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Dropkick Breast Cancer and Help Get Skullgirls into Evo2K13
13 years ago
I feel kinda bad. It feels like every other time I make a journal post on here I'm asking for handouts :(
But this one is slightly different as its for both a worthwhile cause and hopefully to save the jobs of a few talented game designers (and personal friends of mine).
If you've been following current events with the game Skullgirls and their updates, you know things are in a weird place right now. This is a chance to possibly help that situation and support a worthwhile cause while you're at it.
Donate to help fund breast cancer research and get Skullgirls included as the 8th game at Evolution 2013 (its a massive annual fighting game tournament for those who don't know). Being featured as one of the headline games will get SG the exposure it needs to convince its publishers (or potentially new ones) to fund the production of additional content.
We have two weeks left in the drive and our only real competition is Super Smash Bros. Melee. Which pulled ahead of us last night with a crazy $9,000 lead. (...but...they don't even make the console that game works on anymore >.<).
AND I KNOW some of you will be tempted to want to give some to Fighting is Magic, but EVO has gone on record to say that since it's not actually "finished" it can't be a featured game. But it will have an exhibition on the side at Evo regardless of how much money it brings in. So big ups to them and Mane6 for that :)
But back to my point! Even if you guys don't play games, this is still going towards a worthwhile cause to fight breast cancer and you would be doing me a personal solid to help push Skullgirls out there a little more. And please, spread the word if you can!
https://www.wepay.com/donations/evo2013-sg
But this one is slightly different as its for both a worthwhile cause and hopefully to save the jobs of a few talented game designers (and personal friends of mine).
If you've been following current events with the game Skullgirls and their updates, you know things are in a weird place right now. This is a chance to possibly help that situation and support a worthwhile cause while you're at it.
Donate to help fund breast cancer research and get Skullgirls included as the 8th game at Evolution 2013 (its a massive annual fighting game tournament for those who don't know). Being featured as one of the headline games will get SG the exposure it needs to convince its publishers (or potentially new ones) to fund the production of additional content.
We have two weeks left in the drive and our only real competition is Super Smash Bros. Melee. Which pulled ahead of us last night with a crazy $9,000 lead. (...but...they don't even make the console that game works on anymore >.<).
AND I KNOW some of you will be tempted to want to give some to Fighting is Magic, but EVO has gone on record to say that since it's not actually "finished" it can't be a featured game. But it will have an exhibition on the side at Evo regardless of how much money it brings in. So big ups to them and Mane6 for that :)
But back to my point! Even if you guys don't play games, this is still going towards a worthwhile cause to fight breast cancer and you would be doing me a personal solid to help push Skullgirls out there a little more. And please, spread the word if you can!
https://www.wepay.com/donations/evo2013-sg
They CAN'T finish anything (owed or otherwise...) without the previously mentioned money. Everything in the games business is done at some cost. And on average the cost of developing, animating, programming and voicing one character in Skullgirls cost about $200,000. That is PER CHARACTER!
And aside from the lay offs the other problem is that their publishers, Autumn Games and Konami, are currently wrapped up in a lawsuit with City National Bank over credit they used for DefJam Rapstar. And that started one month before the layoffs.
So Lab Zero (the new group composed of the SG staff) need this evo appearance to shine for other potential investors just in case their previous publishers don't survive their current legal problems.
Followed all the news myself, it was definitely something I really wanted to see succeed in general and I hope it can still find some footing.