OBDUCTION HINTS OTHER SIDE OF RIVER TV

Patrick HarrisвЂ™s account has 7,090,756 followers. Yesterday, Cyan decided to take a step it had been reticent to take: sending out emails to everyone who had played Myst Online asking for more help.Д«ut yesterday, came a single tweet from Neil Patrick Harris Mr. In-depth video game websites Polygon and Gamasutra published stories. $1.7 million would add an entire additional world and вЂњroadtrip modeвЂќ to the game, where one player can play, while the other can offer advice, observation, or backseat heckling. If they raised $1.3 million, they promised, theyвЂ™d add language localization and support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality device. There were plenty of times when we were right on the edge.вЂќ There were times, he says, when he thought they wouldnвЂ™t make it.Д¬yan aimed to be nimble, listening to feedback from fans, offering new reward levels and add-ons for funding, and adding new stretch goals. вЂњYou canвЂ™t run a business and expect to always succeed,вЂќ Miller says. The team kept looking at the trend line, seeing the project was on shaky ground. If they missed the goal even by a few thousand dollars, Cyan wouldnвЂ™t get a penny. In the last days, fans who really want to see the project happen may up their pledges or amp up their outreach efforts.Д«ut inside the offices of Cyan, founder Rand Miller says, the stress was real. Now, itвЂ™s not unusual for a Kickstarter to resemble an upside-down bell curve. The question was whether Cyan could extend beyond their passionate fanbase, tap into the same market of relatively casual gamers who played Myst, and make Obduction happen.

But nearly all high-profile game Kickstarters raise a big amount of money in the first few days вЂ“ thatвЂ™s when the hardcore fans dive in.

Stoners know him as the frightening party animal вЂњNeil Patrick HarrisвЂќ in the storied Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle franchise.ДЄnd at Spokane-based video game developer Cyan, creator of hit-game Myst, they know him as the guy who carried the funding of their next big project over the threshold into reality.Д¬yanвЂ™s Kickstarter, requesting $1.1 million to make a new video game, Obduction, had a pretty decent start, raising nearly $350,000 in just two days. Cultured Broadway types know him as the host of every Tony Awards ever and star of Stephen SondheimвЂ™s Assassins.

OBDUCTION HINTS OTHER SIDE OF RIVER TV

Older TV fans know him as вЂњDoogie Howser,вЂќ titular kid doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D. Sitcom junkies know Neil Patrick Harris as the catchphrase-prone ladies man вЂњBarney StinsonвЂќ from How I Met Your Mother.

Obduction hints other side of river