![]() ![]() That’s more than 33 times the population of the city of Spokane.Ībout 3 pm yesterday, he tweeted “Remember Myst and Riven? The creators are Kickstarting a brand new game: # Obduction.” 3 days left to help fund.” Nearly 900 of his followers retweeted that tweet, sharing it with their own scores of followers. Patrick Harris’s account has 7,090,756 followers. Yesterday, Cyan decided to take a step it had been reticent to take: sending out emails to everyone who had played Myst Online asking for more help.īut yesterday, came a single tweet from Neil Patrick Harris Mr. In-depth video game websites Polygon and Gamasutra published stories. $1.7 million would add an entire additional world and “roadtrip mode” to the game, where one player can play, while the other can offer advice, observation, or backseat heckling. If they raised $1.3 million, they promised, they’d add language localization and support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality device. There were plenty of times when we were right on the edge.” There were times, he says, when he thought they wouldn’t make it.Ĭyan aimed to be nimble, listening to feedback from fans, offering new reward levels and add-ons for funding, and adding new stretch goals. “You can’t run a business and expect to always succeed,” Miller says. The team kept looking at the trend line, seeing the project was on shaky ground. If they missed the goal even by a few thousand dollars, Cyan wouldn’t get a penny. In the last days, fans who really want to see the project happen may up their pledges or amp up their outreach efforts.īut inside the offices of Cyan, founder Rand Miller says, the stress was real. ![]() Now, it’s not unusual for a Kickstarter to resemble an upside-down bell curve. ![]() The question was whether Cyan could extend beyond their passionate fanbase, tap into the same market of relatively casual gamers who played Myst, and make Obduction happen. But nearly all high-profile game Kickstarters raise a big amount of money in the first few days – that’s when the hardcore fans dive in. Stoners know him as the frightening party animal “Neil Patrick Harris” in the storied Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle franchise.Īnd at Spokane-based video game developer Cyan, creator of hit-game Myst, they know him as the guy who carried the funding of their next big project over the threshold into reality.Ĭyan’s Kickstarter, requesting $1.1 million to make a new video game, Obduction, had a pretty decent start, raising nearly $350,000 in just two days. Cultured Broadway types know him as the host of every Tony Awards ever and star of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. Older TV fans know him as “Doogie Howser,” titular kid doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D. Sitcom junkies know Neil Patrick Harris as the catchphrase-prone ladies man “Barney Stinson” from How I Met Your Mother. ![]()
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