Identity.

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I know I will be buying into the beta if the target gets reached, but I don't know does look amazing. And as for people saying 150k isn't enough it's only a small studio so it's not like they are paying 100's of people wages like bigger studios, and the developers being mostly modders by the looks I doubt they will be needing to pay licensing for using content.

Truthfully you can make a game without spending a penny, with 150kCAD I would be surprised if they didn't finish under budget. I just hope they don't do a Ubisoft and not give what they promised or make a game that barely runs with any fps or at all. Either way it will be amazing or utter shite.

They say themselves on that page that the $150k is only enough to just begin production.

"Sorry, I'll try to be a little more clear! Should we reach our goal of $150,000 here on Kickstarter, that won't be enough to develop the entire game but it will be what we need to begin fulltime development immediately. We have a few publishers who we're talking with now who can carry us the rest of the way, but ideally we'd love to be able to continue funding the project from crowd funding as it would give us more control."


So they don't actually have a publisher yet and there's a chance that they won't get one to finish the game.


As for licensing, of course they need it. This isn't a game mod, this is a full game which they are commercially releasing.
Unreal are quite nice, you only pay them 5% of what you earn from the game created with their engine. However any additional software such as 3DS Max costs around $3,750 per commercial license.