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Human Resources developer issues comment on canceled Kickstarter

Uber Entertainment has issued a statement on Human Resources following its failed Kickstarter, noting that the prospects of its survival are grim.

Ozzie Mejia

October 22, 2014 4:50 PM

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Days ago, Uber Entertainment canceled the Kickstarter effort for their upcoming RTS effort called Human Resources. The project had raised just shy of $385,000, a number well short of the $1.4 million the Monday Night Combat creators had hoped to raise. The developers have since commented on the current state of the project and, as expected, the news is not positive.

"A Kickstarter pitch is a full time effort for several people," design director John Comes told Shacknews. "For a small indie studio like ours, that's a lot of time and money to spend on a pitch we felt wasn't going to make it. It's better to spend that time working on alternate plans for future games.

"We absolutely love this world we've come up with. We think the pitch is very strong and we're excited to bring it into reality. There is a chance the world we built will survive, but the game as pitched on Kickstarter will probably not. When you're trying to fund a game through other means, it takes on different shapes based on the needs or the wants of the people or company funding it."

Human Resources was an apocalyptic RTS game pitting dueling factions on a disaster-laden Earth. The game would feature fully-destructible cities, with the object to capture humans to use as resources to power units.

Uber's previous Kickstarted-funded project, Planet Annihilation, finished with over $2.2 million raised, shattering the $900K goal. The game released back in September on Steam.

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?