Peezocker have announced that they are looking to raise $675,000 for a Conquest 2: The Vyrium Uprising Kickstarter. Contributors will be able to have access to the developers’ meetings, might have their likeness and voice in the game and attend a personal LAN party provided by the dev team in the contributor’s home town.
“We are huge fans of the RTS genre and we worked on the original game and witnessed its successful launch 11 years ago,” said Eric Peterson, the game’s producer. “But in recent years the support for great RTS games has declined at the publishing level.
“Instead of paying a one-time fee and getting infinite replay ability, players now have to pay for small add-ons or micro-transactions. This can cost gamers hundreds of extra dollars for content that used to come with the original purchase. And while that may be good for the publisher’s bottom line, it feels like a rip-off to us,” said Peterson. “We have been working on the sequel to Frontier Wars and just need a little help to finish it. Kickstarter offers a unique opportunity to raise the money and as an added bonus, gets our fans more directly involved with project development and ultimately the final product.”
In Conquest 2: The Vyrium Uprising, players build and command a vast armada of ships, and fight to become the dominant force in the universe, using resource management and strategic use of forces like most RTS games. Team Peezocker is made up of developers who have worked on more than 20 titles on multiple platforms including Wing Commander, Ultima, Starlancer and Conquest: Frontier Wars.
Source: Kickstarter
