No, Indivisible is owned by 505 Games. Same way Skullgirls is owned by Autumn Games
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Indivisible Delayed Until 2019
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No, Indivisible is owned by 505 Games. Same way Skullgirls is owned by Autumn Games
Doesn't surprise me as I pretty much expected this to be a 2019 game from the amount of ambition involved. The delay doesn't diminish my anticipation for the game.
For level design, Mike was kind of handling that in addition to all of his other duties, and it was just too much on him.
For the writing, we had multiple writers originally, and I was going to unify the writing and final editing. But between my other duties running the company, doing marketing, PR and social media, and looking for our next project, it was just too risky.
I would not say it's uncommon for an indie game to take four years to make.
That said, we finished crowdfunding in December of 2015, and development really didn't begin in earnest until March 2016.
So in the end it's going to be much closer to three years than four.
1. We don't own the IP, but it will revert to us if 505 Games doesn't sign a sequel within X amount of time.
2. We are a private company, completely owned by the company's staff.
3. We currently have 18 full-time employees, and use an army of contractors for the rest.
We're not contributing that much to the development ourselves (<10%), and we have zero debt and aren't running up any with this extension.
Everything's covered by publisher recoup. So the only real sacrifice is that by increasing the budget we push out the recoup horizon, and thus future royalties.
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Oh, hey! That all makes perfect sense. Thanks for the response!
If there's anything we struggle with as a company, it's that we all want to do too much and as a result we tend to make overly optimistic estimates.
We also tend to think we have to do everything ourselves, because we did on Skullgirls. So there are lots of times where we just don't even think about more people, asking for help, etc.
For example, I'll never forget my first meeting with 505 PR.
PR: "So what can we do to help you?"
Me: "Uh... this is going to make me sound stupid, but literally no one has ever asked me that before and so I don't know how to answer."
Me: "Uh... this is going to make me sound stupid, but literally no one has ever asked me that before and so I don't know how to answer."
That's a really interesting point. Also, I would imagine that Skullgirls being a fighting game makes very different in terms of scope and content division compared to a RPG like Indivisible.
Ah, that's a lot better than I thought. So worst case scenario if the game is released without any further delays is that you need to scramble to find funding for the next project.
Oh and I didn't mean any harm with the indie comment. I think it's impressive that you've basically managed to create a second Vanillaware from scratch. Hopefully Indivisible is a big success for you.
Yup. And that's why we've started looking for the next project early, and hired an agent to help us do it.
And thanks! "A second Vanillaware" is a huge compliment... not sure we're worthy of that yet, but I'll take it.