Whereas the Golden Age of video video games making financial institution on Kickstarter is lengthy gone, that isn’t to say there aren’t nonetheless success tales on the platform. And an enormous one this month is Elin, a roguelike RPG out of Japan that’s making an attempt to ship on goals that followers have been harbouring for 15 years and counting.
Elin is the prequel to a 2006 sport known as Elona, which as Elin’s web page describes:
Elona was a roguelike sport created by Japanese indie developer noa and launched in 2006. Its chaotic gameplay and world, which impressed the participant’s creativeness, have made the sport in style, and it has been translated by volunteers in lots of international locations. A number of “variants” derived from the unique Elona have been additionally created after the supply code was launched. Elona and its variants retain sturdy recognition and neighborhood over the world even now greater than 15 years after its preliminary launch.
Unique creator noa has now returned (with some assist) to ship Elin, which is mainly the end result of years and years of them enjoying more moderen open world video games, from Minecraft to Valheim, and questioning how cool it will be to have that sort of freedom in their very own universe.
So Elin will likely be a roguelike RPG in the identical vein as Elona, solely now it’s going to have a lot extra stuff across the edges, from detailed base-building to life sim dalliances. And boy, is that what followers of the primary sport need, as a result of this sport is at the moment exceeding all expectations Kickstarter.
At time of posting it’s picked up over USD$270,000, which doesn’t sound like lots contemplating the million-dollar tasks the platform is known for, however given Elin’s scale—it was initially asking for simply $38,000, simply so noa may get it completed—that’s hundreds.
What’s attention-grabbing too is that, whereas the unique sport was an enormous hit in Japan, the publicity this prequel is selecting up helps get the phrase out internationally; on a private observe I hadn’t heard Elona’s identify talked about in years, however the base-building stuff right here seems like one thing I’d be very into.
You may take a look at extra on the marketing campaign, together with artwork, music, stretch objectives and screenshots, right here.
