Cipher hits Kickstarter goal for Auditorium 2

Cipher Prime hits Kickstarter goal and can start work on Auditorium 2: Duet.

Ozzie Mejia

March 30, 2012 4:30 PM

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Cipher Prime's Kickstarter fund ended today, with the Philadelphia-based developer raising close to $70,000 for Auditorium 2: Duet. The crew credits the tremendous response to their fanbase and game sites that helped point people to the funding page.

"On Tuesday we all left the office for home shortly before midnight, pretty confident that we'd make it at some point during the night," said Associate Developer Andrei Marks. "Then we were all up until about one in the morning, texting each other like teen-age girls until we breached $60k. Verizon and AT&T probably did more celebrating than we did."

Cipher Prime has already started laying the groundwork for the game with some early prototyping, and it plans on restructuring its development tools, Marks said. One big goal is to add multiplayer.

Also, look for Duet's music to be "much different" from the original Auditorium. "We're going to be a little more ambitious here, and try and give the players greater freedom in creating unique music with each other as they play the game," Marks said. "We're looking to compose much more and much better music for the game, and part of the Kickstarter money will go toward the purchase of high quality instrument libraries."

Marks said he hopes the title will be ready for Christmas release.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?