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Two years ago Japanese RPG/RTS hybrid Project Phoenix raised $1,014,600 on Kickstarter (plus another $44,241 over Paypal). At the time it was aiming for a release on PC, Mac, PS4 and Vita by the end of 2015. Now developer Creative Intelligence Arts is projecting the game's launch in the second half of 2018."Current estimates place dev at about 2.5 years out from completion," the developer explained in a Kickstarter update. "This is 2.5 years from the time we get our full-time programmer on board. That means we are expecting early 2018 for a finalised build and six months for testing after that."
Part of this is due to staffing issues as the developer had a difficult time finding a programmer as the person they'd had in mind fell through due to other commitments. "We were waiting for the programmer from Ori and the Blind Forest to finish his work on that project," director Hiroaki Yura explained in an email to Kotaku. "However, that got delayed by 14 months. All that time, we were being told that he'd hop over to the project, but ended up not being able to when we reached April, 2015"
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