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[dancrane212]

From the campaign page.

Firstly, we would like to thank everyone that has supported our Kickstarter. We’ve been overwhelmed and a little humbled by the support from our community and we’re incredibly excited to be continuing development alongside you all.

Over the last couple of weeks, we have seen hundreds of you accessing the Alpha build of Fable Fortune, constructing fiendish decks to compete against each other and working together to defeat our first co-op boss, Nostro!

It’s difficult to express the feeling of watching someone boot up and play your game for the first time, but it’s somewhere between heady excitement and utter dread. We've spent nearly two years making Fable Fortune so, understandably, we're not in the best position to be truly objective about it. We knew we had to create something awesome, something that added exciting twists to the CCG genre and something that was completely true to the legacy of Fable, but it wasn't until the game was in your hands that we were sure we'd succeeded. Everyone who has taken an interest in the campaign deserves a heartfelt and honest thank you for making this such a positive, constructive, and downright entertaining experience.

It’s in this spirit that today we can share some amazing news with you. Thanks to your enthusiasm and support, we are happy to announce that we’ve successfully secured additional development funding! This, alongside our ongoing personal investment, will mean that we can continue to improve the game and allow even more of you to start playing.

With the immediate future of Fable Fortune now secure, we have taken the decision to end our Kickstarter campaign early to focus on releasing a Closed Beta build as quickly as possible. As we've always stated, we want to make this game with your help, your feedback and your input. We have huge plans for Fortune and we know that whatever happens in the future, it all started with our already incredible community.

Although we will now be concentrating on the Closed Beta, the Alpha build will remain available during this period and we’ll be looking to deliver a balance update in the very near future. Additionally, in return for your fantastic support, we will be providing all Kickstarter backers with access to the Alpha build and will then migrate ALL players over to our Closed Beta! This means that our backers will continue to be the very first players to get their hands on the latest content and features.

Thanks to your support and the positive reviews from our current players, we know we have something special on our hands and want to enable as many people as possible to experience Fable Fortune over the coming weeks and months. Ultimately, we believe following this path is the best way to achieve this goal.

We’ll be looking to extend admittance to a much wider audience in the near future, so to register your interest in the Closed Beta, sign up here.

Make sure you follow us on Twitter or Facebook to be the first to know all the latest developments and if you have any questions about the Closed Beta or anything else, please feel free to get in contact, we always want to hear your opinions.

Thank you for your continued support! From Flaming Fowl Studios, Mediatonic, and everyone working on Fable Fortune.

 

[kayos90]

Wondering if they used the kickstarter to justify funding from some venture/publisher.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Wondering if they used the kickstarter to justify funding from some venture/publisher.

getting 1/5 of funding is certainly enticing.

 

[GTSweet]

Was happy to support it when it was active and hopefully this additional funding gets them to the finished product they are driving towards.

Free access to the Alpha for backers was pretty sweet in itself.

 

[Synth]

getting 1/5 of funding is certainly enticing.

lol

 

[DrArchon]

Wondering if they used the kickstarter to justify funding from some venture/publisher.

I can't see that being a thing because the kickstarter wasn't even close to reaching the funding goal. Seems weird that they got funding when it didn't look like it was gonna happen, just like Red Ash I guess.

 

[wwm0nkey]

Good, wasn't going to back it but it didn't look bad at all

 

[Warxard]

Nice!

 

[Flux]

Good. I still want to play it, and I can see why the Kickstarter never really took off with the generally weak backer rewards.

 

[dancrane212]

Not surprised they managed to get funding. Easy to imagine some investors wanting to take a chance on a game that is far along, has some brand recognition and will be on Steam/XB1 to try and beat other Hearthstone inspired games to market.

 

[Lucifon]

The game is actually a lot of fun. Played a few matches of the Alpha earlier today and really enjoyed it. The UI elements are rough, some things need highlighting better etc. But the gameplay itself is really fun - very similar to Hearthstone but with morality, in-match quests and some other neat mechanics. The game's style is pretty charming too.

Glad they've managed to secure additional funding and looking forward to them polishing it up and finishing the game.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Good. I still want to play it, and I can see why the Kickstarter never really took off with the generally weak backer rewards.

Uh... I don't think that's why the Kickstarter failed.

 

[LewieP]

Nothing smarter than moving forward with a project that the public has proven themselves to be apathetic towards.