Years of Conquest
Ars Magica: Years of Conquest was a Kickstarter campaign to finance development of a computer game based on Ars Magica.
Campaign Outcome
The fundraising campaign ran from October 19, 2012 through November 19. Unfortunately, it received only $92,848 in pledges of its $290,000 goal (32%). Because it failed to meet its goal, the project was cancelled and no one who pledged money had to pay anything.
About the Proposed Game
Ars Magica: Years of Conquest was to be a 2-D, single-player, turn-based game. The best description of the planned game is on its Kickstarter page.
David Chart posted some details of what the game was to be about in the thread on the official forum.
What is a Kickstarter campaign?
Kickstarter is a Web site for "crowd funding" of creative projects. Sometimes artists, authors, and game developers have expensive projects they want to undertake, but can't afford to finance themselves. Kickstarter allows people to pledge money to get the project started. Each project has a minimum funding goal: if the pledges meet or exceed that goal, everyone who pledged money is obligated to pay, and the project starts. If the project falls short of its funding goal, nothing happens and nobody pays. Note that even if the project gets started, there is no guarantee it will ultimately succeed.
The Kickstarter Basics page does a better job explaining this than we can.
Related Links
- Ars Magica: Years of Conquest at Kickstarter.com
- Developer's Forum
- "Ars Magica Video Game" thread at the Official forum
Interviews
- Sub Rosa's interview with the developers: http://www.subrosamagazine.org/?p=567
- CJ Romer's interview with the developers: http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/ars-magica-the-computer-game-interview-with-the-black-chicken-kickstarter-team/