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Tags: Double Fine; Spacebase DF-9
Tim Schafer has taken to the Steam Community page to answer questions and concerns about the sudden hiatus of development on Spacebase DF-9.
Tim Schafer has taken to the Steam Community page to answer questions and concerns about the sudden hiatus of development on Spacebase DF-9.
“How about an ACTUAL explanation of what happened behind the scenes?”
We started Spacebase with an open ended-production plan, hoping that it would find similar success (and therefore funding) to the alpha-funded games that inspired it. Some of its early sales numbers indicated this might be the case, but slowly things changed, and it became clear that this was looking like a year and a half of production instead of five or so. With each Alpha release there was the hope that things would change, but they didn't. We put every dime we made from Spacebase back into Spacebase, and then we put in some more. Obviously, spending more money than we were making isn’t something we can afford to do forever. So, as much as we tried to put off the decision, we finally had to change gears and put Spacebase into finishing mode and plan for version 1.0.