As of now Spaceteam has been downloaded 1,684,470 times across all platforms, but its sales gross was only $19,720 - though Smith told Eurogamer in a Skype interview that he also made €5K from Spaceteam winning a prize at a festival. Smith is experimenting with this model because he knows Spaceteam has a large audience, but it perhaps wasn't monetised optimally as a free release. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

These range from digital soundtracks, to ringtones, to putting your own words in the game and designing characters. Those who donate to the Kickstarter will be part of what's called the Spaceteam Admiral's Club, which comes with a host of perks based on how much one pledges. It's inspired by Escape Velocity, Star Control 2, and board game Galaxy Trucker. One is a local co-op mobile game called Blabyrinth that Smith said is influenced by the board game Escape: The Curse of the Temple, Spelunky, Indiana Jones, and old games shows like The Crystal Maze and Knightmare.Īnother planned title is Shipshape, a single-player mobile game about exploring the cosmos with a spacecraft comprised of modular components. That's right: rather than fund one specific game, Smith - who used to work at places like BioWare and Irrational Games on such titles as Dragon Age: Origins, Dead Space 2, and Mass Effect 3 - isn't looking to make one specific project, but rather acquire the funds to support himself while he develops multiple free games.Ī couple of these proposed titles have already been teased. Henry Smith, developer of Spaceteam - the wonderful local multiplayer mobile game in which players yell at each other to hit buttons under time pressure - has launched a Kickstarter to develop a host of free games over the next year.

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