Project Awakened is back!

Project Awakened has surfaced once more in the form of a Kickstarter project. This game has been in development limbo since Midway went bankrupt back in 2009. Some of the employees went and founded Phosphor Games which has since made iOS titles The Dark Meadow and Horn. They're asking for $5,000 as a minimum and will be made using Unreal Engine 4.



For those unfamiliar, Project Awakened started out as Hero being developed by Midway games. After Midway went under, Phosphor Games was formed by employees from Midway and they picked up Hero and renamed it to Awakened.

According to an interview with Jim Sterling from Destructoid, Phosphor was pitching the idea to a lot of major publishers. Chip Sineni, the director of the game, had this to say about the process: "Everyone we personally talked to loved the idea, and each of them would say 'we should do this game together,' and ask us for all this documentation and material so they could pitch it to the executives. Then a couple months later they'd have long faces and tell us the same thing we heard from every other publisher -- that the company was only investing in sequels or similar games to well known IPs ... 'tweaks' of  ideas already in the market."

It's frustrating to here that even with big titles like The Last of Us and Dragon's Dogma that are new and interesting that publishers still have the mentality of, "If it's not a sequel, it's not worth the marketing effort."

Here's hoping the best of luck to Phosphor Games and Project Awakened.