I’m sure it’s different for each member on the team, but we had people who kept telling us to not give up. The people that pledged our Kickstarter said they would stick with us no matter what the naysayers say, and they did. It’s amazing. Some of these people stuck with us for 8 years. That’s just as crazy as the fact that we kept building it for that long. In our case, we were just working on it, and in their case they were just taking our word for it. In many regards, I consider this Kickstarter perhaps even more of their victory, than ours. They never lost hope in us. There were moments for the team when we would feel down, but we were able to look at the people supporting us and that got us through it. We were able to pull it together and make it happen.

This is a testament to the team. We’re spread across 5 different time zones, never met each other, and we’re all working unpaid for the promise of this idea, and the hope that we can raise enough money someday to build at least one game, so at least we have a chance. Where do you find 9 people who are going to do that? Where do you find a community that’s going to stick with you that whole time, I think it’s a very special project. It’s been a labor of love and everyone has sacrificed to get it to this point, and it can be tough sometimes, but if we didn’t sacrifice, it would have gone no where. It was all worth it in the end.

So Transparency Is Key?