That's right! The Kickstarter campaign for Dracanea: The Ragtag Regalia has finally come to a close...
And wow! What a close it was! After crossing the finish line, Dracanea successfully funded and overfunded by almost 20%!
This is great news, for obvious reasons! But in case you haven't been following us on Kickstarter, we'll give you the condensed version!
Our Kickstarter was launched this August with one main goal: to raise funds for our voice actors and allow them to record as much dialogue as they want! Being a solo-developer game, Dracanea's overhead is a bit more modest compared to other big indie titles. That said, the story of Dracanea: The Ragtag Regalia is lore-rich, meaty, and full of character moments! As such it has a good amount of dialogue to cover!
That said, we believe in paying our actors fairly for their work, and thus the need for some sort of crowdfunding came into play!
As you can see in this sneak peek video, we (read: I, myself) already laid out some money to get our actors into the studio and start the fun! That said, we hired 26 fantastic, talented voice actors and it likely wouldn't be possible to self-fund them for the entire process.
Thus, the original Kickstarter goal was set in mind with rough calculations of line totals for our actors per chapter, though still, not every single piece of dialogue would be recorded. As much as we'd like to, even with a successful Kickstarter, the scope of trying to record every line in the script is far beyond what we as a tiny studio and our indie VAs could realistically pull off.
That said! With the Kickstarter funding (and being overfunded, mind you!) this will allow us to record a vast majority of important dialogue, and provide a steady stream of voiceover in every cutscene to help bring Dracanea's oddball cast of characters to life!