Critical Role's plans to make a videogame have become an 'active pursuit', says CEO Travis Willingham, after almost 10 years of growing a D&D campaign into a full-on franchise
Critical Role's plans to make a videogame have become an 'active pursuit', says CEO Travis Willingham, after almost 10 years of growing a D&D campaign into a full-on franchise
"We are starting to come to the end of a long road."
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It feels like this has disaster written all over it.
Sorry if I'm harshing anyone's vibe, but I can't escape the feeling that a group of people whose main involvement in the games industry is as voice talent are basically saying "How hard could it be?" and not understanding that the answer is "Very."
Ideally they would team up with an experienced studio to build something off of their creative ideas. But if they try to do this whole thing themselves, it has the makings of a Wha Happen? episode all over it.
Maybe it'll work. They pulled off Vox Machina, so who knows. I'd certainly like to be wrong. But I can't help but feel like we'll all be talking about the fallout from this in five years, when eager backers are still waiting for the game they were promised.
What backers? Did they say it was kickstarted anywhere? I think they've got their own funding sources at this point.
Hey, if they're actually securing funding for this instead of pushing the cost off onto eager fans, good for them. At least they're doing one thing right. Unfortunately that only increases the potential for this to turn into a trash fire that sinks their whole company.
Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
The potential for this project to sink their whole company would come from them being extremely reckless with the ample cash flow they've got right now, which this interview says they're not, and hopefully they mean it. I don't get the sense they're trying to build an Immortals of Aveum or a Callisto Protocol.
Marisha generally knows how to run a business, unless they reach far beyond their grasp, they'll be fine.