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Earlier this year independent game developer Barry Collins launched a Kickstarter for a post-apocalyptic first-person shooter called Ashen Rift. It would star a man and his dog journeying to a mysterious portal to put a stop to a blight corrupting the earth and turning people into monsters. It showed a lot of promise and even received a ringing endorsement from Doom co-creator John Romero, but it ultimately failed to reach its Kickstarter goal.Collins has returned to Kickstarter, though, and this time he's brought a full dev team. His new studio, Pyroclastic Entertainment, consists of seven staffers with nearly a dozen other contributors lending a hand.
The effort clearly shows. The newly launched Ashen Rift was greenlit on Steam in "no time at all," Collins told Eurogamer, and it's little wonder why. The production values have certainly been spruced up since we last saw it, even if it's still a bit rough in this early form. But perhaps Ashen Rift's most distinguishing characteristics are its dog and its world.
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