Children Of Zodiarcs breaks Collective Kickstarter record
Montreal-developed tactics JRPG surpasses Tokyo Dark’s total
Children of Zodiarcs has surpassed the previous funding record for a Square Enix Collective-supported Kickstarter campaign, hitting CAD 245,000 in its final day.
The game, created by Montreal-based indie team Cardboard Utopia, is a tactical JRPG featuring cards and dice, and inspired by other projects such as Final Fantasy Tactics.
The project’s original goal for the campaign was CAD 40,000, but the popularity of the campaign meant that target was reached in the first couple of days.
The previous highest-funded project supported by Collective was Tokyo Dark, from Japan-based developer Cherrymochi, which ended its campaign at CAD 225,000 from a CAD 40,000 target.
The Children of Zodiarcs Kickstarter campaign ends at around 8:30pm GMT / 3:30pm EST on Friday February 19, and currently brings the running total of funding achieved by all 8 Kickstarter campaigns supported by Collective to around USD 800,000.
“We’re incredibly happy for the Cardboard Utopia team – their project has really resonated with people keen to play a new game in the tactical JRPG genre,” said Phil Elliott, creator and project lead on Square Enix Collective.
“We’ve watched the evolution of Kickstarter videogames funding, and for teams without a well-known franchise or famous designer, crowdfunding is getting much tougher – so we’re really happy that we’ve been able to help teams hit their targets.”
Children of Zodiarcs is estimated for release later in 2016; here is a Kickstartercampaign link.
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