'Consortium: The Tower' reaches crowdfunding goal with Fig
The cyberpunk game received US $300,000 after failing to make even half that amount on Kickstarter in January.
The success of ambitious, independent title Consortium: The Tower suggests that video game crowdfunding platform Fig may be gaining momentum.Building on a 2014 sci-fi role-playing game called Consortium and its penchant for conversation-driven progress, sequel Consortium: The Tower had previously stumbled in its attempts to crowdfund a development budget. Described as a cross between skyscraper-based action movie "Die Hard" and cyberpunk choice and consequence game Deus Ex, players will be able to fight, sneak, explore or talk their way through a futuristic hostage situation within a sprawling, partially-completed superstructure in 2042 London.Despite the ambition, a January 2016 Kickstarter floundered. Consortium: The Tower accrued only US $142,500 of its US $350,000 goal by the time that month-long fundraiser closed. But as its Vancouver-based studio knows, sometimes you have to get back on the horse. Come April, and everything has changed. Consortium: The Tower relaunched on game-focused crowdfunder Fig, and when it crossed a revised threshold of US $300,000 on April 13, the project had been live for less than a week.