Fragor Games - Kein Stand in Essen, aber geplantes Lizenzspiel bei Kickstarter

Die Fragor Brüder sind immer wieder für eine Überraschung gut und so ist es auch in 2016. Dieses Jahr werden sie keinen Stand in Essen haben, verrät uns ihre Nachricht von gestern Abend. Allerdings werden sie demnächst ein Kickstarter Projekt starten, dass sich um ein Lizenzspiel dreht. Um was es sich genau handelt haben sie uns noch nicht verraten, aber sie sind begeistert diese Lizenz bekommen zu haben. Wir sind also genauso gespannt wie ihr und werden in Essen wie in der Pressemitteilung erwähnt ein Glas für die Zwei in die Luft halten und auf sie anstoßen.... aber was für eine Lizenz haben die beiden denn nun in Aussicht? Sie freuen sich extrem drauf und es ist muss eine sehr wertvolle und wichtige Lizenz sein, so dass sie jetzt ein Crowdfunding dafür machen wollen.... STAR WARS? STAR TREK? Die MUPPETS? ... was meint ihr?

Mitteilung:

"This year it has to be different! It’s Fragor. What did you expect. Only the unexpected. We got the opportunity in 2010 of working with a particular licence. For reasons unrelated to us it did not go further at that time. Now, with the advent of kickstarting, the opportunity of using the licence became possible again around last Essen.

This makes a change for 2016 how we will finance/sell the game. It means that our 2016 game will be kickstarted rather than sold at Essen. The upshot of this is :

- Fragor Games will not have a stand at Essen. We will not have a game to sell at Essen. We will miss you. Please raise a glass of whisky/beer/sake/milk to us. ;-)

- In the near future we will make a major announcement regarding a licence. We are absolutely thrilled to be involved with it.

Just to be clear what we are planning for 2016 is a “true kickstarter’ project. Basically, it would not have happened but for the development of kickstarting. This was demonstrated in 2010! From the beginning we always worked on the basis of working on developing a reputation for producing quirky, fun  games which we financed up front. Each year we relied on our reputation for gamers to come and buy our games. The risk was ours. We are comfortable with this and would have continued with this method but for the opportunity of using the licence. Our reason for this announcement is to turn the hype to boiling meantime. Or just to try and keep everyone updated as to where we are. As has been pointed out in the past, we are either the world’s worst or best businessmen.

Sooooo….watch this space. More news regarding the licence follows soon. It’s exciting. It fits. But the game will not be a traditional Essen release. Let the uninformed speculation begin…!

Cheers,

Gordon and Fraser (The Lamont Brothers)"