Fundora)

Successfully Launched

Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments) – Recent news: Newsletter 99,
Guns of Icarus (Muse)