Apparently, some beneficent soul descended upon Square Root Studios’ TitanReach and saw fit to bring the game back up from the dead. After the devs announced in August that development was being suspended due to a lack of funding, studio co-founder Unravel announced on Discord yesterday that the game has suddenly been fully funded by someone “out of the kindness of his heart, no strings attached.”
As mentioned in the announcement, more details will be coming later in the week, but it would appear that development of the MMO will press on. In the meantime, reports of Unravel working on the recently announced MMORPG Bitcraft appear to be confirmed, as Unravel’s name on that game’s Discord lists him as a community manager.
If you’ve been following TitanReach’s development trajectory up to this point, you know that it’s been a wild ride. The game first arrived on the scene last year, opening a Kickstarter that didn’t fund, then announcing plans for an Indiegogo campaign that never appeared in lieu of its own cash shop that apparently staved off its first pending doom. Since then the studio has made some decisions including selling early access for $70 and trying to move the goalposts about a statement made about Square Root’s working conditions. After that, the game kicked off a limited-time free-to-play early access period that didn’t seem to turn the game’s fortunes around. Until yesterday, anyway.
Further reading:
• World of Titans plans ‘major facelift,’ November 2023 release, and closed testing soon
• World of Titans fails its Kickstarter, pulls its demo, and promises ‘something huge’ – all while selling founder’s packs
• Titan Reach changes its name, rebuts claims of copyright stealing, opens Kickstarter and Steam demo
• TitanReach’s mystery investor actually existed, and the lead dev is accused of misappropriating the investment
• Just months after supposed angel investment, indie MMO TitanReach has ceased development – again
• TitanReach turns off its servers to enter a multi-month ‘private development’ cycle
• TitanReach’s angel investor says he funded it because the team is ‘passionate, hard working, and lucky’
• Indie MMO TitanReach has apparently suspended development as ‘funds have dried up’
• TitanReach adds new items and critters, updates its launcher, and sells alpha access for a limited time
• Indie MMO TitanReach’s free-to-play access is live — for a limited time
• TitanReach is going free-to-play until its closed alpha
• TitanReach adds revamped Glimmermoore and standalone launcher in today’s early access update
• TitanReach answers questions about development, items, and future content
• TitanReach attempts to put its controversies in the past with new details on early access development
• TitanReach shows off pets, discusses programming, previews new props and the Glimmermoore area
• TitanReach shows off more animals, props, weapons, and koblin animations
• TitanReach shows off new animal models that have glimpsed the unknowable
• TitanReach hints at a new area, opens a wiki, and showcases better animated chickens
• TitanReach previews character models, chat, and its WoW-esque UI
• TitanReach promises weekly content updates, details new armor, a PvP island, and Glimmermoore updates
• TitanReach shows off crafting stations and NPC creation, promises servers are ‘ready to launch’
• TitanReach addresses early access funding – and how it pays its staff
• TitanReach promises to start its limited early access on February 28
• TitanReach shows off more character and weapon models, shares new music, and crafts an account system
• TitanReach shows off new outfits and environment models, opens its credit store, and begins name reservation
• Indie MMO TitanReach needs funding soon or ‘it’s all over’
• TitanReach shares details of its quest system, new armor, and new map in latest dev blog
• TitanReach resurfaces with a new dev blog full of updates and promise of more communication
• Make My MMO: TitanReach turns to Indiegogo after Kickstarter ends unsuccessfully
• TitanReach devs admit their Kickstarter is doomed, plan Indiegogo instead
• TitanReach offers a second patch for its demo version as its Kickstart enters the final week
• TitanReach patches in combat stances and a map as its crowdfunding continues
• Make My MMO: TitanReach and Ilysia head to Kickstarter
• TitanReach starts its Kickstarter with a target goal of $430,000
• MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Deadside, The Isle, Minions of Elden, Dekaron M, Ragnarok Origin, TitanReach
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