The Great War Of Jorth Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
Jason and Pamela Gale, a husband-and-wife team from Canada, have been slowly building up an epic PC RPG called The Great War Of Jorth for the last five years. Now it’s nearly done and a Kickstarter campaign has been launched to finish it.
Video game projects come in all sizes these days, from 5,000 staffers to just one or two people. In this case The Great War Of Jorth is a true heartfelt project: it’s a game Jason always wanted to make, but became ill and couldn’t. While he was undergoing treatment, Pamela began work on the game, filling it with the characters and ideas Jason wanted. After a year had passed, Jason had recovered enough to contribute to the game himself, and now they have a nearly-complete, sprawling 2D RPG with at least fifty hours of content.
The pair are ambitious to the point that they’ve added full voice acting to every bit of dialogue in the game (and there’s a lot of it). The Great War Of Jorth could be released as-is, but the Gales could really polish it up if they had more money to work with. The crowdfunding campaign is meant to hire additional voice actors, hire a pixel artist to improve the art, get the audio remastered by a sound engineer and squash a few bugs. They estimate they would need $11200 altogether.
The Great War Of Jorth is as cheap as a $4 pledge ($5 Canadian), which gets you a digital copy. Higher tiers allow you to put your own mark in the game, whether that’s through a credit at the end, or a message on one of the gravestones, or the privilege to name an NPC. The game only just launched its campaign and has a long way to go to reach its goal. Help them get there and get a neat game in the process. The campaign runs through October 1.