Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a role-playing game (RPG) based on the fantasy comic book series by the same name. It’s inspired by classics such as Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger. The game is developed Airship Syndicate - a twelve person studio consisting of developers who have worked on games such as cult classics Darksiders and Darksiders 2, no surprise since its helmed by Joe Madureira - the comic book creator of Darksiders, and Battle Chasers. It had a successful Kickstarter[1] netting in $856,354 (roughly Rs. 5.6 crores), with an initial target of $500,000 (around Rs. 3.26 crores).
The Battle Chasers’ comics were plagued by scheduling problems, with around six months between issues, but luckily thus didn't happen with the game - Battle Chasers: Nightwar is out on October 3. Gadgets 360 spoke to Joe Madurerira's brother, Steve Madureira, Lead Designer and Animation Director at Airship Syndicate, to know more about the making of the game.
Despite a successful Kickstarter campaign, Battle Chasers: Nightwar is being published by THQ Nordic, instead of Airship Syndicate. Nowadays, a lot of game developers taking to Kickstarter with the end goal of getting discovered by a publisher. Was this true of Airship Syndicate too?
“While we did really well with Kickstarter, and it got the game off the ground, it wasn’t quite enough to make the game we really wanted to make," Madureira says. "Some of the stretch goals were unmet for example. And when we were approached by THQ Nordic, it gave us a great opportunity to make an even better game than what we had initially pitched and we took the opportunity to do so."
Much like the Batman Arkham series, Battle Chasers: Nightwar is based on a comic series, albeit a lesser known...