By Sam Coles:
The incredibly popular Youtube channel Yogscast have hit a
bit of a predicament in the form of a brick wall. It was announced that the
game they were working on titled “Yogsventures” has been cancelled due to the overwhelming
nature according to the developers who were working on it. In case you don’t
know what Yogventures was an open world sandbox game which would of featured
members of the Yogscast such as Simon and Lewis, it was similar to Minecraft.
Yogscast started this on kickstarted asking for a goal of
$250,000 and they exceeded that goal and almost hit $600k. They out sourced the
development to an American developer Winter Cool Games, which only consisted of
six people and that included the guy managing it. According the person managing
the project he said on the Yogscast forums “He had a lack of experience
managing a project of a large scope”. He also stated that he nearly lost his
job and lost his wife in the process of the project.
The big question out of this is what happened to the half a
million dollars that was given to them by their loyal fan base? Who knows, but what
we do know is that Yogventures is not seeing the light of day and the backers
for the project aren’t receiving refunds. According to Yogscast they’re not
obligated to do anything about the situation.
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