"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower on the imminent release of Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire
Hi everyone.
It's GR00V3R here. Hope this 68th anniversary of D-Day finds you happy and well. Hopefully you remember me from back in the dawn of time when I used to write articles for Bell of Lost Souls, not to mention annoyed peeps with my suggestions for tweaks to various army lists. I've been very quiet for the past 6 months or so because Membraine Studios has been rather busy working with the Exodus Wars team at Steel Crown Productions (that is, netepic [Tom Webb] and the others). We've been making a computer game that we think you guys will really, really want to play.
Announcing Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire—a 3D, turn-based strategy computer game capturing the core gameplay of miniatures wargaming!
ABOUT EXODUS WARS: FRACTURED EMPIRE
Fractured Empire will put players in control at a Brigade level, manoeuvring infantry and armour companies, as well as massive super-vehicles like the mighty Marcovian Behemoth, as they jockey for position on the futuristic battlefields of the Exodus Wars universe.
Gameplay trailer and pitch video are on the Indiegogo campaign page (http://www.indiegogo.com/EWFracturedEmpire)
Screenshots on imgur (http://imgur.com/a/ZRQcc)
WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP
As you can probably appreciate, this—our very own Great Crusade—has proved to be a very expensive undertaking, so we're running a crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo (http://www.indiegogo.com/EWFracturedEmpire) to make the Fractured Empire computer game possible. To date, Membraine has invested close to $47,000 into the game, and we have about 40 per cent of development work complete. In shortly, we really need our crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo to succeed so we can finish the game.
Yes...this is a call to arms, friends. We REALLY need your help.
Particularly in this early stage of the Indiegogo campaign, we REALLY need the members of this awesome community to please back us by purchasing a Perk. Doing so will of course help directly by funding the game's development—but it will also help ENORMOUSLY by showing the broader crowd funding community that OUR community supports and wants this game to happen.
But I'm not done begging yet. Oh no. There's more begging to come, because we also really, REALLY need you guys to TELL EVERYONE YOU CAN THINK OF about our campaign by posting to Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Campaigns like this live or die by the number of "nodes" you reach, and that they in turn reach, so if you could tell your friends about our campaign, that would be invaluable help to us.
And hey—if anyone knows Nathan Fillion or some other tweet-lovin' celebrity, please feel free to rope them in!
WRAPPING UP
On behalf of netepic (Tom) and myself (Mark), we hope you want to play this game as much as we do, that you'll purchase a Perk on our Indiegogo campaign page (http://www.indiegogo.com/EWFracturedEmpire) and that you'll tell all your friends about us. And we of course hope you'll join our budding communities on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/membraine) or on Google+ (http://plus.google.com/u/0/100150835472420901422) where you'll find all the news about the game's development as it breaks. You can also follow us on Twitter at membraine_ftw (http://twitter.com/membraine_ftw).
Thanks for reading. This subforum will be our home-base, so if you have any questions or comments to share, please post and let us know.
UPDATE: jaNDo has called my attention to a typo in this original post. $54k spend corrected to $47k, inline with the correct figure on Indiegogo. Apologies for any confusion caused.
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