Limit Theory blev finansierat via Kickstarter år 2012 och samlade in närmare $190 000 (knappt 1,8 miljoner kronor). Det var då crowfunding av spel var som absolut störst, för även om det fortfarande fungerar hyfsat, så är det inte riktigt samma drag längre. Men efter sex års utveckling meddelar den enda utvecklaren, Josh Parnell, nu att han drar proppen ur projektet:
"After six years, I am finally at the end of my means. Financially, I am beyond the initial investment and have exhausted most of my personal savings. But significantly more troubling is that I am entirely out of energy -- emotionally, mentally, even physically. Every year that passes sees me becoming more desperate to make good on the dream with which you all entrusted me, but each such year I grow less and less capable of doing so as my mindset falls further away from that bright, beautiful hope that powered me from the beginning. I am not what I once was."
Tydligen var spelet "frighteningly far from feature completion" och Parnell menar att han tog på sig mer än han kunde hantera:
"No matter how hard I try, it's not enough to bring LT to fruition, and this pattern of failure has evicted all self-confidence and hope from my mind, leaving only doubt, anxiety, and despair. Some days I think to myself "how absurd that a game should make me feel this way," and I realize just how unfit I have become to build a source of joy. I wanted so, so badly to make you all proud. To bring you all joy. There are no words to properly convey how sorry I am that I have failed you all."
Parnell kommer dock släppa all källkod som han skapat, även om han inte "imagine it will be of any use to anyone, other than as a monument to a failed dream".
Nu tackar han alla och skriver att han kommer ta hand om sin hälsa istället först och främst:
"One last time, I would like to thank everyone who contributed. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for believing in Limit Theory. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to try for something wonderful. One last time, I am so sincerely sorry for having let you down. I hope, at the very least, that some of you have enjoyed the ride as I've pitted my brain over the years against one challenge after the next."
Trots att han var förberedd på massiv kritik, har folk varit överraskande förstående och skriver att det ju faktiskt är såhär med crowdfunding. Det finns en risk inblandad och det får man såklart aldrig glömma. Var du inblandad i detta spel och brukar du själv crowdfunda andras projekt?
