Studio Liverpool may have been sadly shuttered, but its legacy lives on in Formula Fusion. Developed by R8 Games – a startup unsurprisingly comprised of ex-Sony staffers – the release's promising everything that a fan of anti-gravity racers could ever want: a CoLD SToRAGE soundtrack, a universe based on graphics by The Designers Republic, and a silly story about the evolution of Formula One. There's no Captain Falcon, though.
The big downside is that the game's being funded on Kickstarter right now, and the PlayStation 4 is a £350,000 stretch goal. The campaign is a little weird actually: the studio's set a funding target of £35,000, but it concedes that much of its team will be working on low salaries or for free to get the game made on that amount of cash. It's basically saying: we're committed to this – no matter what.
Still, we're not sure that banking on stretch goals is the way to go – although, it's already up to almost £10,000 in less than a day, so its £150,000 PC release target does seem somewhat within reach. You can find out much more about the game over on its Kickstarter page through here. Are you planning to pledge to this? Nod your head to some futuristic sounding audio in the comments section below.
[source kickstarter.com]
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And the chemical brothers are releasing new music right now. Seems like a trip back to my raving days before wife and kids
@gingerfrog
'Fess up - which one are you?
Back with another one of those block rockin' beats
Hmmmm. Ive been stung by kickstarter and so have a number of people. This working for nothing will never amount to much. If its one, two or three people they could make it, but with a team they have no chance. Its got failure written all over it. I believe they are "under the influence" (chemical brothers track)
@get2sammyb
I always angled myself to the acid and techno side. We used to go to euro beat 2000(club name sounded modern then). To see dave Clark, Jeff mills, Carl Craig and Derrick may.
As for raving I really stuck to fantasia as a brand and random fields and warehouses
I wish Sony didn't close down Liverpool, I really enjoyed their Wipeout series.
@NomNom I think your getting Sony and the conservatives mixed up. That's a joke by the way in case you don't know British Politics. @gingerfrog It was a great time to be young in the late 90s and early noughties. And again the conservatives couldn't stop the party. That said techno and acid house is an aquired taste. But being brought up with yuzo koshiro and altern8 I am a fan. Cold storage is over rated though imo.
@themcnoisy Studio Liverpool was the primary developer of the Wipeout series, Sony still owns the IP, but it won't be the same with another dev team. What exactly did I miss?
@NomNom I know I'm from Liverpool and playtested a game for them as part of a test group when they were called psygnosis. Didnt meet anyone just played an unfinished game and wrote some notes and ticked some boxes. As for the conservatives due to the freedom of information act a white paper was published recently and the government wanted to cut Liverpool the city out in the 1980s
@themcnoisy Oh ok, I didn't know that.
I've been following this.
It doesn't look like it handles quite right...looks like Quantum Redshift.
Looks like they have met their Windows Steam Budget
I liked the ambition of reaching £400,000 stretch goal for PS Vita development - looks like PS Vita owners shall go wanting again!! then again I wouldn't mind a PS4 version either
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