Indie superhero MMO Ship of Heroes has just announced the details of its planned Kickstarter campaign, which was previously noted to begin on April 4th: The crowdfunding event will run five weeks and hopes to raise $400,000. Alpha is expected to begin late in 2017.
“The key point to realize is that if you want to play in the Beta, you need to back us in the Kickstarter,” Heroic Games CEO Casey McGeever writes. “If you want to start even earlier and be part of the Alphas starting this year, then your chances go up depending upon how much you donate.”
McGeever argues that his team has shown off more of the game at its one-year mark than most comparable games do and that Ship of Heroes is angling to become a “family-friendly gaming community” and “a destination game that one plays for years, rather than content that gets played once and is then abandoned.”
SoH is one of five (!) City of Heroes-inspired superhero MMORPGs currently in production, though this is the only one that’s set on a sci-fi-flavored, self-contained starship dubbed the FHS Justice. Here’s the game’s latest gameplay video from just a few weeks ago:
