Jagged Alliance prequel (Flashback) live on Kickstarter!

At least this isn't "Hey! Despite having Warner Brothers' support, we decided to kickstart our movie Veronica Mars! For only 35 dollars we give you, our faithful backers, the opportunity to watch the film other people can watch at theatres for 30 dollars less (I am speaking about avg. ticket prices in Poland)!"...

And this KS actually makes sense- it's not some mainstream type of videogame (MODERN PSEUDO REALISTIC SHOOTER 5!!!), which will sell bazillion of copies anyway, but a niche production- the developers need to see whether there will be some interest in the game and the whole creation won't be a fiasco ;)

I never played XCOM, neither original nor reboot, but I've played the last Sid Meier's Pirates!, which was basically an average and terribly overrated pack of minigames, so I can understand how much Firaxis can dumb down a game ;)

That's right :) For even as small amount as 5 dollars, you can get Jagged Alliance, JA: Deadly Games, JA2 and JA2,5: Unfinished Business- they cost 5,99 USD on Good Old Games EACH.

With their every update, I'm loving Full Control more and more. Now I just hope we can reach that 350k goal...

Don't hope, help them suceed ;) Donate! Spread the word! Spam ALL THE FORUMS you visit ;P

Unfortunately, they are not even beyond 50% now... With two weeks to go, I honestly doubt that they can reach that 350k mark...
I think they should have waited with this kickstarter after releasing Space Hulk- if it had received positive reviews, more people would have been encouraged to back them on this project.

9+ hours to go and they need only 5k to succeed. They will make it but barely.

Yes we did :) Now we just have to wait a year and a half for the game (while playing JA Classics :P). And hopefully, they can get more funds from slacker backers and reach that 400k stretch goal (map editor! Yay :))

What the hell are you talking about?

i.e.
If you're thinking that because it has the Jagged Alliance name, it has money already, you're very wrong.
The original creators of JA/JA2 went out of business. bitComposer ended up with the IP and did... things... with it (JA:BIA, etc). Full Control (who's Kickstarter this was) acquired a license to use the "Jagged Alliance" name from bitComposer. Imagine someone says to you, "here, you can make a Halo game. We'll allow it." That's what they got. Not money, not a publisher, just someone saying, "yeah, you have legal permission to make an officially-licensed game with the name."
If you're thinking they already have money because they've already published some games, the majority of those games are self-published (no extra money) and apparently you aren't aware of how expensive game development can be. Example: Defense Grid finally became profitable last year (source) -- it was released in 2008.
Yes, they could try to get a publisher to fund them, but instead, they brought this one to the fans, hoping to avoid the painful search, drama, and horrible flights of fancy that seeking, securing, and having a publisher often means.

(FWIW, I'll reiterate what I said in a prior post here about this project: I don't have a lot of faith in this. $350,000 sounds, to me, like way to small of a budget to create a Jagged Alliance game I'd be happy with, even after taking into consideration incoming money from their soon-to-be-released "Space Hulk". My bias is against Full Control until they prove otherwise, but I find absolutely nothing wrong with them creating a Kickstarter for the project.)

So yes, I agree with your statement. But why the hell are you posting it here?