Grim Dawn Kickstarts Titan Quest

Written by: QuintLyn Bowers (@QuintLyn) | April 20, 2012 9:02 am

12 Comments

A few years back, a friend of mine introduced me to a little game called Titan Quest, an extremely fun ARPG made at Iron Lore Entertainment in 2006.

When Arthur Bruno, Lead designer on Titan Quest was told that the company wouldn’t be doing a sequel, he decided to head out on his own and found Crate Entertainment, acquired the rights to the Titan Quest engine and begin work on a spiritual successor to the game called Grim Dawn.

Built on a souped-up version of the Iron Lore engine and tools, Grim Dawn is an ARPG based in a Victorian era world in which war wages between two otherworldly groups and humans find themselves almost extinct.

The game will be DRM free, feature robust molding tools and feature a open-world design with randomized elements so that each game will be different.

Grim Dawn has been in production for a while and now that they have some of the game to show us, Crate is kicking off the Grim Dawn Kickstarter project. According to Bruno, many of the things that they have listed as features and goals of the game that we may consider overly ambitious are already implemented.

If it can really capture the fun of the originals, this could be something special.

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http://twitter.com/coreyctom Corey

I was all over this when it popped up on Kickstarter, even tweeted it to you, Mike, lol. I think it’s really cool that Iron Lore support them doing this on their own (providing the engine). The greatest thing I loved about TQ was being able to play with crazy character builds combining 2 classes, and Grim will retain that aspect. Plus (like Q says) they’ve already got alpha footage (which Crate’s admitted has a lot of “dev art” which they need to spruce up with real modeler and animators’ work) which looks gorgeous.

Also, do you think you guys might be able to occasionally feature some of the smaller projects, especially that seem to be struggling to meet their (often meager) funding goals? I think Q mentioned it before, but Nekro would fit the bill here. Early footage and the game concept sound fun, but it’s only got 2 weeks left and isn’t even half way funded (goal of $100k). I’m all about the bigger-named projects seeking to revive past IPs or be their successors (Shadowbane, Wasteland 2, Gim) but it’s also cool to find some cool “little” ones too.
- http://quintlyn.com/ QuintLyn Bowers
  
  Oh man… There is still so much hope for Nekro if it’s anywhere near halfway.. DON’T LOSE HOPE. But I’ll definitely give it a look at and see what I can do. ^_^
  
  Something to remember though is what I said about the flux of donations on Kickstarter. People donate like crazy the first couple of days. It dies down and then picks back up in the last week or even last four days or so. That happened with Auditorium Duet. I was so relieved to see it made it.
  - http://twitter.com/coreyctom Corey
    
    yea I hope they’ll make it. Totalbiscuit also started a new video “Kicksmarter” which included Nekro. Speaking of last minute surge of backers, Banner Saga just broke $700k to reach the last of their stretch goals with only a couple hours left…I think they made an additional 120k-ish in the past few days! yay!
    - http://quintlyn.com/ QuintLyn Bowers
      
      Oh man.. So happy for them. ^_^ I’ve done a few stories on Banner Saga… One even before they went Kickstarter, so I’m glad to see they got it.
- iamthemikeb
  
  Q is way better at organizing these things than I am.. I don’t typically submit stories to be written :-X but I do remember you tweeting me the link, and I appreciate you calling me on it!
  - http://twitter.com/coreyctom Corey
    
    lol well yea I know you’re pretty damn busy with all the videos you record, plus negativepH and photography….and real life stuff I suppose… ;D
    - http://quintlyn.com/ QuintLyn Bowers
      
      The whole “gonna be a parent” thing will do that to ya.
http://twitter.com/Aoewin Maxime Beaulieu

Never played it.. looks interesting!
Sharuko

I actually took out my funding from Shadowrun and put it on this game instead. More my type of game, this looks really interesting and the Titan Quest guys have made great games before.
http://twitter.com/SilverTaurusPL SilverTaurus

I started playing it few days ago again, since I sooo cant wait for D3, and played D2 too much already x.x
pc11

When actual comercial game companies start going to Kickstarter is when i say it is being abused. Just make a damn game put out a demo and setup pre-orders.
http://twitter.com/crocodilius ryan phillips

titan quest was a pretty lame potion spammer. hopefully this is a better game and not a “spiritual successor” the way Hellgate was to Diablo.