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The three-person Polish developer Acid Wizard's upcoming survival/horror roguelike Darkwood is about the fear of the unknown. When the small studio launched its Indiegogo campaign earlier this month, it was facing it's own fear of the unknown as its $40K funding goal didn't get off to a rousing start."We expected a bigger press response to our Indiegogo campaign launch, and unfortunately, a lot of press outlets out there which previously wrote good pieces about Darkwood and were really excited about it - they didn't really care when we launched it," Acid Wizard programmer Gustaw Stachaszewski explained. "For a time it was very depressing. We didn't think we would make it."
This would likely result in Darkwood never getting made as the Acid Wizard trio all have to sustain themselves taking contract work, usually in advertising. "Sometimes we'll get assignments that we'll have to work on for a month and we'll have to focus on them 100 per cent," said Stachaszewski. "Two of us can work on Darkwood while someone else disappears for a month. That's very disruptive to our creative and production process."
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