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Wargaming acquires Wildman developer Gas Powered Games

By Dave Tach on Feb 14, 2013 02.14.13

Wargaming.net, the studio behind massively multiplayer military games World of Tanks, World of Warplanes and World of Warships, acquired Gas Powered Games, the financially troubled studio that earlier this week canceled its Kickstarter campaign for Wildman, according to a press release from Wargaming. "Gas Powered Games' heritage and development pedigree shows us just how valuable an addition Chris and his company will make to the Wargaming family," said Victor Kislyi, Wargaming's CEO. "Gas Powered Games has a long track record of providing incredibly engaging AAA gaming experiences and we can't wait to start working with them." Late last year, Microsoft announced that Gas Powered Games would no longer be developing content for Age of Empires Online. Within weeks, the developer behind...

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Kickstarter is wearing itself out, says Gas Powered Games CEO

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Feb 12, 2013 02.12.13

Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor is "a little more on the cynical side" when it comes to Kickstarter and thinks the platform is "starting to wear itself out," VentureBeat reports. Taylor recently spoke at the Casual Connect event in Europe, where he touched on the company's experience with recently canceled Kickstarter, Wildman. "It's a numbers game," Taylor said. "Someone has lightning in a bottle. This business is really, really tough. It's turning into a lottery business, unless you work 12 hours a day, seven days a week and study gaming for decades." According to Taylor, the "heyday" of gamemaking has passed. "There was a heyday in the 1990s where you could burst in the door of a publisher and you could get a contract," Taylor said. "You blew your budget anyway, and they dealt...

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Wildman Kickstarter canceled, developer to focus on keeping Gas Powered Games running

By Michael McWhertor on Feb 11, 2013 02.11.13

Gas Powered Games' Kickstarter drive to fund action-RPG Wildman has been canceled, according an update from the developer. "At this point, it makes sense for us to focus our attention on other ways to keep Gas Powered Games running," reads an update from the company. "Unfortunately, we are unable to share any specifics in public. When we have news to share, we will be posting it on our site." The Chris Taylor-led Gas Powered Games had just four days left to go on its Wildman Kickstarter, but was more than $590,000 short of its $1.1 million goal. More than 9,300 backers had committed to $504,120 in donations toward Wildman's development before the developer pulled the plug. Gas Powered (Supreme Commander, Dungeon Siege) announced Wildman and its intentions to fund the game through...

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Gas Powered Games holding live Q&A today, will stream progress daily until campaign ends

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Feb 04, 2013 02.04.13

Developer Gas Powered Games will host live streams every weekday until the Kickstarter campaign for its RTS role-playing game Wildman ends on Feb. 15, CEO Chris Taylor announced in an update to the game's Kickstarter page. Weekdays at 8 p.m. ET, associate engineer Bruce Bjorklund will host a live stream on the Gas Powered Games Twitch channel. Bjorklund has hosted previous streams for Wildman in which he took questions from viewers. Gas Powered Games will host another live Q&A session on its Twitch channel today at 4 p.m. ET. The developer also posted two videos to the Kickstarter page showing Wildman's Windows-based map editor. In one video, designer Brian Sturm walks viewers through creating individual pieces of terrain and how the map building software connects them at specific...

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Wildman developer explains the difficulties of RTS design on a crowdfunded budget

By Emily Gera on Feb 01, 2013 02.01.13

Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor tackles fan questions relating to the studio's currently in-development Wildman RPG, offering an explanation as to why the studio didn't attempt to create a pure real-time strategy game to appeal to its fanbase who enjoyed the likes of Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation. According to Taylor, it comes down to an issue of money. The cost of creating a legitimate and large-scale RTS is far higher than what is needed to fund the action RPG Wildman, while the crowdfunding model the team adopted fits the development of RPGs more comfortably, he says. "Wildman is a different game in that we can actually start at one part of the game and start building it over time, and it just fits the development model of working with the community, crowdfunding,...

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Roam throws you into a base-building zombie wasteland on PC and Mac

By Emily Gera on Jan 30, 2013 01.30.13

Former Gas Powered Games developer Ryan Sharr is teaming up with colleague Zach Barson to develop a new zombie-centric base-building title, Roam, which they hope to fund through a $40,000 Kickstarter campaign. The isometric strategy title throws the player into a zombie-filled wasteland where they must scavenge for supplies to build up a base and defend themselves from continued waves of undead hordes. Every stage of the game is procedurally-generated, increasing in difficulty over time. NPCs will react to choices the player makes throughout, while zombies can mutate and increase in strength. Bandits are another danger, as they can raid the player's supplies. The game also offers RPG-like elements, allowing the player to recruit or dismiss NPCs for their base and customize gear and...

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Wildman developer demonstrates new mod tool and platform Project Mercury

By Emily Gera on Jan 29, 2013 01.29.13

Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor gives a demonstration of the studio's mod tool and web platform, Project Mercury, in the latest Kickstarter update for the struggling Wildman action RPG. The development suite, which Taylor refers to as an "infinite desktop," is "like having a warehouse that's infinitely big. You never put anything away," he says. "You can manage space. It's all just always there." Taylor goes on to describe that its user can leave the desktop at the office, then log in to access his desktop remotely from home as the system is 100 percent persistent. Project Mercury is also compatible with dual monitors. "This is not something that we can take too much credit for," Taylor goes on to say. "This is the power of HTML5." Taylor also demonstrates in depth how users can mod...

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Wildman: pledge because you like the game, not because you feel sorry for the studio, Taylor says

By Tracey Lien on Jan 21, 2013 01.21.13

Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor would much prefer people pledge funds to Wildman's Kickstarter campaign because they like the game and not because they feel sorry for the studio, he revealed in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread today. The studio, best known for its work on Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander, laid off the majority of its staff last week days after launching a Kickstarter campaign for its strategy action role-playing game, Wildman. Funding for the game, which has a goal of $1.1. million, started off slow and has picked up since the announcement of the studio-wide layoffs, but Taylor continues to hold reservations about whether the game will meet its funding goal. When asked in the Reddit thread why he seemed so negative about the Kickstarter campaign's...

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Wildman Kickstarter could save the company, Gas Powered CEO already trying to rehire

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Jan 20, 2013 01.20.13

Kickstarter could do more than keep Gas Powered Games' strategy game Wildman afloat — it could save the company itself, CEO Chris Taylor tells Polygon. "I don't want to make any assumptions at this point, but things look much better, and I think it's still going to be a long road ahead, but we're prepared to work very hard to make this happen," Taylor wrote in an email to Polygon. "And I'm already making phone calls and setting up meetings to talk to key people about coming back, to see the campaign through. "At least now, everyone has their eyes wide open, no surprises." Following layoffs at Gas Powered Games and a "grim outlook" on the Kickstarter, Taylor announced via Kickstarter that the project would either continue or end at the behest of its backers. The decision to...

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Gas Powered Games considers pulling plug on Wildman Kickstarter in wake of 'substantial' layoffs (update)

By Michael McWhertor on Jan 18, 2013 01.18.13

The developer of Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander has been hit with company-wide layoffs just days after the studio launched a Kickstarter campaign for its next game, Wildman. "These layoffs are substantial, but it's not everyone," Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor told Polygon in an email. "We still have a fully functioning company, IT, HR, Operations, etc. And have retained some key people." Taylor says he'll be releasing a Kickstarter video that details Gas Powered's current situation. He also plans to ask supporters "if I should continue and then rehire people, or terminate the campaign now." Taylor told Polygon earlier this week that a leaner staff was to be expected after wrapping up one of the company's other projects. He estimated that of the company's 50 or so...

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