Quite how they attempted to raise money is something of a mystery to me, since they appeared to just disappear after the Kickstarter cancellation. They pursued development anyway, apparently relying on 95% self-funding, and simply didn't have the resources or staff to be able to get it off the ground.
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However, those people didn't come together in force during an abandoned Kickstarter, that pulled the plug before it was even a tenth of the way to its half million goal. (Oh, and the new game had a race called "MONSTRO" - it was like they were just trying to get Gillen and Gillen alone to play it.) Still, my being right about the game not being so great - even though it looked amazing - didn't stop a lot of other people really adoring it. It's also worth noting that while obsessively wrong people like Kieron Gillen loved Giants, it was a really flawed game that would randomly kill you with absolutely no possible warning (always a rocket fired at you from behind) and had no save system to make that anything other than tedious. (Presumably sensible people warned them away from risking a "Giants: First Wonder" or similar, although they'd likely have had a strong case for the right to the word.) And Rogue Rocket didn't have the luxury of the IP to catch attention. While clearly that's the story of a number of games that have then gone on to be successful in their attempts to revive themselves - most recently with Double Fine's promise to make a sequel to Psychonauts - I think it can also be indicative of at the very least a warning sign. It was only over time that it gained a following, and notoriety, and presumably some profits.
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Third-person action Giants never did well on its original release, either on PC or its later console version. So it is that Rogue Rocket Games have reportedly emailed backers of their spiritual sequel to Giants: Citizen Kabuto, First Wonder, to say development is being abandoned and the studio put on ice. For games developers, it seems it's not until they test the idea in the cruel harsh winter of the real world before they can find out. It's so very hard to know the cash value of fond memories.