Hey Guys,
First of all, let me apologize for the very slow response and the lack of recent updates. I'll have more to say on that in a moment, but let me also state right upfront that, despite appearances, this is not a dead or abandoned project. We have already put a fair amount of work into it after our last set of updates and we very much want to continue working on it.
Here's the basic situation. When we went into early access, we were hoping for a little more initial funding than we got out of the gate. Having never done this before, we really were not sure what to expect or the best way to go about promoting it. We gave out lots of free keys to people promising to do reviews and promote the game, but with one or two exceptions, we got nothing back in return. I guess we got scammed for some keys :) Oh well, it turns out this is a more common phenomena than we knew about, but such is life. We'll know better for next time and can share this experience with our students as part of the learning curve.
Like I said, unfortunately, the game didn't really generate enough early sales to allow us to bring in the extra help we needed to finish it in a more timely fashion, so we're going in a different direction. We've been putting together the makings of a crowdfunding campaign, not just for GI Racing 2.0, but to fund a number of other projects we have in development at Game Institute. In the next few weeks we'll have some more information about what's happening with that, but we hope to be able to raise the funds to put this project back on the front burner. To pay the bills, we've had to focus more on course development these last couple of months, but we really do want to get some updates out here as well. If we're successful in our attempts to raise a bit of scratch, we'll be right back in action.
To be clear, I'm certainly not asking you guys to pay more or anything like that; I just wanted to bring everyone up to speed on what we're trying to do to get this game back on the right track. If you could help us spread the word around when the time comes, that would be awesome, but that's totally your call of course.
We had obviously hoped to be much further along on this project than we currently are, and we're very sorry for letting it go so long without an update. We really want to wrap this project up as soon as possible and will do the best we can to get it fast tracked.
Thank you so much for your patience and your support.
Cheers,
Joe Meenaghan
President | Game Institute