{"id":190,"date":"2013-08-01T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firingpingames.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-08-01T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:19:21","slug":"kickstarter-update-2-the-gargantuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firingpingames.com\/blog\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter Update #2 : The Gargantuan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kickstarter is going well so far. We&#8217;ve now reached the \u00a31K mark! There&#8217;s still a way to go but the response has been great so far. Thanks to all those who have pledged and shared the project.<\/p>\n<h1>The Gargantuan<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve managed to sneak in a bit of alien concept art time in amongst the busy schedule of running a Kickstarter. This is one that I&#8217;ve been wanting to design for a while now. It&#8217;s a rather big brute who has a rather devastating secondary attack capable of destroying both sets of cover during a fight. Scary!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firingpingames.com\/kickstarter\/Update-2-A.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"Will's Gargantuan Notes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firingpingames.com\/kickstarter\/Update-2-A.png\" width=\"486\" height=\"922\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will&#8217;s Gargantuan Notes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the threat level of the world increases, the scale, amount and sheer power of the aliens will increase with it. As that happens Will needs bigger weapons or a way to reduce the threat&#8230; maybe he needs to sabotage their way of calling backup?<\/p>\n<h1>In The Press<\/h1>\n<p>The project has had some more press recently which is fantastic. I&#8217;ve been mailing as many sites as possible trying to get coverage. Here are the articles that went up recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indiestatik.com\/2013\/08\/01\/kickstart-this-will-to-survive\/\">IndieStatik<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegamemag.com\/real-time-survival-rpg-will-to-survive-an-apocalyptic-tamagotchi-of-sorts\/\">IndieGameMag<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/beefjack.com\/news\/will-to-survive-hits-kickstarter\/\">BeefJack<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indieretronews.com\/2013\/07\/will-to-survive-rts-survival-with-z-i.html\">IndieRetroNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This line made me smile \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh my, this is the Milo game that Molyneux wanted to make! Well, almost. At least it has aliens.&#8221; &#8211; Chris Priestman (IndieStatik)<\/p>\n<p>The last one is in Dutch, so a translation may be required for some \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamestalker.nl\/will-to-survive-kickstarter\/\">GameStalker.NL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you know of any other sites that would be interested be sure to comment or send me a message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/alexdawson\/will-to-survive-a-real-time-survival-rpg-with-alie\/posts\/556407\">Update #2 Kickstarter Link<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firingpingames.com\/kickstarter\/Update-2-B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"The Gargantuan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firingpingames.com\/kickstarter\/Update-2-B.png\" width=\"372\" height=\"529\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gargantuan<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>Alien\u00a0Nickname<\/h1>\n<p><strong><\/strong>The aliens don&#8217;t have a name, they&#8217;ve never spoke to a human before so we don&#8217;t know what to call them. They just turned up and kick-started the apocalypse. What would you nickname them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kickstarter is going well so far. We&#8217;ve now reached the \u00a31K mark! There&#8217;s still a way to go but the response has been great so far. Thanks to all those who have pledged and shared the project. 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